If you’ve ever chased a POTA activator from the comfort of your shack, your truck, or your back porch…you’re welcome.
My new sticker (available here for $4, FREE shipping) is for the people who wake up early, check the propagation, throw questionable amounts of wire into a backpack, and voluntarily sit at a picnic table talking to strangers on the radio. In other words: activators.
Parks on the Air works because someone actually shows up to the park. Not the website. Not the spot. The park. That means planning, hauling gear, finding a tree that might cooperate, dealing with weather that didn’t read the forecast, and explaining to a curious passerby that no, you’re not “with the government.”
So yes — when the log fills up and the pileups roll in…I activate parks. You’re welcome.
Designed to look like it belongs outdoors
I didn’t want this to look like a typical ham radio sticker. The artwork pulls from vintage national park posters and mid-century travel illustrations — a grid of landscapes that feel like places you’d actually activate from: mountains, deserts, coastlines, forests, and big empty spaces with questionable cell service. It’s part celebration, part inside joke, and part quiet flex.
Field-tested attitude
This sticker is made to live where activators live:
- Water bottles that have seen things
- Pelican cases full of cables you swear you’ll organize later
- Radios, notebooks, go-kits, and shack gear
- Anywhere you want to silently remind hunters who did the heavy lifting
Durable. Weather-resistant. Zero apologies.
This sticker is not meant to start arguments. (It might start conversations.) If someone asks what it means, congratulations — you now get to explain POTA again. If another activator laughs and nods knowingly, mission accomplished. And if a hunter rolls their eyes? That’s okay. They still logged you.
Available now
The “I Activate Parks. You’re Welcome.” sticker just dropped in my Etsy shop. If you activate, you earned it. If you hunt, you know it’s true. If you do both… you definitely get it.
See you in the log!
