{"id":1018,"date":"2026-08-19T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:41:35","slug":"potable-app-parks-on-the-air-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"POTAble App &#8211; Parks On The Air App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I built an app to help me spend more time outdoors\u2014which is surprising, because the outdoors has repeatedly made it clear that it wants me dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 2026 was a busy month for me.  I finally upgraded to General, promptly discovered Parks on the Air, and became slightly obsessed. This is an odd match, because nature generally tries to kill me\u2014mosquitoes consider me a buffet, plants make me itch, and weather becomes personally hostile whenever I unpack radio equipment. Apparently, adding radios and technology to the situation was all it took to make the outdoors a tad appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I started activating, I kept running into the same question: what POTA parks are near me right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I (with a lot of heavy lifting from ChatGPT) built <em>POTAble: POTA Park Finder.<\/em> It\u2019s an iPhone app that finds nearby POTA parks using your current location, or a spot you pick manually when you\u2019re planning a trip. It can download park data for offline use, , open directions in your preferred map app, and keep track of parks you\u2019ve worked or activated. It also lets you save private notes for the actually-useful stuff: where to park, good operating spots, whether there\u2019s cell coverage, and which local wildlife has chosen violence against your allergies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">POTAble started as a nerdy little tool I wanted for myself, but it grew into something I thought other operators might enjoy too.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id6796362877\">POTAble is available now for iPhone on the Apple App Store<\/a>, and an Android version is currently in the works whenever I get some spare time to finish it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built an app to help me spend more time outdoors\u2014which is surprising, because the outdoors has repeatedly made it clear that it wants me dead. June 2026 was a busy month for me. I finally upgraded to General, promptly discovered Parks on the Air, and became slightly obsessed. This is an odd match, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pota"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark.png",2124,740,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark.png",2124,740,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark.png",2124,740,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark-300x105.png",300,105,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark-1024x357.png",1024,357,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark-1536x535.png",1536,535,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/potable-wordmark-2048x714.png",2048,714,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Kaylee","author_link":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?author=9"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?cat=18\" rel=\"category\">POTA<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"I built an app to help me spend more time outdoors\u2014which is surprising, because the outdoors has repeatedly made it clear that it wants me dead. 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