Radio Corner

I saw this and thought it would be a good excuse to get on the air, especially while out walking, Tiles On The Air. I think it's very new, you basically activate anywhere based on grid squares, you get points for activities like distance walked to the location where you activate the grid, etc. Although designed to be portable and get out and about, you can still activate mobile from a vehicle, you'll get less points from a vehicle but it still counts, extra points for QRP, less points for things like FT8, and so on. As I say looks very new and hardly anything activated yet, but if you're interested head over to https://tilesontheair.com/ Let us know if you give it a go.

Jonny

Who knows if this will take off or not, activated my first tile and first activator in the UK, I was only mobile, so not many point as no extra activity like hiking, but a mobile activation still counts. Was also my first successful CQ on 20m with a contact from Italy. 

Good on you Jonny, you have certainly dived into ham radio fast.

I have to wonder if whoever chose 'Tiles' on the air thought it through, there is already a 'TOTA' (Towers on the air) see: https://wwtota.com/rules/ (https://wwtota.com/rules/)

John 4515 mentioned it to me a while back.