Amateur radio and technology on the Gulf Coast — the two Maidenhead grid squares EM50 and EM60.
Together they cover the coastal stretch from eastern Louisiana across south Mississippi and Alabama into the Florida panhandle. The line between them runs down longitude 88° W, which crosses the Mobile Bay causeway — a fixed landmark rather than an abstract boundary, and about as close to the centre of this area’s radio activity as a line can get.
This site is for everyone operating here: people based in the two grids, people who rove out and come back, and people passing through.
What’s here now
- POTA Leaderboards — public Parks on the Air activation boards for all 57 parks in EM50 and EM60, refreshed daily from POTA’s own public record. No sign-up, no roster, nothing to join.
What’s planned
Written down so it’s a roadmap rather than a promise — none of it exists yet:
- Repeaters, nets and clubs for the area, with a map
- Contest and Field Day coordination
- Band-opening alerts for weak-signal and sideband work, built on public reporting sources
- Emergency services and 911-related repeater information
- Contact routes to repeater administrators, so faults reach the right person
- GMRS, and local technology worth knowing about
Nothing here asks you to join anything. If a page can be built from public record instead of a membership list, it will be.