Here’s a mystery for other ham radio operators who enjoy making FT8 contacts with participants in Parks on the Air. Apparently the latest version of GridTracker not only shows you the active parks (which they must have taken from the POTA website) but if

  • The callsign has been identified as operating from a known park (they must perform a lookup on the POTA website) and
  • You finish a QSO with that callsign

Then GridTracker will automatically log your spot to the POTA website:

Please let me know if this happens to you.