We are in the midst of a Special Event that caught my eye. For people
who think hams are too serious or have no sense of humor, I give you National
Sasquatch Awareness Day.
As you can see this is a week-long special event, and working various combinations and numbers of special stations listed in that first paragraph gets you a BIGFOOT Certificate! (Suitable for framing, I'm sure). This is a screen grab from station W7B's page on QRZ.com.
While that Special Event Station screen capture follows the "click-it to embig-it" rules of thumb, this version gets Even Bigger when you click it:
The desire to collect certificates for special events or other contacts that are out-of-the ordinary in some way is almost universal in ham radio. Pretty much every day, and especially on weekends, two of the most popular things to do are go to a nearby park or the top of a nearby hill and operate Parks On The Air (POTA) or Summits On The Air (SOTA). The person going to ("activating") the park or hilltop gets their own points, and the people contacting ("working") those stations get a different credit. Each and every one of those pieces of what's generally referred to as wallpaper is valuable only to the people who collect them.
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