The Parks-on-the-Air (POTA) program is somewhat unique in that they have 51 entities listed for Worked All States (WAS); the usual 50 plus DC as a “wildcard”. I had worked DC, so when I had 49 states confirmed this January, I completed POTA-WAS. But I was still missing Hawaii.
That changed a few days ago with a contact on 12 meters with John KH6RF. The confirmation arrived today. So I guess it is POTA-WAS+1 now. Thanks, John!
Incidentally, John had been on 15 meters earlier, and the propagation was such that I was hearing him equally well on the long-path and short-path. Because he was on CW, it resulted in a jumbled mess – his signal was strong enough to copy, but the dots and dashes, delayed by different path lengths, overlapped each other, rendering it uncopiable.
