May I wish all chasers and activators a Happy and, hopefully, prosperous New Year. Let the mountain gods be kind to us this year and propagation excellent! 73 ...
Sitting in the car at the bottom of Moel Ysgyfarnogod yesterday morning I seriously considered going home. The wind was blowing, there was rain in the air...
Apologies if anyone was waiting for me on HF yesterday, weather was very poor, snow, hail high winds the lot so not ideal for putting up a HF antenna. Made the...
Again this expedition was mounted from Methven during our short break there. SS76 turned out to be previously inactivated. Ref: 11371 for SS-104 & SS-105 on...
Hi all, Some members of North Wakefield Radio Club are planning on activating Shining Tor SP/004 tomorrow (2nd January). We're hoping to be QRV on 2 metres SSB...
You know when you have had too many and your mind starts to stray. Well I had a thought, if SOTA is looking for some publicity could we could look into setting...
I want to wish to all of you a very happy, healthy new year 2006 ! Many tnx to all of you SOTA-folks for the nice QSOs ! A very big "THANK-YOU" to the...
Left home just before 11am, a few seconds after my wife suggested I should go for walk since it was such a nice day. Dee has had a bad cold and no voice for...
Hi Stuart! Glad to hear it was nothing worse than a flat battery. Still great signal for 0.5W - hi!! Gud SOTA-ing in 2006. 73 Jack (:>) GM4COX ... From:...
Hi All Appears on my second summit today I have been giving the incorrect summit reference out. The following call signs and times should be NP-016 Dodd Fell...
Hello to all..... What a great day out, all the sota stations where out in force.. Started off from Bury at 6-00am to pick Mick 2e0hjd up at 7-00am on the road...
For my first activation of 2006 I decided to get the four least-attractive SE summits "in-the-bag". Whilst they can provide pleasant enough views on the ascent...
Richard G3CWI and his son Lewis challenged me to a little race. Richard, inspired by a high-performance sports car vs private jet race he had seen on Top...
Hi All, just to wish you all a happy new year. been out twice over the hols, Black Hill yesterday but grandaughter was to cold to stay on the top, will...
As one or two of you may know I had been somewhat inactive in the realm of amateur radio for a number of years and turning out with Flintshire Raynet had...
Activation report Great Coum NP-011 02/01/06 G0OXV & G0MJG Left Ormskirk just after 0830 on what appeared to be a very pleasant day, this was to change. Our...
As the SSB dried up and Roger asked about 6M I set up using a wire antenna and wound up to full chat 100W but guess most of this went straight up. 5 stations...
It must have been all those brain cells that snuffed it on New Years Eve, for on Monday I activated WB004 Titterstone Clee on 5 megs and found myself...
I'd like to start activating but will need to involve the family. Can anyone tell me if there are any SOTA summits within reasonable distance of Manchester...
Hi Jonathan, You might like to try Shining Tor. Only a 2 pointer (plus 3 winter bonus points at the moment), it is a fairly easy one and a half miles to the...
Hi Keith,
"...I could not find any info on this crash so if anyone knows I would be interested...."
Here's some info on the aircraft wreck you visited....
... Hi Jonathan, It is great to hear that someone else will be SOTAing with the family in tow! I have had such a lot of fun on around 250 activations with my...
Hi all, Belated report on New Years Eve activation. Heavy cloud cover on the top but no rain so we set off up. Audrey says Ians 8yr old Lorna sounds just like ...
Hi all/ Happy New Year . Not to be outdone by Les doing 4 SE summits on Jan 2nd, I did too! Firstly though I planned Ditchling Beacon SE-006 on 28/12 at 1730....
Hi there, Does anyone else have difficulty accessing the SOTA website. I can get onto the site at work, but fail repeatedly at home. Home set up is as follows:...
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