I do not think that the location of the chaser matters.
He made a valid contact with you on GW/NW-044 and the fact that he does not have a “home” association does not come into it. There are LY and ES chasers in the data-base.
In reply to G4SSH:
It doesn’t matter, and indeed Paul VK5PAS is waiting on his own home association VK5 to happen sometime late this year or perhaps early next. I can say that there are some juicy SOTA summits that have been identified there, so it will be a little bit of watch this space.
In reply to VK3WAM:
Speaking of spaces to watch, watch this one:
I have checked all of these summits for 150m prominence using Geoscience Australia data. VK5CZ is building up the summit spreadsheet, doing UTM conversions and will work on the ARM for VK5. I look forward to the opportunity to activate some of these in the not too distant future.
The first VK chaser to make a G contact was Paul VK5PAS, when we
worked from G/SP-004 Shining Tor on 22nd May.
If only that was true Mike but sadly not
Tom M1EYP made the 1st G-VK with VK2BJ on 12th March 2011 and the first ever VK chase was made by John GW4BVE with Mike, VK3KMA on 20th April 2004.
However, as stated, the chaser doesn’t have to be registered as a chaser for it to count. Of course, if there is no chaser log then you wont get a star on the chaser log.
The first VK chaser to make a G contact was Paul VK5PAS, when we
worked from G/SP-004 Shining Tor on 22nd May.
If only that was true Mike but sadly not
Tom M1EYP made the 1st G-VK with VK2BJ on 12th March 2011 and the
first ever VK chase was made by John GW4BVE with Mike, VK3KMA on 20th
April 2004.
It’s comforting to know that in 25 years time, should very rare DXCCs such as St. Pierre & Miquelon, Malawi or North Mariana Islands ever decide join SOTA, I can claim to be the first to have worked them as an activator (unless someone else has already worked them from here in the UK of course?) even though these SOTA associations never even exisited at the time.
Indeed Mike. As Andy says, an association need not exist to have a valid contact with any DXCC, and for the person you worked to register and claim the QSO as a chaser.
OTOH, it certainly does need to exist in order to work an activator in that DXCC, which is why international S2S contacts are rather good fun. I’m pretty sure I had the 2nd ever GW to HB S2S (because G3CWI who was joint activating with me at the time - Arenig Fawr GW/NW-011 - got the first IIRC).
I may have the first GI to G S2S (Agnew’s Hill GI/AH-005 to Black Combe G/LD-030) with Alan M1EYO in 2003, but I’m not sure.
Perhaps Andy can churn out a grid with all the associations, with the date, summit refs and activators entered into each cell corresponding to the first S2S QSO between those two associations. A very quick and easy job I would have thought…
I worked FP/G3TXF from an LD some year ago (2006). Pretty certain that I have not worked the others from a Summit (and that I have never worked KH0). 7Q is quite a common DX QSO on CW but whether anyone has worked it from a SOTA is another matter.
There are well over 1,400,000 SOTA QSOs in the database so there is likely to be a lot of unsung DX.
I’d be somewhat surpised if all four (PJ4 7Q FP KH0)
I’m surprised that 7Q is so wanted, I worked it on 6m SSB years ago. Easy contact especially as the world was calling. Got him on the 2nd call through the expert application of good luck! FT690, bodged up ex-CB amp that gave about 11W o/p into an HB9CV.
The first contact for those DX locations were claimed by:
Just bimbling through the contacts shows there’s tons of exotic stuff logged. I think I might have to add a page showing all the countries logged, when they worked and who by.
I’d be somewhat surpised if all four (PJ4 7Q FP KH0)
I’m surprised that 7Q is so wanted, I worked it on 6m SSB years ago.
Easy contact especially as the world was calling. Got him on the 2nd
call through the expert application of good luck! FT690, bodged up
ex-CB amp that gave about 11W o/p into an HB9CV.
The first contact for those DX locations were claimed by:
Just bimbling through the contacts shows there’s tons of exotic stuff
logged. I think I might have to add a page showing all the countries
logged, when they worked and who by.
That would be a very interesting and useful page indeed, Andy.
I totally agree with your semtiments about the luck element when working DX, especially from summits. It most certainly helps if you have plenty of it
And, of course, if you want to be the first to do something it’s probably not best starting after everyone else has been doing it for a while!
The DX worked page with options to sort by DX call, number of times DXCC worked sounds quite intriguing. I’ll put it on the list after Korean support and Barry’s easy awards checker.