European SOTA Activity Day on September 19, 2020

DD5LP had a bit of a headstart :wink:, so here is the official announcement:

Since we are organising both an OE and an OE5 Day on September 19, Juerg HB9BIN has come up with the idea to turn this event into a European Sota Activity Day.

So far, HB9, DL/DM, Italy and France have agreed to join in and we would be very pleased if many other European associations would follow suit!

Da wir am 19. September 2020 einen ALL-OE und einen OE5-SOTA-Tag veranstalten werden, haben wir gemeinsam mit JĆ¼rg HB9BIN die Idee geboren, zu diesem Termin einen EuropƤischen SOTA-AktivitƤtstag auszurufen. HB9, DL/DM, Italien und Frankreich haben bereits Ihre Teilnahme zugesagt und wir wĆ¼rden uns freuen, wenn auch weitere Assoziationen mitmachen wĆ¼rden.

73, Sylvia
OE5YYN
SOTA AM OE

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Belgium is joining too!

73, Peter ON4UP
ON AM

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Hi Sylvia,

Ireland will certainly be active during this event, too. Sounds like a great opportunity to generate more activity.

73, John EI3KA
SOTA AM EI

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Romania is also in
this will be a great fun

73, Csaba YO6PIB
YO/EC RM, obo YO AM

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[Nostradamus mode = on] It will be raining. [Nostradamus mode = off] :slight_smile:

Iā€™ll keep the day free just in case. And will do my not-rain dance (for what itā€™s worth!)

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Croatian 9A SOTA members will be active during this event.
Stay tuned!

73 de Boris 9A2GA
9A SOTA Association manager

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Great idea, I think Iā€™m there too. Is there a website or something like that?
73
DD6FM - Marco

Isnā€™t every Saturday an international SOTA activity day? Is there a theme or focus that Iā€™m missing here? What makes this different from any normal Saturday, which always see hundreds of SOTA activations across the continent?

That said, Iā€™ll no doubt try to take part!

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I donā€™t know that. I sometimes do Sundays, sometimes during the week. I think itā€™s good that there is a set day where a lot of people specialize. So the chances of getting a S2S connection are even higher

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You are using it.

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Perhaps you should see a concerted high profile activity event as an opportunity for publicity for SOTA? If it gets the backing that it deserves - and also both the weather and the propagation - it will be an unrivalled opportunity for S2S contacts! :smiley:

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This event is getting (world-wide) publicity to the rest of the AR community and through it SOTA in general gets noticed more.

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Actually Brian, thatā€™s why Iā€™m asking the question. Iā€™d like to use this as an opportunity to distribute a press release - but to do so meaningfully, Iā€™ll need to be able to communicate what is different/special about this - and Iā€™m not ā€œgetting itā€ yet.

If I go out on a Saturday on a SOTA activation, it does not matter whether I take 40m, 30m, 20m or VHF, nor if I use FM, CW, SSB or FT8. I will make a lot of QSOs including a significant numbers of S2S, both international and domestic. Thatā€™s on ANY Saturday, guaranteed. So how is this event different? Whatā€™s the publicity angle?

Well its the ultimately social distanced get-together! :smiley:

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Drop me a PM please Ed so I can get a better grip on what this is all about (as distinct from a normal Saturday in SOTA) and to coordinate publicity. It sounds like youā€™ve already launched the publicity drive for this (thank you) and Iā€™ll make sure I donā€™t duplicate.

Well said! Thatā€™s what itā€™s all about - we want associations to join forces and motivate activators to get out on a special day to attract publicity to SOTA (and not leave it to chance as on any Saturday).

What do you want to know?

73, Sylvia

I discussed this on the SOTA Poland Facebook forum and everybody is enthusiastic about it. So SP association is in, whatever that means :slight_smile:

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Weā€™ve always been very lucky with the weather around this time of the year over here. Doing your not-rain dance will certainly help at your end!

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Hi,

If I have the chance Iā€™ll participate and Iā€™ll try to motivate others here in EA as well.

73 de Ignacio

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