To get your first 4 contacts, all ZL, in great conditions would be a huge challenge…
I managed 3 ZL’s one morning, however, they weren’t all in the first four, IIRC…
I think you need to borrow my Antron, Guru 
73 Mike
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Even more with my QRP 5 watts at current stage in the solar cycle…
Perhaps with a square 4 phased Antron99 array?..
And a helicopter to get them to the summit
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Only to the edge of the Activation Zone, then you need to hand carry (or use Oxen) to the summit 
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summit info correct now
My Contact with LZ1GJ yesterday was 27610 kms.
I presume this was a LP contact. No way of proving it really.
73
John VK6NU
Well look what Wade just did with 5 watts of SSB - it is possible - you have to be in the right place at the right time and have some luck.
By the way about 3 years ago, on ANZAC day, I qualified Auerberg with 4 VK contacts on 5 watts - only two were S2S contacts though …
73 Ed.
Luck plays a big part in radio Ed, no doubt about that. Take nothing away from Wade though. Working QRP with the SFI at 67 and K index 4, and then completing 17000 Kilometre contacts, was quite remarkable…
73 Mike
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After activating G/CE-002 yesterday, it struck me that it may be interesting to see what distance had been covered to qualify it… I can only make a short path calculation, because s2s logs work on SP.
The 4 contacts I qualified G/CE-002 Bardon Hill were (in Killometres)[/quote]
Very impressive Mike, but CE-002 is Walton Hill, not Bardon.
Glad you had a successful morning.
73,
Rod
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Cheers Michael and Rod…now amended…
73 Mike
I’m thinking on 4 potential activators in Pamplona (EA2) i.e EA2BD, EA2LU, EA2BSB and myself. All of us can work CW as well as SSB, of course. I’d have to have a chat with them and see how they feel about writing their callsigns in the SOTA Records Book.
We’ll also need 4 ZL activators willing to be the other half. Anyone stepping forward?
Question, would it be necessary that all the activators are in different summits?
My understanding is that the S2S QSOs would still be valid in case the 4 operators were together in a single summit, wouldn’t it?
73,
Guru
It is not necessary that all QSOs are S2S Guru, so you don’t need 4 participants in each country. The thread title is “Longest Distance to Qualify a Summit” - so you just need EITHER a ZL or a EA activator - and a whole bunch of chasers in the other one (ZL or EA). That would total up about 80,000km for the qualification.
Ed, yours (without the SV station in QSO position 4) works out at 64250km, so not quite there. However your qualifying contact is indeed a SV station (even though the other six of your first seven QSOs are all VK), so that would drop the total down significantly.
Spain <–> New Zealand would be the way to achieve the record. A pair of antipodes, both with active SOTA associations. Would need good preparation, plenty of willing participants on the chaser side, and discipline on the activator side. Perfectly feasible though.
OK, that “simplifies” preparation things a lot and I can even see it not too difficult to achieve
A bunch of 4 chasers equipped with a good antenna system would be enough.
This strikes me as quite an appealing challenge…
Now off for a cup of coffe in a local cafe with Ignacio EA2BD…
Cheers,
Guru
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I wonder if anyone has put in a claim for the longest contact? Rob G7LAS and myself thought we had a good shout at it during the EU/VK day from G/CE-004, April 2015. We worked Bryan ZL3XDJ an 11840 miles (19050Km) contact, calculated short path. There maybe an EA claim for a further contact, however, I can’t remember the details, though…
73 Mike
Ah - sorry wrong activation! I know there was one with the first 4 being VK and I know it was soon after I returned to Germany, before all the gear came over, so it would have only have been with the 817 barefoot - mind you, back then conditions were a LOT better.
73 Ed.
Ah here we go it was Irschenhausen - strange that’s a wooded summit, I’m surprised I got out so well! First FIVE were VK with two S2S contacts then the 6th. contact was from the states! With a futher three VK contacts (one of those an S2S) later in the list. Great days …
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64020km for your qualification of that ^^^ activation Ed.
I have found a SOTA contact in the DB that beats Rob & Mike’s 19050km though.
ZL3CC activated ZL3/CB-757 on 25th June 2016. One of the QSOs was with F5RAG in the SW of France - 19470km.
There could well be further ones - but they do take some finding!
You have underplayed this Mike. I think your move slightly south this time was a good choice - not just luck. Activators further north struggled to work anyone at all.
I’d say his punctuality was they key, rather than the location. The early bird catches the worm, as they say. I was 20 minutes late - and caught a cold.
Hi Richard,
That text was actually from my reply, not Mike’s (Longest Distance to Qualify a Summit - #12 by VK6NU) but I still think luck is involved. I was a LOT further South than Mike and it didn’t help me!
In my case Tom may have the right answer - had I been operational 30 minutes earlier …
Well as the Aussies say “Wudda shudda cudda”. Next time I’ll start earlier!
73 Ed.
In November 2014, John @VK6NU was activating Mt. Dale VK6/SW-036 and he had a SSB QSO with me on 20m and 10m while I was in my QTH Loc IN92CQ. I calculate the Long Path distance as roughly 25500 Km.