New Associations and Updates for 1st Spetember 2014

After a few problems the SOTA MT are pleased to announce 2 new associations and a major association update.

Firstly VK4 has had a major update. At this point you must excuse me because I don’t know how many new summits there are.

Secondly we’re pleased to welcome VK6 to SOTA. I know of a couple of UK SOTA activators who happen to make regular trips to Perth and the area who are pleased with this development. They’re not the only ones as some of the VK6 guys have been getting desperate waiting for this one to come online.

Finally, please welcome KP4 Puerto Rico. This is our first association in The Caribbean. This has been a long time coming and we’ve had small snag with the upload. There is another region for KP4 still to come. That should be uploaded in the next 24hours.

Apart from KP4/CU, you can now log activations and chases in VK4, VK6 and KP4. Once we get KP4/CU in place, Jon will import these new summits into SOTAwatch and you will be able to spot and alert them. Jimmy M0HGY will be ensure that ARMs get placed on line ASAP.

I’ll leave the new association managers to introduce themselves.

In the meantime, thanks go to Jim, Peter, Csaba & Tom and the AMs and their helpers for putting the data together.

Andy, MM0FMF
Database Manager

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Awesome, welcome!

The CSV download of the full summit list is not available on the “Database” page - Clicking the link causes a 404 message

Is this temporary or has the full summit list download been withdrawn?

G4POP

Works for me.

Just tried again and agree its now working but it was not when I posted!

Computers, wonderful things, don’t you just love them!

There are some emails for me from the database complaining about some stuff so you probably hit the website at just the wrong time.

KP4 Puerto Rico has now been fully loaded to the database. The missing region/summit has been added and the one which had gone for a swim has been rescued and put back on land!

Andy, MM0FMF
Database Manager

Thanks to you and all concerned with the updates Andy.

By my count we have an extra 986 summits with 10 new regions in VK4.
Now we just need to generate a bit more enthusiasm to make the effort worthwhile.

Thanks all round.

Dave VK4DD
VK4 Association Manager

Big effort Dave, I can appreciate what it takes after doing a couple of the VK6 Regions.

If you couldn’t find a summit to activate from in that lot, I don’t think you’d be trying very hard. Getting some activators will come, we are in the same boat in VK6. I’m confident we have a few after Mike’s VK6MB activation yesterday. Heading out to do my first one on Sunday afternoon. 06:00 08:00 UTC. might even be a bit earlier. Alerts to follow in next day or so.

Good luck.

John VK6NU
VK6 Association Manager