Thank you for todays summit NW-010. Not only was this my 116th unique summit as a chaser but it has also given me 1002 chaser points, enabling me to achieve Shack Sloth status in just under 10 months.
A big thank you also goes all of the other activators that have made this possible.
Always a pleasure to hear you and Colin call. You have contributed to many successful activations of mine and always turn up in the remote spots. Glad I was able to help with the first of many 1000’s of chaser points.
I’m now well and truly safely off the mountain as I am at home.
Thanks very much for the contact on Siabod and Colin also. Well done with the very speedy Shack Sloth. Maybe we can add to your uniques as we hope to be in SW Wales doing 1 pointers next Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. After Sunday (2m-ssb) I expect to be on 40m which should reach you.
Thank you for all of your replies. It is always a pleasure to catch-up with all of you from a summit or from home as and when time permits.
Hopefully I can do a bit more activating this year and try and get a few more SOTA/WOTA summits for everyone else to Chase or gain a S2S.
I have now purchased an Icom 706 for home so hopefully I can start to catch-up with a few more summits on 2m ssb (albeit vertical) or maybe even HF if I can get an aerial sorted. Still struggling with the latter at the moment as limited in what can be set up. The end fed wire is ok but would not tune on 40m. Trying another set up but doesn’t seem to be working at all well so need to look at a few more options.
For activations I am now using 4m fm as and when time/wx allows on a summit so maybe work a bit further afield on this band too.