Very impressive numbers for 2017, congratulations to all and happy 2018.
KE5AKL, Michael, took the all modes “crown” this year with a pack of hungry European stations not far behind. 7 MGs for 2017 in multiple modes… 6 had enough to reach 1000 points in CW only while SP9MA combined CW & FM to go over the 1k mark.
Overall CW activators lead the stats, with 6 of them reaching MG in a single year!
KE5AKL leading the stats in that category as expected as well.
SSB activators coming in strong as well but nobody making MG in a single year in 2017.
F4EGG, Thierry, came in first for 2017 with SY2BIK, Stavros, hot on his tail only 12 points behind.
FM was a surprise (at least to me) with the top activator almost making it to MG in a single year. JP3OSW reached 927 points with 209 summits!
ALL MODES
CW
SSB
FM
Some very impressive numbers all around. May 2018 be another enjoyable activating / chasing year for everybody!
Thank you Arnaud for this info which discovered some surprise (I have not checked it myself before):
73% of my QSOs were on CW what given me 8th place,
at the same time only 23% of my QSOs were on FM and were enough to give me 4th place
34th overall for me… but highest activator total (629) in “all G” land. That’ll never happen again I suspect. I had 2 months in the camper van around Europe with a LOT of 10 and 8 pointers in FL/VO and DM/BW where the pickings are relatively easy.
If I took that lot out then it’d be much reduced.
Anyway, not complaining - a great year of SOTA.
I this hobby!
Thanks to all the chasers, my fellow activators for S2S and to the “backroom” people who keep it all going with databases, summit lists, forums, awards and the like.
And thank you especially Gerald for lots of chaser QSOs when you were in EU and the GPX tracks you share with our community on the SOTA Mapping Project which I make good use of.
I’d like to go to the FL/VO area this year myself, unfortunatly it won’t be for a 2 month stint!
I’ll be in FL/VO in the Summer Phil. The pictures of the place look great. I have no definitive plans yet other than FL/VO but I’ll see if I can do different summits to Gerald to give you more complete options!
Great stuff Andy - I need to chase around 60 of the FL/VO region out of the 153 qualifying summits to chase them all, as an activator I need to go there. If we have another summer of extreme interest in the region we are sure to get a few more ticked off… If you look at the list of what has been activated it is the 4, the 2 and (single) 1 pointers that have had little or no attention.
So if you are an activator that wants to get their “name in lights” in perpetuity as First Activator get yourself to the Vosges Region!
this hobby!
