Today saw me reach the status of Shack Sloth so thanks to ON9CBQ/P and OK7OK/P for taking me up to 995 points and also for being my first HF SOTA contacts, also a big thankyou to Nick G4OOE/P for the six points which saw me past the 1000 marker.
I started the year with 133 points and have been quite busy chasing all the many UK 2 Metre portable stations so an equally big thankyou to all those as well.
73, Derek, 2E0MIX
PS, another first I plucked up the courage to try CW and had a short QSO with Phil G4OBK, so time to get some practice done.
Congratulations Derek, and well done on having a crack at CW. Your CW will come on leaps and bounds if you do some activations with it. And the beauty is that as activator, you can conduct them at whatever speed is comfortable for you. The chasers work you at your speed - or they don’t get worked!
Well done Derek. What’s this, defecting to HF? Carry on like that and you’ll be clocking up loads more points within a very short time. Hopefully catch you soon from the Fells - on VHF of course.
My path to the lakes is a a little obstructed, but I am certain you are in my log as an activator of either SOTA’s or WOTA’s.
I wonder if the short QSO with Phil was on 160m? that would certainly be something special as a first CW QSO!
Well done in any case & CW does come in handy on VHF/UHF too, as I am sure Gerald G4OIG will agree
PS Sorry I missed you today Gerald, I didn’t have the yagi up so didn’t hear you at all, but I did mange to work Paul on 80m for the first time in ages. This, at a time when 10m was open to most of the world! Maybe HF conditions are improving after all
Well done Derek & sorry for the slight deviation from topic.