1st November 2020 Association Uploads

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This month features two new associations and some updates.

VE5 Canada - Saskatchewan

Welcome to Jim, VE5EV and Ian, VE6IXD. Not the most mountainous of the Canadian provinces, but a nice selection of hills. There are a good number in the far north, which I imagine will be a challenge to reach, but actually the high-scoring ones are concentrated in the south-west. Anyway, that fills a big gap, should any of you want to try a coast-to-coast VE SOTA road (or rail) trip! Well, perhaps not this year.

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[By the way, we’re still looking for volunteers for VO2.]

PY3 - Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul

Welcome to Júlio, PY3AES. This is the most-southerly of the States of Brazil.

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W7A - Arizona - Update

Arizona has gone metric! P150 (492 feet) results in the (net) addition of 153 summits. There are a few more than that actually, but then there are a handful retiring as well (nearly all moving to a near neighbour determined as higher by Lists of John).

FL

FL gets two new summits — FL/VO-176 and FL/VO-177.

We’ve got various other tweaks in place, such as lots of new summit names in HL and a couple of JA retirements.

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Thanks for the info and good news on the latest changes Simon. I was wondering about FL/VO-164 Ouvrage St. Blaise - 358m, 2 points which appears in the Vosges list, summit is near to Metz and is shown as not yet activated. Is this a recent new summit also?

Good to see a few new ones appearing in Europe for when we get the chance to travel!

73 Phil

PS I just looked at summits page - comment from Christoph ON6ZQ, Military zone. That explains the non - activation of what looks like an easy summit!

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You can find that out about any summit, even the retired ones, by using the search facility from the database site. For FL/VO-164 it will lead you here:

https://www.sotadata.org.uk/en/summit/report/113647

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Thank you Simon. The ON6ZQ comment on the summit page answers my question.

73 Phil

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Hi Phil @G4OBK
You can see on Google street view FL/VO-164 not accessible because >>>
Military Zone :roll_eyes:

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sorry for the poor photo quality !
73 Éric

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Some people who do not have to comply with SOTA General Rules - 3.7 Rules for Activators and do not care about regulations made videos of the place, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TYhskJAjAs .

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Nice to see, also some minor changes of the DM summit list are included in the update:

  • DM/BM-203 adjusted position by 40 m.
  • DM/HE-562 adjusted position by 287 m, changed height by -2 m to 552 m ASL. Added prominence and col position.
  • DM/RP-319 renamed from Trautelsberg to Treutelskopf. Position adjusted by 17 m.
  • DM/TH-844 adjusted position by 41 m.

Thanks to all involved!

73 de Michael, DB7MM

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Hi Simon,
What association or country are you referring to by H?
Is this a typo and you wanted to write perhaps HL or am I a bit silly today and I don’t recognise H?
Thanks.
73,

Guru
PS. I’m asking this question now, because I’m late and preparing my SOTA news in Spanish bulletin right now.

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HL - Korea

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Thanks, Andy.

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Thanks Guru. Typo corrected.

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