As a user of Clublog - I upload my ADIF logs at least once a week - my timeline 2020-2021 for G4OBK shows a lower level of activity than last, although percentage wise the the modes I used in 2020 and 2021 are broadly similar. I use FT8 but its not killing the CW/SSB operating side of the hobby for me certainly. The scores do not reflect my activity this year in Scotland, Wales, Portugal and Spain. About Clublog
This year I did a little more HF DX work as condx improved, less contesting and less SOTA Chasing and Activating. I completed 68 activations between 14-04-2021 and 01-12-2021 and made 2641 SOTA Chaser Contacts during 2021.
One never gets bored as a SOTA Activator and Chaser!
Not me personally but as I had to do a bit of admin on the SMS spotter account I can say that a total of 8436 spots were made by SMS by users in 2021. I have not done a breakdown of UK vs US vs Iridium vs OE vs I vs EA numbers yet. I should really look and see how many spots were direct to complete the figures.
Hi Phil, I don’t use Clublog, as I don’t really operate much from home, however I pulled this chart off of the sotamap resource. It’s the first time I’ve done this. Interesting!
Edit: Can you tell when lockdown ended and my lifepo4 battery arrived?
Too bad the 60m bandlets do not correspond with some other countries (we can on 5.354 but it is hard to resize an antenna or add a new TRX memory) and of course that some are not authorized like the VK and the JA …etc.
I have to find another solution to complete my last wishes (Sept. 2021)
Only one of the 10 needed G summit was done
G/DC-008
G/NP-023 G/NP-026 G/NP-027
G/SC-011 G/SC-013
G/SP-003 G/SP-010 G/SP-012
G/WB-006 subliminal message in the air
Otherwise the 8000 unique summit have been exceeded before 31/12/2021
Phil, Sorry for the unintentional hi-jack of your thread, however it would seem that I have stumbled upon and shared a little known resource, so all good for SOTA.
Yes, 60m has turned into a QSO bringer for me, even more so for S2S QSOs. I highly encourage other activators to include 60m in their activities. I use a dipole of 2x 17m and this cannot be deployed on all summits. 60m has its limitations, but wherever possible I use the “big” dipole.