So how was your year?
I’ll start off.
I set myself a goal of being more active in SOTA in 2025. I wanted to average 10 activator points a week over the whole year…. well I’m happy to say I have achieved that. 2025 was, by some margin, my most productive SOTA year so far in the 14 years I have been active in the programme. I think the “10 points a week” target was mostly what spurred me on.
774 Activator Points over 123 Actvations (45 of which were new Uniques), with 218 S2S contacts.
September was my busiest month, due to my visit to France and Germany duing my main summer holiday.
At the end of the year I picked up Asia as a continent via a 10 day trip to Cyprus. Which meant I ended the year with 34 Associations and 62 Regions.
So how was it achieved…. I just decided to put some priority into SOTA this year and plan a bit more. I produced a target list of summits and summit combinations which I could do from home on a day trip, then ticked them off on any day I had free when the weather was acceptable. This meant around a half of the points gained were “at home” and the rest on concentrated trips abroad.
Highlights
- The annual GW SOTA get together organised by @GW4BML Ben.
- Another great trip with @GW4VPX Allan, this time to Northern Ireland, meeting up with some of the locals along the way, such as @GI4ONL Victor, @GI0AZA Esther and @GI0AZB Ian.
- Finishing the FL/VO 10 Pointers and meeting @HB9EAJ Stephan for a couple of joint activations.
- Getting an Asia Association via 5B Cyprus
- Adding 45 new Unique summits for me. I really enjoy the planning and execution of activating new summits.
So… what about 2026…. I’ll start a separate thread for 2026 plans.
