2026 SOTA Challenge (Part 3)

[MM0EFI]

@GM4LLD

It’s not a contest… there is no winner.

Lol.

[VK3ARR]

I don’t really have any skin in the game, so I’ve pushed a points-order update to the API. If any one complains (and I can almost guarantee someone will), they can refer to this thread.

[VK3SQ]

…hi Ian all along I thought this was for wingers postings..

Geoff vk3sq

[VK5CZ]

Not complaining Geoff just trying to grasp the concept so we do the right thing by SOTA.

In the Spirit of the activity to quote another cliche etc etc.

Like any other VHF/UHF activity with multipliers added into the score confusion is added also.

Just looking back at 45 years of those types of contests/activities.

Last you will hear of me thanks for listening.

vk5cz ..

[MW0CBC]

After 280+ posts and being a bear of very little brain, I’ve completely lost track of how it’s all supposed to work now

[GM4LLD]

Standard SOTA rules…

Work everyone, log everything and the let database show the results,

[MW0CBC]

Wilco boss

[OE5DRO]

i have a question about scoring:
on 1. january i worked the same activator on 3 different summits (as chaser)
but only one summit and distance was counted. is this the final plan?

[G8ADD]

@OE5DRO

on 1. january i worked the same activator on 3 different summits (as chaser)
but only one summit and distance was counted. is this the final plan?

It certainly wasn’t the intention during MT discussions. I suspect a glitch.

[OE5DRO]

i found out that some summits have no distance in the log. i will try to use %QRA%JN78xx% in the commentrs.

edit: this is not working for chasers

[OE5DRO]

ok new info: if there is no distance in the table, you have to edit the log and save again, then it works

[GM4LLD]

@G8ADD

wasn’t the intention

Come on Brian, you know we have a program that each day picks one user out of the 35000+ we have registered and plays with their logs just for s***s and giggles

[GM4LLD]

@OE5DRO

then it works

I tried logging the activations you had a problem with this morning from SOTAwatch. Each time I clicked and submitted the chase, I was awarded challenge points. I did that to see if there was anything strange in the summit definitions but there wasn’t. Why it didn’t work for you, I don’t know, but it is working now when I tried it.

[G4TGJ]

@VK3ARR

I’ve pushed a points-order update

Thanks for this.

My activator score is

However my score is missing my S2S contacts as they don’t have a distance:

My S2S logs shows them:

And they have been registered in my chaser score:

I entered locator squares for the 4 contacts with distances but not for the S2S as the database knows where the summits are.

I don’t know if this is relevant, but you’ll see both contacts scored zero S2S points. That’s because I’d already worked them both on 2m FM and one of them on 20m CW.

[G8ADD]

@GM4LLD

Come on Brian, you know we have a program that each day picks one user out of the 35000+ we have registered and plays with their logs just for s***s and giggles

SHUSH!

[GM4LLD]

How did you log them Richard? (Just in case there is a difference in some logging methods)

[G4TGJ]

Create ADIF with FLE then ADIF upload.

[GM4LLD]

@G4TGJ

However my score is missing my S2S contacts as they don’t have a distance:

S2S contacts are chaser contacts. The score is in your chaser challenge.

[G4TGJ]

@GM4LLD

S2S contacts are chaser contacts

They are also activator contacts.