Dear Mario
You’ve been welcome – each of you has had his own access to these cantons. They are important for us Swiss, since we have so many of them. In the end, they offer the surface where the summits have been set up from where you have heard us calling you all throughout the HB15 year.
Lowland? Why not. I’m happy myself for this new challenge. Switzerland is not only Matterhorn, Rigi, Jungfrau and Mt. Pilatus and a pile of cheese, and the Swiss don’t live all above 2,000 m. The lowlands are our workaday face just round the next corner. Some are simple, but many are gems and worth being discovered. The Lowland Award offers a way to access them and share an idea of their simple beauty. For us HB9ers they offer a systematic way to go out and see places we’d never think of without SOTA.
Let yourself be assisted by HamAlert. There isn’t an automatic built-in service like for the SOTA Completes, but copy the remaining summits from your query result on the award page into a summit filter and renew it from time to time.
Vy 73 de Markus, HB9DIZ
1 of 176 lowland summits: heading up to Bireggwald, HB/LU-029, last Friday where DJ2MX and HB15SOTA met on 60 m.