Andrew VK1AD reaches 3k points - triple goat award

Yesterday 24 March Andrew VK1AD reached the triple goat score of 3000, activating Sam Hill in Victoria Australia.

I look forward to many more joint activations, the confusion we cause is somewhat amusing.

Andrew has activated since 1st Feb 2013 when vk1 joined the SOTA world. He was association manger for those first years and is regarded as the source of info and help, in antennas, feedlines, radios and navigation. The VK1 SOTA mailing list on groups.io has a lot of content contributed by him.

Join me in congratulating Andrew on his progress, ever upward.

73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA

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Well done Andrew! See you at 4X :beers:

Congratulations to you Andrew vk1ad on your 3k points achievement. :clap:Good to work you on Sam Hill too. :grinning:

Geoff vk3sq

Congrats Andrew on your 3rd goat!

Looking forward to another joint activation! Any plans of coming to Europe soon?

73 Heinz

Congrats on reaching 3 x Mountain Goat, Andrew :tada: :champagne: :balloon: :partying_face:

Thanks for several very nice and remarkable S2S-QSOs! Hope to talk to you soon from the next summit :slight_smile:

73, Roman

Congratulations Andrew!

Marvelous effort to reach 3000 Activator points, Andrew! It’s always fun to hear you on a summit with your fellow Andrew and (slightly confusing) callsign sound-a-like.

Wishing you many future activations…

David VK3KR

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Congratulations Andrew @VK1AD on your 3000 points and third MG status.

Thank you Andrew (VK1DA) for your comments and recognition of a 3k milestone achievement, I appreciate the sentiment.

Thanks all for the kind words expressed in this thread, I very much appreciate the feedback.

Achieving an activator milestone is a team effort involving hundreds of chasers and thousands of VK and DX activator S2S QSOs, including the unique VK and DX Andrew to Andrew S2S contacts :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m looking forward to achieving the next milestone with the involvement of the SOTA community here in Australia and the DX friends.

73, Andrew VK1AD

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Hello Heinz, short answer is yes in 2026 with an alignment to Friedrichshafen 2026.

Regards

Andrew VK1AD

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Congrats, Andrew! Looking forward to more S2S QSOs!

Ahoi
Pom

Congratulations.

I was trying to work out which Andrew I had an S2S with back in 2023 and discovered they were using VI10SOTA. So I’m none the wiser!

73 Richard

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Each activator has their own log. If they were using a special event Callsign that will be revealed by their log. You have the date and time already.

73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA

Congratulations Andrew

73
Juan

Congratulations Andrew on your 3rd mountain goat!
I hope to meet you again soon for an S2S QSO, but the weather forecast for next Sunday is not good.
73 Lutz