A chance to walk off all the Xmas Day overindulgences of sherbert, turkey and Xmas pud, get away from watching the Great Escape for the forty ninth time and maybe collect 3 bonus points from qualifying summits! Nothing too serious, maybe an 1100 start to say 1330 local time?
Perhaps a little certificate for the most activator contacts, one for the most S2S and one for the most summits by a chaser?
Clearly, wx must be the deciding factor for any such activation at this time of the year.
Any thoughts or ideas, please feel free to chuck them into the ring.
Posted now, so that anyone who fancies having a go, can get a window in their diary organised at what is a busy time of the year for many families…
What you could try Mike is arranging some
kind of fun event for a Saturday. Something with a particular flavour that > would be appealing to all levels of activator and chaser. Off the top of my > head, trying to get all of the SP summits on the air at the same time could > be worth investigating. Arrange it to suit you and with a bit of publicity > and cajouling you`ve got a fun day.
Would it be worth considering Jan 2nd again? That way, being the start of another SOTA year, everyone can go for their local summit if they can’t get further afield for whatever reason. I know it’s not all about points but it’s nice to have an added incentive.
Would it be worth considering Jan 2nd again? That way, being the start
of another SOTA year, everyone can go for their local summit if they
can’t get further afield for whatever reason. I know it’s not all
about points but it’s nice to have an added incentive.
Hi Richard, I’m quite happy to go with the majority. As both dates are bank holidays, it makes life a little easier easier all round.
Any thoughts on boxing day/new years day, would be appreciated…
Good point Mike. Maybe a 12:00 start would give people a chance? I know there are ops out there that may bag a summit before any likely event may start. I’ve seen it before. Would this event be 2M ?
Early days yet but the ball is now rolling so I will see what develops and post an alert in due course.
New Year’s Day might be the more obvious choice to get operators riled up in HL-land, as it is very typical for everyone (non-hams) to go to their local mountain to catch the first sunrise of the year…
Boxing Day is not a bank holiday here, in fact very few people have it off, it’d be just another Monday. I realize that G - HL SOTA contacts have been a bit limited up to this point (and that we’re talking VHF here) but if there’s a nice high probability of people on summits on both ends there might be some HF action possible, also.
Anyway, for my part it’s guaranteed I’ll be on the air for New Year’s, WX will only determine which summit I go to (how far out), not if I go out.
By the way, when’s the fall Int’l SOTA Weekend this year?
