Looking at my logs yesterday I noticed that I have activated Shining Tor (G/SP-004) 60 times. Even more importantly and purely by chance, I realised that yesterday (7th May) the summit got it’s 1000th activation, making it the 5th most activated summit. We are not actually pushing Tom’s record on the Cloud G/SP-015, but it is still a red letter day!
Living in the East Midlands, there are not a lot of summits to be activated, Shining Tor is my closest. In addition with the price of fuel at the moment, it is economic and a handy one to get to.
I do have to put up with quite a few jokes about living on the mountain. My own personal goal this year, is to get as many S2Ss as I can, so I don’t need to travel as much.
Testing a new radio a few days ago I got a couple of VK stations, so I decided to try an early morning activation, to try and get some VK S2Ss…. I arrived at 3:00 am. Whilst I got 60 QSOs only one was a S2S and that was from Spain! Things went a bit better yesterday with 27 S2Ss. It took a while though!
Another memorable activation was the Cross Atlantic S2S challenge last November. Dave M0JKS and I, sat in a tent for 6 hours in the pouring rain. It was what my wife, (a very competitive cyclist) calls type 2 fun (much better after the event, than during. It gets better as the memories fade)!
Here are a couple of pictures from the Summit. I look forward to working you soon!
Martin M7BIA
Wow, great Report Martin and as this is my XYL Elaine’s favourite summit for walking up I had to put my 10 Penneth worth in.
Cracker take off for VHF/UHF, we have been up there in sunshine and snow, so excellent on your Activity up there and Happy 1000th Activity birthday to SP-004
Great report, images and information @2E0BIA Martin. I do believe we had a 40m S2S yesterday, so it was great to make your log on Shining Tor’s 1000th activation.
Hmm, that wasn’t hard… but it was written in a hurry whilst I was running a big regression.
This is an attempt to find the top 100 summits with the greatest number of different activators. Some summits like The Cloud have huge activation counts but have only been activated by a small number of different activators.
A good question. So if we assume I have got the SQL correct what that is saying is that there are only 98 summits which have been activated by more than 2 distinct activators. I find that surprising and I wonder if the SQL is right but some sampling shows it may be correct.
That table first searches all the summits grouping them by userID. (UserID isolates people like me who use 2 calls to only be counted once). I limited it to the top 100 so it will be a list of summits
I checked GM/SS-279 and it has been activated by 8 different people who activated it once each. A total activation count of 8.
But I’ll be “home” soon so I’ll have a proper look when I haven’t got a zillion people calling me on Teams
Obviously because all the other (unlisted) summits in the world have been visited by zero activators. This includes The Cloud G/SP-015 which doesn’t make the list. The world’s most activated summit, but hasn’t had a single unique activator set foot up there…
I am one of them 
