I’ve read this thread carefully and I should say that there are some Hams, included me, that are available to correct, help, and solve the Italian summit situation.
For example, in my region “Alto adige”
There is no a local sub-manager, the manager leaves in another Italian region
There is only medium to difficult summits
The summits names are in Italian, but my region has a special statute, half of pupulation speaks german, and officially all the peaks have a dual name, Italian, German and in certain case Ladino.
Unfortunately it’ seems that “The official management team” don’t care about the situation, and that they do not want help or they do not need. I sad “it seems” purposely, because each contact with the manager ends in a fight!
On my point of view the italian sota is a “One man band” that is not good for it’s future.
It is now 8 days since I posted my message on the reflector asking stations who are claiming points for my voided activation of Le Cornate I/TO-314 on 1st July 2015 to remove their contacts from the database.
Out of 30 stations claiming points only two have removed their contacts! Thank you EA2LU (George) and GB2IWM.
This leaves the following 28 SOTA Chasers who continue to claim an activation with a summit which has never been activated:
I will now start the painstaking process of e-mailing these 28 stations individually via QRZ.COM to try to get them to remove these non-SOTA contacts from the database.
I have now e-mailed the above 27 SOTA Chasers via the e-mail addresses listed in QRZ.COM. Amazingly not one message has yet bounced! Let’s see how many invalid QSOs will now be removed. I’ll revisit the database in around 10 days to check.
Th only operator who does not have an e-mail address registered on QRZ.COM from the above list is DL2HWI, who is claiming a QSO with me on Le Cornate on 10 and 14 MHz.
Bad luck Phil,
Yes I found out several times that good preparation is useful, butt xxx happens.
Sure in Italy you have to be careful, I found out myself. Ones the so called top was over the top in a ravine.
Ones I was driving around in S5 or OK? Looking for a mountain and locals said there were no high spots in more than 30 Kim’s… All done talking with hand and feet.
Unforntionally some SOTA
summits have names not even locally known.
Well navigation is part of the fun.
GL Hans
Yes, same experience for me also! At least I did activate one valid Italian summit. Let’s see what happens to the Italian Association when the mettle is eventually grasped. In the meantime I will travel to other countries for the SOTA activations and stay away from Italy!
Thanks Sake and the many others who have responded off the reflector
I’m getting a really good response to the e-mails. I’ll re-input my invalid log in a week and see who is left claiming for the void Le Cornate actviation then.
Thank you to the 20 operators who responded to my e-mail message and have removed the void contacts they were claiming for a QSO with I/G4OBK/P on Le Cornate I/TO-314 on 01/Jul/2015 which was not legitimate.
There remains 8 SOTA Chasers who are still claiming points for an invalid “activation”. These are:
OE3KAB (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) DF5WA (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) G3VXJ (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) DK7ZH (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) OK1ACF (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) YO9IPF (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) OE5FSL (e-mailed via QRZ.COM address) DL2HWI (2 QSO) no e-mail address in QRZ.COM
Thank’s Andy - almost purged. OE3KAB is still showing though in “Show who chased me” and for some reason EB2JU has appeared and is claiming a QSO with I/G4OBK on that summit at 0958z! If you can clear those two I will delete the fake activator log entry I put in. If not possible I’ll just delete the fake log anyway later today.
