Hello HB9DPR, DD5LP, I’m 100% sure that all that have activated the Italian summits have reached the correct summit, by his name and not by the coordinates.
So, morally the activation is valid, for my hamspirit and point of view.
I’ve discovered just yesteryear that some of the summits on my zone have wrong coordinates and I’ve already, yesterday evening, reported it to the sota.uk MTs members and in this reflector.
So excuse HB9DPR for being direct but I’ve done the work!
Please read the following topics to have the right information about the problem:
If you have time read all the first topic that it’s a summary of the current Italian situation.
HB9DPR have you reported that the coordinates are wrong?
I/AA-316 Cima Grava you have activated it two times, but you have not written anything on the page with the summit description.
I’m the first that yesterday and today have reported the problem, here, to the MT, in the summit page.
Some of Veneto summits are also wrong see here:
One is actually in Croatia.
So I’m not here to make an activators public accuse but to highlight an AM lack of control.
However, in my opinion, the activactor should at least report that the summit has wrong coordinates.
Obvioulsy I’m not able to know if it was done in the past for that summits, but it seems NO!
In the case of the Veneto, wrong summits, the activator has reported the problem in 2013 more than two years ago:
http://sotawatch.org/summits.php?summit=I/VE-302
So, I repeat, this is not an accuse to the activators, but I think that the problem should be corrected ASAP.
The Italian admin AM seems not interested as we have the same summits from 2011!!
The rules says that we must activate the summit with an error of 25 meters, it seems a yoke here, the error actually is of Kilometers, or even nations.
I’ve not the intention to review all the italian summits, I’ve proposed me to review at least those of my region.
Yesterday, visually checking on Sota maps, I’ve found six wrong summits over six checked summist, at the moment an error of 100%
Is the Italian Sota program valid?
73 de IN3AQK