My first SOTA activation

Activation Reports
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On August 2nd, 2014, I did my first SOTA activation: YO/EC-017 - Rarau
It was also part of the WWFF area, YOFF-170.

I’ve made a blog post about this on YO8SEP - Ham Radio, YOFF, SOTA ...: 2014.08.02 SOTA YO/EC-017 and YOFF-170 Activation

Thank you to everyone that responded to my CQ calls and apologies to the ones that I didn’t hear/copy.

73,
Petronel
YO8SEP

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In reply to YO8SEP:

Hello Petronel,

Thanks for the summit. 71 QSO’s and 5 S2S is very good going, well done!

What helped me was that your alert details were accurate and you turned up :wink:

I hope to hear you again soon on another summit.

Best wishes
Mike

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In reply to G6TUH:
Hi Mike, I was surprised that someone responded so quick after my first CQ.
Now looking on this forum I saw you passed 10k points last year, so you have “some” SOTA experience, especially on spotting.

Yes, I did put an alert for my estimated QRV and was lucky to find 14.280 free.

It was a fun activation, with some things/mistakes to learn from.
Next time I should have a WARC band antenna if a contest is running on same time.
Without an ATU and only a 7m fishpole I’m quite limited to a few antennas, mainly verticals or delta loop. I also need to research more about an antenna for the 40m band, so I can work also some close stations (YO, LZ, HA…)

I’m looking forward for more SOTA and YOFF activations.
Any advice are welcome.

73,
Petronel

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BTW, do I need to do anything special to log the S2S QSOs ?

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In reply to YO8SEP:
Yes, as well as entering your activation QSOs - for each S2S QSO you need to enter a Chaser entry. Enter the details just as if you had chased the other station from your home QTH but you will see that there is a checkbox “Is QSO S2S?”. Check this box and you will be asked to enter your activation reference. Then your S2S will be fully logged!

73s Andrew G4AFI

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In reply to G4AFI:

Thanks for the reply.

I don’t have an antenna at Home QTH :slight_smile:
From 5 S2S, 2 were from 2 operators from same SOTA. On the Chaser log the second QSO show points as: “0 ?]”. I suppose I don’t get points from same SOTA even than are from different ham activator.

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In reply to YO8SEP:
Yes the Chaser points are for the summit. So you can only claim points for a summit once each day irrespective of who activated it.

73 Andrew G4AFI