Hello trend setters and fellow SOTA folks.
My time for activating has finished for 2024 now up until New Years morning anyhow. I hope to do plenty of Chasing in the mean time.
I managed to activate 46 summits this year with 2 new ones and revisit the 7 new summits from 2023 having found the best way to hike to them. This year I mostly activated by myself but my wife Halima came along on lots of the hikes and whipped me up the hill most times. I did do a few summits with Hugh VK5NHG and John VK5HAA and take a guest VK5NIH with me on one day trip but he was not keen on getting on air. I ended up with 182 activating points and lifted my average a little to 3.96. Probably 10,000 km of driving in that lot and because the wife came we spent a bit more on accommodation needed for multi activations in certain areas. The old body held up ok so happy to do some more summits next year. I worked out if I do 20 summits with the highest score first next year MG x 2 should be in the log. Something to work towards. Thanks everyone cheers.
Regards
Ian vk5cz …
always a thrill to get you in my log.
de W6LEN / Jess
Hi Ian
Your enthusiasm for SOTA and driving 10,000 or more km is certainly appreciated by many in VK and more broadly around the world!
Always a pleasure to chase or complete a S2S exchange with you, in some of the most remote locations in Australia. Thanks for the 7 new unique VK5 summits to chase during 2024. I may have missed a couple along the way 
| Summit | Date |
|---|---|
| VK5/NE-055 (The Battery) | 2024-05-01 |
| VK5/NE-110 (Windee Hill) | 2024-06-24 |
| VK5/NE-075 (Mt Yourambulla) | 2024-06-26 |
| VK5/NE-087 (Watts Sugarloaf) | 2024-06-27 |
| VK5/NE-089 (Richmond Hill) | 2024-07-23 |
| VK5/NE-015 (Binya Peak) | 2024-09-16 |
| VK5/NE-099 (Mt Eiva) | 2024-09-19 |
73, Andrew VK1AD
Hi Ian,
Well done on this year’s activations and thanks again for including me in two of them.
I think if you look at the numbers, it’s always more productive to pick summits by points value than just randomly activate whatever lies in a certain direction. But randomly activating is fun and fills in the gaps for your log and for others.
73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA