Hi All,
New SOTA addict here.
Just activated my 1st summit on Saturday.
You can read all about it here:
Looking forward to many more! Will do my best to write on my website about each activation!
73,
Paolo
K1PAP
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Hi Paolo, happy to welcome you to the fraternity. This hobby is enduring and will grow on you; remember it is just another hobby; and to have fun. 
Geoff vk3sq
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Great report…welcome to the crazy gang! It is addictive! Conditions looked lovely.
Martin
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Hi Paolo,
Congratulations on a successful first SOTA activation and thanks for a great write-up. Really enjoyed looking at the photos too.
Well done for being brave on making your first CQ SOTA call by cw. I remember that “deep-breath” moment very well!
Wishing you many more succesful activations and perhaps one day we’ll have a S2S QSO.
73 and Merry Christmas,
Matthew M0JSB
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Great post Paolo. I am looking forward to getting you in my log on CW. Give 20, 15, 17 or 10 on CW, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
de W6LEN / JESS
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Congrats and Welcome!
Also a great summit, and one where I learned some lessons! I did the hike with fellow grad students in summer and we all ran out of water in 100 degree weather by the time we hit the summit. I learned what thirst was on that day! Glad it happened when we weren’t that far from civilization but was scary enough for me to be sure it never happened again! Don’t let the “too much” water lesson you discussed push you too far in the other direction 
Hope you have many more successful activations and ‘73
Tony
KM6AM
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Hello and welcome to SOTA,wiahing you a great time activating an chasing summits!
73 Karlo
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Hvala Karlo! Pozdrav!
Welcome to SOTA activating… it’s addictive! Coming up on 15 years for me and I still love it, despite living on a wet and windy north Atlantic island.
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Welcome, Paolo.
Hope to get you in the log soon.
Jim - N0IPA - CO
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