Looking at the Upcoming Activations Alerts there is not a single CW activation announced for today. Unusal for a day on a weekend! I wonder if this has happened before.
Weather here is terrible with snow and storm. I had hoped to work some activators blessed with better WX conditions.
In SOTA’s 1st full year of operation (2003) there were a total of 1376 activations spread across 9 associations. For 2011 (upto 16-DEC-2011) there have been 16547 activations across 57 associations.
Currently snowing on and off here, 1C, about 3cms snow and ice laying on the roads.
That was a very successful marketing campaign by BT. Analysis of call patterns at the time showed that woman made longer calls than men. For men, most calls went along the lines of “Which pub are we going to?” “Black Bull at 8.00pm” “Right, I’ll see you there”. “Click!” When calls were charged per minute, men’s calls were always under the minute. The campaign was targeted towards men and all it had to do was make men’s calls last more than 1 minute to see a 100% increase in that revenue stream. 3 minutes and BT were “revenue Nirvana”
In SOTA’s 1st full year of operation (2003) there were a total of 1376
activations spread across 9 associations. For 2011 (upto 16-DEC-2011)
there have been 16547 activations across 57 associations.
Currently snowing on and off here, 1C, about 3cms snow and ice laying
on the roads.
Andy
Mm0fMf
In that first year there were 94 activators listed on “all modes” and 19 activators listed on “CW”. SOTA has grown, and CW has grown at a faster rate!
We had our first snow of the winter yesterday, a ten minute light shower that didn’t settle. We have only had a couple of light ground frosts and in my garden we have roses, fuchsias, penstemons, pelargoniums, pansies and violets, and even the bedding dahlias still in flower.
CW
But the problem is more, when I work on HF I need 45min on the summit. Always in winter I´l not´ve the time. I may start with FM on 2m or higher to safe time.
Yes your right Tom you have not herd from me, I stopped doing sota 2 years ago and only started doing it again in the 2 months.
I had to stop using the motorbike so i sold it and got my self a FT1000MP and a Gap Challenger and still have 2&70cm and 6m so i hope to work you very soon.
In reply to G4SSH:
Hello Roy
I don’t care about cold wx because I can wear gloves but there is heavy rain since days in my area.
My tx don’t like rain.
I hope I can send an alert before next February.
Best 73 and season’s Greetings.
Andre - f5ukl
Welcome back Nigel, you have been missed, especially in the log of John G4YSS / GX0OOO.
Hello Andre
Looking forward to your next activation and hope the WX improves.
Just a light covering of snow so far at my QTH on the North Sea coast, but very cold.
Best Wishes for Christmas & the New Year to you both