This year sees the 15th anniversary of Austria joining the Summits on the Air programme. We are therefore using the special callsign OE15SOTA for activations from September 6 to 22 to commemorate this occasion.
Chasers who have made several contacts with OE15SOTA on different summits with a total of at least 15 summit points will be eligible for the Special Award OE15SOTA.
E.g. contact with OE15SOTA on OE/ST-223 - Osser - 6 points + contact with OE15SOTA on OE/OO-011 - Gr. Pyhrgas - 10 points will give you a total of 16 points, i.e. the chaser is eligible for the award.
The Austrian authorities are rather restrictive with regard to special callsigns. I had to bring up arguments why we wanted to have/use it more than three days…
For those who have already worked OE15SOTA on different summits with a total of 15 points: the award can now be downloaded via the link on the QRZ.com page by just uploading the chaser log.
There will be many more activators using OE15SOTA in the next few days!
I am interesting for the award very much and already I have made a QSO with a OE15SOTA on OE/OO-293 summit. What I want to know, after so long working SOTA, is : how can I find the operator of this special callsign to see, if I am in the log? In the past I was looking for through all activators of an association, but must be an easier way, I suppose, isn’t?
Congratulations for the OE15SOTA celabration!
Usually the alerts and very often the spots give you a clue about the activator’s callsign who posted it but in case of doubt you can ask ME ;-).
We have only got a period of two weeks and I manage the special callsign, so I should be able tell you who was on which mountain at a particular time…
Yesterday it was OE5AUL on OE/OO-293 (on his own - which is a very rare occasion).
There will be four of us on four different mountains today - the alerts give you their callsigns!
OE5REO Martin started in the morning
OE5YYN Sylvia and OE5AUL Peter were QRV around noon.
Myself OE5JFE handed over after a lot of QSO to the next team.
They are just now (11.09.2019, 15:30z ) setting up the station on another summit OE/OO-330 and will be QRV for some hours.
Look out for spots. Maybe some DX to NA?
Why would OE15SOTA be at it’s final stage? Tomorrow CW activity will commence. I’d say the fun is about to start…
EDIT: I have changed my alerts for tomorrow. I plan to activate Hoher and Niederer Kalmberg, OE/OO-025 and OO-026. If you work me on both summits you have already earned the OE15SOTA Award!
If you are having problems downloading your award please make sure that you use the Chaser CSV file downloaded from the OLD database http://www.sotadata.org.uk/.
It was great fun to operate the special callsign OE15SOTA. I activated four summits with a total of 331 QSO’s in SSB and FM.
And as a special surprise I managed to get four North American callsigns in the log today … here is a picture of my operating position on Oberriedel, OE/OO-383:
A big thank you to Sylvia, @OE5YYN for all the work to make this happen. OE15SOTA will be on air this weekend in OE2 and OE3 … so please work our special call while you can.
Last Sunday was the last day of our OE15SOTA activities with 4 activations in Lower Austria (OE3).
So far 54 chaser/OPs have claimed and downloaded the award. Congratulations!
We are currently compiling a list of all persons eligible who have not yet downloaded it and will publish it in due course.
Werde am 14./15. probieren mĂĽssen.
