Congratulations Richard!
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Congratulations and thank for many qso from your summits!
Claudio
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Thanks everyone.
I started my SOTA journey in 2017 - it’s what brought me back to amateur radio after over 25 years away from the hobby. As a keen hillwalker it seemed the obvious thing to do. I didn’t take it particularly seriously to start with, with just 22 activations and 71 points from 2017 to 2019.
Covid lockdowns meant I didn’t do any activations in 2020. But I got busy with homebrewing and when I got back on to a SOTA summit in 2021 it was with a homebrew rig. Now every activation is qualified with one of my four homebrew rigs (and there’s a fifth being planned). So I just need to get to 1071 points to be a homebrew goat. Then there’s 5000 S2S points, 10000 chaser points…
73 Richard
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I think we all started with that attitude. I initially estimated 10 years to Goat!
…and that’s the best thing about it. SOTA has infinite challenges, most of them individual to us and, thankfully, inside our heads!
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Really congratulations Richard.
Furthermore, thanks for all S2S we had, all on CW.
'73 de ik6bak, Eliseo.
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It has always a pleasure to work you Richard on your way to Goatdom… and now hopefully beyond. Many Congratulations!
73, Gerald
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Your soon to be MG earned entirely on home designed/home built gear is something to be extra proud of.
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Tnx for our S2S today and congrats aswell.
73 Chris