SOTA Christmas Quiz 2010

Old Reflector
81
  1. 2 more

73 Marc G0AZS

82

In reply to M1EYP:
44) Yes G/SC-008 St Boniface down - only because it has a larger activation zone.

Roger G4OWG

83
  1. 700m
84

In reply to M1EYP:
30) Place Fell G/LD-027 26/10/2009 same day as Baystones now deleted.

Roger G4OWG

85

In reply to M1EYP:
2) G/CE-006, replaced by G/WB-024 in May 2002.

86

Firstly, Alain F6ENO was correct with 45) 2. I markedly this wrongly earlier on. (So Alain gets the point for this one, not Marc G0AZS - sorry!). My understanding was the same as Martyn’s - ie that it wouldn’t have made any difference, but if Marc says it’s 2, then it’s 2!

Martyn is correct with W5 - although the call area of W7 has 79 regions, this is split over several associations, not just one. It could be a little confusing, as the Database and SOTAwatch need to deal with W7 as “one association” in its structure. Martyn is also correct with 9H for 27. Q2 says “replaced by another summit”, not “replaced by another reference” - so incorrect.

Jimmy was correct with Cheriton Hill G/SE-015 being one of the 6th March 2002 starters - I managed to get bamboozled by US date format in MS Excel!

Roger is correct with High Street - drat, I thought that one might run a biot longer! Also correct with St Boniface Down G/SE-008 being closer to the coast (very marginally) then Swyre Head G/SC-012. I measured from the actual summit points BTW Roger. Also correct with Place Fell being Richard’s last CURRENT G unique!

Jonathan is correct with Bin of Cullen. But I have to tell you that GD/GD-004 is not in G… :wink:

Richard correct with 700m being the original winter bonus height for Wales.

Tom M1EYP

87

In reply to M1EYP:

Q2 says “replaced by another
summit”, not “replaced by another reference” - so
incorrect.

I did wonder what exactly you meant there…

Is it GM/SS-138, replaced by GM/SS-282 ? I’m sure that matches your criteria, but I’m not sure whether there was an earlier one.

88

Indeed Martyn - correct.

89

49 down, 7 to go.

The current Bragging Rights Table looks like this:

  1. M3EYP (12)
  2. G3CWI (8)
  3. LA1TPA (4)
    4=) M6HBS, G4OWG, OK9HAG (3)
    7=) G3OHC, G0AZS, M0DFA, G8ADD, M1MAJ (2)
    12=) G0VOF, G6WRW, M0RCP, MM0TAI, MM3WJZ, F6ENO (1)
90

  1. Dufton Pike G/NP-027

  2. Swinside G/LD-057

Jimmy M3EYP

91

In reply to M1EYP:

Also correct with St Boniface Down G/SE-008 being
closer to the coast (very marginally) then Swyre Head G/SC-012. I
measured from the actual summit points BTW Roger.

Interesting… measuring with Google Earth, I got 0.88km for Swyre Head and 0.98 km for St Boniface Down. At this level we perhaps have to start worrying about what exactly you mean by “coast”. I’m still struggling to get St Boniface closer though.

92

(d) Beinn Neobhis [Ben Nevis G/WS-001 - G8ADD]

The SOTA reference for Ben Nevis is GM/WS-001, not G/WS-001.

Jimmy M3EYP

93

In reply:

Qu 12) Grisedale Pike, LD-015

94

Hi Dad,

Jason HL4/W2VLA should be in 12th position with one correct answer on your summary table above.

Jimmy M3EYP

95

In reply to M1EYP:

Jonathan is correct with Bin of Cullen. But I have to tell you that GD/GD-004 is not in G… :wink:

Sorry Tom, thought it might have been a trick question being an association with G as the first letter!

73
Jonathan
M6HBS

96

In reply to M1EYP:hI Tom. for question 23 you have said UK which must include GM GW GI etc.In that case you cant get much less than 4 in which GM/NS -008 has only had 4 ATB enjoy your Christmas Geoff

97

1) m3eyp (13)
2) g3cwi (8)
3) la1tpa (4)
4=) m6hbs, ok9hag (3)
6=) g3ohc, g4owg, g0azs, m0dfa, g8add, m1maj, mm3wjz (2)
13=) g0vof, g6wrw, m0rcp, mm0tai, hl4/w2vla, f6eno (1)

98

In reply to M1MAJ:
Using Anquet Maps OS 1:50000

St Boniface Down Summit 0.65miles
Trig 0.65 miles
200m contour SZ565782 0.43 miles

Swire Head Summit 0.59 miles

Roger G4OWG

99

Sorry Jimmy, no extra marks for pedantry (albeit a very fine piece of pedantry). Incorrect with both Dufton Pike and Swinside.

Iain - correct with LD-015.

Roger & Martyn - I am prepared to concede the point re Swyre Head / St Boniface Down. St Boniface Down has two points of apparently equal height, and it turns out that the one people tend to activate from is not the official grid reference in RHB - which is inside the transmitter compound! Hardly anything in it though.

Tom M1EYP

100

In reply to M1EYP:
23) The following summits are tied for this honour with only 1 QSO recorded for each: GM/SI-068 GM/SI-069 GM/SI-070 GM/SS-279 GM/WS-107

Activated, but not qualified.