SOTA NEWS MAY 2017 - Part 2
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SOTA France – Bob F5HTR
Hi to all !
Two months ago, the French association was split into two associations F and FL. Some bugs were in the system, but now most of them are now fixed. Thanks to Andy and the team for achieving success with this. This new association “FL” gives a lot of interest to the foreign activators. From beginning of February, we have seen several multi SOTA expeditions in Vosges’s mountains and north of France (F/PA9CW/p, F/ON4UP/p, F/DL3RBF/p, HB9BQU/p, F/N3II/p, F/HB9AFI/p). This month the number of activations are increasing to more than 100! It looks like a good evolution.
Some of you already contacted TM10SOTA? About 954 QSO have been done this month in all kind of mode, all QRG (49 DXCC). All the qso are confirmed by E-qsl (254), LOTW system and QRZ.com (54). No paper QSL according to the IARU rules.
If you did not qso yet ! You will get other opportunities to work TM10SOTA in July 2017.
- 8/9.07.2017 (2 days)
- 14/16.07.2017 (3 days)
- 22/23.07.2017 (2 days)
- 29/30.07.2017 (2 days)
TM10SOTA is a special call to celebrate the 10th year of SOTA in France. About 16 operators are authorized to use this call. Do not worry if you listen TM10SOTA at the same moment on different bands or modes. It is authorized to get multi signal from different places.
About the summit database, Gérald (F6HBI) has worked on the TK list which is now OK. It will be soon be updated on the SOTA website. Gérald and I also have listed all summits for the FM (Martinique Island) and FG (Guadeloupe Archipel). Soon you could plan holidays onto these marvelous islands!! The update is planned soon. Thanks to our referent ON6ZQ in helping us in our job to define all summits.
If you planned to hike in France, do not forget that the web site of IGN is the reference. You will find all maps on : https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/
Also, you can find on the website of SOTA-FRANCE, all the summits lists by department : http://www.sota-france.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=134&mnuid=72&tconfig=0
You will find on this page, a F6ENO’s software to write and convert your logs into database format :
http://www.sota-france.fr/pages/programmes/SAISIE_SOTA/Saisie_SOTA_setup.zip
Best regards to all
F5HTR
Bob
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SOTA Portugal – Paulo CT2IWW
Over three dozen headed for the hills and new milestone reached on SOTA Portugal´s Day
On April first, over 30 Portuguese activators headed up to the hills to commemorate SOTA Portugal´s sixth anniversary. Despite the terrible HF conditions, hundreds of contacts were made over a wide swath of radio spectrum, practically from HF up to the microwaves. Whilst participating on the event, Nuno Freitas, CT2IUV, racked up the last points needed to apply for the coveted “Mountain Goat” award. This makes him the first Portuguese amateur radio operator to achieve this distinction.
As per the organization, these are the stats for the second edition of this event:
· 32 activating stations
· 13 summits activated
· Over 600 contacts
· Bands from 40m up to 23cm
· Most contacts made on 2 and 20m
· Most used modes where FM (2m) and SSB
· One activation in digital mode
· And 27 participation digital diplomas distributed
CR7AKX CT ES 005 G.jpg - Sofia Ferreira on CT/ES-005 as part of a group activation
CT1END CT ES 007 C.jpg - Carlos Nora activating CT/ES-007
CT2IUV CT2IWW CT DL 005 B.jpg - Nuno Freitas (l) CT2IUV and Paulo Teixeira (r) CT2IWW on CT/DL-005. Cameraman is Joaquim Baldaia, CT7AGT.
SOTA Portugal´s IV Annual Meeting scheduled for May
The city of Valença do Minho, in the northern district of Viana do Castelo, will be home for this year´s SOTA Portugal´s annual gathering. The event, which will take place on May 20th and 21st, is hosted by the local amateur radio club Associação de Radioamadores do Alto Minho (ARAM).
Besides a series of talks over several topics, the participants will join a guided visit to a historic fortress on Saturday and will head out to jointly activate one or more local summits, on Sunday.
More information is available at ARAM´s website: ARAM - Associação de Radioamadores do Alto Minho
Final note
For those planning one or more outings onto the hills in Portugal over the next few months, please play close attention to the weather conditions and specifically to warnings regarding forest fires.
So far, spring has been very dry and unusually warm and there´s been a rash of fires all over but mostly towards the north of the country. If these conditions prevail for the next 4 to 5 weeks we might be in for a rather problematic summer season. Make sure you prepare ahead and contact local hams for advice on conditions, before heading out.
Have fun but, above all, be safe!
Paulo Teixeira, CT2IWW
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EA6 Mallorca SOTA tour – Luc ON7DQ
Hello SOTA friends,
I’m on holiday on Mallorca EA6, from May 7 till May 21, 2017.
I’ll try to do as many summits as possible, and under the motto
“a summit a day, keeps the doctor away”, this is a preliminary list :
For the moment, this would be my list (all summits have the prefix EA6/ of course) :
Sunday May 7
MA-060, Santa Magdalena, toghether with Ricardo, EA6AIF
Monday May 8
MA-052, Puig de Maria
Tuesday May 9
MA-017, Puig d’Alaró
Wednesday May 10
MA-053, Puig de son Seguí
Thursday May 11
MA-036, Puig d’Alpare and/or MA034, Puig de Ferrutx
Friday May 12
MA-030, Morey
Saturday May 13
MA-066, Puig se San Marti
Sunday May 14
MA-056, Puig de Bonany
Monday May 15
MA-037, Calicant or MA040, Talaia d’Alcúdia
Tuesday May 16
MA-065, Puig de sa Cova Negra
Wednesday May 17
MA-055, Jordi and/or MA062, N’Anyana (first activation)
Thursday May 18
MA-035, Puig de Sant Salvador
Friday May 19
MA-042, Puig de Caldent (first activation)
Saturday May 20 MA-032, Santuari de Cura (possibly also with EA6AIF)
Sunday May 21
NO SOTA, flying home …
The first summit on May 7 will be in the afternoon around 13:00 UTC.
All others I think I’ll do first thing in the morning, then after the summit I can go for some food, do some tourist visit or go to the beach … and relax ! (with exception if I would do a second summit on that day)
Check the alerts page for more details as I will update frequently.
Another exception is May 13, then I would also go in the afternoon, and stay for an extended activation, between 12:00 and 17:00 UTC, for the EU<>NA S2S event.
I will try bands from 40m up to 10m depending on propagation, response from chasers.
Modes will be SSB or CW, all depending on circumstances, ability to self-spot etc …
Spotting help is very welcome and also on-the-air info on possible S2S contacts !
Equipment : KX3 (up to 15W), link dipole or endfed, also 2m FM with 5W from an FT1D and a quarterwave whip. I have a roll-up Slim Jim, but would like to know if anyone on Mallorca is interested in a 2m contact ?
(otherwise I can save weight and leave the Slim Jim in my car).
Hope to hear a lot of chasers !
73,
Luc - EA6/ON7DQ/P
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SOTA antennas - Geert PA7ZEE
In the Reflector there are various contributions about antennas for SOTA activations. In general all very interesting and useful. However, due to my experience with activating SOTA summits, all that I learned about antenna theory, has become doubtful for me.
Let me give you a few examples.
· On a summit in Belgium under a closed roof of foliage and an inverted vee of 2 x 10 m on a height of 8 m and 5 W from a FT-817, QSO’s in SSB were made by Frank PC7C with SOTA friends in the USA with reasonable reports.
· On a summit on the Island of Gran Canaria, I laid my W3EDP wire on brushwood of 1 m above rocks and worked many stations in Europe with 3 W from my KX1.
· From a summit in Germany I worked Phillip VE1WT with 1.5 W from my KX1 and the W3EDP antenna surrounded by trees and received a 229 report.
What has happened that, with these antennas and under those circumstances, DX was possible?
First of all SOTA Chasers are very determined to work Activators; they try harder.
Some Chasers have antennas like a 5 element Yagi on a high antenna tower, which helps a lot and last but not least sometimes the propagation is with us.
So there are other factors involved besides the antenna of the Activator; a little Magic too ?
I do not say that the antenna of an Activator doesn’t matter, but may I quote Shakespeare?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
73 de Geert PA7ZEE
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SOTA ON TOP BAND - Mark G0VOF
Hello everyone & welcome to this month’s edition of SOTA on Top Band.
I got something of a surprise when I started compiling this month’s Top Band news. I do not recall as many activators using the band in any month in the entire history of SOTA. Not only that, but of the 9 activators this month, 8 of those were active on the same day & mostly at the same time!
That can mean only one thing, a lot of potential for that still quite rare thing, a Top Band summit to Summit. As I have said in the past, just like a Tango, it takes two for an S2S & there were quite a few of those to be had!
So we start the month down under, when on the 1st April as part of the AM activity weekend several VK activators ventured onto 160m using not only CW & SSB but also AM & Data modes. A post on the SOTA reflector by Andrew VK1DA kicked off interest in this year’s activity weekend, the challenge of which appears to have been lapped up by our VK colleagues!
Safe to say that detailed analysis of all the contacts & S2S’s would take several pages so I will keep things brief:
The first activator on the air was Tony VK3CAT/P who called on 1825KHz CW from VK3/VN-012 Mt Mitchell. Over the course of his activation he appears to have made around 12 S2S contacts on 160m, which I think I can safely say is new record, but one that he also shares with Gerard VK2IO.
Looking at the spots Tony was soon joined on the air by Paul VK3HN/P from VK3/VN-027 Mt Gordon & Gerard VK2IO/P from VK2/HU-054 Broken Back Range. Gerard also appears to have made a total of 12 S2S contacts on the band, which remains a record as far as I can tell! Warren VK3BYD/P activating VK3/VE-105 Mt Big Ben made 11 S2S contacts, truly amazing numbers!
To put things into perspective, in April 2011 when I first activated on 160m there had only been around three Summit to Summit QSO’s on 160m logged in the database since SOTA started in 2002. Since then there have been quite a few more, but nothing has ever come close to what these VK activators achieved between themselves on one day, Saturday 1st April 2017, and yes, I have made note of the date 
The statistics below use raw data from the logs entered in the database, & even allowing for errors they are truly stunning:
A complete list of activators & their summits as logged in the database is at the end of this report, I take my hat off to all involved & will be cracking open a tinny & slapping some AC/DC on the record player tonight in your honour!
Seriously, well done guys!
After that, it would appear that the next activation was something of an anticlimax!
On Tuesday 11th April, John G4YSS operating from the summit of GW/NW-001 Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa as GC0OOO/P offered the summit on 160m as he has done on more than one occasion in the past. Despite the train service to the summit being closed for winter, the summit itself was very busy with people who had walked all the way up.
I had left my radio on John’s usual frequency of 1832KHz CW using a 300Hz Collins filter whilst I showered & got ready for work. Thankfully that morning the noise sources in neighbouring properties had not fired up so 160m was relatively quiet (still nowhere near a natural noise floor though!) After showering, I had almost finished getting dressed when I thought it strange that I hadn’t heard John yet & decided to tune around a little. It was then that I found him calling on 1831.3KHz, completely outside the pass band of my 300Hz filter! John wasn’t too strong, but I could read him well enough to send him 559 & I received 579 in return. If I had given a report based on my meter it would have been a lot less, but I tend to ignore the meter & base my reports on what I hear.
It was cold & misty at the top and John soon found his antenna sagging under the weight of ice. This manifested itself as John’s CW signal becoming so weak to me that I would not attempt a SSB contact. I fired up the Hack Green Web SDR to listen before I left for work & spotted John’s first QSY to SSB. As we were very much into daylight & conditions were pretty poor anyway, I was not surprised to read later that I remained John’s only contact on the band that morning.
Thankfully John did have more success on 80m & other bands, both HF & VHF, although with the cold & damp conditions this was far from an easy activation!
A superb report can be found here:
G4YSS: GW/NW-001 Snowdon on 11-04-17 - #3 by AC2KL
So, a remarkable month for activity on Top Band, I wonder how long it will be before we see the like of it again!!
Thanks & very well done Tony, Gerard, Warren, Allen, Matt, Bernard, David, Paul & John!
At the time of writing, those were the only Top band activations during April that I am aware of, if I have missed any others please let me know.
On 1 April, Matt VK1MA Activated VK1/AC-042 Black Mountain & made 5 QSO’s (0 CW / 5 SSB)
On 1 April, Bernard VK2IB/3 Activated VK3/VE-165 Mt Granya & made 3 QSO’s (3 CW / 0 SSB)
On 1 April, Gerard VK2IO/P Activated VK2/HU-054 Broken Back Range & made 19 QSO’s (10 CW / 6 SSB / 3 AM)
On 1 April, Allen VK3ARH Activated VK3/VC-024 Mt Beckworth & made 6 QSO’s (2 CW / 2 SSB / 2 DATA)
On 1 April, Warren VK3BYD/P Activated VK3/VE-105 Mt Big Ben & made 14 QSO’s (10 CW / 4 SSB)
On 1 April, Tony VK3CAT/P Activated VK3/VN-012 Mt Mitchell & made 14 QSO’s (10 CW / 3 SSB / 1 OTHER)
On 1 April, Paul VK3HN/P Activated VK3/VN-027 Mt Gordon & made 5 QSO’s (5 CW / 0 SSB)
On 1 April, David VK3IL Activated VK3/VE-020 Mt Lovick & made 4 QSO’s (0 CW / 4 SSB)
On 11 April, John GC0OOO/P (G4YSS) Activated GW/NW-001 Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa & made 1 QSO’s (1 CW / 0 SSB)
As always, If you do have any suggestions on things that you think should be included, or if you wish to contribute tips, ideas or anything else that you think may help others on the band please email them to me at mark@brownhill.demon.co.uk
Until next month,
Best 73,
Mark G0VOF
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CW REPORT FOR APRIL 2017 - Roy G4SSH
The month started well, with two SOTA Anniversaries.
Portugal’s National SOTA Day, celebrating 6 years of SOTA brought out many CT and CS calls, whilst the 10th Anniversary of SOTA France saw TM10SOTA very active on the bands. There was also a SOTA “AM Mode” weekend, with some activators camping out overnight.
A feast of holidays during April saw many activators free from work (or school) and so available to head to the hills, resulting in a noticeable increase in the number of spots generated . However propagation continued to vary wildly with entire bands being dead at times.
CW Highlights noted during the first half of the month were:-
Chris F/ON6ZQ/p in France.
Hans HB9/PB2T/p in Switzerland
Jarek OE/SP9MA/p in Austria
Matt DL/HB9FVF/p in Germany
Zoli OM/HA5CQZ/p in Slovakia
Frank HA ON6UU/p in Hungary, including (3.5 MHz)
Jozef OK/OM6TC/p in Czechia
Hans HB9/PB2T/p in Switzerland
Paul EA6/HB9DST/P on Mallorca
Kurt F/HB9AFI/p in France
Joe IS0/DF8KY in Sardinia
Roger F5LKW & F6HBI Gerald on Multi summits
Fred F/DL8DXL in France
Fred LX/DL8DXL in Luxemburg
David OE/N3II/p in Austria
David F/N3II/p in France
E70AA active at weekends.
Jarek F/SP9MA/p in France.
Post Easter
Hans F/HB9BQU/p in France
Tof ON/F5UBH/p in Belgium 3.5 cw
John GC0000/p in Wales 3.5 cw
David CT7/G4ZAO/p in the Algarve
Reinhard EA5/DK1IO/p in Alicante, Spain
Andre F5UKL/p and Gerald F6HBI/p very active during the month.
Harry DF7FX/p and Sigrid DL2FAZ/p very active with multi summits every day.
Feri UT/HA8LLH/p, in Ukraine
David OE/N3II/p in Austria
David F/N3II/p in France
Jarek F/SP9MA/p in France.
Matt TK/HB9FVF/p on Corsica
Hans EA6/OE1SRC in Mallorca
Luc PA/ON7DQ/p in Netherlands
Petr EI/OK1CZ/p in Ireland
Jacub OE/OE1WS/p in Austria
F/HB9IIO/p in France
Roger F5LKW/p activated numerous summits in France
Jürg CT7/HB9BIN/p activated 13 summits in the Algarve between 19th-27th .
Hans EA6/DM3SWD/p, in Mallorca
Steve SV8/G4EDG/p in Greece
Dan F/HB9IIO/p in France
Kurt F/HB9AFI/p in France
Jan OE/OK2PDT/p in Austria
Jan HA/OK2PDT/p in Hungary
Tonnie DL/PA9CW/p was in Germany; activating multi rounds of 10 pointers.
Jack F/AI4SV who was in France
Tom DL/HB9DPR/p in Germany
Paul F/DL6FBK/p in France
Milos 9A/S53X/p in Croatia
73
Roy G4SSH
g4ssh@tiscali.co.uk
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SOTA ACTIVITY REPORT FOR APRIL 2017 by Kevin G0NUP
Mode: CW on 1.8MHz: activity for April
GC0OOO/P, VK2IB/3, VK2IO/P, VK3ARH, VK3BYD/P, VK3CAT/P, VK3HN/P
Mode: CW on 3.5MHz: activity for April
GC0OOO/P, HA/ON6UU/P, KB3VVE, OK1MLP/P, OK2BDF/P, ON/F5UBH/P, VK2IB/3,
VK2IO/P, VK2WP, VK3ARH, VK3BYD/P, VK3CAT/P, WH6LE
Mode: CW on 5MHz: activity for April
DK2JK/P, DL/HB9BRJ/P, DL6FBK/P, GI4ONL/P, GM0EVV/P, HB9AGO/P, HB9BIN/P,
HB9BQU/P, HB9CBR/P, HB9CGA/P, HB9DCO, HB9DGV/P, HB9DQM/P, HB9DST/P,
HB9EWO/P, HB9IIO/P, HB9JOE/P, HB9TVK/P, K2JB, K6HPX/P, K9PM/P,
KC7DM, LB7FA, N2GBR, N7CW, N7LP, WH6LE
Mode: SSB on 5MHz: activity for April
AE9Q, DH7FK/P, DK2JK/P, DL1CR/P, EJ/ON4TA/P, G0AZA/P, G0VWP/P,
G2HFR/P, G4VPX/P, G6PJZ/P, G8TMV/P, GD6WRW/P, GI0AZA/P, GI0AZB/P,
GI4ONL/P, GM0EVV/P, GM4COX/P, GM4IPB/P, GM4MD/P, GM4OIG/P, GW4VPX/P,
GW8OGI/P, HB9BIN/P, KI4SVM, M/SQ2RBY/P, MM0FMF/P, MW0JCQ/P, MW0JLA/P,
MW0WML/P, MW0XOT/P, MW0YDH/P, WF4I
Mode: CW on 7MHz: activity for April
9A/S53X/P, AA0BV, AA6FD, AC0PR, AC1Z, AD4IE, AD5A,
AE5KA, AE9Q, CT1DBS/P, CT1GZB/P, CT7/HB9BIN/P, CT7ABE/P, CT7AGT/P,
DD7II/P, DF3MC/P, DF7FX/P, DF9GU, DJ2MX/P, DK1DU/P, DK2CX/P,
DK2JK/P, DK2RO/P, DL/HB9BHU/P, DL/HB9BHW/P, DL/HB9BQB/P, DL/HB9BRJ/P, DL/HB9DPR/P,
DL/HB9FVF/P, DL/OE5EEP, DL/PA3EYC/P, DL/PA9CW/P, DL/PA9W/P, DL/PB2T/P, DL/SP9MA/P,
DL1DXA/P, DL2FAZ/P, DL2HWI/P, DL3TU/P, DL4MHA/P, DL6CGC/P, DL6FBK/P,
DL6WT/P, DL8DXL/P, DL8JJ/P, EA1AER/P, EA2BD/P, EA2IF/P, EA2WX/P,
EA4MY/P, EA6/HB9DST/P, F/AI4SV, F/DL6FBK/P, F/DL8DXL/P, F/HB9AFI/P, F/HB9BQU/P,
F/HB9IIO/P, F/N3II/P, F/ON6ZQ/P, F/SP9MA/P, F4HOD/P, F5AKL/P, F5HTR/P,
F5IUZ, F5IUZ/P, F5LKW/P, F5UBH/P, F5UKL/P, F6FTB/P, F6HBI/P,
F8FEO/P, G0HIO/P, G0MFR/P, G4OBK/P, G4ONL/P, G4WTF/P, GC0OOO/P,
GI4ONL/P, GM0EVV/P, GM0GAV/P, GM4OIG/P, HA/OK2PDT/P, HA/OK2PVX/P, HA/ON6UU/P,
HA2VR/P, HA3HK/P, HA5AZC/P, HA5CLF/P, HA5LV/P, HA5MA/P, HA6QR/P,
HA8BJ/P, HA8LLH/P, HB9/PB2T/P, HB9AFI/P, HB9AGO/P, HB9BAB/P, HB9BHW/P,
HB9BIN/P, HB9BQB/P, HB9BQU/P, HB9BYZ/P, HB9CBR/P, HB9CGA/P, HB9CGL/P,
HB9CKV/P, HB9CLT/P, HB9DCO, HB9DGV/P, HB9DPR/P, HB9DQM/P, HB9DST/P,
HB9EWO/P, HB9IIO/P, HB9IIOP/P, HB9JOE/P, HB9TVK/P, HB9TWM/P, HL3ANE,
IK2YRA/1, IS0/DF8KY/P, JA1KHZ/1, JA3NAP/3, JA4RQO/4, JF1NDT/1, JF3KQA/3,
JG1BOK, JI1IHV/1, JI1IHV/2, JL1NIE/1, JM3HRC/3, JP1QEC/1, JP3DGT/3,
JS1UEH/0, JS1UEH/1, K1JD, K1LB, K2JB, K4KPK, K6EL,
K6HPX/P, K6TW, K7ODX, K7PX, K9PM/P, KB1KXL, KB3VVE,
KB9ILT, KC7DM, KD2FLX, KE5AKL, KH7AL, KQ2RP, KR7RK,
KT0A, KX0R, LA1EBA/P, LA1ENA/P, LA1KHA/P, LA3BO/P, LX/DL8DXL/P,
LX/OK2PDT/P, LZ1GJ/P, M0BLF/P, M0OAT/P, MM0FMF/P, N0EVH, N0TA,
N1FJ, N1OIE, N1ZF, N2GBR, N3TWM, N6PG, N7CW,
N7LP, NA6MG, NJ7V, NK8Q, NM5S, NR7T, NS7P,
NU7A, OE/DF9GU, OE/HB9DQM/P, OE/HB9FVF/P, OE/OK2PDT/P, OE/OM1WS/P, OE/SP9MA/P,
OE5AUL/P, OE5EEP/P, OE6KYG/P, OE9TKH/P, OK/DL8DXL/P, OK/OM6TC/P, OK/SP9MA/P,
OK1CZ/P, OK1DVM/P, OK1MLP/P, OK1NF/P, OK2BDF/P, OK2PDT/P, OK2PVX/P,
OK2QA/P, OK2VWB/P, OK8JOE/P, OM/HA5CQZ/P, OM/OK2PVX/P, OM3CUG/P, OM4DW/P,
OM4WY/P, OM6AN/P, OM6TC/P, ON/DO1DJJ/P, ON/F5UBH/P, ON4KCY, ON5REV/P,
ON7DQ/P, PA/ON7DQ/P, S51J, S52AU/P, S53OM/P, S57X/P, S58R/P,
SO9TA/P, SP9MA/P, SQ8JMZ/P, SV1RHL/P, SV2OXS/P, TK/HB9FVF/P, TM10SOTA,
UT/HA8LLH, VA2OTA, VK2IB/3, VK2IO/P, VK2WP, VK3ARH, VK3CAT/P,
VK5CZ, W1EJ, W5ODS, W6UB, W7JET, W7USA, WA6ARA,
WA6KYR, WA7JTM, WA9STI, WB5USB, WC0Y, WC6J, WC9G,
WF4I, WG0AT, WH6LE, WS0TA, YO2BP, YO2BP/P, YO8AZQ/P,
YU1CA/P
Mode: CW on 10MHz: activity for April
AA0BV, AA6FD, AD5A, AE5KA, AE7AP, CT1DBS/P, CT1GZB/P,
CT1REP/P, CT7/HB9BIN/P, CT7ABE/P, CT7AGT/P, DD7II/P, DF3MC/P, DF7FX/P,
DJ2FR, DJ2MX/P, DK2JK/P, DL/HB9BRJ/P, DL/HB9DPR/P, DL/OE5EEP, DL/PA3EYC/P,
DL/PB2T/P, DL2FAZ/P, DL3TU/P, DL4MHA/P, DL6FBK/P, E70AA/P, EA2BD/P,
EA2BSB/P, EA2IF/P, EA2WX/P, EA4MY/P, EA6/HB9DST/P, EI3KA/P, F/AI4SV,
F/DL6FBK/P, F/HB9AFI/P, F/HB9BQU/P, F/N3II/P, F/SP9MA/P, F4HOD/P, F5HTR/P,
F5IUZ, F5IUZ/P, F5LKW/P, F5UKL/P, F6HBI/P, F8FEO/P, G0HIO/P,
G4ONL/P, G4OOE/P, GI4ONL/P, GM0EVV/P, GM0GAV/P, GM4OIG/P, HA/ON6UU/P,
HA2VR/P, HA3HK/P, HA5AZC/P, HA5LV/P, HA5MA/P, HA6QR/P, HA7HF/P,
HA8BJ/P, HB9/PB2T/P, HB9AFI/P, HB9AGO/P, HB9BIN/P, HB9BQU/P, HB9CBR/P,
HB9CGA/P, HB9CLT/P, HB9DGV/P, HB9DPR/P, HB9DQM/P, HB9DST/P, HB9EWO/P,
HB9IIO/P, HB9JOE/P, HB9TVK/P, HG8PQ/P, I/YO2BP/P, IK2YRA/1, JA1KHZ/1,
JA4RQO/4, JF1NDT/1, JG1BOK, JP3DGT/3, JS1UEH/1, JS6SDQ, K0JQZ,
K1JD, K2JB, K4KPK, K6HPX/P, K7ODX, K7PX, K7SO,
K7WYV, K9PM/P, KB1KXL, KC7DM, KD7WPJ, KE5AKL, KH7AL,
KQ2RP, KR7RK, KT0A, KX0R, KX6A, LA1ENA/P, LA1KHA/P,
LA3BO/P, LZ1GJ/P, M0BLF/P, M0OAT/P, M0VFC/P, M1BUU/P, MM0FMF/P,
MW1BUU/P, N0EVH, N0TA, N1FJ, N1OIE, N1ZF, N6JZT,
N7CW, N7LP, NA6MG, NJ7V, NK8Q, NM5S, NR7T,
NS1TA, NS7P, NU7A, OE/HB9DQM/P, OE/HB9FVF/P, OE/N3II/P, OE/OK2PDT/P,
OE/SP9MA/P, OE1MVA/P, OE5AUL/P, OE5EEP/P, OK/OM6TC/P, OK/SP9MA/P, OK1CZ/P,
OK1DVM/P, OK1MLP/P, OK2BDF/P, OK2VWB/P, OK8JOE/P, OM1WS/P, OM3CUG/P,
OM4WY/P, OM6TC/P, ON4KCY, ON5REV/P, ON6ZQ/P, S51J, S52AU/P,
S53OM/P, S57X/P, SO9TA/P, SP9MA/P, SQ8JMZ/P, SV1RHL/P, SV2OXS/P,
TM10SOTA, VA2OTA, VK2IO/P, VK2WP, VK3CAT/P, W1EJ, W5ODS,
W7USA, WA7JTM, WA9STI, WB5USB, WC6J, WF4I, WG0AT,
WS0TA, YO2BP, YO2BP/P
Mode: CW on 14MHz: activity for April
9A/S53X/P, AA0BV, AA0Q, AA6FD, AC0PR, AC1Z, AD4IE,
AD5A, AE5KA, AE7AP, CT1DBS/P, CT1GZB/P, CT7/G4ZAO/P, CT7/HB9BIN/P,
CT7AGT/P, DJ2FR, DJ2MX/P, DK2RO/P, DL/HB9BHU/P, DL/HB9BRJ/P, DL/HB9DPR/P,
DL/PA3EYC/P, DL/PB2T/P, DL3TU/P, DL4ROB, DL6CGC/P, DL6FBK/P, DL8DXL/P,
E70AA/P, EA1AER/P, EA2BD/P, EA2BSB/P, EA2IF/P, EA2WX/P, EA4MY/P,
EI/OK1CZ/P, F/AI4SV, F/DL6FBK/P, F/HB9AFI/P, F/HB9IIO/P, F/N3II/P, F/ON6ZQ/P,
F4HOD/P, F5AKL/P, F5HTR/P, F5IUZ, F5IUZ/P, F5LKW/P, F5UBH/P,
F5UKL/P, F6HBI/P, F8FEO/P, G0HIO/P, G0MFR/P, G4OOE/P, G4WTF/P,
GM0GAV/P, HA/OK2PDT/P, HA/ON6UU/P, HA2VR/P, HA5AZC/P, HA5MA/P, HB9/PB2T/P,
HB9AFI/P, HB9AGO/P, HB9BAB/P, HB9BHW/P, HB9BIN/P, HB9BQB/P, HB9BQU/P,
HB9CBR/P, HB9CGA/P, HB9CGL/P, HB9CLT/P, HB9DCO, HB9DGV/P, HB9DPR/P,
HB9DQM/P, HB9DST/P, HB9IIO/P, HB9IIOP/P, HB9JOE/P, HB9TVK/P, HL1ZIH,
IK2YRA/1, IS0/DF8KY/P, JA4RQO/4, JF1NDT/1, JF3KQA/3, JG1GPY/1, JH0CJH/2,
JJ1CKD/P1, JJ1CKD/P2, JL1NIE/1, JP1QEC/1, JP3DGT/3, JP3PPL/3, JS1UEH/1,
JS6SDQ/6, JS6TMW/6, K1JD, K2JB, K4KPK, K6EL, K6HPX/P,
K7ODX, K7PX, K7SO, K7WYV, K9PM/P, KB1KXL, KB3VVE,
KB9ILT, KC7DM, KD2FLX, KD7WPJ, KE5AKL, KH2TJ, KH7AL,
KQ2RP, KR7RK, KT0A, KX0R, KX6A, LA1EBA/P, LA1ENA/P,
LA3BO/P, LX/DL8DXL/P, LZ1GJ/P, M0OAT/P, M1BUU/P, M6GYU/P, MM0FMF/P,
N0EVH, N0TA, N1FJ, N1OIE, N1ZF, N2GBR, N3TWM,
N6JZT, N6PG, N7CW, N7LP, NA6MG, ND9Q, NJ7V,
NK8Q, NM5S, NR7T, NS1TA, NS7P, NU7A, OE/N3II/P,
OE/SP9MA/P, OE5EEP/P, OH3KRH/P, OK/OM6TC/P, OK/SP9MA/P, OK1CZ/P, OK1DVM/P,
OK1MLP/P, OK2BDF/P, OK8JOE/P, OM1WS/P, OM3CUG/P, OM4DW/P, OM4WY/P,
OM6TC/P, ON7DQ/P, S52AU/P, S53OM/P, S57X/P, SO9TA/P, SP9MA/P,
SQ8JMZ/P, SV1RHL/P, SV2OXS/P, TK/HB9FVF/P, TM10SOTA, VA2OTA, VA2VL,
VK2IO/P, VK2WP, VK3ARH, VK3CAT/P, VK5CZ, VK6NU, W0CCA,
W0ERI, W0MNA, W1EJ, W5ODS, W6UB, W7JET, W7USA,
W8JH, WA6ARA, WA6KYR, WA7JTM, WA9STI, WB5USB, WC0Y,
WC6J, WC9G, WF4I, WG0AT, WH6LE, WS0TA, WX4TW,
YO8AZQ/P, YU1CA/P, YU1RK/P, ZL1BYZ, ZL3CC
Mode: CW on 18MHz: activity for April
AC1Z, AD5A, CT1DBS/P, CT7/G4ZAO/P, CT7/HB9BIN/P, DL/OE5EEP, F4HOD/P,
F5UKL/P, HB9AGO/P, HB9BIN/P, HB9BQU/P, HB9CBR/P, HB9CGA/P, HB9DCO,
HB9DQM/P, HB9IIOP/P, JF1NDT/1, JG1GPY/1, JH0CJH/2, JI1IHV/1, JI1IHV/2,
JL1NIE/1, JP1QEC/1, JP3DGT/3, JS1UEH/0, JS1UEH/1, JS6TMW/6, K1JD,
K7PX, K9PM/P, KB1KXL, KR7RK, KX0R, N1ZF, NA6MG,
NJ7V, NS1TA, NS7P, OE/HB9DQM/P, OE5EEP/P, OK/OM6TC/P, OK1MLP/P,
OM3CUG/P, SO9TA/P, TM10SOTA, VA2OTA, VA2VL, VK2IO/P, VK5CZ,
WA7JTM, WC6J, WX4TW, ZL1BYZ
Mode: CW on 21MHz: activity for April
F5UKL/P, HB9CBR/P, HL1ZIH, JA4RQO/4, JF1NDT/1, JH0CJH/2, JI1IHV/1,
JI1IHV/2, JJ1CKD/P1, JL1NIE/1, JP1QEC/1, JP3DGT/3, JP3PPL/3, JS6TMW/6,
JS6TQS, K9PM/P, KB1KXL, KR7RK, OK1MLP/P, VK2IO/P, VK3CAT/P,
VK5CZ, WA7JTM
Mode: CW on 24MHz: activity for April
JF1NDT/1, KR7RK, OK1MLP/P
Mode: CW on 28MHz: activity for April
F4HOD/P, F6HBI/P, HB9CBR/P, JF1NDT/1, JP3DGT/3, KR7RK, OK1MLP/P
Mode: CW on 50MHz: activity for April
JF1NDT/1, JF3KQA/3, JI1IHV/2, JM3HRC/3, JS1UEH/0, JS1UEH/1, NJ7V,
OE1WED/3, OE3IPU/P, WA7JTM
Mode: CW on 1240MHz: activity for April
Mode: FM on 28MHz: activity for April
Mode: FM on 50MHz: activity for April
CT2GQI/P, JN3PDF/3, KK4OSG
Mode: FM on 1240MHz: activity for April
CS5LX/P, CT2GQI/P, CT2IXQ, CT7ABF/P, DG4MIC, EJ/ON4TA/P, G7HEM/P,
GW4AZS/P, GW6WRW/P, GW7HEM/P, JS1GRO/1, OK/DG0JMB/P, VK2HRX
Mode: SSB on 28MHz: activity for April
HB9GKR/P, KK4OSG, S56LXN/P
Mode: SSB on 50MHz: activity for April
JA1KHZ/1, JF1NDT/1, JG1GPY/1, JH0CJH/2, JI1IHV/1, JI1IHV/2, JI1UPL/1,
JI1UPL/2, JJ1CKE/P2, JK1NRL/1, JM3HRC/3, JM3HRC/9, JS1UEH/0, JS1UEH/1,
JS2VVH/1, JS2VVH/2, KK4OSG, S52ON/P, S56LXN/P, S57MS/P, W7USA,
WA7JTM
Mode: SSB on 1240MHz: activity for April
EI/ON4TA/P, G4AZS/P, GW4AZS/P, GW6WRW/P, MM0FMF
73 de Kevin G0NUP
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