After seeing the posts about the no show of the Lebanon activation, it occurred to me that I had not chased any activations from the Ukraine of late.
A quick check of my chaser log showed that the last chases were in November last year.
All of the activators come from the Crimea and activated Crimean summits on CW only.
In view of recent developments in the political situation I trust that our SOTA friends have no suffered in any way and wonder what the future status of the Crimean summits will be and even if it will be possible for them to resume SOTA activities when the political shenanigans have died down.
Best wishes for the future to our SOTA friends in the Crimea
Thanks for your concern about present situation in Ukraine
and Crimea! All Crimean activators are doing great, as far as I know.
In the same time it’s not quite clear the questions about call signs
we will use. Than the question about forming new Association will
take place. So please be patient, just as we try our best to be.
In reply to G3XQE:
Hello Ken, ‘Signature series’ - not at all. You have to pay 200 pa for software upgrades (unlike the 3K,5K series) for the rig plus development of the software is at baby stages. I did get a ANAN-100 from India when it was discounted but later sold it to a German station for what I paid. Reason for the sale was that the ACC port was non standard and it was a pain getting ESD proof to change jumpers on the PCB everytime you wanted to change microphone. That said the ANAN knocked spots off the Flex for receive and being OpenHPSDR software it is being improved all the time. I will give it a year for them to tweak the hardware layout and will most likely sell the Flex and get the ANAN-100.
Bye for now
Mike G6TUH
Edit PS: Ken - I was a beta tester for Flex so reluctant to leave in awhile. Shame because the recipe had been good.
In reply to G3XQE:
Yes…
"Mike, I will email you about the Flex comments as we are severely off topic. "
Will check email and then…
Night night
Mike G6TUH