SP15SOTA award to celebrate 15 years of SOTA SP (Part 1)

Dear SOTA Friends,

On April 1st 2008 Poland joined the SOTA.

I create a special SOTA activity to celebrate the 15th anniversary - similar to ones that we could see in another SOTA countries.

Welcome to chase SP15SOTA - you could be granted by different kinds of diplomas.

Actual information will be updated in this topic.

Award rules are as follows:

  1. Award activity is organized to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Poland’s participation in the SOTA program – Summits on the Air https://www.sota.org.uk/
  2. Duration of the award activity : January 1st – June 30th of 2023
  3. Information about scheduled SP15SOTA activations will be available on SOTAwatch3 and https://reflector.sota.org.uk/
  4. Special diploma will be granted to participant who will chase SP15SOTA station working from 15 different summits, each SOTA summit reference is counted only once, regardless of the band, emission or repeating on another days of activity
  5. Gold, silver and bronze diplomas will be granted to participants who will take first three places in terms of the total number of QSOs logged during the award action
  6. For the diplomas are also valid contacts with another stations working in the award - section STATIONS on the award website
  7. Additional information will be available on QRZ.com SP15SOTA - Callsign Lookup by QRZ Ham Radio
  8. The award manager is Jarek SP9MA sp9ma@sp9ma.pl

More data will be presented on the award website that will be informed here in due course.

Information about the award is published in Polish magazine “Radio World”:

73, Jarek

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I will start tomorrow on SP/BZ-008 :wink:
See you on the frequencies !

On Saturday January 7th the award activity will be broaden - schedule is as below:
SP9MA on SP/BZ-022
SQ9JTR on SP/BZ-014

Support given by Łukasz @SQ9JTR will help to activate more summits and to win special diploma much faster :wink:

On Sunday January 8th we will continue - details will appear soon.

73, Jarek

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Hi Friends,

Many thanks for good start :muscle:

Please note that Łukasz @SQ9JTR is giving his additional support right now.

Happy chasing :wink:

73, Jarek

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Today 155 contacts logged to the award :wink:

Thank you and welcome tomorrow.

73, Jarek

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…that was something special today!

S2S: SP15SOTA/P <–> DL20SOTA/P

hope to catch you again tomorrow :wink:

73 Armin

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SP15SOTA doesn’t use /p :wink:

73, Mario DJ2MX

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Stay tuned :wink:

  1. Jarek
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on SP/BZ-022 today :wink:

73, Jarek

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SP/BZ-014 (07.01.2023)

Lukasz.

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Hi Friends,

For the moment we logged 354 contacts came from 243 chasers.
Thank you very much :exclamation:

Tomorrow I will activate SP/BZ-020, alert is on.
Welcome to QSO.

Please read comments to the sotawatch spots: SP15SOTA award means that activation gives points to the award :exclamation:

73, Jarek

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Hi Friends,

First (longer) weekend of our activity is over.
In the log 470 contacts came from 293 callers from 34 countries.
Thank You :heartpulse:

Below is today’s view from SP/BZ-020 to SP/BZ-001 (left in the background) and SP/TA (the highest mountains in Poland - right side in the background)

See you soon on the frequencies :wink:

73, Jarek

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Hi Friends,

You can check actual information on the award website: 15-lecie programu SOTA w Polsce

73, Jarek

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Information for coming Saturday January 14th :

SP9MA on SP/BZ-012
SO15TA (Łukasz @SQ9JTR) on SP/BZ-024

We will also get additional support from Marco @SP9BIJ and Wojtek @SQ9BQW - they will activate SP/BZ- 014

73, Jarek

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Marco & Wojtek finally activated SP/BZ-030

Below my pictures taken on SP/BZ-012

Thank you for your participation in my QRS activation :blush:

73, Jarek

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My activity scheduled for tomorrow is dedicated to local callers - it will be SP/BZ-005 on 2m FM :wink:

73, Jarek

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SP/BZ-024, SO15TA. (14.01.2023)

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Stay tuned on coming Saturday :wink:

73, Jarek

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Hi Lukasz,
Thank you for your pictures! What can you tell us about the “little Chinese” Xiegu G90?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Very best regards,
Chris F4WBN

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Hi Chris,
I’m very happy with the G90. Maybe has got few imperfections but all in all is quite fine.
Today lots of snow fall on the radio from the tree. It’s drying off on the radiator.
Hopefuly it will work.
Greetings,
Lukasz SQ9JTR.

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Hi Friends,

Activation report of SP15OTA on SP/BZ-054 is below:

Starting gate :grin: of the route:

Please forgive me the heavy breathing of old SOTA man :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Snow conditions in summit area:

My TRX friends :wink:

Second half of activation was under the freezing rain, the result is very well seen here:

Thank you very much for your support of SP15SOTA award :wink:

Welcome to chase me tomorrow, stay tuned :wink:

73, Jarek

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