On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the SOTA program in France (Summits On The Air), the callsign “TM15SOTA” will be activated from April 15, 2022.
A series of 3 awards will be put into play.
For the “chasers” it will be necessary to have contacted “15”, “30” or “40 and +” different summits, with the calls TM15SOTA or TM1SOTA and TM2SOTA over the period extending from April 15 to December 31, 2022.
Activators will receive a diploma for their participation.
Planned traffic dates are:
TM15SOTA on April 15, 16, 17, 18, 23 and 24 as well as May 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29, 2022
On friday the 15th, depending on the weather conditions, frenchies will activate:
FL/VL-070, F/AM-396, F/CR-209, FL/NO-042 using the same callsign TM15SOTA from morning to afternoon.
A chance to get 4 different summits in one day.
Please listen REF and after my activation I will upload my log.
I will be QRV on CW and on SSB, Fabienne F4JAI/P will work TM15SOTA.
73 QRO - Roger (F5LKW/P)
Oyé Oyé Ladies and Gentlemen !
TM15SOTA Activities on 15/04/2022.
Please CHASERS listen SOTA REF while QSO.
On the same day, same time, same band but different mode you can work several summits with the same call: TM15SOTA
FL/VL-070 (by F5HTR) at 06:00z on 7 Mhz
F/CR-209 (by F4JAI - SSB & F5LKW - CW) at 07:00z on 5-7-10-14 Mhz
F/AM-396 (by F4JCF - SSB & F6HBI - CW) at 09:30z on all bands
FL/NO-042 (by F6ENO - CW) at 13:00z on 7-14 Mhz
Please, listen and listen the right reference.
73 QRO and let’s go to funny crazy day !
Morning (just aftter local sunrise) propagation is weird. Heard plenty of chasers on 40 metres, but not the faintest blip from any of the activators others were clearly hearing. In one case, I’d guess skip was just long enough to miss me, but TM15SOTA should have been a good distance. Maybe just the wrong direction…
FL/VL-070 is about 720kms from here, and that can be a tricky distance. Caught TM15SOTA on F/CR-209 (a little later and a rather better distance at about 1100kms away) on 30 metres CW, but couldn’t hear the spotted SSB on 40 metres.
RBN won’t cope so well with the same callsign working from more than one location, unless the alerts have been very carefully crafted and the operators are synchronising their operations. Best rely on references as given over-the-air (and the activator on F/CR-209 earlier was giving the reference very frequently). Failing that, give the self-spots more credance than the RBN spots.
