Tomorrow VK time, a pair of Andrews, VK1DA and VK1AD will activate Webbs Ridge VK2/ST-005 and later in the afternoon Mt Coree VK1/AC-023.
Note the callsigns, Andrew VK1DA and Andrew VK1AD, one of which is a proficient CW operator. Do you think chasers get a little confused?
I’m thinking of a local 'Worked all ‘VK1 Andrews’ SOTA Certificate and a bonus certificate if you get all VK1 Andrews on one summit over time or possibly during an all VK1 Andrews multi activation. The latter will take a little organising.
I’d award bonus points for people attributing the QSOs to the correct Andrew when multiple Andrews are QRV at the same time whether on the same hill or not.
We did work Andrew VK1MBE during our first activation. But in an unplanned twist, we both made s2s contacts with a new SOTA operator, vk1flex, whose name is of course, Drew.
Drew visited me while I was activating Mt Ainslie, VK1/AC-040 about 6 weeks ago (I think). He asked about the process for becoming licenced. In the time since then he contacted the club examiner, passed the exam, got a licence and callsign, bought a new IC705 and in the last week has activated 4 summits. Pretty good pace…
