As from the 1st of April, the Balearic Islands are a SOTA association. All info can be found on Summits on the Air
Isidro EA5NR is the proud association manager of 7 regions with 83 summits in total.
73, Peter - ON4UP
In reply to ON4UP:
Super news.
Looking forward to some return visits with the radio!
Pete
PS that link doesn’t work but this does
http://www.sotawatch.org/summits.php?assoc=98
In reply to G4ISJ:
http://www.sota.org.uk/Associations/Associations/viewAssociation/prefix/EA6
Andy
MM0FMF
Aargh! That doesn’t work either. Damn silly web nonsense. Bring back punch cards. You know where you are with an IBM model 29!
In reply to MM0FMF:
I prefer my Dect tape on my PDP-11 
In reply to MM0FMF:
Bring back punch cards. You know where you are with an IBM model 29!
A familiar cry! 
I’ve a box of (slightly fewer than (well, they make handy pocket notes…)) 2000 un-punched ones I liberated from the bin when work was having a chuck-out…
73, Rick M0LEP
P.S. Summits on the Air worked for me…
In reply to M0LEP:
P.S. Summits on the Air
worked for me…
Yes, just noticed the original has a full stop on the end!
Doh…
Corrected the link in the original post …
In reply to MM0FMF:
Aargh! That doesn’t work either. Damn silly web nonsense. Bring back
punch cards. You know where you are with an IBM model 29!
It would be much better if you did your programming in FORTRAN, COBOL or ALGOL.
73,
Walt (G3NYY)
In reply to G3NYY:
did your programming in FORTRAN, COBOL or ALGOL.
Well… we have just stopped supporting some maths simulation code that was FORTRAN77 at work. There were no customers wanting F77 versions anymore as they’ve all moved to C++. So that’s the end of an era.
I’m lucky to have avoided COBOL all my working career. It’s as ugly in a wordy way as C++ is unreadable as a melange of symbols. But nothing is as ugly as PERL! Well I did work somewhere where there was lots of COBOL being run on ICL-1905 mainframes, but I was lucky to be using the LSI-11/23+ and never got too close to the wordy stuff.
ALGOL: I’ve never used it professionally. It was no longer a language favoured by universities by the time I started studying, Pascal was the great white hope by then. Only to be blown out of the water by the massive adoption of C. I can remember my introduction to C along with Unix on a PDP-11/44 in 1982. It took 3 of us nearly hour to type in a 30line program as we’d never seen all the bizarre symbols used before and we were using Vi for the 1st time. I do have a copy of ALGOW-W installed on the Linux laptop just to play with. That was Niklaus Wirth’s version of ALGOL68 before he came up with Pascal.
Ah, the memories of TOPS-20 Fortran… “0000 errors detected” was the message we hoped for.
Anyway, EA6, excellent stuff, now to go and book a holiday there!
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to MM0FMF:
Fortran was my first programming language. Then Cobol and some Assembler, but PL/1 was my favorite as you can get right down to managing data at the address level. Build a table and insert entries without ever moving any data, just adjust the address chains. Sort the data without any moves, just run along the address chains. Lightning fast. As well recursive multiple entry point modules - great fun that I was being paid for. But I didn’t like C++.
73 Jim G0CQK
In reply to MM0FMF:
all the bizarre symbols
APL
73, Rick M0LEP
In reply to ON4UP:
That’s excellent news!! I’m willing to go and spend some days there and do a first time activation somewhen…
VY 73
Ignacio EA2BD
In reply to MM0FMF:
Pascal was the great white hope by then. Only to be blown out of the water by
the massive adoption of C. I can remember my introduction to C along with Unix
on a PDP-11/44 in 1982. It took 3 of us nearly hour to type in a 30line program
as we’d never seen all the bizarre symbols used before and we were using Vi for
the 1st time.
LOL! I remember learning Borland Turbo Pascal, just for fun, in the early 1980s.
It was not long before I abandoned it in favour of C. Then C++ was all the rage just before I retired in the 90s. Mind you, I was always happier programming in 8086/8088 Assembler in pre-Windows days! Low-level and very satisfying. You could make tiny, super-fast programs that would do lots.
Vi? Ah, yes. The most appalling, user-hostile text editor I’ve ever encountered (except, perhaps, Ed). I once had the misfortune to use it for constructing Unix command-line text on a Sun-OS mini.
Memories … memories.
73,
Walt (G3NYY) Never knowingly off-topic …
Thank you very much Peter.
Without your work and support it would not have been possible.
Thanks to the team SOTA also
You have no excuses for you to come to Mallorca holiday!
73, Isidro - EA5NR
In reply to EA5NR:
I will surelly vist EA6 Isidro. You can count on that. The next SOTA trip however will be direction CT & EA1.
Peter