My summit was a fairly long walk from my car. I took 2 x 7Ah batteries for the activation, plus my VHF handheld. With my backpacking tent and aerials it was quite a heavy pack, but just about manageable.
Photos of the summit and my operating situation are here:
Anyway, some of these achievements are nothing in comparison with Kjell LA1KHA who will soon have made over 500 QSOs from a single 9V (PP3) battery. That is definitely the correct SOTA spirit/fever!
RESPECT … tnx for posting and for instructions of your activations. I’ll try to make many QSO’s as possible. I hope I can make over 200 QSO from one summit, but it is very difficult … I’ll see.
I think that having a little friendly competition such as this is great for SOTA. The chasers benefit by having a better chance of getting the points and the activators are driven by trying to have more QSO’s than the next guy.
Of course, the activator needs to be responsisble for his own safety, it would be silly to stay on the summit, if safety was at risk, just to get a better QSO score.
Using reasonable power (a few watts?) on CW, I can imagine a vast number of stations could be worked in very little time. From my own experience using only 100mW from my RockMite, I’m amazed at how many people can be worked.
About power consumption: I normally use a 17 Ah cell when I go out contesting with qrp 5W. I don´t call CQ too much then (and have to do dupechecking by paper&pencil…). I once tried to combine a big contest with a SOTA activation and even put out an alert here. But I guess there were not many or no SOTA-chasers listening to my regular CQs on about 7031
I made some 300 QSOs each day and recharged the battery during the night (but with working mostly regular contesters instead of SOTA-chasers I would not claim this activity for this list, hi)
The best the battery once delivered were about 440 QSOs in a fieldday. But when going out for SOTA only I´m not bound to 5W and prefer 20-30 Watts and calling only CQ. Then the battery works for some 70-80 qsos.
Be it with a Toplist or not I hope that many people still will have fun reaching interesting summits with interesting equipment, more or less difficult qsos and returning with interesting pictures.
Cu es 73, Chris (DL8MBS)
My version is stored in a database so new/changed entries are ranked automatically as updates are applied.
Updates for the list can be sent via the Contact Me page (for now - I will add another one for this purpose later).
To Z35M Vlado: If you would like to contact me by email or via the Contact me page on my site, I can (if you wish) give you access to maintain this list on my site (I will need your email address).
Note: I have made a few changes to callsigns etc so that they should match the Country in which the Activation took place.
Note: This listing is NOT an official honor roll. The list is updated with data submitted by activators themselves. Activators may request their score be excluded from the list.
Information (on his site) is currently maintained by: Stewart G0LGS (using information from the SotaWatch Reflector)
In reply to Z35M:
Hello Vlado, what are the criterions for the list? First activation of a summit? First activation of the call? I cannot find a criterion, I know some OMs, thei have 60, or 80 or over 100 qso from a summit, but they are not in the list. Or must give each activator his highest number of qso’s ?
Hello Vlado, what are the criterions for the list? First activation of
a summit? First activation of the call? I cannot find a criterion, I
know some OMs, thei have 60, or 80 or over 100 qso from a summit, but
they are not in the list. Or must give each activator his highest
number of qso’s ?
Holger
OE7HPI
Hi Holger
The criteria is the activation of an individual activator with highest number of QSOs.
In reply to Z35M:
Hello Vlado, what are the criterions for the list? First activation of
a summit? First activation of the call? I cannot find a criterion, I
know some OMs, thei have 60, or 80 or over 100 qso from a summit, but
they are not in the list. Or must give each activator his highest
number of qso’s ?
The list is updated with data submitted by activators themselves!
The criteria is the activation of an individual activator with highest
number of QSOs.
Hi,
I understand that is the largest number of QSOs in a “single operator”?, if so, there is a station at least they called several operators with the same call, even in 2 bands simultaneously.
The criteria is the activation of an individual activator with
highest
number of QSOs.
Hi,
I understand that is the largest number of QSOs in a “single
operator”?, if so, there is a station at least they called
several operators with the same call, even in 2 bands simultaneously.
Indeed, taking a sample of the log of EA5WP 706 EA5/CS-001 03/09/2011
There no limit on the number of operators in an activation. As long as the each operator made a person powered final ascent and followed the rules on generators, fixed antennas etc. then you could have 4 operators each make 1 QSO on a different band at the same time using the same callsign. The whole activation could be over in under a minute.
There no limit on the number of operators in an activation. As long as
the each operator made a person powered final ascent and followed the
rules on generators, fixed antennas etc. then you could have 4
operators each make 1 QSO on a different band at the same time using
the same callsign. The whole activation could be over in under a
minute.
You seem to forget Andy, the SOTA Management Team wants nothing to do with any official highest acivation score list. So quoting SOTA rules in an unofficial highest score list is at best, a bit rich…
How this is run should be decided amongst the activators themselves and having two operators working at the same time on an activation and then claiming the highest score, most certainly dosen’t work for me.
I’d be interested to hear the other Activators comments on this…
Vlado originally asked for highest QSO count in a single activation. He did say he was especially interested if it was a single activator. He didn’t say no multiple activations. It is the first post in this thread.
The record score of EA5WP was added on the rank list based on the database research. Jose, EA5WP maybe is not aware that we put his score on the top of the rank list of single operator activations. I checked his activation LOG and find that Mike, 2E0YYY is right, this operation was probably run at least by two operators and two stations simultainesly. This is not fault for valid SOTA activation, but has effect on our topic. The score of EA5WP will be deleted from the rank list. Of course Jose, EA5WP has right to join this discution and if he wish he may to submit the same score for this listing declaring that the activation was done by single operator.
Vlado, Z35M
There no limit on the number of operators in an activation.
True, but each operator’s contacts must be counted separately. General Rule 3.7.1(11) is very clear on this matter. Each of the operators should enter their contacts under their own database account. The fact that they used the same callsign is irrelevant and the rules say so explicitly.
then you could have 4
operators each make 1 QSO on a different band at the same time using
the same callsign. The whole activation could be over in under a
minute.
None of the operators would have qualified the summit.
