Your SOTA Goals for 2025!

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Go on then, ill Start it for the upcoming year!

  1. 100 Activator points total
  2. Completion of G/SP
  3. A full 4M band activation.
  4. at least 1 UK 10 pointer.
  5. a full FT8/4 only activation
  6. and the ever present Do not fall off any more mountains and need a mountain rescue! ( :rofl: :rofl:)

Lets see how we get on this year, after the last year was BRILLIANT!

73, Alan

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Here are mine:

  1. Get to 300 chaser points
  2. Get to 100 activator points
  3. Use both FM and SSB for activating
  4. Complete GI/CA

They’re modest, but doable I think.
73
Stefan MI0PYN

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  • Activate at least five 3000’s in my region, especially F/PE-001, which I failed to activate a few months ago. Activate EA2/HU-001 to complete my regional 001s.

  • Make my first CW activation

  • Finish the hexbeam I’m currently building for the home station and enjoy a few chasing sessions.

  • Get out more and stop finding excuses to not go. I’ve been too lazy lately, and I can see the consequences of my mental and physical health.

:slight_smile:

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73 F5JKK

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Once again I’ll start with the easy target

  1. Reach 800 Points. This is a bit of a wimp out as it is only 4 more points than I already have….

Getting slightly harder….

  1. 100 Completes (Currently on 94) … which would happen if I ….
  2. Complete G/LD (13 remaining but that includes Swinside which is a bit difficult so that might become nearly complete G/LD…)
  3. Do at least 1 G/SP summit (30 years ago I spent a lot of time on Kinder Scout so that would be nice to activate)

Hopefully

  1. MG. 200 points to go but it depends a bit on Dads Taxi…
  2. Moel Siabod (Which if I got up early enough might be possible on the Welsh Weekend)
  3. A few days in the Cairngorms. Frasers posts have definitely wetted the appetite so Lochnagar (which is another one I’ve not seen for 30 years) and whatever else the legs will cope with…

Possibly

  1. The Far North Ben Hope, Ben Kilbrek ??? The challenge here is not only the walking but managing to get away for long enough to get that far north.
  2. Activate from both Belgium and Germany when away on Holiday
  3. Ben Nevis…. But not the CMA
  4. 160m - but that depends on Good wx as a 160m dipole is a bit hard to manage on any of the nearby summits in the dark if the weather isn’t really good - and I don’t fancy a night on the summit.

Definitely

  1. Do not end up on the wrong side of a mountain rescue callout. Partly this is just luck, trips can result in fractures so I suppose I’m hoping that my luck continues to hold….
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100 Uniques
100 Completes
But the most important goal will be to do an activation with my newly licensed daughter.

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Hi Alan,

My SOTA aims for 2025;

  1. Activate yet more unique summits. 124 in 2024 (128 as of 30/12/24) is my best ever annual total.
  2. Plan so thoroughly that I never need to turn back before reaching and activating the summit.
  3. Try not to get too cold (warm is much preferred by far!)
  4. Next MG (237 points to go, so 24 X 10 pointers, or only 19 with a seasonal bonus!)
  5. Ski like a demon!
  6. See 2026!

73

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Hmm, I think for me it is simply to get back out there again. I haven’t managed an activation since August, mainly due to real life things getting in the way. I’m definitely suffering from withdrawal symptoms!

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Ditto. Just to take every opportunity that I can. For one reason or another I have not carried out many activations in recent years, but it is what it is. Just to be able to participate is a privilidge. I know many who cannot.

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It is :+1::+1::+1:.

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To start activating some of the peaks close to me.
73 de W6LEN / Jess

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Hi Paul,

Please see my thread via this link (Swinside G/LD-057). I suggest that you send an email to the quad biking email address that is on the Swinside G/LD-057 summit page and request for you name to added to the list of people wishing to access Swinside G/LD-057. The estate allow people to access Swinside G/LD-057 every March each year. The other option is to book some quad biking on Swinside G/LD-057, but this is not an option that personally I would recommend, it costs quite a bit of money and your are restricted to only 15 minutes on the summit and you can only use handheld and rubber duck. VHF isn’t great on Swinside G/LD-057 so trying to get 4 contacts on there using just a handheld and rubber duck and having only 15 minutes to do this is very difficult.

Jimmy M0HGY
G - Association Manager

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Finally complete my first M.G.! (Four and a half years and counting)
Build another antenna, a EFRW for the KH1.
Get and remain proficient at CW.

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Same for me & Nic, Matt - targeting MG by the end of the winter season, but given the Lakes visit a couple of weeks’ ago was a washout, we might still be targeting MG in August :joy:

73, Simon

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Well, I will go back to operating many different HF bands from each summit instead of just 10M and 1296…

Then…HIKE NEW PEAKS, HAVE NEW ADVENTURES, MAKE NEW FRIENDS, and S L O W down my QSO rates!

Maybe try and extend my longest 1W QSO distance on 1296 MHz…200 miles anyone?

BUT…bottom line…have fun.

Pete
WA7JTM

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Some things from 2024 carried over.

  1. IARU African zone activation(s) [2024]
  2. Ben Macdui with a few others on uWaves. [2024]
  3. Complete some RF projects. [2024]
  4. Try to regularly work JA on 15/12/10m
  5. Activate Sighty Crag G/SB-005 to complete G/SB.
  6. Some joint activations with Paul W6PNG/M0SNA (when he’s rightpondian) and Gerald G4OIG
  7. Do an activation which involves camping out for a night or two. (In planning with some other SOTA loonies I know :wink:
  8. Finally bag Morven/Smean.

I do like the occasional joint activation. I did 8 with Paul in 2024 and 2 with Gerald. I like walking with Gerald because his Beta blockers slow him down and I’m not tail-end Charlie :slight_smile:

I’m sure there was something else but it’s slipped my mind right now.

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Goats are gregarious animals, mountain goats even more so.
My lonely mountain goat longs for a friend.
I’ll try to get a second one therefore :smiley:
Merry XMAS and a happy mountainous new year,
Alex - DH2ID

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  1. Munro Compleate on Beinn na Lap GM/WS-091
  2. Mountain Goat on an iconic GM summit/Corbett. Probably GM/SI-011
  3. More VHF activations, no more 10m challenge to push!
  4. Another GM/SI island trip in 2025. Rum was the highlight of 2024, make this the highlight of 2025!
  5. One or two Overnighting SOTA expeditions

Tim - G5OLD

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Complete the chase for Shack Sloth. That can happen with continued effort by early February.

Goal for activating is a 100 point year.

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  1. Get to 40 associations activated. Work trip to Brno at some point this year which should get me 3 associations if I get organised. 1 more to find in some other trip.
  2. Actually get out some more this year (but hey, SOTAData and SOTAWatch are looking nice, so it wasn’t a wasted year).
  3. 10 new summits for me.
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