ZS SOTA Autumn weekend

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The ZS SOTA Autumn Weekend will be this weekend the 4 & 5 May 2024.

Looking at the weather predictions for the weekend, it’s going to be sunny and pleasant day.

If you haven’t planned on activating a summit, there is still time and if you can’t activate, please join in the fun by chasing the ZS activators who venture out.

There are 14 possible summits to chase, 4 of the summits will be activated on the Saturday & again on the Sunday by different activators. In total 130 chaser points.

This is fun day out in nature and not a competition, each participant will receive a certificate whether you activated or chased those activating summits.

For activators, it is fun to see if you can make summit-to-summit (S2S) contacts with other activators and how many chasers you can get in your log, there should be a lot of opportunities for DX contacts on 10m.

Operating frequencies will be all the HF bands and 2m VHF

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Thank You Adel for the information of the ZS Sota Autumn Weekend. I hope there will be suitable Radio conditions. If so I am Sure there will be many Chasers from the UK. Best Wishes to all the ZS Activators. have a Wonderful Weekend. 73 de Paul M0CQE.

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Thanks Paul. Hoping band conditions are favourable for DX

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Thank you to the ZS stations for the Summits to Summits I had today from UK to SA on 10m:

From May Hill, G/WB-019:

ZS6LZ on ZS/KN-153
@ZS5AYC on ZS/KN-070
@ZS5APT ZS5APT/P on ZS/KN-070

and from Aconbury Hill, G/WB-024:

@ZS6FY on ZS/MP-053

Thank you all, especially for ZS6FY where we had some challenges getting there with other stations and QRM. It was most excellent, conditions were very good considering !

Working conditions, my end: 10W, Xeigu x6100 and a 1/4w vertical . I started with an End fed but was not punching through, and put the vertical up when I could hear ZS6LZ. Teenage bulls on this summit were taking a keen interest in SOTA activities and my wires, which was a distraction:

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Thanks
Tim

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I was on I/LO-297 with ft-857d and 30-50 watts. I listened only ZS6LZ at 14:00 14:30 utc on 10mt ssb, but I didn’t manage to put him in my log.

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They are Scottish Pandas :rofl:

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I was chasing Phillip ZS6FY for about an hour, but couldn’t get through with my setup (5w, Inv. V). His signal was 4/4 on peaks with heavy QSB. I heard Tim’s QSO with Phillip.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wH-0avgmVkk

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ZS SOTA W/END.

Thanks to you all for your activation’s, I could only really do the Saturday and band conditions were not great here on the West Coast but a couple worked on 28mhz with my Vertical, ZS6LZ 2x Summits & ZS6FY 1x Summit. I look forward to hearing you again soon.

73’ Don GW0PLP (IO72RC)

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