SOTA ideas, grass now cut at the Scout hall so we can use the outside space
Matt M6MQB very kindly got a pasture topper onto the scout hut grass which was chest high (see pic from last time below) so we can use some of the Summer weather and sit outside. It’s more congenial to use the grass rather than the car park, and we can spread out more.
We have also worked out a way to have one person use the kitchen so we can have tea and coffee again.
On of the ideas we talked about was there is talk of a SOTA G/SE activity weekend on the 22/23 August on page 16 of the August Radcom (RSGB login needed) . Glastonbury is in G/SC but one idea floated was to go to Win Green G/SC-008 near Shaftesbury to give those guys some S2S contacts and pick up some points.
At Win Green the NT car park is within the activation zone OS map on Bing so this is one of the most accessible SOTA summits I know of. Activators should, of course, take due regard of the SOTA rule 3.7.1#3
Operations must not be in, or in the close vicinity of, a motor vehicle. No part of the station may be connected in any way with the motor vehicle.
but for example a camping chair a short walk away is fine IMO ;)
You can monitor SOTA activity using SOTAwatch alerts. SOTA have a handy guide to activating
Matt 2E0FNT will probably activate via Glastonbury Tor, which is a few metres too low in prominence to be a SOTA summit, but is a HEMA summit. The HEMA website is http://www.hema.org.uk/ and HEMA alerts are http://www.hema.org.uk/indexSpotting.jsp
Both SOTA and HEMA require a minimum of four QSOs with different operators not on the same summit the activator is on1 for a successful activation. An activity weekend helps this by getting more operators on air.
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you can have four contacts with a bunch of four operators on another summit and that seems OK. SOTA go by operator, not by call, so if I contacted another summit as G7LEE then contacting them again as the club call MX0IOA would count as one contact because it’s the same operator. ↩