ARLA/CLUSTER: Grande evento SOTA entre a Europa e a America a 19 de Novembro de 2016 das 14:00 às 17:00 UTC

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

North American and European Summits on the Air 'Super activation' November 19th

After the success of the Australia-Europe Summit-to-Summit event in
October, Gerald G4OIG suggested a similar event, this time between
Europe and North America. The SOTA community has rallied behind him.

Both ends of the event will have to deal with wintery weather, but
despite that, at the time of writing ten days before the event, twenty
eight stations located in Europe, North America and one in Africa,
have already indicated that they intend to participate. Many
activators can only confirm the day before and so the final number of
summits is certain to be even higher.

Instead of the early morning activations the Europeans had in the VK -
EU event, this time it will be those in North America who will need to
set the alarm clock. For Europe the 1400 – 1700 UTC time slot makes
this a nice afternoon activation. In the US and Canada this equates to
0900 – 1200 on the East Coast and 0600-0900 local time on the West
Coast.

The full details are as follows:

Date Saturday 19th. November 2016
Time 1400 to 1700 UTC
Bands any that are open
Modes any that you can operate from a summit. As well as SSB and CW
there will be three summits transmitting in PSK31.

Most stations will be running low power. A few, however, plan to take
100-watt capable rigs onto the summit. Antennas in general are
wire-based – both horizontal and vertical polarised.

The aim of the event is to get as many Summit to Summit - “S2S” -
contacts as possible. The summit contacts can be between North America
and Europe or within the regions themselves. Home-based “chasers” are
also welcome to contact the summit activators to gain points in the
Summits on the Air award scheme.

There's talk now of an Australia to North America Summit-to-Summit
event, that would then complete the circle around the World by Summits
on the Air !

Ed DD5LP