ARLA/CLUSTER: Contactos SOTA entre a Europa e a Austrália (S2S)

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 SOTA Summit to Summit Europe to Australia and beyond

In *Summits on the Air* (SOTA), one of the more difficult and therefore
challenging actions is to communicate from one summit to another usually
using low power and a simple antenna at both ends. Add to that distance and
poor propagation and the challenge is enormous.

This will not deter over 30 SOTA activators who are planning to climb again
this year to summits in Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New
Zealand and Japan on Saturday the 10th of March. In time for long path
propagation between Europe and Asia Pacific.

The summit to summit (or S-2-S) event will start around 0630 UTC – for Long
Path between Europe and Australia over the following 90 minutes or so.
Despite predicted poor propagation there are from time to time openings
even at the bottom of the solar cycle.

It is the first time that South Africa is joining in and while contacts
from there to Europe are unlikely contacts over to Australia may take place.

The organisers – Mike 2E0YYY, Andrew VK1AD and Ed DD5LP are hopeful that as
well as several S2S contacts within the regions, contacts between regions
will be possible. The best chance will be stations using CW however those
using SSB will be trying hard as well.

For anyone wanting to join the party, either as an activator on a summit or
a chaser, home station, discussions can be found on the "reflector (dot)
sota (dot) org (dot)uk" web site.

These events are organised by individuals within the SOTA community, so it
just shows how much fun can be had based simply on an idea, choosing a date
and a loooong walk up a hill on possibly a freezing morning!
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