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<P><FONT face=Tahoma>After the success of last year's event, the Summits on the
Air Management Team is pleased to announce another <STRONG>'International SOTA
Weeekend'</STRONG>, to be held again on the first weekend in May.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The original concept by Sean M0GIA was for an event to
encourage summit to summit contacts between the many International Associations
that comprise SOTA, and to give Chasers the opportunity to work as many
different associations as possible. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>This does mean that HF may be required but does not mean
that this is solely an HF event; all licensed bands can, and where possible
should, be used to make contacts. The choice of operating band and mode is left
to the individual activator as always.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The International SOTA Weekend in 2009 was such an
overwhelming success the MT proposes that this should become an annual event on
the first weekend in May every year. The first weekend being defined as the
weekend that immediately precedes the UK May Day public holiday (which is always
the first Monday in May).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>This year the International SOTA Weekend will be held on
the 1st and 2nd of May 2010 and all prospective activators are encouraged to
post their planned activations on SOTAwatch as soon as is
practicable.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma>SOTAwatch: </FONT><A href="http://sotawatch.org/"
target=_blank><FONT face=Tahoma>http://sotawatch.org</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>SOTA website: </FONT><A href="http://www.sota.org.uk/"
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