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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Simon G4TJC - SOTA Mountain Goat</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Simon Melhuish G4TJC</strong><span> </span>has achieved SOTA Mountain Goat status for achieving 1000 points in the activator section of the global amateur radio awards programme.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Simon, from Glossop in Derbyshire, undertook his qualifying activation on Rhobell Fawr GW/NW-021, 734m ASL, in the Arenig range of Snowdonia. He was accompanied on the expedition by his friend, and existing SOTA Mountain Goat, Allan Jones GW4VPX.</p><p align="center" style="box-sizing:border-box"><img src="https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27540318_1758054637551381_2814464235444203150_n.jpg?oh=7e347ea59e52b43dbe679537a0183497&oe=5ADF0BEF" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#666666" size="2" style="box-sizing:border-box">Simon GW4TJC/P and Allan GW4VPX/P on Rhobell Fawr GW/NW-021</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">In order for an activator to collect the points on offer for any summit, it is necessary to make four distinct QSOs. The all-important fourth QSO that earned the points for this summit, and accordingly the Mountain Goat level, came from a QSO with Simon's wife Helen, 2E0VMD/P, who was on a local hill in Derbyshire.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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