2004 SOTA Beams Challenge

The winners of the 2004 SOTA Beams Challenge have just been announced.

The challenge is for ‘Summits on the Air’ activators under 18, the winner being the activator who makes contacts from the most summits.

The 2004 winner was 14-year old Bobbie Brown, M3DNC, who activated 24 summits, and amazingly she only started in August! The runner-up was James, M3OZE, with 20 activations.

The SOTA Beams Challenge will run again in 2005. Summits on the Air is a popular award scheme that encourages portable operating from hilltops across the UK. It started in 2002 and already has over 600 participants. "

It's good to see new licencees actively involved in this aspect of the hobby.

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Trevor M5AKA

• The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society has a talk on Summits on the Air - click here for more

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