New Mountain Goat - M0RCP

Rick Peterson, M0RCP from Leeds is the latest radio amateur to have achieved the SOTA Mountain Goat award for 1,000 activator points.

Rick reached his target on 5th December 2009 with an activation of The Old Man of Coniston G/LD-013 using 2m FM, 40m SSB and 80m SSB.

This was Rick's 171st activation on 92 different summits, mainly in the Lake District (G/LD) and Northern Pennines (G/NP) areas, although he has also activated in Wales, and as far south as Wendover Woods G/CE-005, near Aylesbury.

Activating is sure to continue for Rick, since his son Thomas M3OOL is over three-quarters of the way to his own Mountain Goat award.