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Choice of summits :
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The initial list of summits was based on the work of Mark Trengove,
Jonathan
de Ferranti and Aaron
Maizlish as published on their
http://www.peaklist.org/
website.
Our thanks are due to them for giving their permission to use the data.
In a
manner similar to the Marilyn programme of Great Britain, it considers the
relative height of summits compared to their surroundings and defines
a minimum of 150m climb from the surrounding cols in order to qualify.
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Summits are defined within regions of SOTA
France. Unlike some other French awards, départements are not significant
within SOTA. A summit situated on the boundary of two or more SOTA regions
will be allocated to one of the regions by the Association Manager.
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Activation of a summit:
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For an activation to be valid, the following rules apply:
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- Operation
from vehicles is not permitted and the method of final access to the Summit
must be “person powered”, e.g. hiking, mountain biking.
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-You must
operate from a portable power source (e.g. batteries, solar cells). Fossil
fuelbased generators are not allowed.
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-At least four
QSOs must be made for you to claim your activator points.
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Many
SOTA operations use these frequencies:
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3561, 7032,
10116 and
14060 for CW
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3720 or 3760
for SSB
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144300 (SSB)
and 145500 (FM)
on VHF, but these are not obligatory.
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Logs:
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Activators
and chasers should send their logs
here
for the contacts to be eligible for an award.
