SOTA Awards Received
Sun 06 November 2016
Yesterday I received, by way of U.K. Royal Mail and the U.S. Postal Service, two SOTA awards! The first is my award for chasing 100 points-worth of summits:
The second
award is the SOTA Mountain
Hunter - Bronze award where I had to work at least two summits in at
least five mountain associations:
Hopefully I'll have some
activator awards in the coming year!
By Sparks, Category: Radio
Tags: Summits on the Air (SOTA) / Awards /
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