Update

Martin, VA3SIE, will be working on the paperwork over the Christmas Holidays, and hopefully, early in the new year the VE3 SOTA Association will be up and running.

On behalf of Bill-VE3CLQ, Martin-VA3SIE, and Fred-VE3FAL, have a very Happy Christmas, and a safe and healthy 2011.

We hope to hear you all on the summits soon!

North America SOTA day

From J.P Couture, VA2SG.......The North American SOTA Associations (Canada and the USA) will have an operating event on Nov 13, 2010 from 1200utc to 2400 utc on Nov 14th, 2010. The goal is to encourage NA SOTA summit activations and expand the awareness of this unique operating program in North America. More information about SOTA can be found at http:/www.sota.org.uk.

Summit activation teams will use all the licensed bands from VHF FM/SSB to the HF frequencies for CW and SSB. Typical operating frequencies are 146.52, 144.200, 7.040, 10.116, 14.060, 14.282, and 14.342.5.

Currently there are established SOTA Associations for VE1, VE2, VE7, W1, W2, W3, W5, W6, W7, and W0 with more on the way!

The British SOTA Program encourages both summit Activators and and home-QTH Chasers through an extensive Awards program. Patterned after the IOTA program, SOTA is very popular in Europe and is quickly catching on in the North America as well as other countries. This will become an annual event for the NA SOTA Associations. Please visit the Yahoo Group site for more information and/or questions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasota/

VE3SOTA Update

The VE3 SOTA association is working hard to get things up and running so we can all get up into the hills and operate!

Martin, VA3SIE is currently analyzing contour lines on terrain maps in order to find summits qualifying for SOTA in the Eastern/Southern/Central
Ontario regions.  

This is a very time consuming process, so please bear with us as we work towards making a great SOTA assocation for you all to enjoy.

Regional Managers

The VE3 SOTA Association is still on the look out for two Regional Managers:

1. Ontario North.  This Region includes - North of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), The French River and Lake Nipissing.

2. Ontario South.  The Region encompasses the Bruce Peninsula in the north to Lake Erie in the south, Lake Huron in the West.  It goes east as far as Hamilton, and an imaginary line drawn north to Georgian Bay.


If you're interesting in getting involved as a Regional Manager with the SOTA program please contact us at by clicking HERE.

Our Regional Managers so far are:

Martin VA3SIE - Ontario East
Bill VE3CLQ - Ontario Central
Fred VE3FAL - Ontario West

Martin, VA3SIE, is also the Association Manager.

Welcome to the home of the VE3 SOTA Association!

Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an award scheme for radio amateurs and shortwave listeners that encourages portable operation in mountainous areas. SOTA has been carefully designed to make participation possible for everyone - this is not just for mountaineers! There are awards for activators (those who ascend to the summits) and chasers (who either operate from home, a local hilltop or are even Activators on other summits).

SOTA is now fully operational in many countries across the world. Each country has its own Association which defines the recognised SOTA summits within that Association. Each summit earns the activators and chasers a score which is related to the height of the summit. Certificates are available for various scores, leading to the prestigious "Mountain Goat" and "Shack Sloth" trophies. An Honour Roll for Activators and Chasers is maintained at the SOTA online database.

So far in Canada we have a VE1 association and a VE2 association, and very shortly the VE3 association will be up and running, bringing SOTA to Ontario Hams.  

This VE3 SOTA Blog will be used to being information to those Hams interested in SOTA, as well as being used to announce SOTA activations.
 
The VE3 SOTA Association may be reached via email, just click on our name above.