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.