This is the blogsite of Sidney and Adele Tyler – or better known in our world as ZS5AYC and ZS5APT! Adele and I both enjoy been out, as can be seen SOTA is tops on our out door activities,
Australian Holiday and SOTA Activations
2023 Australian Holiday Saturday 1st April 2023The two-hour flight Aubry on Friday 31 st March was pleasant, we arrived on time collected our hired car, our first stop was to purchase a few food items for the weekend,Leaving Aubry, we set our course for Hotham which was about a 2,1/2 hours’ drive, we arrived at…
CELEBRATING ZS SOTA 20 YEARS
What a surprise when we realized that ZS SOTA joined the International SOTA Association 20 years ago. We asked the guys & gals who are regular activators & chasers, what they thought of having a day to celebrate, and as Vaughan ZS2VR was planning on activating a summit in the Graaf-Reinet area on the 18…
LESOTHO TRIP
28April to 30 April 2022 Leaving Uvongo at 06.00 0n Wednesday 28 April 2022 we set our sights on Lesotho, our first stop over was Golden Gate Nature Reserve, where we spent the first night, Adele had made a pot of soup which we took along for dinner. during supper we discussed the next days…
SOTA TRIP to Underberg
07 April to 16 April 2021 We decided on a SOTA road trip during April, our planned trip was to the Underberg region, as can be seen from the photo our first summit was Sneezewood ZS/KN- 151 on the 7th April 2021 which is situated in the Sneezewood forest which belongs to the Sazeric Timbers…
SOTA ZS
SOTA SUMMITS ON THE AIR SOUTH AFRICA mt Coolum 12 March 2015 Disclaimer Hiking and mountain climbing are potentially hazardous activities. The SOTA Management Committee, the South African Association and their officers do not accept responsibility for any death or injury resulting from participation in SOTA. The inclusion of a summit in this reference Manual…
6 September 2020 Summit Activation ZS/KN-202 and ZS/KN-262
The weather forecast for the day was sunny but windy, which for this time of the year is normal, especially in KZN, the question was which summit should we tackle, as most of the summits are around 2 hours plus travel, time, from our QTH. we were privilege to have Louis ZS5LS with us, this…
Comries ZS/KN-208 and Mpongweni ZS/KN-195
Our original plans were to activate Cuninghams Castel ZS/KN-on the Saturday 22 March 2020 unfortunately I was were not able to confirm access from the land owner, so we decided on Comries ZS/KN-208 which is situated near Ixopo, the trip through the forest was un-eventful, although it was clear the track leading up to the…
SOTA / RaDAR Challeng
3 November 2019 The RaDAR challenge is always fun, it a time to be out and about playing radio in different locations using all the skills which you have learn’t over the years of operation QRP from your home station or Field day or HAMNET This time round we decided to combine RaDAR and SOTA…
SOTA ZS/EC-001 Ben Macdhui, December 2019
The first leg of our trip to the Northern Cape was down to Maclear then we made our way up Naude’s Nek pass to Alpine Swift High Altitude Training Resort where we stayed the first night, we have learnt over the past few years, is to tap into the local knowledge of the people in…
SOTA Mt Paul and Platberg 4 & 5 October
Planning a activation is always a challenge, no matter how much you read up about the access to the summit and what you find when you start you assent to the summit could be two different scenarios, this was the case on Friday morning the 4th October, Adele and I set off for Harrismith, with…