{"id":6,"date":"2017-04-23T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:01:50","slug":"sota-summits-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTA &#8211; Summits On The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>SOTA is an awards programme that is aimed at radio amateurs who want to combine operating amateur radio with walking in the hills and mountains.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-1536x921.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-1200x719.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558-1980x1187.jpg 1980w, http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-IMG_5558.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I first started with SOTA in August 2016 when one day I heard someone calling &#8220;CQ SOTA&#8221; from the top of Walbury hill.\u00a0 I had heard of SOTA but had never really got around to investigating so I answered the call and from that moment on I was hooked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I found the main SOTA web site at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sota.org.uk\">www.sota.org.uk<\/a> and started reading.\u00a0 Once I had registered I was able to log my first chaser contact and so gain my first point.\u00a0 Only 999 more needed to get my first award.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In 2017 I started a programme of hill fitness training in anticipation of trying to activate a few summits.\u00a0 Below you will find a few posts relating my progress.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-login.php\">Login Here<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-login.php?action=register\">Register Here<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Note all UK maps on this site are \u00a9Crown copyright 2021 Ordnance Survey.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOTA is an awards programme that is aimed at radio amateurs who want to combine operating amateur radio with walking in the hills and mountains. I first started with SOTA in August 2016 when one day I heard someone calling &#8220;CQ SOTA&#8221; from the top of Walbury hill.\u00a0 I had heard of SOTA but had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOTA &#8211; Summits On The Air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-summits-on-the-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}