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Summits On The Air (SOTA) is called translates roughly as "the Summit on the air." It is an amateur diploma program. His goal is to promote radio operation on mountain peaks. Licensed amateur radio operators to combine this mountain walking and mountaineering in the operation of portable transmitting and receiving equipment and antennas on the tops. Those who run their system on a summit, are activators (English Activators) and those of other sites try to establish radio links with them, hunters (English Chasers). Therefore, there are two types of diplomas that can be drawn: for activators and for hunters. This points to connect wirelessly or by peaks from peaks to be assigned. The higher the peak, the higher the score. Frequency bands and modes to play in the awarding of points do not matter. SOTA program was founded in March 2002 by radio amateurs in England and Wales. As of October 2007 there SOTA associations in the following countries, so that radio amateurs can participate in it at the SOTA program: Germany (two associations: German Mountain and German Alps), France, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, Czech Republic , Hungary, Belgium and United States and the United Kingdom.

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