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Summits on the Air, or SOTA, is an awards program for portable operating from mountain and hill summits. An activator hikes to a listed summit with a small station and makes contacts from the top, while chasers at home or on other summits look for activators and work them. Higher summits are worth more points. Begun in the United Kingdom in 2002, it is the older cousin of Parks on the Air, and the more strenuous one. A light QRP station is typical. Read more…