This happened during my 2023 Soria (EA1) SOTA Tour, when I activated 13 summits from august 18th to 26th. It was on the second activation of the 19th at Mt Toranzo, ref. EA1/SO-11 for 6 points, making a total of 1,003 points.
Together with the forest warden I celebrated the event -with orange juice. She was explained the "weird" celebration, but then I knew that a close friend of her was also a ham operator. She called him by phone and we were able to share the moment remotely.
Of course I worked some of my usual VHF fellow chasers too. Despite of being on a quite unpopulated spanish province -Soria- I was able to qualify the summit on VHF with Julian EA2ETB, Fernando EA1AAP, Joaquin EA2CCG, Oscar EC2UT y Mique EA2EUS from the nearby territories of Nafarroa, La Rioja and Saragossa.
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| Celebrating at Toranzo |
After some chat with these friends, time for some QSOs on 20m CW. Not many, as the propagation was not the best, and I had the intention of making a 3rd activation that same day.
A long trip, ten years long, from my first summit, Arrola EA2/BI-053 on october 6th, 2013 to august 19th, 2023 on Toranzo. A bit older, but keeping the same spirit and a lot more experience!
Then I continued my tour until august 26, when after the 13th activation at Cabimonteros EA1/LR-033 and a 1,200 Kms trip, finally arrived at home.
Waiting for the next one, thanks a lot to all chasers and activators which made all this possible!