Richard celebrating afterwards with a pint!

Achieving New Heights

On 26 October, Richard G3CWI became the first person to activate every hill in England.

This has taken him seven and a half years to achieve and was done using the list of hills used for the popular Summits on the Air (SOTA) award programme
(www.sota.org.uk).

The combined height of the hills he climbed is nearly ten times that of Mount Everest.

Richard completed the task on a hill called Baystones, near Troutbeck in the Lakes using his normal homebrew station running 2 Watts on 40m CW.