What you get
Activating Tools
- Find a summit in your planned area of operation or download summits to be imported into your favorite charting app.
- Get detailed information on a summit, including info uploaded by other activators.h
- Map of Summits, Information on Summits, list of Spots and Alerts.
SotaWatch
Create and look at Alerts, Spots, and posts to the SOTA reflector from around the world. You can also log a chase easily after logging in by clicking on the notepad icon to the far right of a spot.
CalTopo
An excellent charting application that you can use to plan using your PC or phone as well as download maps for off-line use.
GaiaGPS
Another excellent charting application that allows you to plan on your PC or phone, and download maps for off-line use.
HamAlert
Be notified when any of your favorite operators are on a summit for those S2S points.
It's also useful to set your callsign as a trigger, allowing you see when your spots go out as well as RBN report if you are using CW.
Ham2K Portable Logger (PoLo)
Portable Logging on your phone or tablet. Easily log contacts on a summit to your portable device, then export and upload to SOTA Data and your home logging app. Tons of features. See a review HERE.
SotaMat
Spot yourself with just your HF radio and FT8. You can also use a cell or satellite communicator you can Self-spot, List active Spots, get Premium Weather reports, retrieve Summit, Park, and Callsign info.
SotaGoat
SOTA Goat is the all-in-one summit database and spotting application for participants of the Summits On The Air amateur radio program. Use it en-route to navigate to summit and confirm when you are in the Activation Zone. Does not require call connectivity.
Chasing Tools
Create and look at Alerts, Spots, and posts to the SOTA reflector from around the world. You can also log a chase easily after logging in by clicking on the notepad icon to the far right of a spot.
SOTLAS
Spots, Alerts, Maps and more.
HamAlert
Be notified when any of your favorite operators are on a summit for those chaser points.
Other Useful Tools
- MyAPRS
Displays real-time APRS data (GPS coordinates, weather reports, text messages, and announcements) onto your iPhone.
- NOAA Space Weather
Spaced Weather
- Repeater Book
Uses GPS coordinates to find local repeaters. Allows SOTA operators to contact repeater operators and ask them to move to a simplex frequency (often 146.58 or 146.52 MHz) in order to obtain a QSO.
