{"id":242,"date":"2025-08-08T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:41:07","slug":"activating-chasing-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/activating-chasing-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating & Chasing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What you get<\/h1>\n\n\n

Activating Tools<\/h3>\n\nR<\/span>oad and Area Closure Resources<\/a>
Our list of links to helpful sites on road and area closures that we know of.<\/strong>\nSotaMaps<\/a><\/strong>
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<\/a>
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<\/span><\/a>
An excellent charting application that you can use to plan using your PC or phone as well as download maps for off-line use.\n


<\/a>GaiaGPS<\/a><\/span>
Another excellent charting application that allows you to plan on your PC or phone, and download maps for off-line use.

<\/a>HamAlert<\/a><\/span>
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.

<\/font><\/a>Ham2K Portable Logger (PoLo)<\/a><\/strong>
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<\/a>.

<\/font><\/a>SotaMat<\/a><\/span>
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<\/span><\/a>
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.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n


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Chasing Tools<\/h3>\n\n

<\/p>SotaWatch<\/a>
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.<\/b>

<\/a>SOTLAS<\/a><\/span>
Spots, Alerts, Maps and more.

<\/a>HamAlert<\/a><\/span>
Be notified when any of your favorite operators are on a summit for those chaser points.
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Other Useful Tools<\/h3>\n\n