On Thursday 8th September 2022, Santiago EA2EOW, a radio amateur from Spain reached the summit of Punta de la Espata o Tabletas / Bacún and became the first to activate this summit on the amateur radio bands for the Summits on the Air (“SOTA”) group.
He made 33 contacts in total working on the 2 metre VHF and the 40 and 20 metre HF amateur radio bands.
The summit of Punta de la Espata o Tabletas / Bacún is 2190 metres (7185 feet) asl. It has a rating of 10 points on the SOTA group database.
Mountains, Misc
Links: www.sotadata.org.uk, sotl.as
By: Mike_bjm