On Sunday 31st March 2024 at 15:12 UTC, Milan S58MU, a radio amateur from Slovenia, made contact with Aleksandar YU1CA/P, a radio amateur from Serbia, who was operating from Zlatibor (YUFF-0088), on the 30m amateur radio band.
Zlatibor (YUFF-0088), is a protected area of 41,923 hectares located in the south-west of Serbia. It was designated in 2017 as a Nature Park and is an IUCN Management Category V area.
An IUCN Management Category V area is a lived-in working landscape, where the interaction of people with the natural landscape has resulted in a landscape with significant biological, ecological and scenic value.
Aleksandar was at the summit of Bandera (1497 metres asl) while he was at the reserve and made a total of 50 contacts for the Summits on the Air (“SOTA”) group.