Expansion to the HEMA award scheme!, 5th April 2021 marked the start of HEMA (Humps Excluding Marilyns Award) in Southern Germany.

HEMA stands for HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award. To the uninitiated, that might look like gobbledegook. A HuMP is a summit that has Hundred Metre Prominence, meaning that it sticks up above the surrounding land by at least 100m. A Marilyn is a summit with 150m prominence. HEMA then is an award for HuMPs with a prominence of less than 150m. Marilyns have their own award scheme through SOTA

HEMA - the somewhat different mountain award scheme for summits with a prominence between 100 and 150 metres is expanding again. This time into the Southern Bavaria, Alpine "DL" area.

In a scheme that happily co-exists with SOTA and GMA but fits the niche in between the two, the HEMA scheme is more about getting contacts with new DXCC entities from summits and contacts with or between summits than purely collecting summit points. If "completes", "Uniques", "firsts" are terms that are unusual to you then check out the HEMA website at hema.org.uk.

HEMA is operable on any amateur band and mode (just not any kind of repeater) but of course, to get the new HEMA-DXCC from abroad you are going to need to be operating on the HF bands, watching the HEMA spotting page for that first self spot from one of the 41 newly authorised summits by an activator.

HEMA - http://hema.org.uk/