Summits on the Air launched in England (G) and Wales (GW) on 2nd March 2002. Since then it has expanded massively to over one hundred associations on all major world continents, and has over 24,000 participants.

A special award has been launched to celebrate SOTA's 20th birthday. Participants can obtain a certificate for their best 20 days chasing or activating (separate certificates for each activity). Logs are entered as normal and the SOTA Database picks your 20 highest scoring days out of your logs for the whole year. (March 2nd 2022 to March 1st 2023).

These certificates will be downloadable from the database and free of charge. This is not a contest, so the display will be presented in alphabetical callsign order. SOTA Management Team would like there to be plenty of activity during the 20th anniversary year, and as such, the activity runs for a whole year to give plenty of time to take part.

Some special event stations have been operational to celebrate the anniversary. GW Association Manager - Roger Dallimore MW0IDX - has been operating GB2OTA from the summit of Mynydd y Cwm GW/NW-076, the northernmost of the Clwydian Range summits, during the month of March. SOTA Management Team member Tom Read M1EYP will be / has been operating GB20SOTA from the summit of The Cloud G/SP-015 from 2nd to 29th April.