Summits On The Air

[ExGEO]

I'm a member of ARES in Austin (Travis and Williamson counties) so I could browse their site for information in that area. I've been a ham for 11 years now, but wasn't active much when I lived in park city. Thanks for the information. I'll be sure to reach out when the widow maker and I are headed your way. I was a guide in Moab once upon a time and I still frequent the area.

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[UtahOverlander]

Hams are not too active on this side of the Wasatch. That's Awesome that you were a guide in Moab. I've just started travelling there to do some minor trails. I won't be doing any rock crawling. Just some longer, easier trails. Snow there now. Touch base when you're headed this way.

 

[ExGEO]

I dont do any crawling. I have an H3 haha. I know some really cool spots out there but we will have to talk about it in person. ;-) there are a ton of trails out there that most stock rigs can do, but they don't get a lot of traffic because they aren't really advertised.

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[Radiola]

SOTA is short for Summits on the Air I think this is something we can do as a group But you will need to have your Amateur Radio License ( which is not that hard to get .....) here's a link that tells you more about it.

http://www.sota.org.uk/

 

[TerryD]

I'm wanting to get into SOTA as there are many listed summits around my house, but I've got to find a rig. I'm learning code so I can get a little QRP tin- style radio, but I've considered getting the Bit-X QRP SSB rig to build as well!

 

[Radiola]

I'm wanting to get into SOTA as there are many listed summits around my house, but I've got to find a rig. I'm learning code so I can get a little QRP tin- style radio, but I've considered getting the Bit-X QRP SSB rig to build as well!

I just saw where your located :) you ever heard of a town called Deerfield?

 

[TerryD]

No I haven't, what's it near?

 

[Radiola]

It's 6 miles north of Goshen and 20 miles west of Staunton in the southwest corner of augusta county.

 

[Kevigizmo]

Sota is Awesome - the number of times ive hunted for Sota stations to get the summit activation logged

Great fun with combining the love for radio with outdoors on a mountain top running QRP (low power) :)

 

[brien]

This morning I did my first ever CW activation for Summits on the Air. I did technically make two CW contacts during one of my previous SSB activations a few months back, but this was the first time I completely left the mic at home. I was extremely nervous while heading up the mountain, and completely overwhelmed with anxiety and fear of failure when i first turned the radio on. With a shaky hand I started calling CQ, and as soon as the Qs started rolling in I began to relax just a bit. In my best SSB activations i'd get maybe 8-10 QSOs, this morning, operating only in CW, i got... drum roll......

43 QSOs!!! 4 of which were Summit to Summits!!

I activated W7A/AW-001 Mt Lemmon (9159', 10pts) using my KX2, 10W to my end-fed non-resonant 58' inverted L. With the internal ATU on my KX2 I can tune all bands from 60m up to 10m and I worked every single one of them. Made Qs on all bands as well:

• 60m: 6 Qs
• 40m: 6 Q including 2 S2S
• 30m: 6 Qs
• 20m: 15 Qs including 1 S2S
• 17m: 5 Qs
• 15m: 3 Qs including 1 S2S
• 10m: 2 Qs

I'm going to be putting together a longer vlog on my YouTube channel about the whole thing, but here's a clip of one of my QSOs. I'm still working to become proficient at morse code (only started learning it about 4 months ago) so you'll notice that my head copy has not quite caught up with the speed of my hearing, so I had to ask this poor guy to repeat his completely copyable call sign again, LOL. Thankfully I chase him (via CW) quite often so he wasn't a total stranger.

I've translated the morse code as captions for those who haven't seen the light yet, just enable [CC] and you'll see 'em.

 

[Lost-Again]

Rfinder.net is your friend.

 

[brien]

Rfinder.net is your friend.

Contacts via repeaters are not valid for Summits on the Air!

 

[Lost-Again]

Yeah.... I forgot to quote
"What kind of 2-meter coverage is out there? When I was in Austin we had several single repeaters. I've been in Florida for a while and the gulf coast ARC has a massive network on 70-cm. I'm looking to get back to Utah or to Montana. Someday I'll sit for general and extra, but I have to get back to America first.
KE5HLQ"

 

[whiskey7backroads]

If there is a Overland Bound Net I would be interested. KJ7BHN.