Tag: 2M
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-188 – Lava Butte, OR | January 2023
Lava Butte Summit For the February Polar Bear / FYOB combined event, Tim N7KOM, and I wanted to get out and do another joint activation. Since we both had limited time a quick approach summit would give us the best opportunity to make the most of the day so we choose to return to Lava…
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Activation Report: W7O/CN-074 – Round Butte, OR | January 2023
W7MTB on Round Butte This SOTA summit is a paved drive up. Access is quite easy from Madras, to the East or Culver to the South. Madras to Round Butte Hwy 97/Culver Junction to Round Butte There is a large open area on the top of the butte to setup your gear. On the Saturday…
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-223 – Juniper Butte
Juniper Butte from the South This is a pretty easy hike, with some elevation gain. My watch clocked 1070 ft of gain in 2.6 miles from where we parked the truck. The primary access road is pretty good dirt that turns into a pretty ok jeep track. It would be possible to drive up the ok-ish jeep…
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Activation Report: Hoodoo Butte W7O/CM-060
Hoodoo Butte AZ KK7HJL and I had been wanting to get out and do more activations during our Holiday break from work responsibilities.The weather and social calendars colluded to prevent us from making it happen until the last day of our break. We won a pair of lift tickets to Hoodoo Ski area and decided…
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-068 Pine Benchmark – Thanksgiving Day 2022
After a successful RF high experience on Lava Butte the day prior, the weather looked stable and warm so KK7HJL and I decided to bag another of our local summits. Pine Mountain is about 25 miles SE of Bend on US Highway 20, then another 5-6 miles on a good gravel road, though in…
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-188 – Lava Butte
We haven’t been terribly active on the air of late. Only one activation since August, so we (KK7HJL and I) decided to take a couple hours on Thanksgiving Eve to hike up Lava Butte to activate. While the park is “closed” they do leave the gate to the parking lot open to allow folks to…
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PNW Campout Report
On the weekend of July 8-11, SOTA activators from California, Oregon and Washington gathered at Hyatt Lake campground in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Ashland, OR. Amy Hamptonstall (AG7GP) and her partner Robin (N7HAP) organized the gathering as a way for SOTA operators to get together and activate lots of summits with plenty of Summit…
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Activation Report: W6/CC-068 – Silver Peak
My wife, KK7HJL, is on a mission. She wants me to experience all the cool places she had lived before we met. To that end we have spent summers in Minnesota on her childhood lake, visited Leadville, CO and last Thanksgiving took our first trip to Catalina Island, off the Southern California coast. During our first…
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2022 Central Oregon Summit to Summit Party
S2S Ops at Worthy Brewing It all started in July at the W7O SOTA Campout hosted by Amy AG7GP down at the beautiful Hyatt Lake Recreation Area in Southern Oregon. It was my first gathering of ham minded folks and I was looking forward to meeting and chatting with other operators, being a relatively new…
W7MTB: Amateur Radio Notes 