Tag: morse code
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-180 -Gray Butte & W7O/CE-303 – Sisters View | March 2023
These two summits are very close and located in the Crooked River National Grassland northeast of Terrebonne, OR and adjacent to Smith Rock State Park. They are easily accessible most of the year via Skull Hollow Road, which is a well maintained gravel road up to the parking area. If the road is muddy, it…
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Activation Report: W7O/CM-091 – Pistol Butte in the snow
Last June I activated Pistol Butte for my first CW only activation using my newly built Penntek TR-35. During my walk down I thought it would be a great winter activation because the view is phenomenal and the roads getting in are pretty easy to follow. As we approach the end of winter bonus season…
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Activation Report: W7O/CE-219 – Cline Buttes, OR | February 2023
This was my first mountain bike activation of the year. Tim [N7KOM] and another friend joined me for a ride/joint activation of Cline Butte after my last failed attempt in November of 2022. I wanted to do some exploring of a new trail system based out of the Cascade View Trail head that opened in…
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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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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…
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Activation Report : Horse Ridge – W7O/CE-176
I wasn’t sure if I was going to get out to activate this weekend due to the rain in the forecast but things cleared up and it began to warm up so I decided to check out the Horse Ridge activation. I’ve ridden mountain bikes in the area quite a bit but mostly on the…
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Activation Report: Pistol Butte W7O/CM-091 : First CW SOTA Activation
After an aggravating day at the J O B, I decided on an impromptu SOTA attempt with my newly built Penntek TR-35. I spent part of my morning building a Google map of an area near Sunriver, OR for a future Moto-SOTA adventure. Most of the summits in the area are drive/ride-ups but there are…
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Penntek TR-35 4 Band CW Transceiver – First Transceiver Build
WA3RNC Penntek TR-35 4 Band, 5 Watt Transceiver One of the things that drew me to amateur radio is the kit building aspect. Only weeks into the hobby, and before I had my hands on an HF rig I was ordering parts for an End fed random wire build I found on the AARL site. The…
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K6ARK End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) build and test
I watched a video on the Ham Radio Crash Course about this very tiny and relatively easy-to-build antenna a few months ago and bought one right away from Amazon. It only took about 30 minutes start to finish, the hardest part being attaching the surface mount capacitor as the video describes. I have since use…
W7MTB: Amateur Radio Notes 