The fourth annual Pacific Northwest Not-Quite-Fourteener is on for August 3rd and 4th. The PNW NQF runs at the same time as the Socal SOTAFest and the Colorado Ham 14er. Since most of us are too lazy to lug heavy radios and batteries uphill, it is generally a QRP event. SOTA activators will be on 146.58MHz, along with CW, SSB, and digital operations across the HF bands.
The Socal SOTAFest and Ham 14er are running the same weekend, which translates to plenty of S2S opportunities throughout the western United States.
If you are an activator Washington, Idaho, Montana, or Oregon and want to join the fun:
- post an alert to SOTAWatch for August 3rd, 4th or both. Please include “PNW NQF” in the comment field of your alert.
- send an email to K7WXW at qrpdx dot org to be added to the PNW NQF op list.
That’s it! Most of the S2S activity will happen between 1600 and 2200 UTC but ops will be on the air all day.
I will send an email with the full list of ops/summits to everyone a few days before the event.
If you are a chaser, watch the alerts on SOTAWatch and make some contacts!
Contact me directly if you need more information or if you’d like to join the Socal, Colorado, and PNW groups and organize a regional event.
73 Bill K7WXW