Time for another Pacific Northwest get-out-and-SOTA-saturday! Choose a hill, post an alert, and get on a summit on March 19, 2022. Or stay at home in that nice warm shack of yours and chase. Doesn’t matter as long as you get on the air!
We will post a list of ops and summits before the event to make chasing and S2S just a bit easier. Otherwise this will be the usual laid-back PNW deal.
Please send your name, call, and summit choice to me at K7WXW at qrpdx dot org.
Hi Etienne. 40 has been working very well from WA to OR. 60 can be good, but not many people activate on 60 around here as you know. I think we should use the usual 40 meter SOTA freqs. for the party, but I’m sure Bill will let us know if he has another plan. I will bring a 2 meter Yagi and hope to work some W7O summits on VHF as well.
On the same weekend, there will be a Japan SOTA day on 20th March (Sunday). I will go camping and activate BV/HS-012 from Taiwan with my wife and daughter. So my activation will be last quite a long time. Looking forward to having a good S2S results. Regards, Huawei, 73 de BX2AI.
So far I’ve heard from about a dozen ops about the 19th. I will be sending an email out to everyone on that list today. If you’d like to join in, please send me (K7WXW at qrpdx dot org) an email to let me know and I will add you to the list.
The party will start at 1100AM PST (1900Z) and go until we run out of steam.
The primary FM simplex frequency will be 146.58MHz and the secondary will be 146.46MHz.
Forty meters will be the primary frequency for CW and SSB but ops will certainly be working forty through ten. Look for ops in the general portion of the bands.
If you want to work other bands (UHF, etc) be sure to post that in your alert. Which reminds me, please post an alert this week, even if you aren’t sure what summit you will be on yet.
I will also send a list of ops and summits out to everyone that sends me an email by March 17th.
GM all - we have about a dozen confirmed SOTA ops for March 19th and another six or eight that are likely to be out, too. I will send a reminder out to that list on Friday and a list of ops/summits before the event.
If you are in the PNW and are going out on the 19th (defined as broadly as you like, though originally targeted for WA, ID, BC, and OR), please send me an email with your summit choice and post an alert.
Remember the more people we get out, the more S2S, chasers and fun there is!
One more note… for people in the Willamette Valley region, I’ve checked with the local ARES and CERT groups. No events planned for the 19th, so we shouldn’t run into any conflicts on the two meter simplex frequencies.
If the weather’s nice, I may suspend my hope project and climb the hill next to me and att 50 miles to my Cascade and Olympic chase range.
The downsides for me are the hill is only 120’, and I’m on the county campus with buildings blocking the other direction (Murphy’s law), and the west making the Olympics a monumental quest as well.
I swear, sometimes I’m hiking more in two blocks that you guys are climbing to a summit.
Who said this was easy?!!
Too much fun, too much fun!!!
Victor, KI7MMZ
CN87
OK @K7WXW - alert posted!! WW7D and I will be on Loser Ridge W7W/CW-074. Summit subject to change if the WX is not favorable.
We will start on 40 meters with a low dipole for NVIS, and 2m with a Yagi. Will also have 60 and 80 available, so we should be able to work everyone on HF and/or VHF! Looking forward to this.