Despite the last minute change of location and high heat, we had another outstanding turnout for this year’s W7O campout, . It was a bit more challenging with the heatwave (some reports of over 100f even up on the mountains) and a little smokey, but thankfully everyone made it through okay! We had a turnout of around 45 operators, some reported doing 13 summit activations during the event! Lots of activations, qsos, s2s’, and visiting in the evenings back at camp. The backup campground, Howard Prairie Lake, was a hit with nice shade and lake front view. I intended to take it easy this year but still ended up doing 8 summits with 6 different ops, 4 I had never operated with before. What a treat!
Biggest highlight was Tim N7KOM achieved MG on Mt McLoughlin Saturday morning. It was a pleasure for so many of us to be there to work him s2s for his special day and celebrate in person after. It is beginning to be a tradition to have one new Goat at every W7O campout.
If you missed it this year mark your calendars for next year. You don’t know what you’re missing!!
73,
Amy-AG7GP
Group photo courtesy of Peter WB6POT and wife Pauline
Thank you for organizing another fantastic campout, Amy! It was a pleasure to meet everyone in person.
The S2S chaos was fun! I want to thank N7NWT, N6RUN, and KI6SYD for joining me on an early am rollout to Mcloughlin. Thanks to K6ARK for bringing some very cool antenna projects! I’m looking forward to an EDZ S2S party with some distance records!
Thanks Amy for all of your awesome organizing (and re-organizing) of the event! We had a blast sipping on soda and making SOTA contacts on Soda Mountain (W7O/CS-075) during the SOTA campout!
I think you are refering to @K6ARK 's portable Moxon setup (photo below). One evening we did some 10 meter DXing with the moxon and an IC-706MKIIG. We ran at 50 watts and had good RBN hits in VK land. It seemed most chasers there were maybe at work, but we still managed 3 VKs. We even got @WW7D off the back of the beam (so long path maybe???).
