WY7N GOAT Summit this Saturday (31 Aug 2024)

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It’s time to get my GOAT! I’m 13 points away!

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Here is the plan.

I’m taking a vacation day on Friday. There are a few chores I must do, but hope to be able to activate W7U/WA-008 in the early afternoon. If successful, I will then be at 995 total points. Just one summit away!

Then, rather than going home for the night, I will head south and set up camp in the AZ of W7U/UT-011 Bear Benchmark.

My hope is to sit on that summit for most of 24 hours and work as many people throughout the world as possible. If you are activating a summit, I will try very hard to complete an S2S with you!

I plan to set up two quite large V wire beams. One will be aimed at Europe.

I hope to see you the log!

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That’s a great Goat Day plan on a nice summit. I’ll try to work you.

I can picture the summit, as KQ4IAM and I activated it on 19 July this year.

73,
Andy, N4LAG

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Thanks Andy! Will that be 401 completes for you?!! (Or have you gotten a few more since you were there?) (See: N4LAG Andy 400 SOTA COMPLETES!)

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Hi Bruce, when I activated it that was my complete there. I have a few more since.

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That makes sense.

It looks like you are at 407!

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Congrats on all the completes!

One of my favorite things is to help others get completes. (And sometimes getting one for myself too!)

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I couldn’t help it. I had to know. Look who is #2 in the US on completes:

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That’s awesome, Bruce! Our MG herd in UT is a little low, we need you! So excited you’ve come so far so fast, nice job!

Mike AC0PR

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Thanks Mike!

You were my SOTA Elmer. You started this!

Was it you that told me I was on a slippery slope?

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I will keep an eye out for you this weekend. Good luck!

de K7UOU Gary

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Thanks Gary!

I’m thinking to call CQ on most bands 10M-40M every couple hours. I’ll do that on even UTC hours, 1600, 1800, 2000, etc.

Of course, I will also chase every S2S I can!

73,

Bruce-WY7N

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The weather looks good! I’ll be leaving in an hour or two. On my way to W7U/WA-008!

(P.S.: It’s a 4.5 hour drive from my house to reach the trailhead.)

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It was a success!

Here’s me uploading my GOAT log… https://youtu.be/Zo8w1MR6QE0

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107 QSOs total. With the following S2S QSOs.

AC7P W0D/NW-001
AJ6KZ W6/CT-145
K2JB W4C/CM-027
K2JB W4C/CM-028
K5SJC W0C/SP-085
K6STR W6/ND-393
K9PM W7A/AE-009
KC1OFX W7A/PE-002
KC1OFX W7A/PE-025
KG5ISG W5N/SG-009
KG7D W7N/EM-021
KJ7NOZ W7A/AE-010
KJ7OGF W8O/CT-002
KT0A W0D/BB-003
NN7O W6/ND-378
NN7O W6/WH-003
VE7JH VE7/CV-127
VE7OM VE7/FV-596
W4VIG W8V/PH-058
W7NRS W7A/CS-029
WA2USA W0C/SP-094
WB5USB W5N/SG-009

I also had an S2S with VK2IO on VK2/SY-002 on 10M when on W7U/WA-008 the night before (same UTC day)!

Thanks everyone!

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Bye the way, in SOTA Results, Bruce is the 4th W7U Mountain Goat.
Way to go Bruce!!

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Thanks Greg!

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I will be listening for you on CW
de W6LEN / Jess