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I enjoy spending time outdoors. Radio is a great excuse to get out!
My QTH suffers from ridiculous noise levels, so I like to get out and activate. I have a KX2 and linked dipole that get used most often in the field.
I live in Central CA, My wife's family has a home on San Juan Island. I am in the PNW often. I enjoy SOTA and hiking in general.
The area I live in is points challenged, most summits are 1 or 2 points. I don't know if I will ever reach MG but I'm going to give it a go. I enjoy offroading and have a built 2003 Jeep Wrangler. It helps in getting to difficult trailheads.
I have a KX2 and use a few different antennas. I am always trying to lighten my pack.
I chase and activate. I am always looking for the SOTA Complete.
I like to camp and take day trips out to summits.
I like to activate with 20m FT8 and then move on to 2m FM voice contacts with a yagi.
Getting in shape by activating peaks
2m with the locals and hf cw activations. I chase anything I can hear from a summit.
Starting to build my own antennas
Ham since 1977 at 12 years old. Love the outdoors and new to SOTA as of 2021. Live in Renton WA, most of my activity is in WA - Cascades and Olympics with occasional excursions to OR to see our daughter in Bend.
Most of my activity is in WA - Cascades and Olympics with occasional excursions to OR to see our daughter in Bend. I chase a bit as well from my remote setup in Kent WA.
Dont have a lot to say about myself. Love the outdoors, enjoy hiking and back country camping. Im looking forward to putting in some radio time out in the wild.
I've been interested for awhile in sota. On a whim, went up to a fire look out close to home and took my ht along. Didnt expect to hop in on a sota event so now here I am.
I don't activate often, but try to get out as much as I can. I love backpacking and hiking.
VHF Kenwood TH-D7a with a Ed Fong DBJ-2.
HF Xiegu x5105 with a QRP Guys triband vertical
IT nerd / Outdoors nut
I like to get outside but usually have to do it alone. SOTA lets me reach out and spread the joy of the summit with a large part of the world.
Not sure what I want to say, but I'm a new HAM wanting to get out in the forest and do SOTA along with Emergency Preparedness.
Will edit more about myself later.
New to the sport. I would rather activate than chase, but both are needed.
I like QRP and CW. I am trying to do SOTA sometime.
I don't know much about it yet but I am interesting to use my QCX mini and portable antenna and to see the results. It will be most likely mountains along the I-90 before Snoqualmie pass.
USAF, Adv Bike rider, trail runner, Elk hunter and all things outdoors.
Brand new and stumbling through.
Bulger #6; Bike Mountaineer nonpareil; Boeing Technical Fellow (ret.)
Received General license this last March with intent of activating summits (SOTA as well as others) via mountain bike. Initial attempt of activating W7M/BE-176 using a 2m HT failed. Will try a few others before moving to HF.
Check QRZ or w7eze.com
Just getting started, hoping to learn enough to tackle my first summit next week!
Electrical engineer, retired from PGE.
New to SOTA. I have an Alinco DJ-500TB 2m/70cm handheld radio. I received my Amateur Extra license in May 2021, but have not used it much. I'm interested in both activation and chasing.
I am a young HAM born and raised in the PNW. Radio has been a big part of my life for some time. I am a volunteer FireFighter that uses Radio on a Daily basis to conduct first response situations. I love the outdoors and I'm excited for what SOTA has to Offer
I am brand new and would like to explore the different summits accessed with SOTA.
Retired from semiconductor industry. Like to hike so SOTA is a natural fit. Extra Class operator, originally licensed in 1973 as a novice then an advanced class (with code test). Operate mainly HF CW
Mainly an activator in Northern CA W6/NS and W6/SN. I am not a MG but fairly active with 243 activator points and 1827 chaser points (Jan 2021). Use mtr3b, kx2, trapped 20/30/40 EFHW, zip cord 20 meter dipole or EFRW. Prefer summits with great views that require a hike
2021-10 After 17 years I’m back on the air and building a new shack.
My love for Amateur radio started in 1996 in Phoenix AZ and never died but I let circumstances in my life take me away from it. In the mid 2000s, family and health issues left me with no time or place to be involved with radio. The worst of it was letting my license expire. Now 2021 and recently my passion for RF has been reignited and even though I’m in an apartment with no way to have outdoor antennas nothing is going to keep my off the air…
I originality got into amateur radio not because it was of interest to me but because of an encounter with a very persuasive and persistent ham at Ham Radio Outlet in Phoenix. I stopped in one day for coax that I needed for a job and Mr Mike Baker K7DD who worked there part time and still does BTW, started up a conversation as hams are prone to doing. At the time I had the same misconception many people have that amateur radio was old men sitting in front of a bunch of complicated equipment talking in morse code. Mike showed me how wrong I was that day. What hooked me and started my absolute infatuation with radio was a NASA mission. See Mike as well as being involved in just about every other aspect of amateur radio was into fast scan TV. The local club in Phoenix, Arizona Amateurs on TV had a demo there in the HRO store and was retransmitting the current shuttle mission. Well that was the it for me, video was a hobby of mine already and WOW I could transmit TV, count me in. I left the store that day with a ham study book a Yaesu FT-530 and Mike’s phone number. Mike quickly became my mentor and friend and before long I was a licensed amateur.
Even though I lived in an apartment at the time I was able to put up some homemade antennas, 2m and 70cm copper pipe J-poles and a 70cm cubical quad made from paint stir sticks, wooden Dowels, and copper wire, hamateur engineering at its finest. I purchased a club made ATV transmitter and off I went. As everyone in amateur radio knows my interests grew from there.
Unfortunately I never could get CW down, just couldn’t copy it at any speed. The topography in Phoenix lent itself to any line of sight propagation though so that’s where I went, up up up. Our TV club covered any band it could, some of us played with stuff all the way to 10gig and beyond.
I was just getting into satellite and QRP work when I left radio life and since I’m in an apartment with no hope of outside antenna placement thats going to be my focus now. I’m going to try my hand at portable satellite work and some POTA and SOTA work also.
My main interests lie in doing activations via SSB VHF/UHF and satellite, 6 meters may be in the cards as well. I have a portable satellite station I use for FM and SSB satellites, it's perfect for SOTA and POTA.
Ham since 1984. Active with many clubs, VP of WVDXC. Hike when time permits.
Spencer's Butte, south of Eugene, OR