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I'm a few years into having my license and am making an effort to do more ham stuff now that I've gotten more involved in the local community and enjoy outdoors and summits and having a reason to be ontop of a mountain longer than just to look at the view.
I like FT8 and digital modes such as APRS and maybe 2m fm if I am limited in equipment. I plan to start out with some local summits to get a feel for what I still need and getting a highly portable low powered QRP setup that I can carry entirely on my back. Am starting with places relatively easy to get to but I'd eventually like to graduate to doing multiple day excursions with what can be hiked into an area with me and a friend or two. (They're really just porters after all for batteries!) I've only really been on one summit with the radio on Mt Tabor this last weekend and had great results on FT8, its very encouraging and has me totally stoked for the possibilities that are available to me now that I've gotten to learn enough to really understand some of the capabilities that a qrp hf radio with a good antenna can get you. I've been really enjoying making antennas so, I feel antennas are gonna be something I'm going to be dealing with a lot and have tons of possibilities and challenges figuring out the best setup for a given summit.
Living in Langley, BC, and working in healthcare. Active in amateur radio for 7 years and in SOTA for the past 2 years.
All my SOTA activity has been in VE7, partly due to restrictions on travel through COVID. I use HF CW, SSB and 2m FM with my FT-818ND and EFHW or 4 element yagi beam.
New ham and chasing allows me to test antenna cp figurations from home. Later, I'll switch to mobile antennas and see what I can activate!
Chasing for now. I'm too old for serious climbing!
Please see my QRZ page
I've only done a handful of SOTA activations but I've been sporadically participating in SOTA for almost two years. I use a KX2, with a KXPA100 at home and for many POTA activations. In the field I have a couple bottom-loaded verticals to choose from as well as several homebuilt wire antennas. At home I have a G5RV configured as an inverted V with the center about 50 feet off the ground.
It's been fun to see what 10 W can get you with a little elevation. I'm excited to keep exploring with my KX2.
I'm a reforming software engineer, trying to return to the infrastructure and network engineering world. Been tinkering with electronics/arduino/RasberryPi on and off for a while.
Started watching Ham Radio Crash Course and got hooked on the idea of SOTA/POTA. Been reading/watching lots of youtube on the subject.
I like to activate. I have one attempted activation (got three contacts), and one successful activation (W7O/CE-303). I recently attended the 3rd annual Central Oregon S2S party, put on by W7MTB. At the bonfire there I committed to making six more activations before the next S2S party in the fall.
Retired physician and large medical group and hospital administrator. Born and raised in Bend, Oregon graduating in 1972 long before Bend became overrun and the quality of life ruined there. 4th generation Oregonian on both sides. Tested for all three licenses in the summer of 2018 but didn't do anything in ham radio until April 2024. Active in K-BAR-A and Klamath County ARES.
None so far. Will primarily be a hunter.
I'm a software engineer, democratic socialist, living kidney donor, bicycle rider, backpacker, pilgrim, and now a ham radio operator. I received my callsign on 25 October 2022.
I am a new ham and I have activated a small handful of times in Oregon and Southern Washington. My default radio is the Explorer QRZ-1 I received in QRZ's free new ham package. Everything is exciting right now because i'm newer and still getting used to doing anything over radio.
Originally from the Midwest, now living in the Northern Rockies. I have found ham radio and the people involved with it to be very helpful and encouraging, this helped solidify my love for the hobby right away. I have found a niche in SOTA, it combines two things I am passionate about, summiting peaks in the gorgeous area I reside, and ham radio. I LIVE A SHORT DRIVE FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!! SEND ME AN EMAIL AND LETS SOTA TOGETHER!!!
I enjoy summing mtns in my home state of Montana, but am ready to branch out and start finding areas that i can SOTA when the snow gets too deep here. I have a Xiegu 6100, paired with a 66' long wire and 49:1 balun. My favorite and most challenging summit to date is Mt. Siyeh inside Glacier National Park, a grind of a hike to the summit. I also saw 10 Grizzly bears on this hike!!
Retired embedded SW engineer; back in school studying Psychology.
I use to chase when I had a quiet QTH in Eugene. I am now mostly activate peaks that are within a couple of hours drive of Portland.
Rig: KX3 w/4300 mAh LiFePo battery
Antennas: 44' doublet with 28' kite pole for HF, ELK log periodic for VHF.
** Seems like my prior pnwsota account is no longer accessible and have to create a new one. I still have access to the main SOTA websites.
Ham since 1990. Electrical Engineer. Bass player. Pilot. Very amateur astrophotographer. Love HF.
Mostly SOTA these days.
Mostly hike with an IC-705 and tuned wire antenna with a fiberglass mast.
Just getting started in Ham Radio. Long time hiker/explorer
Activate & Chase.
Relatively new ham starting to get into SOTA, CW and portable QRP operation.
Not active right now, but learning CW in order to start activating.
Activating SOTA summits since 2017 and still loving every minute (day) of it!
Typically working local peaks within 50-75 miles of my home. Have now activated peaks in Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Idaho. You can find me on VHF-fm (5 watts) and HF-ssb (10 watts).
Live in Oregon and like to go in the woods and like to play with radios.
Gives me a reason to do more mountaineering and experimenting with field deploying radio. Also trying to get better at CW.
