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ham operator Deer Park WA
None yet unless responding to SOTA CQ counts.
I enjoy spending time outdoors and learning new skills. SOTA seems like a great combination.
Currently hold technician license but aiming to get general in the next 2 months. My goal is to mostly activate but also chase, to start with I have a Xiegu G90 (would like to get something more compact once I get started) with Packtenna EFHW for HF and a Yaesu FT3D for 2m.
I like any SOTA activation, but especially like summits that have never been activated, and we have a LOT of those in my region and surrounding regions. I have an IC705 and a KX2 and use a multi-band end fed, a linked dipole, and a random wire, and for a mast I use an ebay carbon fiber fishing pole. Works wonders.
Long distance hiker recently into ham radio and just started doing SOTA
I do at least one long distance(100-250 mile) hike every year and doing SOTA along the way only makes sense. I have an IC705, CHASs17 antenna with the Icom tuner and PowerFilm Lightsaver Max for doing QRP. I’m hoping to get Mt. Adams and some of the other local summits activated in the next year or so.
Interested in ham radio, trail bikes, hiking, and jeeps.
Using a K2 and vertical.
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.
I'm an experienced hiker/ backpacker and just recently obtained my amateur radio license
I'm looking forward to combining my enjoyment for hiking and backpacking with amateur radio.
I am just starting to activate POTA and SOTA locations. I enjoy working in locations with no noise floor.
I have chased a few activations but I plan on activating summits this year.
Been into Ham for three years, have done some POTA and want to start chasing SOTA
I would like to chase and do some SOTA in the Vancouver WA area
Mountain Biker with a HAM problem. Or is that a HAM with a mountain biking problem.
Got into SOTA in summer of 2022 after getting my general ticket. SOTA via MTB is what interests me the most. Started my journey into learning CW back in December 2022 and looking to do my first on air QSO in Spring 2023. My job has me travel ocasionally and I particurly enjoy when it takes me to the PNW.
Experienced ham active on all modes. Active POTA and new to SOTA.
As Spring approaches I plan on a busy season of SOTA and POTA activations.
VHF hilltopper starting in '57. QRP SSB,FT8
2m FM+APRS 220 and 440 also available. Perhaps 20m and 6m SSB.
Old hilltopper but new to SOTA. Working mainly in central Vancouver Island.
Now using Elecraft and Buddipole gear. Formerly Tokyo Hypower HT-750.
Retired,Professional Driver,Private Pilot,Equestrian Trainer,Competitive Sailing,Archery,Motorcycling,Backpacking younger Days,Life Boy Scout,Skier younger days.
Chaser FT-991A 2M 440cm 6M 10M Capabilities.
Retired Mariner and LEO, Outdoorsman in the traditional sense, climber, hiker, hunter. I love to build antenna. I belong to the SOARC and Del Norte Amateur Radio clubs, and am beginning SOTA in 2022.
Beginning. I plan to work in the High Siskiyous of North Western CA, and the summits around my home in Cave Junction, OR.
Electrical Engineer at UW Applied Physics Lab. I’ve been a ham since the late 90s, but as a kid I loved SWLing. I’m interested in combining backcountry camping, biking, and motorcycle ADV riding with POTA and SOTA activations.
IC-705 or Pentek TR-35 when size or weight dictates.
Amateur since 1985 and N7LOL is a standard issue callsign and not a vanity
Visit many PNW broadcast sites during my normal day, adding in SOTAs to my Amateur Radio world
Been climbing mountains and/or been tramping about the outdoors literally since my parents hauled us about in kid-carrying backpacks (Papoose) so pretty much my entire life. Don't do as many glaciated peaks as I once did, the years will do that, but I still get out there. Do a bit of Hot Spring hunting as well.
Anyway I thought it would be a cool idea to take a Radio with me up some of these peaks, come to find out that's already a 'thing!' So here I am! :-)
I design and oversee testing of Railway Signaling systems across the globe in my professional life.
Well, I don't have any stories to tell quite yet as I am newbie to SOTA, but I finally decided to go out and drag a radio to the top of a peak or two, and as such just picked up an IC-705 for that purpose! So, stay tuned and I will update this after I climb some peaks! :-)