Ryan Etherington
SOTA Activities
I love to activate summits. I don't chase much, just when I'm around the shack and have a chance for a QSO with one of my friends on the summit. All of my "chaser" points are from Summit to Summit contacts. So far, all of my summits have been in Utah, and most of the first activations, as most summits in Utah haven't been activated yet! My SOTA rig is an FT-857, powered by a 4.2ah LiFE battery pack. My antenna is a homebrew link dipole, and I use either a 28 foot Jackite pole or a 7m (21 foot) carbon fiber mast. I like to operate both CW and SSB. I'm new to CW as of 2015.