-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [w0c-sota] W0C Summits On The Air Meeting - Feb 24 - 7 PM Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:14:59 -0800 From: Bob K0NR <bob@...> Reply-To: w0c-sota@groups

WØC SOTA Meeting Feb 24, 2021 - 7 PM Mountain Instead of having a W0C dinner this year, we will be having an online meeting (via Zoom) to get the W0C SOTA folks together. SOTA enthusiasts outside of C

Joyce and I did a POTA activation from Mueller SP a few weeks ago. I did not realize it is such a good vhf location (no SOTA tho). BobW Sent from mobile device

Another thing to consider... For some of us that first week in August has turned into SOTA week. Saturday and Sunday are the Colorado 14er Event. Thursday and Friday are used for warmup hikes and SOTA

The event is always the first full weekend in August, so that means Aug 7 & 8, 2021. Also posted here: ham14er.org Good to start planning! Bob Witte, K0NR bob@... Check out my book: VHF, Summits

Good to know. Thanks. Bob Witte, K0NR bob@...

Hi Mike, As someone said, it will be "situational dependent" on whether to use .52 or .58. Bob Bob Witte, K0NR bob@... Check out my book: VHF, Summits and More: Having Fun With Ham Radio

Please note that the North America Adventure Frequency is 146.58 MHz, which is intended to be complementary to using 146.52 MHz. My blog post on the topic is here: https://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/2021/

Hey, its winter out there! Hikers rescued in white out, winter conditions from Mt. Elbert https://kdvr.com/news/local/hikers-rescued-in-white-out-winter-conditions-from-mt-elbert/ LAKE COUNTY, Colo. (

Ham14er List: The Colorado 14er Event is managed by the Colorado 14er Event Task Force, a small group of hams active in the event. We had a few attritions for one reason or another, so we've added thr

For the past few years, the ham14er.org web site has been hosted on Google sites. That is, the domain name ham14er.org just pointed to https://sites.google.com/site/ham14er/ I just completed moving th

A great mountaintop event in Arizona... BobW Sent from mobile device Begin forwarded message: From: peter scola <pscolawa7jtm@...> Date: August 25, 2020 at 18:56:25 CDT To: main@nasota.groups.io S

I normally have a Verizon phone with me, which usually is sufficient. I sometimes carry an AT&T phone too, sometimes it works better, sometimes not so much. Bob Witte, K0NR bob@...

Jon, Sorry about the activation challenges. I would expect you would have done better from FT-123 (Trail Ridge). I heard K0REW work you from near Hartsel, which is a long haul so your signal was getti

Ben, This can be pretty exciting (complex, confusing, intimidating) on the summit. You are hearing EVERYONE but they can't hear each other so they end up calling on top of one another. Bob Bob Witte,

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Congratulations to Joyce/K0JJW for completing 1000 activator points while activating Pikes Peak today. She is my totally awesome hiking partner and spouse. Early on, she always hiked with me on SOTA a

Heads up that Joyce/K0JJW will be activating Pikes Peak (W0C/FR-004) on Monday morning. This will push her over 1000 points to Mountain Goat status, using only VHF/UHF frequencies. Look for her on 146

Joyce/K0JJW and I made a long weekend of it with plenty of SOTA activity. Joyce is getting to within spitting distance of Mountain Goat (1000 activator points), so we tried to increase her total. On T

Thanks, Ron. I just figured out that you can enter multiple activations into the program, creating one csv file. When the csv file is uploaded to the SOTA database, it all gets sorted out correctly. 7