I wish I was in Colorado to chase her! Great summit to goat on. Have a great day! Curtis 6+

I’ll have 2m ssb on some summits in NM. I’m packing up now. Will leave today or tomorrow depending on how I feel. Quick question Bob. I have a 2.4G yagi. Would it be usable/more effective on my 1.2G r

Spot by logging into sotawatch.org (quick free registration) then click new spot. iPhone users usually use SOTAgoat app. Android use an app too but not sure what's popular. 73, Curtis kc5cw 6+

Hey Jeff. Double check if the road up Evans is open. It was closed a few weeks ago. 14.345,347,342.5 or 3k above or below stations using those freqs. Good travels! Curtis kc5cw.tumblr.com 6+

I see she has an alert for Wheeler Peak tomorrow same as me. I'm in Taos Ski Valley, does anyone know this activator (seems new to SOTA?). I'd like to coordinate if possible. 73, Curtis KC5CW with KE5

Jamie, I'll be camping in a hotel at Taos Ski Valley at 10,000' to acclimate then head up wheeler peak via Williams Lake trail around 4:30/5am to get up/down before the lightning with my son. If we bo

Bob, A couple of things, I bough a 2m portable Arrow2 yagi to point toward Colorado:) I'm looking at the long range forecast for Taos Ski valley and it got lots of rain in the forecast. It's my unders

My email address should show up in my posts. hays@... unless you are viewing via the website, yahoo obscures the emails so spammers can't harvest all of our addresses. if the above doesn

Ah, ok, perfect. I have a friend in Tahoe that will be vhf activating only (Technician) on 14er day. Might look him up, he's planning on hiking up into the Sierras and camping deep, then doing 3 unact

I plan on doing The Wagon Mound 6+3 on Friday as I head to Taos (W5N/EL-016) and Sierra de don Fernando 10pts, w5n/ss-024 on Saturday as a warmup to wheeler peak. I posted my alert for Wheeler on sota

20m generally only works local via ground wave or LOS. If you're trying to get 'locals' within a few hundred miles (a state away approx), 40m/phone or 30m/cw are usually your best bet. Curtis kc5cw

Hi Bob, I was up there last year the whole week prior and ended up doing Sandia Crest (NM) on Sunday. This year, I plan on just driving up to Taos on Friday night with my son KE5YUA, hopefully acclima

Just upload your logs for that activation to sotadata.org.uk and it will show first activated by on sotawatch.org after it pulls down the update. Curtis kc5cw

Great report Bob! I'll try that route next time I'm in town. Really great to meet you and Joyce the day before the event. 73, Curtis kc5cw 5

I tried 50.125 today. Heard a faint portable station but no contact. 73, Curtis KC5CW 5

You mean there are people that hike 14ers and aren't activating the summit for SOTA? :D Yea, I figured but thought I'd throw it out there since you did ask for a tie breaker and the alert list does qu

Andrew has posted his Alerts already... I'm trying to get my alerts together but my schedule isn't exactly complete yet. 73, Curtis kc5cw.tumblr.com

I see that... It does seem more special when you get an activation without a spot or alert from both an activator standpoint and a chaser. I, like Andrew, usually don't have time to just hope one of t

I'll be headed to Colorado Springs from Dallas on July 26 via mt Capulin volcano SOTA summit and possibly a Colorado peak. Then to Buena Vista and Salida for the week. On Aug 3 I plan to hike Wheeler

Just curious Matt, do you think all chasers should chase and find activators on their own or do you approve of the 1st fisherman finding the barrel then announcing to all the fishermen where the barre