2018-02-18 Redemption on W6/SC-338

I woke early this AM and decided to gain a little redemption summit to Black Mtn.  Yesterday, I drove 60+ miles to get to the starting point for Eagle Peak (W6/SC-156), hiked 2 miles, climbed the mountain, summited, setup the antenna and plugged in the radio.  Just one problem, no power cord in the pack.  Somehow, when I transferred everything from my mini-pack after having my primary modified, I left the power cord on the workbench.  Yes... I was bummed.  I tried the national calling frequency of 146.52 but no one was monitoring.  I could have scraped together some by asking guys on repeaters to join me but I decided I would just bail on that.  I actually reached the Catalina repeater no problem.   I’ll possibly do Eagle Peak tomorrow and possibly a double summit to Stonewall if the weather cooperates.  I would have done it today but today is wine tasting day.

Setup with zero wind toeay meant I could shave off 5 minutes and not guy the antenna.  Contacts came easy and there were quite a few locals up on 146.52.

All in all it was a clear day with a few low clouds and a view to the ocean. 

Contacts

Thanks to everyone that came back to me today.

K7HLN	20M	14.338
VA2MO	20M	14.338
VA6FUN	20M	14.338
K2JB	20M	14.338
NG6R	20M	14.338
K3TCU	20M	14.338
WF4I	20M	14.338
WA2USA	20M	14.338
WD4CFN	20M	14.338
N1EU	20M	14.338
W0MNA	20M	14.338
KG3W	20M	14.338
NN4NC	20M	14.338
W9MVH	20M	14.338
KF7JQV	20M	14.338
NE4TN	20M	14.338
KG5WGX	20M	14.338
KR6RG	2M	146.52
K5TZ	2M	146.52
KM6ORF	2M	146.52

Loadout for today:

●      CHA MPAS with spike and additional MIL mast

●      Yaesu FT-891D HF Radio at 100 watts

●      Yaesu FT-2DR HT

●      Slim Jim dual band antenna for my HT.

●      DDT Ops Anti-Venom field pack with food

●      3 L of water (8 lb)

●      SOTA Dog 

●      iPhone with All Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat

●      Hiking poles

REFERENCE

●      My Typical SOTA Loadout

●      For more info on SOTA, rules, etc, go to the homepage HERE.

●      Ham Terminology
●      SOTA Specific Links

73s,

-- Chris Claborne, N!CLC