Saturday, March 30, 2019

2019-03-30 Sycuan to Slovenia


Today’s hike took me up to Sycuan Peak (W6/SC-203 - Sycuan Peak).  This is a short hike but steap at points.  I decided to sleep in this morning and headed out at about 10.  The weather was clear with visibility of a million miles.  It was just under 80 and a nice hike up.  The peak had a slight breeze and it was very enjoyable, I just wish I had brought my chair, I would have stayed up there longer.


There was a SSB world-wide contest going on today so the 20 meter band was packed.  I decided to just chase stations that were calling CQ.  I started first with my friends in San Diego on DMR and then jumped on the HF.  I tried to chase a couple of other guys doing SOTA SSB with no success but most of them are using CW.  It’s very common for SOTA activators to use nothing but CW (morse code on a continuous wave) because you can carry less than half the weight.  You don’t need nearly as much power to send morse code because the receiving station just needs to make out the dits and dahs.... So I’m trying to learn morse.

Band propagation was pretty good.  I had 22 contacts all over the US as well as Hawaii, Aruba and Canada.  My furthest contact was in Slovenia, ~6,190 miles from my position. 

It was fun collecting some decent DX contacts.  I stopped by my aunts house for a quick visit and then followed them over to my cousin’s place.

Thanks to Brian, KC2GNV for his help in testing DMR today.

Contacts


Date
Time
Summit
Band
Mode
Station
Worked
Notes
30/Mar/2019
19:07
W6/SC-203
433MHz
DV
K1CT

30/Mar/2019
19:27
W6/SC-203
433MHz
DV
KC2GNV

30/Mar/2019
19:27
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
AF8C

30/Mar/2019
19:33
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
WB2ZAB

30/Mar/2019
19:36
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
NH6P

30/Mar/2019
19:37
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
KZ1W

30/Mar/2019
19:39
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
KJ4QHL

30/Mar/2019
19:45
W6/SC-203
7MHz
SSB
KF7CYG

30/Mar/2019
19:53
W6/SC-203
7MHz
SSB
NR6O

30/Mar/2019
20:05
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
W8MJ

30/Mar/2019
20:06
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
K3WW

30/Mar/2019
20:07
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
VB7R
Canada
30/Mar/2019
20:08
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
K3WW

30/Mar/2019
20:17
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
S57DX
 Slovenia
30/Mar/2019
20:29
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
K5LRW

30/Mar/2019
20:36
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
NO6T

30/Mar/2019
20:41
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
K9CT

30/Mar/2019
20:45
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
AC7S

30/Mar/2019
20:50
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
NH6P

30/Mar/2019
20:51
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
WQ6X

30/Mar/2019
20:52
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
P40L
 Aruba
30/Mar/2019
20:57
W6/SC-203
14MHz
SSB
K8AO



Loadout for today:

      Yaesu FT-891D HF Radio at 100 watts
   30’ of coax feed line
      Yaesu FT-2DR HT
      3 L of water (8 lb)
      iPhone with All Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat
      MFJ-939Y auto antenna tuner for 891
      Trekking poles
     Packtenna.
   Extra LiFePO Battery
   AnyTone AT-868UV DMR radio for testing.
   Delorme Inreach satellite tracker and communicator.
   JetBoil for the hot tea :)

73,
N1CLC
Christian Claborne
(aka Chris Claborne)



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