Monday, August 13, 2018

2018-08-11 Mogollon Rim

2018-08-11  Mogollon Rim, Summits on the air with the Ham Ninja.

Today was 10th and last SOTA in the White Mountains.  W7A/GR-001 - Mogollon Rim will be an easy one but more importantly, I wanted to take a trip down to Hannagan Meadow.

It’s been an active week.  I did at-least one SOTA attempt every day since I got here.  It’s been a lot of fun, I’ve seen some very beautiful country and netted 100 SOTA pts.

(Note: I spent most of my time shooting video for this trip so not many stills)
The drive down to Hannagan Meadow takes about 30 minutes.  I got up early, hoping to see some wild critters, but it was disappointing as I only saw a small group of female elk.

The ingress point is 2 to 4 miles past the Hannagan Meadow lodge.  I figured the road wouldn’t go that far up and I was right.  No worries, the hike was only 0.8 miles.  They’ve been getting a lot of rain so it was lush and green... and WET.  The fire did touch there in places and there were a lot of fallen trees.  I was able to hit the Alpine VHF repeater from this location, which is always nice to know.  That repeater by the way, is networked to other repeaters into New Mexico, down to Sierra Vista, Tucson, and Greens peak, on the other side of Springerville.  I don’t think there was any time that I was out of reach of one of those repeaters.  

The activation of Mogollon Rim was a huge success, with 28 contacts on 20 and 40 meters.  I tried 17 meter but no joy. .  I had quite the pileup for a while.  The propagation to the midwest was extremely good and I had a contacts on the east coast as well.  I was going to dial around a bit and see if I could get a DX contact but I had chores to do back at the cabin, make a run into the next town for a vacuum cleaner, and make a run to the trash transfer station.

After meditating I packed and started my egress.  When I arrived at the car, I noticed that my cell phone was gone.  It’s case holds my drivers license and a credit card.  After rummaging around the car for a while, I headed back up the road.   I remember using it while on the road, double checking that I was on the road I thought I should be on.  I found it about 1/4 mile from the car.  I’m sure it came out as I was stepping / climbing over fallen trees.  With the cell phone recovered, I went up the road a few miles and had breakfast at the Hannagan Meadow lodge and then headed home.

The activation was easy and a beautiful spot.  I deserve an easy activation after yesterday's killer hike and #FAIL at Gobbler Peak. 



Association:  USA - Arizona
Region:  Greenlee County
Lat / Long / Height:  33.5926°N   -109.3482°W   2878m / 9441ft
Locator:  DM53ho Show »
Points / Activations:  10 points,  activated 19 times
Latest Activation: 
 2018-07-26 by N7LP
IAF 33.59674, -109.34891

Contacts for today:


Time
Call
Band
Mode
Notes
15:03z
NE4TN
14MHz
SSB

15:04z
N4EX
14MHz
SSB

15:05z
N1GB
14MHz
SSB

15:05z
NS7P
14MHz
SSB

15:06z
W0MNA
14MHz
SSB

15:06z
NW7E
14MHz
SSB

15:07z
K6LR
14MHz
SSB

15:07z
W5BOS
14MHz
SSB

15:08z
K0EAP
14MHz
SSB

15:08z
WD9F
14MHz
SSB

15:09z
W2SE
14MHz
SSB

15:09z
N5ZC
14MHz
SSB

15:10z
WF4I
14MHz
SSB

15:11z
W0PHX
14MHz
SSB

15:11z
W9MRH
14MHz
SSB

15:12z
N8BB
14MHz
SSB

15:12z
AA1VX
14MHz
SSB

15:13z
KE8CYC
14MHz
SSB

15:14z
WA2USA
14MHz
SSB

15:15z
K0LBR
14MHz
SSB

15:16z
VA6FUN
14MHz
SSB

15:17z
K6HPX
7MHz
SSB

15:23z
WA6MM
7MHz
SSB

15:24z
NG6R
7MHz
SSB

15:25z
NJ7V
7MHz
SSB

15:26z
K6ARK
7MHz
SSB

15:27z
N5ZC
7MHz
SSB

16:09z
K4CAE
7MHz
SSB


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)
      SOTA Dog (her feet are sore so she didn’t go)
      iPhone with All Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat
      MFJ-939Y auto antenna tuner for 891
      Trekking poles
     Packtenna.
   Extra LiFePO Battery

73,
N1CLC
Christian Claborne


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