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Frankly, I owe myself an explanation to this simple question also. This project is WAY out of my league! A little background is probably valuable to understand first. I am very new to CW, only having started in May 2025. My goal then was to cram every single day for at least an hour with…
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What a great day for a hike, Happy Father’s Day! AJ, W6CMY, joined me for my first trip to Josephine Peak. The weather was gorgeous today about 75° in the valley. When we got to the trailhead at 7 AM, it was only 55° and a little foggy. It took us about two hours to…
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What a beautiful day for a hike!! I was in San Diego for an out and back business trip and my morning meeting wrapped a little early. I had my backpack with me just in case. This summit was a short drive from where it was and seemed like a light effort to squeeze in.…
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What a beautiful day for a hike! Mark K3MGM and Edward KO6DVZ joined me for this activation. The hike here is short, but steep. Trekking poles are highly suggested… so of course I forgot mine at home. Ha Speaking of forgetting things at home, I also left both Garmin devices on the charger so no…
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My buddy Edward KO6DVZ joined me for a Friday Morning activation at the Triunfo Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains. We’ve been here before, and recalled that the ‘hike’ was more of an uphill walk and light effort. The cloud cover was heavy this morning, with about 50 feet of visibility. If you were hiking…
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What a beautiful day for a hike! I spend a great deal of time talking about amateur radio in my day to day life. It is no surprise that I get many questions from non-hams about the hobby and how it works. Recently I decided to host a monthly “nerd hike” where I invite friends…
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It’s my birthday today and decided to blow off going in to work. My YL Debbie tagged along for a hike to Saddle Peak. 10 years ago we hiked this summit as newlyweds and I wanted to go back. The views did not disappoint! I ran some 2m SSB on the Quansheng, and then switched…
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Instead of taking a ton of pics for this activation, I made a YouTube video instead.
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What a beautiful day for a hike! My friend Chris W tagged along to see what Summits on the Air is all about! He, like many others in my personal life, are always full of questions when I bring up ham radio. It is always nice when friends take interest in some of my nerdy…
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Get it on WordPress.org → Interactive GPX Track Map Upload your GPX file and Activator Toolkit for SOTA renders a full interactive map with your track, a summit peak marker, and the precise SOTA activation zone boundary. Switch between Topographic, OpenStreetMap, and Minimal base layers. An elevation profile chart sits directly below the map —…