The tallest trees in the world are redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), which tower above the ground in California. These trees can easily reach heights of 300 feet (91 meters). Among the redwoods, a tree named Hyperion dwarfs them all. The tree was discovered in 2006, and is 379.7 feet (115.7 m) tall. Despite the devastating forest fires this year in California, many of these majestic trees remain. Haven't we all wondered what it would be like to install an 80m or 160m wire at the top of a 300 ft. redwood? We honor the Sequoia National Forest this weekend in the California QSO Party on October 3-4. 21 1x1 special event callsigns will be active: K6, N6 and W6 SEQUOIA. http://www.cqp.org/sequoia.html Earn a special QSL card. See picture attached for the design concept of our QSL card. Achieve a commemorative certificate by spelling out SEQUOIA and making 100 QSOs in the California QSO Party. Win a National Park calendar. See your callsign in a Top 10 list of the most 1x1 SEQUOIA QSOs on as many different bands and modes. ***************************************** The 2020 California QSO Party will be held on: 1600Z October 3 - 2200Z October 4, 2020 9:00am PDT Saturday - 3:00pm PDT Sunday CW and SSB QSO exchange from outside of CA: " <QSO serial number> state/province/DX " QSO exchange from inside California: "<QSO serial number> <4 letter County Abbreviation> " http://cqp.org ***************************************** 73... -Dean - N6DE
This is the kind of NEWS that I like to see on the homepage of the Zed. If it wasn't featured here, I probably wouldn't have been aware of it.
yes, I have wondered, about many things visiting Sequoia park... bigger than a puny human creation, a Saturn V, too big to take in ... Hyperion is "only" 600 or 700 or 800 years old. The QSL draft says "NCCC 50 year anniversary". Congrats, youngsters! OK now I'm tuning around hoping to find a special event station.
I was lucky enough to visit that park during my last visit. . Hopefully will make it again. congratulations on NCCC 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY and all the best. 73
It's a fun event. Great. There is no such wonderful redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in Japan 73 JF1IRQ
Spelled SEQUOIA several times, but didn't reach 100 contacts to qualify for the certificate: Only got 89 contacts total.
There are two major areas for Sequoias. One is the coastal range, where the tree in question lives. Runs from the Santa Cruz area up to the north coast. Redwood National Park contains the tallest ones. Biologists actually climb them. What is more amazing is the forest floor below. It is DEAD silent. All the birds are up so high, they cannot be heard. The forest is amazing. The other area is the Giant Forest, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, as well as Yosemite and surrounding National Forests. These trees do not grow as tall as the coastals, but are HUGE. One point is that these forests depend on FIRE. Fire kills the competiton for water, and allows seedlings to open. Fire is an important part of the California ecology. Tough when it hurt OUR ecology, unfortunently. Sometime in your life, visit the coastal forests and Sequoia/Kings Canyon forests. One of my top 10 places in the world. Last trip to go fly fishing on the Kings River, the park guests were nearly ALL Asian and European. Why don't American visit their own parks?
