The Oregon SOTA Association Reference Manual was recently updated. Some mountains moved, some summits were retired, and some new ones joined the SOTA program. K7ATN takes us through some of the changes, what those changes mean for Activators and Chasers, history of SOTA in Oregon, and a look under the hood with the SOTA program. 73 de Tim N7KOM
They have started using memes, what next! To be serious, this is cool, and hopefully, I can get into the SOTA party this year!
Very good Tim, learned a few things, I like the rules that were explained well . Weather is getting very nice here near Spokane, I will be going about soon and hope at some point to have the privilege to make a CW contact with you. 73' daw daw dit dit dit dit dit dit daw daw
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One part of what he said really struck home: "SOTA isn't fair." So true. It seems brutally hard to get points here in the PNW. A ten pointer here requires risking life and limb, then you watch videos of people on the East Coast galivanting up an eight or ten pointer like a Sunday stroll. Mt. Defiance, right across the river from me, is a two pointer and that is a brutal slog of a ten mile hike, 5000 foot gain, for TWO points! SOTA isn't fair, for sure!
I make a checklist that I use to make sure that everything is in my pack that needs to be before I leave my place. I have a separate chest pack for my radio. Being that I often spend a couple days on the summit, as I like to bushcraft as well, I make sure that nothing is forgotten for either my primitive camping experience or my radio work.
