Lewis And Clark Trail On The Air Event starts May 31

The 4th installment of this exciting operating event starts this weekend. Follow the historic Lewis and Clark Trail, 4900 miles through 16 States and earn gorgeous certificates as you work club stations along your route.

Start Date: May 31, 2025, 00:00 UTC
End Date: June 15, 2025 23:59 UTC

New this year: We have created two Bonus Stations (W0L and K7C) to help you achieve the grand Expedition Partner certificate.

Please find all details, bands, modes and mostly activation schedules on our website LCTOTA.org.

Bernd Peters - KB7AK for Clark County Amateur Radio Club (WA)

 

Cool! That came around fast. Can't wait to hunt...

 

The names on the portraits on the certificate are wrong.

Tim

 

This is a great historic American event to commemorate.
I'm an activator from Pennsylvania and the pileup on 20 meters was simply unbelievable!
As soon as this solar storm diminishes, I'll be back on with WW3AAA.
73 - Rich

 

For Morse operators and those not wanting to deal with pileups, Pennsylvania's WW3AAA will be available on the higher bands during daytime and 40 Meters at night albeit on a limited schedule. QRS and QRQ calls are both welcome.

 

Second year I've participated. Discovered the event last year, while hunting POTA. Managed all 16 states both times. Thank you to the clubs for working Digital and CW during the solar storm.

 

Maybe it will become a rare collectible! #InvertedJenny

 

Thanks for participating. You were my 2nd QSO this year. We worked FT4 on the 1st night. I'm activating W9WWI in Clark County Indiana. 73s NJ9U, Phil

 

Just thinkin out loud here, But it does have a "SAMPLE" stamp on it, probly why they switched the names. JMHO.
Looking forward to making as many contacts as the conditions will allow. Just have fun with it.
7 3 de Larry N4GST

 

We're halfway thru the event now, and we have the usual mix of good and bad (and bloody awful, in a few cases) special event station operators. To all "activators", PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, have some "situational awareness" and manage the pile-ups accordingly. The hunters want to work you as quickly as possible, they DO NOT want to sit thru endless blah, blah, blah, while you have a rag-chew with each station that you work. Pick a callsign out of the pile, repeat it phonetically and give a signal report and your state, confirm that they copied your report, AND END THAT QSO! You don't need to call CQ again, or "QRZed, QRZed, this is <callsign> calling for the Lewis and Clark Trail on the air special event from <state> along the Lewis and Clark trail, blah, blah, blah". The pile-up knows who you are and they know about the special event already, you're wasting their time and yours by constantly repeating the same info over and over again. After you finish a contact, simply state your callsign PHONETICALLY and then listen for the calling stations. Pick out a callsign, exchange state and signal report, then give your call phonetically and listen for another caller. When you have a pile-up, you should be making 2 or 3 contacts PER MINUTE, you should not be spending a minute or more on each contact, nor should it be necessary to call CQ (or QRZed, QRZed) after each contact. There are thousands of stations that want to contact you, and you have a limited amount of time to make those contacts, don't waste that time with a lot of pointless babble. If you don't use your on the air time efficiently, you are going to disappoint a LOT of people who are relying on you to be a good operator.

 

Thank you for this event it has been fun so far but very difficult. Some of the stations I have not seen posted on QRZ or DX Summit. The pile-ups are to be expected and I am always happy to talk on the air; but isn't this a contest - or am I Mistaken?When the pile-ups get out of hand why chit chat with the callers? Sometimes it is a good idea to take call signs by district rather than all from District 6 or District 4 . Some callers do not get through because the alligators are blowing out the bands while the rabbits can not be heard.

 

So far, so good from here. If everyone confirms, I'm down to West Virginia. Thanks for the event.

 

Why is West Virginia not on the air more? On the website, "Find an Activator", the times, dates and frequencies are not correct.

 

I sure wish Missouri would get on 20 or 40 meter SSB. Ihave only seen the listed on FT8.
I have ALL the rest, and mostly both stations for the state.
Thanks