SOTA: Signal Mountain, April 14

April 11th, 2012 by Jack

We picked these frequencies after looking over the operating plans for other events on the same day (such as the various state QSO parties, the QCWA QSO party, etc.) as well as international band allocations. We may try 40m early in the day before strong absorbtion sets in, but then we’ll move to the higher frequencies. We are likely to spend the lionshare of the activation on 17 and 20m. In the last couple hours, we may try 30m. We will not be operation above 50Mhz for this event. [Note: Another update - to accomodate the US band plan, we have tweaked the center frequencies from the original posting, the three affected voice frequencies are highlighted in red.]

If anyone hears use, we’d sure appreciate being spotted so other people can find us! I think we will have cellular connectivity from the site, so we will also post our band changes via twitter (@dhakajack, with the hash tag #signalmt). My twitter account feeds to this website (http://blog.templaro.com), so the tweets will be visible in the right column in the desktop view. We will not post via twitter or SMS to qrpspots since we will be working barefoot for most of the event.

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4 comments on this post.

  1. N2DET Bob:

    April 14th, 2012 at 8:25 am

    Hi,
    I’m an inexperienced operator but I will listen up on those frequencies and give it a shot.

    I’ll be at the Long Island QRP Club “meeting” in Sunken Meadow State Park today.

    Good luck.

    Bob
    N2DET

  2. Jack:

    April 14th, 2012 at 8:50 am

    Great. I grew up in Westchester and have some inlaws out near the park. We’ve made many a trip up route 25A.

    If I had a beam, I’d point it in your direction :-)

    Hope to hear you on the air later today!

    72,

    Jack

  3. David M0YDH:

    April 14th, 2012 at 10:58 am

    All the best Jack for this activation. I’ll listen for you on the higher frequencies. It’ll be a miracle but we might have a QSO. I imagine you’ll get plenty of Europeans at least on cw [at which I'm awful].
    Batteries and solar power are your only sources of energy for the radio. Many of us use Li-Po batteries from model aircraft on SOTA trips. The bags are heavy enough already! You can walk, cycle, ski or ride your horse to the summit. Having goats carry your luggage appears to be allowed too ;¬D
    73
    David M0YDH
    Wolverhampton
    UK

  4. Gene KC3RT:

    April 14th, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    Jack & Ian,
    It was a pleasure having CW/SSB QSOs with both of you. Signal Mountain is summit #141 for me. I hope you guys had a lot of fun.
    73
    Gene KC3RT
    Pittsburgh PA

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