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Waterman For the most part this was a great activation. The hike was beautiful, the weather was cool… almost too cool with the fog and drizzle. It’s a 3.2mi hike in/up. There are some switchbacks and the trail […]
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Snap Crackle Pop I will say this. Getting to Granite Benchmark wasn’t horrible. Just take the dirt road that’s next to the “You’re Leaving Angeles Forest” sign. Following it up until you see a locked gate on your right. […]
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Burn Benchmark This morning I headaed out early to activate W6/ CT-136 Burn Benchmark. The first thing to note about this drive is it’s not for low profile vehicles. The forest road is pretty rough. Once you do […]
Mt. Pinos I decided to take the car and see how good it faired on the dirt roads. The first activation of the day was W6/CC-002(Mt Pinos) I got there just as the sun was coming up and […]
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San Fernando Benchmark Well like Mt. Jupiter I ended up having to go back to this summit to activate it again. The first time I forgot my Buddistick mast so that left me to working 145.520 FM. That […]
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San Fernando Benchmark I had been looking forward to this activation for quite some time. The thought of being able to over look the San Fernando Valley here in Southern California seemed awe inspiring to me. I made […]
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Jupiter Mountain Well if you read my last post you would know that I had already tried to activate Jupiter Mtn.(W6/CT-140). It was a failure on my part due to taking the wrong trail and running out of […]
My First Summits on the Air Activation! Grass Mountain! I finally did it! I hiked to a location of my choosing and activated Grass Mountain. It did it early in the morning so I could be the heat. Little […]
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Magnetic Loop Antenna So this week I got bored and decided to make an antenna. A magnetic loop to be exact; for shortwave listening. I ordered a 365pf air variable capacitor from eBay. The rest was made from […]
RTTY Well with some influence from a friend KR6E I discovered a new mode, well new to me that is. It’s RTTY. Using my IC-7000 I started using MMTTY which is a little intimidating at first but once […]