I’ve been going a little crazy this week
nursing my punctured leg wound and couldn’t wait to get back on the trail. (I write about the injury trip HERE).
I worked on my summer villa all day yesterday hanging from a
ladder. My leg felt fine so I thought I
would take advantage of my last day up here and do a little SOTA.
I headed out early this morning into Luna, New
Mexico for a “drive up” and then over to Springerville, Arizona for a short
hike to a summit there (1 mi round trip).
I got on the road about 0630 local and I stopped in Alpine for breakfast
at the Bear Wallow and then headed over to Luna, about 20 minutes away. FS 35 was about 5 or 10 miles past Luna and
it was an easy trip to the summit where there was an array of various RF
repeaters and other gear. The country
here is heavily wooded, lush and greeen, much like Alpine. Setup was fairly easy. It’s overcast with low clouds and about 57
degrees F. Just beautiful.
[click on image for larger]
[click on image for larger]
It was early summit so there weren’t any other
SOTA stations on the air. The contacts
came easy. There isn’t a name for this
peak (W5N/AP-024) but when looking at the USGS charts, it says “San Francisco
Electronic Site”. The peak is in the
“San Francisco Mountains”. It’s an odd
designation for a particular mountain but accurate description.
It didn’t take me long to get over here so I
thought I could hit one more easy summit over by Springerville, AZ, Coyote
Hills (W7A/AP-037). From where I park
it’s exactly a half mile to the summit, an easy hike. My wound is healing well,
and with a little Motrin, it feels fine.
The last time I was on Coyote Hills, it was in
the 80+ and a bit windy. Today it’s
about 70 and the clouds are moving in. I
had to abort this summit last week due to thunderstorms. It looks like I’ll have at-least 2 hours to
goof around before I’m chased off the mountain by thunderstorms this time I’m looking forward to doing a little
summit-to-summit chasing today.
Thunderstorms were moving in quickly from the
east. I talked to a ham in Tucson via a
VHF linked repeater located south of Alpine at noon and he mentioned that it
was raining hard in Tucson. Looking at
the storm and the fact that Tucson is getting hit, I’m guessing the monsoons
are finally here...
I wasn't able to chase today but I did have a
summit-to-summit from KB7CWV. All in all
it was a good day. Beautiful drive,
great weather, and my leg seems to be healing nicely.
Special thanks to Andrew KD5ZZK for suggesting I try the NM summits.
Special thanks to Andrew KD5ZZK for suggesting I try the NM summits.
Contacts
Own
Callsign
|
Date
|
Time
|
Summit
|
Band
|
Mode
|
Station
Worked
|
Notes
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:04
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KB9RPG
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:11
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KJ4ZMV
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:12
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
N4EX
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:15
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
AB4PP
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:16
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
K1LIZ
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:16
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KJ9X
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:16
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KI4TN
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
15:17
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
N7DMO
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
17:46
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
AB0RJ
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
17:58
|
W5N/AP-024
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KG7KA
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:06
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
W0MNA
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:15
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
N4EX
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:15
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
KD0MQO
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:16
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
W0ERI
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:16
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
AG6PF
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:17
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
K6QCB
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:17
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
K3TCU
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:18
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
NK6A
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:19
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
WC6J
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:19
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
N7CNH
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:21
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
WA5PSV
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:22
|
W7A/AP-037
|
14MHz
|
SSB
|
AB4PP
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:23
|
W7A/AP-037
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
KB7CWV
|
Summit to Summit
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:39
|
W7A/AP-037
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
WA6KYR
|
|
N1CLC
|
10/Aug/2019
|
18:39
|
W7A/AP-037
|
7MHz
|
SSB
|
K6LDQ
|
Loadout for the multiple summits:
NOTE: The links for these were broken, I've updated them on my equipment loadout page.
NOTE: The links for these were broken, I've updated them on my equipment loadout page.
● Gregory Zulu 40 backpack
● First aid kit. Make sure it’s a good one... like ability to
patch up an impalement wound. ● CHA MPAS with spike and
additional MIL mast (and version 2 of the top section)
●
30’ of coax feed line
● Yaesu FT-2DR HT
● Slim Jim dual band antenna
for my HT.
● 3 L of water (8
lb)
● iPhone with All
Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat
● LDG Z-100 plus auto antenna tuner for the FT
891
● Trekking poles
● Jetboil MicroMo cooking
system
●
Extra LiFePO Battery
● AnyTone AT-868UV DMR radio for testing.
● Custom wiine bottle cork paddles for CW
(crafted by K6ARK)
● American
Morse Porta Paddle for CW
●
Delorme Inreach satellite tracker and communicator.
73,
N1CLC
Christian Claborne
(aka Chris Claborne)
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