You are invited to participate in a Puget Sound SOTA Summit to Summit Party on Saturday August 8th at Noon PST (19:00 utc). All interested in SOTA are welcome, whether you're a SOTA Goat...or you are just starting on the SOTA journey. On July 12th, I was able to send an email to all W7W 2020 SOTA activators (with email in QRZ.com), and want to make sure others are aware.
May 18th was the Puget Sound S2S party. I had plans to take my son dirt biking in Walker Valley in the afternoon, so I needed a quick summit that was resonably close to Walker Valley ORV park. Mount Cavanagh fit the bill nicely, and was surprisingly pleasent!
Saturday May 16, at noon, ten operators on nine summits participated
in the Willamette Valley S2S party. The weather was pretty much typical
Oregon/Washington spring-like, with fog and rain reported at most
summits. All activity was on 2m FM with most folks running 5 watts.
We had some good DX:
NS7P <--> AE7RP 172km (106.9mi) {NS7P @ 5W)
K7ATN <--> KG7O 180km (111.8mi) {K7ATN @ 5W, KG7O @ 30W}
NS7P <--> KG7O 206km (128mi)