Thursday, May 19, 2016

SOTA Alert: W6/NC-151, Mount Vaca

19 May 2016, 1800 UTC (11:00 a.m. local time)
52.525 MHz, 146.520 MHz, 223.500 MHz, 446.000 MHz (all FM)

This should be a pretty straightforward activation. There is a decent road almost all the way up to the summit. Mt. Vaca is the high point of a major ridgeline on the eastern edge of the Coast Range, visible from a large swath of the Sacramento Valley.

This time around, I'm hoping to log at least one contact on 1.25 meters (223.500 MHz), as well as my first summit contact on 70 cm (446.000). More 6-meter contacts would be nice, too. 146.520 will be my fallback frequency in case the other bands don't pan out.

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