[SCCC] OT: SOTA 2m/70cm ssb/cw activity

[Ryan Huggins]

Thank you Drew.  We have a pretty active contingent of SOTA operators in Ventura and LA Counties.  If the club would like, I can send notifications of our planned activations.

One thing to note is that the people behind SOTA have made a requirement to send your SIX character grid square, as distance calculations are part of the equation for the contest/event.


-73
Ryan, KI6BTY


On Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 at 9:02 PM, Drew Arnett <arnett.drew at gmail.com> wrote:

> A bit off topic, but a number of folks here are interested in VU weak signal.
> 
> The SOTA program occasionally encourages some less frequent thing for
> a year. Once it was 17m operation for example. For 2026, it's
> 2m/70cm SSB/CW. If you have V/U weak signal capability, folks would
> appreciate the QSOs. There's already been quite a bit of activity so
> far this year in SoCal.
> 
> SOTA specific spots here: (can filter on W6 and on 2m for example)
> https://sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/
> 
> We posted some notes for the SOTA folks on the W6 SOTA page. So far,
> mostly hanging out around .200, but the Quansheng folks have a habit
> of using .100 for CW.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Drew
> n7da
> 
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