[SCCC] January VHF - N7DA

[Ryan Huggins]

What radio were you using that you needed the transverters for?  One of the guys I know at the Barstow party made a 100 mile QSO on 2m SSB (with a 30w amp), from his HT.

Others on La Cumbre had no joy with 2m SSB, but that was around the R3 blackout time.


-73
Ryan, KI6BTY


On Monday, January 19th, 2026 at 11:48 AM, Drew Arnett <arnett.drew at gmail.com> wrote:

> A whopping 1344 points for SCCC. :-)
> 
> Focused on the 2026 SOTA challenge. Didn't even chase FM.
> 
> Saturday was on W6/SC-368 with 1200 HT, UKR transverters for 432 (2W)
> and 144 (13 W), and 222 HT. Whips for 222 and 1200. 4 el on 2m, 5 el
> on 432.
> 
> Out of the 40 QSOs from the summit, 15 were S2S (summit to summit).
> Lots of the usual SOTA chasers. And even non SOTA folks most all had
> 6 character grids ready.
> 
> Stations up by Barstow/Victorville participating in the SOTA campout
> were worked even though the path is straight over Gorgonio. I guess
> that chops 2 out of the 10 miles of troposphere for troposcatter, so
> that would be what, 1 dB loss vs prairie? Station with me with FT-817
> and a turnstile antenna (less gain than a dipole, lol) was able to
> work them easily as well. This wasn't really stretching the range of
> these low power 2m weak signal setups.
> 
> Sunday operated from a couple of parks on the two sides of my
> neighborhood mountain, mostly to chase SOTA ops.
> 
> A bit amusing trying to get a log into shape to turn in to the ARRL.
> Their categories are hard to fit to the way a lot of folks would play
> during the VHF test.
> 
> The SOTA 2/70 ssb/cw activity has been good the first 3 weekends of
> the year and will continue. Folks are really getting a kick out of
> it. It's nice to have the easy CW contacts when we can't hear
> anything on FM.
> 
> points tally: 84
> 144: DM03 DM04 DM12 DM13 DM14 DM15
> 1200: DM12 DM13
> 430: DM03 DM04 DM12 DM13 DM14
> 223: DM12
> roved 2 grids
> total mults: 16
> final score: 1344
> 
> Thanks to the SCCC folks who got on during the contest!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Drew
> n7da
> 
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