W6 SOTA Association

Choose Your Summit

The W6 Association has 4,286 qualifying summits to choose from. Try using Sotl.as to plan your next summit.

Plan Your Attack

You can drive up, hike a trail, or free-solo to the summit (just be careful). Use a popular mapping application to plan your route using GaiaGPS, CalTopo, AllTrails, or others. Scan our list of summit reviews for help.

Activate A Summit

Get on a summit, spot yourself, and work other ham stations around the world.

Chase Others On A Summit

Contact activators from a summit, home or any other location. It's fantastic fun to work activators on mountaintops. Look at spots on Sota Watch or SOTLAS and try to work a station sitting on a peak trying to balance radio, key, logbook using a compromised antenna.

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discover

SOTA will take you places you would have never thought to go. You'll make new friends who enjoy radio, hiking, and the outdoors. Portable radio has never been so fun.

Be Pulled Into New Places And Adventures

2027 W6 SOTAFest

Block your calendars for the 2027 W6 SOTAFest to be held in the Tahoe National Forest, just north of Truckee, CA.

WHEN: September 17th - September 19th, 2027

WHERE: East Meadow Campground in the Tahoe National ForestJoin us for loads of SOTA and chasing fun during the weekend of 9/17/2027. This is a beautiful area packed with summits. We’ve documented many of them and Jeff, KC6X + others are working on more Trip Reports in the area to help you plan your attack.

Go to W6sota.org/tripreports and enter 2027 in the search to see the ones that are out there so far.

You should book your campsite 6 months in advance (i.e. Tuesday, March 16, 2027 if you plan on arriving on 9/16) starting at 7AM PST! We will be reminding you as we approach the reservation date.

For more information, see W6SOTA.org/2027sotafest

2026 2m Challenge

Join the fun

The 2026 SOTA 2m challenge is on. Hone your 2m skills and gear and join the fun while chasing or activating. Work as many SOTA ops on 2m via SSB or CW for max distance to slay the friendly competition. Read more about the 2m challenge via the link below.

W6 S2S Madness

We came up with this as a way to improve distance for 2m SSB contacts as part of the 2026 2m Challenge.

One of the big multipliers for the challenge is 2m ssb or CW distance. We've found that height really helps and what better way than to get on a summit and chase others on a summit or try to get them from home.

To get more info on the 2026 2m challenge go HERE.

SoCal Summer SOTAFest 2026

Looking for a fun campout and a bunch of SOTA, join other hams at the next SoCal Summer SotaFest at Cerro Noreste campground. August 7 - 9th, 2026.

SOTA campouts are a fun way for chasers and activators to get together and exchange info on gear, fun summits, equipment builds and just meet new friends.

There will be lots of activating on the surrounding summits, s2s contacts and some chasing from camp. For more info, go HERE.