Welcome to the first edition of the “W6 SOTA Dispatch”, a monthly digest of what’s new since our last Dispatch. (Since this is the first edition, we’ll just cover the new content and changes published this month to W6SOTA.org. )
This month, we’ve published three news articles on the W6 SOTA Website along with some other items at W6SOTA.org.
W6 Updates
Below are some of the news, updates, and other changes on the W6SOTA.org website.
Carol & Tom’s Mountain Goat Journey.
Carol & Tom created an article and presented it to a SoCal Club.Mark, KD7DTS becomes W6 Mountain Goat #48
Another crazy activation by one crazy dude results in Goat transformation.K6ARK’s Trans-Atlantic Shenanigans
Read how Adam hauled a Elecraft K3 100 watt radio and some specialized antennas to a summit for a series of successful trans-atlantic summit-to-summit contacts.We’ve updated “Getting Started With SOTA” under Resources.
This is an excellent place to point new SOTA activators and chasers to.The W6 Trip Reports have grown from 102 reports when we launched the site to 135. We think these can be especially helpful to visitors and others who are trying to knock out some W6 Summits. Login and create your trip report(s).
Need help creating yours? Just use the contact form under the about menu item.We’ve made some minor changes to the web site to improve usability. You can read more about that on the Release Notes page.
PS
Be a publisher:
Do you have a news article or announcement that you think would be appropriate for the W6SOTA.org website? We’d love to hear about it. Some examples are:
Your MtnGoat journey with photos
Your SOTA travel adventures
Recent hardware builds or other gear reviews
Upcoming SOTA challenges and other events.
Use the contact form HERE to let us know so that we can help you publish.
We are hoping to grow the knowledge about W6 summits for others to use when they travel here. Consider creating a “Trip Report”. You’ll need to have a login to add a trip report. If you don’t an account, register HERE. We strive to approve new account requests in under 24 hours.
Do you know a SOTA operator that isn’t subscribed to NorCalSOTA or SoCalSOTA mailing lists? Have them subscribe and join the conversation.