{"id":1636,"date":"2025-10-13T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:46:47","slug":"w6-cc-045-mount-diablo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/10\/13\/w6-cc-045-mount-diablo\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/CC-045 Mount Diablo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mount Diablo, overlooking high above San RamonI drove\u00a0 is the name sake of the same amateur radio club that organizes Pacificon.\u00a0 The largest ham convention on the West Coast.\u00a0 I drove up to this summit with Ted, W6TED after Pacificon and can say, the drive was worth the view.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>The road is paved all the way to the top.\u00a0 The road is VERY curvey, narrow and has a lot of bikes.\u00a0 So if you are pulling a trailer, you should leave it at the bottom.\u00a0 (Watch out for bikes zipping down the hill as well.\u00a0 Because the summit is\u00a0 in a State Park, it also counts as a POTA.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>We still had a long drive back to San Diego in front of us so we didn&#8217;t have time for more than 10 VHF contacts.\u00a0 This was made difficult by all the RF up there (I should have mounted my filter).<br><br>All in all &#8211; I highly recommend this summit just for the views and cool history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}