{"id":1653,"date":"2025-10-14T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:31:57","slug":"tim-k6tw-2x-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/10\/14\/tim-k6tw-2x-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim K6TW &#8211; 2X Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">On\nSunday, October 12, 2025, Tim Goodrich K6TW did a double activation from\nW6\/CT-010 Mount Islip and W6\/CT-005 Throop Peak.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He wrote: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:\n0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">It was a beautiful day to be out yesterday- around 60\ndegrees and sunny and the predicted 15-20mph winds didn&#8217;t materialize, so it\nwas a calm day. I don&#8217;t know if it was the excitement of the double goat\nactivation or perhaps getting a late start (11:30am!), but I set a quick pace.\nEnded up covering the 13 miles and 3,250 ft of gain in only 4 hours moving\ntime, or just over 5 hours including the activation time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Thanks all, I appreciate it and appreciate\nall the chasers as well!\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;\nmso-ligatures:none\">&nbsp; This put him at 2005 SOTA points, giving him the 2x\nMountain Goat status.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><style>@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face\n\t{font-family:DengXian;\n\tpanose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 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New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\ncolor:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">Cahuenga Peak.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He has operated on FM, SSB, and CW during and\nsince this first SOTA outing.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Just a few\nweeks later, on 08-Oct-2011, he became the first to activate W6\/CT-019, San\nGabriel Peak, which has now been activated 226 times!!!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>He has over 25 first activations to his\ncredit and became Mountain Goat for the first time on 24-Jun-2017.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\ncolor:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">This makes him the 5th to have earned this title from the W6 association.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">Tim\u2019s\ninterest in radio started with a set of walkie-talkies that had an orange Morse\nCode button with the printed code on the face of them in the mid-80s. By the\nearly 90\u2019s, he used paper route money to purchase a CB radio, using it while\nsitting in the family station wagon on summer afternoons in New York as a young\nteenager. Tim earned his amateur radio license in 1997 and a year later,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">he enlisted in the Air Force, choosing a job as communications, navigation, and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#212121;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none\">cryptological\n technician on the E-3 AWACS. 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