{"id":2796,"date":"2026-07-26T21:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:20:39","slug":"table-mountain-w6-ct-067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2026\/07\/26\/table-mountain-w6-ct-067\/","title":{"rendered":"Table Mountain (W6\/CT-067)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When planning my Mount Gleason activation I came across Mark\u2019s (KD7DTS) video on activating Table Mountain. Being a drive-up I thought I\u2019d add that as an option. Since I was back on the road around noon after my Mount Gleason\/Little Gleason adventure<\/a> I decided to go for it. I\u2019ll be honest, this is a boring drive. From L.A. you have to drive all the way around since you can\u2019t drive highway 2 to Wrightwood. I was lucky driving in from the west but still, make sure you have a good podcast (I recommend Ham Radio Workbench<\/a>!) or some music to listen to during your drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table Mountain is a ski resort in the winter (when you can get an extra 3 points). There is a huge parking lot and an open restaurant (with flushing restrooms). I parked my car there and walked the last few hundred yards to the top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is another rather flat top with tall trees for your antennas. You have a great view towards Palmdale and Mojave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started with my newly assembled TinyGawant antenna<\/a> from Ara (N6ARA) on 20m. I never got it much below 2:1 SWR and only bagged two CW contacts. I then switched to a cheap quarter-wave telescopic antenna and got a couple more, including Jordan (WC6J) on Ramsey Ridge (W6\/NC-327) some 400 miles north of me. Finally I switched to SSB and got DJ (WW7D) as my first voice contact ever on my QMX. Then it was time to pack up and head to Sonic in Palmdale for a well-deserved chili dog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When planning my Mount Gleason activation I came across Mark\u2019s (KD7DTS) video on activating Table Mountain. Being a drive-up I thought I\u2019d add that as an option. Since I was back on the road around noon after my Mount Gleason\/Little Gleason adventure I decided to go for it. I\u2019ll be honest, this is a boring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}