{"id":540,"date":"2025-08-11T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?p=540"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:29:20","slug":"w6-sc-368-denk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/w6-sc-368-denk\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/SC-368 Denk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2018-05-12 Denk Mtn.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I didn\u2019t have a lot of time for a big hike today given that I wanted to attend the ARES volunteer meeting and run some errands.  I decided to fit in a quick hike with the radio to Denk Mountain (W6\/SC-368 – Denk Mountain<\/strong><\/a>), just up the road near Encinitas.  It\u2019s an easy 3.8 mile hike with .6 of that being a screw up (left turn too early).  The trail is heavily used by mountain bikers but for hiking, it\u2019s a good family trail.  The summit is only 1,050 feet but it has a really nice view of the ocean.  Actually, it has a great 360 view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Setup was easy, I just strapped the vertical onto a wood bike stand.  Everyone I run into are always very interested in what I\u2019m doing and although I think it\u2019s geeky, they generally think it\u2019s cool.  Making contacts today was difficult on 20.  I tried to run at 30, but got nothing for a long while so I bumped it up to 90 watts and started getting results.  I talked to another ham and he said it seemed pretty dead today.  I\u2019m really looking forward to when the solar conditions are conducive to really long distance QSOs<\/a>.  When there is a lot of traffic on a frequency, a lot of hams will see it on their waterfall display and hone in on it.  Because of this, I was able to eak out a few more contacts for a total of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One interesting thing to note.  I can only activate a mountain once per year, but chasers can activate it more than once.  I was activating right at midnight so I\u2019m wondering if the guy I was talking to when it went from Saturday to Sunday (GMT) if he got two points :).  Certainly two log entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So once again, this geeky hobby has pulled me into an area that I would have never thought to venture into.  I didn\u2019t pack the GoPro today so the video below is from my new Iphone 8-Plus.  The stabilization on this camera is definitely better.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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W6\/SC-368 – Denk Mountain<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Association:  USARegion:  Southern Coastal RangesLat \/ Long \/ Height:  33.0874\u00b0N \u2003 -117.214\u00b0W \u2003 320m \/ 1050ftLocator:  DM13jc Show \u00bbPoints \/ Activations:  1 points,  activated 10 timesLatest Activation:  2017-09-30 by K7WYV<\/a>IAF33.08595, -117.222453.8 miles<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Contacts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date (UTC)<\/strong><\/td>Time UTC<\/strong><\/td>Call<\/strong><\/td>State<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-13<\/td>0:05<\/strong><\/td>NS7P<\/td>OR<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-13<\/td>0:04<\/strong><\/td>NW7E<\/strong><\/td>OR<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-13<\/td>0:02<\/strong><\/td>KI7PXR<\/td>ID<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-13<\/td>0:01<\/strong><\/td>AG7KO<\/strong><\/td>WA<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-13<\/td>0:00<\/strong><\/td>W8UIL<\/strong><\/td>AL<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12<\/td>23:59<\/strong><\/td>W9MRH<\/strong><\/td>IN<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12<\/td>23:58<\/strong><\/td>W2SE<\/td>NJ<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12<\/td>23:57<\/strong><\/td>K7MTD<\/strong><\/td>MT<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12<\/td>23:56<\/strong><\/td>K8TE<\/strong><\/td>NM<\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12<\/td>23:43<\/strong><\/td>N4EX<\/td>NC<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Loadout for today:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      Gregory Zulu 40 backpack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      CHA MPAS with spike and additional MIL mast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      Yaesu FT-891D HF Radio<\/a> at 100 watts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf   30\u2019 of coax feed line<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      Yaesu FT-2DR HT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      Slim Jim dual band antenna for my HT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      DDT Ops Anti-Venom field pack<\/a> with food<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      3 L of water (8 lb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      SOTA Dog<\/s> (she wanted to stay at home today)<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      iPhone with All Trails, MotionX GPS and sota goat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf<\/s>      <\/s>MFJ-939Y<\/s><\/a> auto antenna tuner for 891<\/s><\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf      Treking poles<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf<\/s>      <\/s>Jetboil MicroMo cooking system<\/s><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf     Sleeping bag and extra food for the extended trip.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

73,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N1CLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian Claborne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2018-05-12 Denk Mtn. I didn\u2019t have a lot of time for a big hike today given that I wanted to attend the ARES volunteer meeting and run some errands.  I decided to fit in a quick hike with the radio to Denk Mountain (W6\/SC-368 – Denk Mountain), just up the road near Encinitas.  It\u2019s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":542,"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-540","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\/540","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}