{"id":838,"date":"2025-08-14T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?p=838"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:04:53","slug":"w6-sd-442-5380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/w6-sd-442-5380\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/SD-442 5380"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summer Bonus: 3 Pts June 15 &#8211; September 15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>POTA: US-4463 San Bernadino National Forest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearby summits: W6\/CT-109 Jobs Peak, W6\/CT-086 Strawberry Peak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>External line: <a href=\"https:\/\/radioandrides.com\/2025\/01\/24\/san-bernadino-mountains\/#strawberry\">San Bernadino NF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, January 24, 2025.  Did this summit as part of a 3-summit day.  We parked in a lot adjacent to a camp.   The Activation Zone (AZ) is can be found along the length of the dirt trail to the south of the camp buildings.  While there we had a most amazing Summit-to-Summit (S2S) with Mark KD7DTS and Ara N6ARA on Verdugo Peak (not line-of-sight).  In order to reach us, they used a metal fence as a back-reflector and a HT antenna as a director.  Mark emailed me afterwards saying: &#8220;So\u2026 my final solution to get some diffracted energy&nbsp;to you over the top of those peaks was: <strong>A metal reflector, an 5\/8 whip as the driven element, and a handheld 1\/4 whip repurposed as a director to make a hobo\u2019s version of a 3el yago running 2.5W.&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250124_3374_5380_sm-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Using a Yagi to pick up Chasers on 2m\/FM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/googleMaps_5380.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/googleMaps_5380.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/googleMaps_5380-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/googleMaps_5380-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Satellite image from Google Maps showing entrance to parking lot.  Summit is within the camp facility, but AZ is along the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carol KE6SRN and Tom KE6SRO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 24, 2025. Did this summit as part of a 3-summit day. We parked in a lot adjacent to a camp. The Activation Zone (AZ) is can be found along the length of the dirt trail to the south of the camp buildings. While there we had a most amazing Summit-to-Summit (S2S) with Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2521,"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-838","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\/838","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}