Selkirk QRP

This has been a long time coming. I've been planning on creating a relatively permanent station running JS8Call on 40 meters for many months now, but like many of my other projects it kept getting pushed off in lieu of higher priority projects. Now that I have a second desk in my office I was able to justify the horizontal real estate to dedicate to such a station.

After suspending up a 40M End Fed Halfwave antenna between my office window and an extendable fly fishing rod attached to my fence, I fired up the radio to check out the background noise. Right...

A list of peaks I'd like to climb before I expire along with personal notes on how I plan to tackle them.

Mt Crocker:
Currently no one has activated this remote 10+3 point peak in the Eastern Sierras. I'd like to be the first (if possible), as the summit and I technically family. My father and I hiked to the base of the summit in the summer of 2023 with the intention of reaching the peak, but at the snowline we realized how woefully unprepared we were to to traverse the ice sheets and decided it would be best to just enjoy the alpine lakes instead. Next time I'll make sure to take an ice axe a...

After getting my feet wet activating Horn Mountain as a drive up peak, I decided it was time to shake off the rust and go on an actual hike. This particular SOTA activation required a bit of map cross-referencing as the route to the top wasn't immediately available on the Sotl.as map. After checking Google Maps I was able to confirm that the trailhead did indeed exist but the satellite image of the trail itself couldn't be followed to the summit. My usual map of choice OpenSteetMap had no trail available either. This prompted me to start scouring the web for other map websites, ultimately dis...

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