{"id":929,"date":"2020-02-21T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/?p=929"},"modified":"2020-02-21T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:20:44","slug":"sota-with-ai6xg-on-wragg-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2020\/02\/sota-with-ai6xg-on-wragg-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTA with AI6XG on Wragg Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan AI6XG has been doing SOTA for a couple years, and we were in CWOps Level 2 class together in 2018. He graciously offered to go on a SOTA hike with me, and picked this great spot mapped out by Jeff AA6XA around the Lake Berryessa area. Enjoy watching my struggle as I get into this new facet of ham radio.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkUUWyhsI4k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan AI6XG has been doing SOTA for a couple years, and we were in CWOps Level 2 class together in 2018. He graciously offered to go on a SOTA hike with me, and picked this great spot mapped out by Jeff AA6XA around the Lake Berryessa area. Enjoy watching my struggle as I get into this new facet of ham radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,35,60,6],"tags":[62,25,29,20,23,19,39,61],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-cw","category-elmer","category-sota","category-ssb","tag-antenna","tag-contact","tag-cw","tag-elmer","tag-hf","tag-learning","tag-qso","tag-sota"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-eZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":915,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2019\/12\/first-sota\/","url_meta":{"origin":929,"position":0},"title":"First SOTA","author":"AD6DM","date":"December 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a very short hike, but steep. 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Some have a 1\/4\" jack, others have a 3.5mm jack. This is a note on how most of these are wired to a CW paddle. 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And for a CW QSO, no less! \u00a0 On March 7, 2018, during my lunch break I set up my mobile 40m hamstick in the office parking lot and surfed around the CW frequencies of 40m (i.e. 7.000 to 7.125 MHz). It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CW&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CW","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/category\/cw\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"AB6ET QSL Card","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ad6dm.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AB6ET-QSL-Card-Mar-18-2018-8-05-PM-1024x648.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ad6dm.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AB6ET-QSL-Card-Mar-18-2018-8-05-PM-1024x648.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ad6dm.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AB6ET-QSL-Card-Mar-18-2018-8-05-PM-1024x648.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ad6dm.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/AB6ET-QSL-Card-Mar-18-2018-8-05-PM-1024x648.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":684,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/12\/projects-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":929,"position":4},"title":"Projects 2018","author":"AD6DM","date":"December 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This past year was an eventful ham radio one. As I begin to look ahead to goals and daydreams of 2019, it's always good to not expect the past to be the norm, but to take a moment and appreciate all the stuff that's happened good and bad. 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After usual club announcement and business, we were treated to a presentation by Jim\u00a0WB6BET of the Lodi Amateur Radio Club (LARC): The History of Phonetics. 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