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We are are tight community activators and chasers that is passionate about ham radio and the outdoors. Please feel free to use this forum to announce and recap activations, ask questions, coordinate` group outings and meetings, and discuss techniques and equipment. Let's share our experiences, communicate and coordinate our activities and have more fun! 73, Walt W0CP

Hi all, Just a friendly reminder that I need RSVPs for the SOTA Spring dinner coming up on April 27. The restaurant needs a count by April 23rd so I will send a few reminders along the way. Please RSVP to me directly (not the list). Either by using the private message function in groups.io, or directly to ki0kn (at) arrl.net So far, we have the following confirmed: KI0KN W0MNA W0ERI W1NV WB2FUV (+1) KF0RIG N0BAA (+1) K5HRD KT0AM N0MRK Thanks everyone! 73 James KI0KN

This posting is meant to "alert" all our W0C friends about our Big Day! Shane/N0QLR and I/KD8EQA are both at 997 activator points, and hope to join the herd this Thursday, April 3rd. We will be activating The Pulverizer, W0C/SP-092. Any activators who would like to join us, we will be at the trailhead/Wilkerson Pass parking lot at 7:30 AM. Any chasers who would like to to chase us can monitor N0QLR-7 on aprs.fi. Then, watch for our Spots. Our Alerts are for 16:15 UTC, and we will be working all the bands (Shane on CW, me on SSB) in an attempt to work all our friends near and far (2m too for any local S2S or folks in the South Park region). If anyone wants to join us for the Après Activation Party, meet us at Russ's Place in Divide, 2 hours after you see our QRT Spot on SOTAwatch... the first round's on me! Ray / KD8EQA

The Calif Groups io SOTA group posted this info about an activator slipping on snow/ice and falling. He needed to be rescued as he broke his leg. Here's the link (thanks to NH6AE): /g/SoCalSota/topic/111939153#msg4702 Be careful out there over the next several months going up high here!! 73, Brad WA6MM

I recently became aware that the signal variations due to multipath propagation on VHF are not known by everyone. The result was this article I wrote on the Ham Radio School website. It includes some tips on how to optimize your signal when using VHF in the mountains. See https://www.hamradioschool.com/post/vhf-multipath-more-than-one-signal-path 73 Bob -- Bob Witte K0NR bob@... My website: www.k0nr.com

I found a pair of prescription Ray Ban sunglasses in a black case about halfway up the final rocks to the summit of Little Scraggy. I left them up there on a rock so people should be able to see them. 73, Brad WA6MM

I forgot to ask... If you plan on coming to the dinner, would you mind shooting me a private email with the number of folks in your party? I need to get a semi-accurate count of people to give to the restaurant 48 hours before the event. You can use the private message function in groups.io, or send to ki0kn (at) arrl.net Thanks! James KI0KN

Folks, Sorry about the false start earlier, and thanks to all that submitted survey responses. We had an overwhelming preference for April 27th, and for South Denver. I know some folks can't make it, but like anything, it's impossible to pick a date that works perfect for everyone :( If you can't make the dinner, let's see you at the campout in Sept!! The event room is booked. Details here: W0C SOTA Spring Dinner Rock Bottom Brewery 9627 E. County Line Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112 6:00pm, Sunday April 27th We will have the big private room in back as we've had before. Everyone will be on separate checks and gratuity is already included. I've asked for vegetarian and vegan options. They will do their best to accommodate. Folks, our food and beverage minimum is higher this year (what hasn’t gone up?!). If we don’t meet it, I will have to personally cover the difference. Please come eat, tell stories, and enjoy. and bring a friend :) Looking forward to seeing everyone in a month! 72/73 James KI0KN

A new poll has been created: Please vote for 1 location and 1 date. If both locations work, choose your preferred location. If both dates work, choose both dates. Thanks! 1. April 27th 2. May 4th 3. Castle Rock 4. South Denver Click Here To Vote Do not reply to this message to vote in the poll. You can vote in polls only through the group's website.

Hi folks, Well, time has gotten away from me and I've had a chance to collect some feedback. Let's try this again and see if we can make things work for the largest group of folks. I originally announced we'd look at April 6th. This time ended up looking poor for quite a few people. So, I will be posting a groups.io poll right after this email goes out. The new choices are: Dates: April 27th May 4th Locations: South Denver Castle Rock Please wait for the poll and respond to it as soon as possible. Once I feel like we have the 'mass' in, we'll book the venue and announce the result here. Thanks, looking forward to some eyeball Q's! 73 James KI0KN

The Colorado 14er Event Task Force has been meeting recently has decided to make two changes to the event this year. 1. To emphasize the activation of any Colorado SOTA summit during the event, we are changing the name to the Colorado 14er & Mountaintop Event. Not a big change but it should tag the event more appropriately. 2. Previously, the primary two days of the event were the first Saturday/Sunday of August with two bonus days on Friday and Monday. The participation on Monday has been low, so we considered dropping that day. However, there is a lot of interest in being able to participate on weekdays (and not the busy weekend). And some people just can't get enough days of mountaintop operating! Ultimately, we decided to still have two bonus days but shifted them to Thursday and Friday. So the dates for the 2025 event are: Primary days: Sat August 2 and Sunday August 3 Bonus days: Thursday July 31 and Friday August 1 More event info are available here: http://ham14er.org Thanks to the task force for working through these issues: Ray KD8EQA, Steve WG?AT, Wayne AD?KE, Peter KD?YOB, Terry WB?RBA, Bob K?NR 73 Bob Bob Witte K0NR bob@... My website: www.k0nr.com

Copying this from another site. Help if you can. Viotletta, KN2P, is a Colorado youth ham. Check out here QRZ here: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/kn2p Forwarded: I am a part of an all-youth contest team heading down to PJ2T in Curacao in October 2025. Our team features some of the best young operators from around the world. We just launched our fundraising campaign, and I would really appreciate it if you all could share this as much as possible in your ham radio groups. Youth Contest Team fundraiser Thank you and have a great weekend! 73 and good DX Violetta KN2P

Hey Everyone Even though I bailed on coordinating last year's campout as we approached it, didn't attend myself, and am terrible at sending out emails to coordinate in general, I figured I'd post a quick note about a potential 2025 gathering. Thanks again to James - KI0KN for picking up my slack last year and to all others that assisted and/or attended! To get things started for 2025, I wanted to see what kind of interest there is regarding attendance, as well as thoughts on location. With that said, if you could maybe respond to THIS thread with your thoughts on the below, it would be appreciated. 1) Are you interested in attending? I'm thinking of keeping it around the same timeframe as last weekend, which if I recall, coincided with the Sept VHF contest, which is September 13-15, 2025. 2) Would you prefer to return to the same location (Reverands Ridge campsite - Golden Gate Canyon State Park)? https://www.cpwshop.com/camping/map-of-golden-gate-canyon-state-park/r/campgroundMap.page?parkID=50025&tab=sites. OR....go elsewhere? If you are interested in going elsewhere, throw out some ideas. 3) Matt- KF0RIG reached out to me this week and was kind enough to offer a suggestion for another location. It's the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eTtt5kjjU3tATtLaA https://www.rmmc.org/. Matt stated that he, based on his relationship, might be able to reserve all 5 sites at that location. BUT, if we are going to go with that option, we'd have to possibly let him know in the next month or so in order to get things reserved. So, please consider this along with your thoughts on other locations. Also, I am not committed in this role of master of ceremonies. So, if someone wishes to take over coordinating, I am MORE than happy to assist any way I can! ;) That's all for now. Enjoy the snow! - Mike, W1NV

I brought my old GoPro on the hike yesterday. I chased KX0R On this summit in 2022, but had not hiked it yet. SOTA on Little Scraggy Peak SOTA on Little Scraggy Peak Mark N0MTN

Good morning all, We've been tossing around the idea of a spring dinner again. It seems everyone has fun with those. Several people have expressed interest and discussion was started about when/where/what format. Bob and Joyce started this dinner several years ago and all the years we've had it seemed to be a smashing success. Bob has agreed to co-lead this year and with a few of us sharing the duties, it allows for any last minute things to come up personally without having to hand off the reins. Mark your calendars for April 6th. I am working with the restaurant we've been to a few times in the past, Rock Bottom Brewery off County Line road in South Denver and will pass along details when we have them. We realize that having a dinner on the Front Range makes it more difficult for folks that don't live nearby (although.... we often get our Kansas and Oklahoma contingent to make the trip which is fantastic!!). We'll make sure to organize a Fall Zoom session this year (in addition to the camp out) so that we can include all the SOTA enthusiasts in our association from wherever they live. Thank you K0NR, K0JJW, KF0RIG, and KD8EQA for the help, the latitude to keep this going, and the excitement to keep our association busy with events. Stay tuned for more details, but save the date! 73 James KI0KN

Awesome contact with Matt (KF0RIG) today from South Park (W0C/SP-100) to Montrose, CO on 40 meters SSB. I could not hear him on any other band, at all, just the hunters. A great real-life lesson for me today which will definitely affect my band choice and antenna selection on summits and renew my interest in hunting W0C summits when on 40 meters. That was fun! Probably old news to most here, but I thought I would share. Thanks Matt! 73, Mike N8XMD