Individual Operating Stories

Ralph and Eric completed a successful activation of the little park in Fleetwood. This was the first time the park was activated.

For a detailed report see eric's rereport here: http://www.scenicart.ca/content/fleetwood-meadows-park

Ralph and Eric set out to activate this small park for its first time. Both were successful on reaching the needed 10 contacts on 20m. For a detailed story and more photos of the activity see link: http://www.scenicart.ca/content/coyote-springs-park

Ralph (VE7OM) and Eric (VA7NX) set out for the western shore of the Boundary Bay Wildlife Refuge to activate the park in the Parks on the Air Porgram. Ralph worked stations on CW across the continent with his 10 watts. Once Ralph was done Eric tried some SSB on 20m with his KX2 and 100 watt amp. He

With the Canadian National Parks on the Air (CNOPOTA) program coming to a close at the end of the year, three WRARC club members; Fred Orsetti, VE7IO; Hugh Jones, VE7YJ; and Ralph Webb, VE7OM assisted by park volunteer Marci Louie, VE7JT activated the Canadian National Park Fort Langley on November

Mt Cheam is a long hike but also fairly easy. It therefore attracts large numbers during the weekends of summer. This year John Bell and myself (Eric) took the challenge and hiked to the summit to operate our gear for a few contacts.

A full report can be found at: https://www.scenicart.ca/content

Keith Schlottman from Arizona joined me (Eric) for a hike up Mt Strachan. Keith operates high power in his SOTA adventure. He uses a KX2 with the 100 watt power amp. Though a bit heavy he finds it tolerable. After chasing a number of other SOTA activators, he finished his session with a contact in

My son Nick and I hiked Black Mountain in the Cypress  Park area. I previously set my longest 2m distance record here. This trip I set my record for number of contacts.

For a detailed report see: https://www.scenicart.ca/content/romp-black

John Bell and I hiked to Crown Mountain from Grouse and activated the summit for SOTA. It was a long challenging hike for me but I managed to get there and make a number of 2m contacts. John tried out his new end-fed 20m antenna with my KX2 but was only able to get a single contact with it. He made

The toughest part of this activation was the drive to the trail head. The road was very washed out and challenging. The trail was easy to follow and we made decent time to the summit. Once on the summit I was able to make a number of 2m contacts including with fellow club member Ken (VE7HI) who was

Jim (VE7ABH) and Eric (VA7NX) hiked to the summit of Sumas Peak and operated in the Summits on the Air program. They had a fun time hiking and operating. Jim was able to snag some interesting stations on 20m. The first was a aeronatical mobile station in a plane off the coast of Florida. Then to cap