We were up on Mt. Washington here in New Hampshire this past weekend and we decided to use the SOTA activation as a test for our upgraded Simple Portable Satellite Station. It turned out that the station was also a great SOTA and Grid Square Activation station for terrestrial contacts…
Source: Satellite Station 4.0 Part 9 – Upgraded Simple Portable Station
The Nashua Area Radio Society did our Mt. Washington SOTA activation this past weekend. Jamey, AC1DC put together a great trip to the summit again this year. We used the SOTA as an opportunity to test our upgraded simple portable satellite station.
The station performed very well making some 75 contacts during our activation. We confirmed that the station worked well for FM satellite contacts and also verified the operation of the computer controls to enable us to make contacts through linear satellites.
We were surprised to find that the station also worked extremely well for 2m terrestrial contacts. We were able to work many mobile and base stations using 2m FM. We also worked quite a few stations using 2m SSB. The flexibility of the simple portable antenna system that is part of the updated station made this very easy to do.
The link above contains some information about how the upgraded station is put together and what we learned during our initial test.
We had near-perfect weather on the Summit for our SOTA activation. All in all, it was a great day!
Fred, AB1OC
Any chance the club will be showing this at Boxboro? It strikes me as a good thing to show “both ends of the spectrum”!
Hi Burns,
I think that the plan is to have this station at HamXposition. I am pretty sure we had it there last year as well.
Fred, AB1OC
FB on a unique operation from Mt Washington. You were very fortunate to have one of those rare days with nice WX. If it had been normal WX up there, you would have been N1FD/AM, hi.
If the club does a future trip, why not try FT8?
73 de TE