Our next  SOTA hike of 2021 is Saturday, September 25th.  Bring a sweater or fleece and a rain jacket just in case it can get pretty breezy and cool in the mountains even if we manage to get bright sunny skies. I will be monitoring the Henniker 147.195 machine as well as 147.555 simplex on the ride up.

 

The plan for our  Mt. Kearsarge activation is to meet at the picnic grounds at 11:00 am. Navigate to  Rollins State park 1066 Kearsarge Mountain Road Warner, NH 03278 and take the auto road up to the picnic grounds  You can get a parking permit at their website here. It is highly recommended to get a permit as there is limited parking available.

Anyone that wants to hike up from the other side and meet us here is the physical address of Winslow State park 475 Kearsarge Mountain Rd, Wilmot, NH 03287. Check The nhstateparks.org website you may need a parking reservation on this side of the mountain as well.

You can choose to operate at the picnic grounds or from the actual summit which is only .5 miles away.

As far as radios an HT with an upgraded rubber duck can get you surprising performance from even a modest gain in altitude so if that’s all you have bring it and try it out.   I’ll have my  6-meter QRP rig and a homebrew Moxon antenna. I haven’t had good propagation to give this antenna much of a try so I’m hoping for decent propagation.

Please leave a comment on this story or the updates in the forums that will follow as we get closer to the hike date with an idea of what bands you plan to operate so that club members that are unable to come will be looking for us on the bands.

I hope to see you on September 25th on Kearsarge!

73′

Jim Lajoie K1BRM