Harmony High Point SOTA activation (5th year) W7U/IR-019

 

Two days after getting back in the saddle I decided to go to a favorite of mine, Harmony High Point. It's a ways up, but I'm still not sure why no one else has activated it yet. I go every year in the Spring. I was a little later this year, but I didn't get out early this year. I'm glad I went though, the bands were good and plenty of people on the air.

In the area:

I parked at my usual place which is just inside Dixie National Forest on the western edge of the town of
New Harmony. The mountain road goes to the top basically and although it can be rough at times, it's just right for an ATV. Everything was very green and all the snow was gone on this last day of May. I've been in March when there was still snow on the road higher up.

I didn't take as many pictures this time as usual. A bit earlier and there would have been many more flowers, but it was still very nice all the way up. Once on top it got pretty windy. Enough so I moved to the sheltered side of the summit to setup and used the rock at the very top as a windbreak.

On the air:

You know it's going to be a good day when immediately your first contact is France, F4WBN. Later I also got SA4BLM in Sweden along with quite a few regulars on 20m. There was plenty of activity on 40m as well and I got four summit to summit contacts. While I was only on about half an hour I had 37 contacts total so I kept busy and had a lot of fun. 

It was already getting warm and I wanted to do a little scouting back down below so I didn't linger on the mountain. The trip down was about 20 minutes and I did some scouting, but it was already getting too hot to do as much as I would have liked. Hey, the next day the summer bonus in Arizona would start and this year is looking to be warmer than usual.

Date:31/05/2021 | Summit:W7U/IR-019 (Harmony Mountains HP) | Call Used:AC0PR | Points: 6 | Bonus: 0 

Time	Callsign	Band	Mode	Notes
14:48	F4WBN	14MHz	CW
14:49	K6LDQ	14MHz	CW
14:49	K6TUY	14MHz	CW
14:50	K6QCB	14MHz	CW
14:51	WB7BWZ	14MHz	CW
14:51	NG6R	14MHz	CW
14:52	W0MNA	14MHz	CW
14:52	WW7D	14MHz	CW
14:53	W0ERI	14MHz	CW
14:53	W5GDW	14MHz	CW
14:54	N1AW	14MHz	CW
14:55	SA4BLM	14MHz	CW
14:56	AC1Z	14MHz	CW
14:57	K3TCU	14MHz	CW
14:57	K6HPX	14MHz	CW
14:59	W5ESE	14MHz	CW
14:59	K0LAF	14MHz	CW
15:00	W6TDX	14MHz	CW
15:01	KF7WI	14MHz	CW
15:02	N4HNH	14MHz	CW
15:03	VA6FUN	14MHz	CW
15:11	WB6POT	7MHz	CW
15:12	N6PKT	7MHz	CW
15:13	N1CLC	7MHz	CW	S2S W7A/AW-025
15:15	K6YK	7MHz	CW
15:15	W7HO	7MHz	CW
15:16	N0DNF	7MHz	CW	S2S W7I/SI-015
15:17	W7RV	7MHz	CW
15:18	K7SO	7MHz	CW
15:19	W7TDX	7MHz	CW
15:19	K7MK	7MHz	CW
15:20	KB7HH	7MHz	CW
15:21	W9SSN	7MHz	CW	S2S W6/SC-453
15:22	W7USA	7MHz	CW
15:23	W1XT	7MHz	CW
15:23	KD7MRJ	7MHz	CW	S2S W7A/AW-040
15:25	NM5BG	7MHz	CW

Radio-related Equipment:

  YouKits HB-1B (qrp cw at 5 watts)

  Linked dipole, homebrewed (4 bands)

  25' RG-174 coax

  Pico Paddle

  2,200 mAh LiPo battery

  Fishing pole mast

  Arrl paper minilog

  Earbuds

  Kinivo mini external speaker
Other gear:

  Leypin selfie stick tripod (for recording video)

  Clipboard

  Android MotoZ (US topo map app, spotting, UTC time, recording)

  Misc. items (for repair, food, water, etc.)

Thanks for reading!

72,

Mike ACØPR