Last weekend, Julie (KN6AOC) and I hiked up to the Mt Pinos summit, W6/CC-002 at sunset and made some contacts on VHF FM 146.520. Although our phones were indicating 5G coverage on Verizon there, we had no data service and couldn’t spot ourselves. And also unfortunately, none of our contacts had any previous experience with SOTA’s and didn’t know how to spot us. But despite those limitations, we made 5 contacts before the sun passed below the horizon and before our walk down under the stars.
For the voice contacts, I brought my Yaesu FT-60 handheld, an Ed Fong DBJ-2…
