My wife Julie (KN6AOC) and I did our first summits on the air activation over the weekend at Strawberry Peak W6/CT-086 in the Twin Peaks area between Lake Gregory and Lake Arrowhead. I logged 23 contacts and Julie got 17. I also made my first summit to summit contact with K1BAA who was working the Table Mountain W6/CT-067 summit near Wrightwood some 23 miles away. And for a bonus, I sent a WinLink message to Cerritos American Red Cross station KK6SMD-10, about 50 miles away. My longest contact of the day was 100 miles away with station KI6YLQ in Ridgecrest. …
Below is a map of locations I have personally checked out around Orange County which would be great spots for simplex communications. Try it sometime. Call CQ on 146.520!
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Belmont Park is located on the corner of Somerset Street and Via Escola in Orange, California. It is open from 5AM to 11PM. There are a few street parking spots.
This park could be used as a strategic point-to-point relay between this area and Coastal Peak Park in Newport Beach, California 15 miles due south.
This spot is also a good simplex relay station for other stations located in Orange, Tustin, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Irvine. Below is a map of the line of sight coverage from Belmont Park. The actual coverage …