I originally planned on riding my bike up to W6/CT-087, which is on the way to Mt. Gleason, but I was feeling good so I pushed through to the further summit. The road up is paved, as there was a Nike missile site up top, which became a Forest Service fire outpost, which, tragically burned down in the 2009 Station Fire. Since it is almost 10 miles to the top, cycling made quick work of what would be above my pedestrian threshold. Once at the top, I setup the station under a grove of pine trees in the shade. I made a few contacts on 2M as the HF antenna got setup. I self spotted on 20M, and made a few contacts. Moving over to 40M and self spotting again, I quickly found it was noisy. I could clearly hear chasers calling me, but there was no getting out on my end. I made a few contacts regardless, including, a S2S. I moved over to 2M CW to practice my code. Made one contact, then another station called, which was a busted QSO because my brain still freezes when receiving.

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Date:03/07/2020 | Summit:W6/CT-017 (Mount Gleason)

Time	Callsign	Band	Mode	Notes
20:26	KI6PMD	144MHz	FM	59 59
20:37	N1WAX	144MHz	SSB	59 59
20:45	N0RSR	14MHz	SSB	49 55
20:45	NQ7R	14MHz	SSB	55 59
20:46	W7FAS	14MHz	SSB	59 57
20:47	K0YO	14MHz	SSB	45 55
20:55	NG6R	14MHz	SSB	59 57
21:15	K2J	14MHz	SSB	59 59
21:21	WW7D	7MHz	SSB	22 45 S2S W7W/CW-085
21:23	N6DNM	7MHz	SSB	55 44
22:44	K6LDQ	144MHz	CW	599 599

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