06/14/2004 | W7GK Took our mountain top entry to Rocky Point (8275 ft) in the Pequop range this year. Rocky Point is located between Wendover and Wells, NV a bit north of Interstate 80 in grid DN21.

Operated 6m, 2m and 432 as a SO-LP. Set up our camp and began listening around 1100 PDST. First contacts were with Jim, N7WUZ and the Idaho Potato K0IP. Continued making contacts on 6, 2 and 432 within a 100 mile radius until late afternoon when 6 opened up to the south and central U.S. There was also a brief opening to San Diego and Baja, Mexico. Within several hours we logged the majority of our 101 contacts. The band closed around 2130 PDST so we decided to catch some ZZZZ's.

The wind blew at a steady 30-40 mph from late Saturday until Sunday afternoon but everything held up just great.

Sunday's opening was into southwestern Canada which gave us the chance to work about 20 of our northerly neighbors. Who said CW was dead. Around 1330 PDST SSB gave out and CW signals started popping up so we wrang out every last possible QSO before the the band died.

Our total was 99 QSO's so out of desperation to break 100 gave a shout on the EARC's NE Nv repeater system for anyone to push us over the magic number. Gerry, KG7TD responded with a QSO on 6 and 2 so our final tally was 101 QSO's and 6930 points.

Now to city folks that's nothing but in western states like ID, NV, UT, WY and MT where little towns are 60 miles apart, that's a bunch.

Hope to see you in September from a new location.

Dave, W7GK (Genghis Khan) and
Kathy, KD7ODB (Outrageous Dingy Blonde) -- W7GK