2025 Salmon Run

Results

Jay, WA0WWW, and I operated as a multi-op, single radio expedition.  We spent Saturday in Columbia county, as planned.  The location was near Starbuck, WA, the town, not the coffee place.  Not the best operating location, but we did manage to collect 88 Qs from the party start to 0330 UTC.  15 m was he place to be.

Sunday we started in Garfield county at the Alpowa Summit rest area on US 12.  A much better location.  In the one hour we operated from there, we collected 32 Qs where again 15 m was the band to be on.  W7G caught us to complete his sweep, aka Full Stringer.

We motored to Asotin county in Clarkston and in an hour we got 40 Qs.  Nice views of the Snake River and a cruise ship coming into port.

We spent the final hour in Whitman county on a back road between Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID.  That location was good for 35 Qs.  No cruise ship, just harvested wheat fields.

Our most frequent customer was N7IR, Gary, in AZ.  He got us in all four of our counties on at least two bands in each county.  N7EPD, Eric, in Pierce county WA, and N3EG, Earl, in Cowlitz county WA, also got us in all of our counties.  A total of 128 operators found us during the party.

We ended with 195 Qs for a claimed score of 35,685.  Although 15 m was the band for out of state contacts, 40 m provided the greatest number of QSOs.  The band breakdown was

Band QSOs Pts Mults

3.5 4 12 2

7 186 318 30

14 34 182 6

21 51 153 23

Totals 195 585 61

The rig was an ICOM 706 MKIIG at 50 W to a Diamond screwdriver SD-330 antenna mounted on the trail hitch of Jay's Winnebago Travato.  We logged with N1MM+.

We thank everyone who contacted us and those who tried, too.