The Snows of Kilimanjaro ... Ham Style

摘要

I started making plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with my daughter early in 2017. Ham radio originally had not been part of the plan. I got my General license in 2016 but so far had just been sitting on it, not investing in equipment or learning more about ham radio. I really needed some kind of project to get me moving. One day a fellow ham told me about SOTA, Summits on the Air, after which I realized that taking ham equipment to the mountain, perhaps even making contacts from the summit, would be the perfect project to learn more about the HF operations now open to me as a General Class licensee.