Slate Peak
(Courtesy of K7MDL)
CN98pr
(Updated March 16, 2009)
General. This location is car drivable after July 4 most years to 7300 ft. The road to the lookout is gated, but it is a short hike to the station. This site was a Radar site at one time. Radio Mobile shows that it should provide good signals to nearly every major population center as far south as Portland.
3/16/09 update from K7CW. I researched getting
permission to operate from Slate Peak for a June VHF contest a few years ago.
The district ranger sounded amenable to letting us do it, but he referred me to
the radio tech who maintains the repeaters. The tech told me that tests would
have to be run to determine if there would interference problems. He said that
he doubted that permission would be granted. I took that as an indication to not
bother him further. Slate peak is a pretty good location, except for the
climb past the gate. But, if you can get them to give you a key, there is a lot
of room at the top - enough to set up several stations. The road to the summit
is the highest public road in the State of Washington.
Driving Instructions: West of Goat peak
lookout (7000ft) and NW of Mazama off Hwy 20.