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Lookout Mountain - W6/CT-104

Lookout Mountain · USA - California (W6) · Transverse Ranges

5,590′ 6 points DM13rn 33.5532, -116.5741 Jul 19, 2026 QRV 15:30–16:15 UTC
Elevation profileW6/CT-104
TrailheadSummit 5,590′
Field notes

FRANCE! Huge DX making it to France was super exciting! Big shout-out to Jeremy NJ6Q and Gordon AA7TQ, my CW Academy instructors, for chasing me. It's awesome to have people who support you and will go out of their way to help you with your CW goals!

9 QSOs, and I also got my first CW Summit to Summit to Montana, which was also really great. I hope to get my 40 meter coil working as I would like to try to get some contacts on something other than 20 meters.

Getting there · Parking & access
Topo map & route

The parking lot is located across the street.

The route

The first 1.5 miles of this hike is very easy, but do not be fooled, the last half mile up to the summit is extremely tough! When you are on the last leg up to the summit, the trail comes and goes and reduces down to ~8 inches wide.

View route on GaiaGPS
Logbook · 9 QSOs
Signals from the summit Radio paths
9 of 9 contacts mapped Approximate locations · Geocoding © OpenStreetMap contributors
UTC Callsign Band Mode MHz Sent Rcvd Notes
15:32 NM5BG 20m CW 14.040 599 559
15:32 WW7D 20m CW 14.040 599 559
15:40 AA7TQ 20m CW 14.040 599 559
15:40 NJ6Q 20m CW 14.040 599 559
15:49 F4WBN 20m CW 14.040 533 533
15:57 N0DNF 20m CW 14.040 599 559
16:03 K6KMH 20m CW 14.040 599 559
16:05 KH7AL 20m CW 14.040 599 599 S2S · W7M/HB-101
16:07 WU7H 20m CW 14.040 599 599
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