WW7LW Eastern WA Expedition Station - 2022 Salmon Run
Friday, Sept 16, Chuck AC7QN drove from Gig Harbor and Ricky KR7W drove from Ammon, ID and met at the Lyons Ferry KOA campground- the usual Home Base- located on the scenic Snake River just west of Starbuck, WA, just downstream from Little Goose Dam. I consider this outing a ‘reunion’ because last year I wasn’t available to participate as I was moving to Idaho. At the picnic table, around the Coleman stove whilst warming up our dinners- Goals were set: Have Fun, provide less traveled county QSOs for Salmon Run participants, not have conflicts with land owners over trespassing, and do our damndest to work all 39 WA counties – AKA The Holy Grail of WA Ham Radio Ops: The Clean Sweep. We made our first Expedition QTH, the furthest from the Home Base- The GAR field – ASO tin county line about 55 miles east on Highway 12 at a wide and deep pullout, next to the guardrail. At previous visits to this county line, I noticed that Inslee’s WADOT had placed the big green ‘Welcome to