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WW7LW Eastern WA Expedition Station - 2022 Salmon Run

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 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
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WW7LW Operates in 2017 Salmon Run

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In Past years Chuck AC7QN and Rich KR7W operating as WW7LW in the WA State QSO Party - aka Salmon Run - would venture over to the east side of the state as a ROVER (now called EXPEDITION) station visiting 3 or 4 counties- sometimes from a county line.  This practice stopped when KR7W sold his old VW EuroVan mobile ham shack.  For the 2016 Salmon Run AC7QN, KR7W and WT7N ventured to Ferry County's San Poil River area and set up a camp site Expedition Station.  That effort was fun but didn't provide the previous thrills of quickly setting up, operating for a time, tearing down, driving to a new county or county line, and repeating the process.  The stationary expedition station also didn't provide other SR participants  a chance to work some of the other hard to get counties.  We missed, "Thanks for going there, guys!" kind of appreciative comments. After many hours of studying Google Earth... our plan was hatched: Day 1, Friday, Sept 15:   From Tacoma... d
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