On Thursday 27th October 2022, Andy N4LAG and Patrick WW4D, two US radio amateurs reached the summit of Mount Mingus and activated this summit on the amateur radio bands for the Summits on the Air (“SOTA”) group.
They made 61 contacts in total working on the 2 metre VHF and the 60, 40, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 metre HF amateur radio bands.
The summit of Mount Mingus is 1768 metres (5801 feet) asl. It has a rating of 10 points on the SOTA group database.