Activate a County 2024

For the 2025 Activations form, click here

Salmon Run 2024 runs from 1600Z (9AM PDT) Saturday, September 21 – 2359Z (5PM PDT) Sunday, September 22 with a break overnight. See the rules for more details.

Activate a County 2024 is live! Whether you’re fixed, mobile, or on an expedition like Lewis and Clark, please enter your activation details here. Especially fixed stations, please enter your information early, as this helps rovers to plan their travels to provide everyone the opportunity for a clean sweep.  This year’s activation form is similar to last year’s where we’ve formatted the data a little differently to enable you to enter and update your form responses. Below is a map and list of all responses. If you need to change your response, look in your email for a message titled “2024 Salmon Run County Activation” and click the “edit response” button at the top of the email. The map below takes around 15 minutes to update after you’ve entered or edited your activation.

A final tool that we’ve created to assist county-line activators and portable is an interactive map of Washington Counties on top of a satellite base layer. Note that the county lines on this map aren’t ‘official’ – but for most cases they are pretty close. Please consult the MARAC rules prior to your final location choice for determining the official county line locations for purpose of the QSO Party and county hunting.

Manfred, AG7NR, will be activating 8 counties in Eastern Washington on CW. Look for spots and check out his QRZ page for a detailed schedule and more info.

To aid in activation planning, browse the interactive map below to see the claimed QSO counts summed up from each county from 2020-2023. Use the dropdown to update the map coloring by mode, and select individual or multiple counties by clicking on the map, clicking on the county name in the table, or CTRL-Clicking the county names in the table to focus on multiple counties.