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K1N is in the Log!

Please indulge me while I walk on air for a bit.  I just finished a contact with K1N, the Navassa DXpedition.

Navassa Island is on the air for the first time in 22 years and won’t be back on the air for at least another ten.  I was determined to bag this one, even with my very modest station:

Kenwood TS-590S
100W
Attic dipole

I figured that 10M would be my best bet.  And today little ol’ me did it.

I want to thank my fellow members of the Central Arizona DX Association. Without their help and encouragement it would not have happened.

I’m gonna nab K1N

The K1N Navassa expedition is going one and I’m bound and determined to put them in my logbook.

I’m just a little 100W ‘wires in the attic’ station so some scheming is in order.

I’m figuring that 10M RTTY later in the week when all the big boys already have their contact will be my best shot.

I’ve used FLDigi for PSK31 but not for RTTY so today I configured it for RTTY and made my first RTTY contact with a ham in Oregon.

Coming Up For Air

Yikes!  My business was so busy during 4th Quarter 2014 that I think I turned the radios on maybe once or twice.  Time to get back in the groove!

I still haven’t figured out a good way to support my VHF/UHF antenna since the wind took down my tree last fall. The replacement tree looks like it has died.  I have a couple of very nice diamond verticals but I need to camouflage them so the HOA nazis don’t see them.

I’ve erected a 17M bazooka antenna under the eaves in the back for the purpose of working some South/Central American stations, and sadly I’ve not put it to use.

Time to get back on the air!

(I’m headed to the Central Arizona DX Association meeting tonight and I’m expecting that wlil provide additional motivation.)

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