{"id":2770,"date":"2016-08-20T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2016-08-20T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T17:53:37","slug":"standby-for-gardner-island-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Island, Officially Activated as RI016S"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of 15:35:35 UTC, W1SYE,\u00a0was ON THE AIR from Gardner Island.currently on 7.238 MHz. \u00a0By 16:25 UTC Gardner was officially qualified (31 Qs and 4 DX stations). \u00a0As of 16:31 they had moved to 20 meters, 14.266 MHz. \u00a0The band wasn’t cooperating well, and the guys went QRT around 17:50 UTC.<\/p>\n

Today’s operators were\u00a0Jim, KA1ZOU, and Pete, W1LAB (Boat Master, and Photographer).<\/p>\n

\"Jim,<\/a>

Jim, KA1ZOU, at the operating position on Gardner Island, RI (Note Goblin in background)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"4BTV<\/a>

4BTV antenna located close to shoreline. Note copper strap leading into salt water.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the tide went out their ground connection was gradually exposed, which may help explain why signal levels were down a couple of S units on 40m 2 hours later.<\/p>\n

\"Gardner3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Things took a bit of time to setup, it was a long haul to the island, and the harbor master took exception to them being on a private island until they indicated they had permission from the owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of 15:35:35 UTC, W1SYE,\u00a0was ON THE AIR from Gardner Island.currently on 7.238 MHz. \u00a0By 16:25 UTC Gardner was officially qualified (31 Qs and 4 DX stations). \u00a0As of 16:31 they had moved to 20 meters, 14.266 MHz. \u00a0The band … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activation","category-us-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}