{"id":3514,"date":"2017-09-08T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2017-09-09T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T17:13:32","slug":"little-gould-island-activation-saturday-1030-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"Little Gould Island Activation Saturday ~11:15 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*** UPDATE 1:15 PM *** The activation has completed and they are now QRT. \u00a0Not a lot of activity on 40-meters, but 20 was a great success. \u00a0Thanks to all that helped to activate the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*** UPDATE 12:45 PM *** The activation was made official on 20-meters, so it is now RI-031S. \u00a0The crew has moved to 40-meters on 7.270 MHz.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*** UPDATE 11:25 AM *** The crew is on the air now (RF issue resolved) they are making contacts. \u00a0They are on 14.270 at the moment to avoid the hurricane net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The W1SYE Island Activation Team will be activating a new island on the air, Little Gould Island, which is located in the Sakonnet River near Tiverton RI. \u00a0The island designation is RI031, with the letter &#8220;S&#8221; added once the activation is official.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rare treat as the island is not open to the public (it&#8217;s a bird nesting sanctuary), but a member of the crew is a trained biologist and therefore we have permission to land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-08-at-7.01.23-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3515\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-08-at-7.01.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-08-at-7.01.23-PM.png 613w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-08-at-7.01.23-PM-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-08-at-7.01.23-PM-500x157.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gang should be on the air around 11:15 AM beginning with 20 meters near 14.260 +\/- QRM. \u00a0After lunch, if possible, there may be a shift to 40 meters around 7.230 MHz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** UPDATE 1:15 PM *** The activation has completed and they are now QRT. \u00a0Not a lot of activity on 40-meters, but 20 was a great success. \u00a0Thanks to all that helped to activate the island. *** UPDATE 12:45 PM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3514","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\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}