{"id":4714,"date":"2019-06-30T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2019-07-03T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:41:36","slug":"beach-island-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4714","title":{"rendered":"Beach Island Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*** UPDATE ***<\/p>\n<p>The activation was successful, but it was hard going as band conditions were awful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4727\" style=\"width: 951px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4727\" class=\"wp-image-4727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland.jpg 941w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BeachIsland-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Beach Island &#8211; John K1JSM in the background, Willy W1LY on Left, Jim KA1ZOU on right. Photo by Pete W1LAB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A good friend of Island Activations, who we lovingly call Lighthouse Jim (KA3UNQ &#8212; a club member too) calls the NCRC Island Activators &#8220;The Boys in the boat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, activation season is underway, and today, June 30th, will be the first for this summer season.\u00a0 They are on Beach island, USIslands RI-015, which has never been activated.\u00a0 <strong>They just got on the air, at 14.265 MHz, and will move to 7.265 a bit later on (plus\/minus QRM).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weather is always a challenge, and today is keeping with that trend.\u00a0 Severe thunderstorms are in the forecast, so they may have to get off the air quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all that support these efforts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-30-at-10.27.05-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4716\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-30-at-10.27.05-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-30-at-10.27.05-AM.png 417w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-30-at-10.27.05-AM-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** UPDATE *** The activation was successful, but it was hard going as band conditions were awful. A good friend of Island Activations, who we lovingly call Lighthouse Jim (KA3UNQ &#8212; a club member too) calls the NCRC Island Activators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4714\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","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=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}