{"id":4781,"date":"2019-08-18T09:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2019-08-18T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:13:11","slug":"lighthouse-and-island-activation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse and Island Activation Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*** UPDATE 16:00 UTC ***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still on Pomham Rocks &amp; Pomham Light, but have moved to 14.265 MHz<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4815\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4815\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4815\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pete-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using clandestine photo techniques, Evan captured this rare photo of Pete W1LAB on the air!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*** UPDATE 15:20 UTC ***<\/p>\n<p>The crew is on Pomham Rocks (RI-037), home of the Pomham Lighthouse USA-643.\u00a0 Work them on 7.265 MHz<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4805\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomHamOnAir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4805\" class=\"wp-image-4805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomHamOnAir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomHamOnAir.jpg 508w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomHamOnAir-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willy W1LY on mic with lighthouse in the background USA 643 (Pomham Light)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4804\" style=\"width: 913px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4804\" class=\"wp-image-4804 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"903\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL.jpg 903w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PHL-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John K1JSM, Willy W1LY, and Jim KZ1ZOU at Pomham Light<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4811\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4811\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4811\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image3-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image3-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image3-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rare sighting of Pete W1LAB (of course taking a photo kneeling in light blue shirt) &#8212; Thanks to Evan for photo!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*** UPDATE 14:55 UTC ***<\/p>\n<p>The crew is now on Pomham Rocks, the physical location of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse ARLHS USA-643.\u00a0 Pomham Rocks will be RI-037 when qualified.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4802\" style=\"width: 978px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4802\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location.jpg 968w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Looking-for-location-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan &amp; Willy looking for a location for the station on Pomham Rocks. Lighthouse looking fine!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*** UPDATE 14:11 UTC ***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ruth Island is officially RI-038S, congratulations for a successful activation!\u00a0 They are still on the air, 7.265 MHz and are activating Pomham Rocks Lighthouse ARLHS USA-643.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*** UPDATE 13:30 UTC ***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The guys are on Ruth Island (RI-038) and are on 7.265\u00a0 ARLHS USA-643.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4795\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4795\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4795\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/OnAIr.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the Air!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4787\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4787\" class=\"wp-image-4787 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_091526-1-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Setting up: Willy W1LY, John K1JSM, Mike AC1DW, Evan K1GEA<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4797\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4797\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4797\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TURMOIL-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RIB TURMOIL, and Antenna on Ruth Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photos by Pete W1LAB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boys in D&#8217;a Boat are underway&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First stop is Ruth Island: RI-038, which is just to the east of Pomham Rocks\/Lighthouse (RI-039 &amp; USA-643).<\/p>\n<p>Expect them on the air near 13:30 UTC on Ruth, near 14.260 and 7.260 MHz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomhamRocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4782\" src=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomhamRocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomhamRocks.jpg 626w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomhamRocks-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PomhamRocks-336x300.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** UPDATE 16:00 UTC *** Still on Pomham Rocks &amp; Pomham Light, but have moved to 14.265 MHz &nbsp; *** UPDATE 15:20 UTC *** The crew is on Pomham Rocks (RI-037), home of the Pomham Lighthouse USA-643.\u00a0 Work them on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4781\">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":[30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activation","category-iota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}