{"id":8444,"date":"2024-09-17T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:06:24","slug":"some-thoughts-about-islands-on-the-air-from-k1jsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8444","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts about Islands on the Air from K1JSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islands on the Air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2012 and every year through 2020 a group of adventurous NCRC radio operators would pack up radio gear including antennas, grounding wires, batteries, chairs, tents, etc. and get into one or more boats and head to an island and get on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Over that 9-year span:\u00a0 11 members participated at one or more, and 60 islands were activated, most, if not all, for the first time.\u00a0 The leader of this effort was Pete Lawson in his rigid inflatable named Goblin.\u00a0 Peter could anchor his boat perfectly allowing us to easily disembark with all our gear.\u00a0 He was usually accompanied by his wife Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Over that 9-year span:\u00a0 NCRC activated 23 islands in both Florida and Rhode Island, activated 9 in Maine and 6 in Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Many activations started at the Lawson\u2019s home on the water with Pete\u2019s signature Eggs Benedict and Bloody Mary\u2019s.\u00a0 At Pete\u2019s urging, most activations ended with a \u201cProper Debrief\u201d, which always included adult beverages.<\/p>\n<p>Several of us, including Pete, had 50 or more activations.\u00a0 Not once were we not successful in activating an island.<\/p>\n<p>It was tremendous fun.\u00a0 It was amateur radio at its best.<\/p>\n<p>John Mills, September 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islands on the Air Starting in 2012 and every year through 2020 a group of adventurous NCRC radio operators would pack up radio gear including antennas, grounding wires, batteries, chairs, tents, etc. and get into one or more boats and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8444\">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-8444","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\/8444","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=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}