Category: Wake Island
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Don’t Always Trust the Band Report
2 Jan 2025 With it being New Year’s day for North and South America and a half-work day for me I set my alarm with aspirations to play radio first thing in the morning. I woke up with plans to get on 10m. A quick check of the band report showed “poor” conditions on all… Read more
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Happy New Year!
31 December 2024 In just over the past 24 hours (my Sunday night through Monday night) I logged 590 contacts, in about 6 hours of time on the air. That was an exciting adventure and definitely a mental exercise. Speaking of mental exercise, I noticed with all this practice copying more unique callsigns than I… Read more
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5,000 Mile SOTA for Breakfast
30 December 2024 am edition After getting to bed around 1 am here, I was up at 6:30 am to get some breakfast before heading back out to play more radio. This morning I set up on the north side of the island at a little spot affectionately known as Pirate’s Cove. Technically there isn’t… Read more
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10m Adventure Today
22 December 2024 Well, after calling on 28.320 for about twenty minutes and hearing no one I decided to tune around the band. Glad I did as I found N4BAA and after a quick QSO he graciously let me have the frequency. Away it went. Over 200 contacts this morning, putting my Wake Island QSO… Read more