Author name: n8wxz

Good morning! We had an eventful day yesterday getting to the island. We activated Loggerhead key yesterday, and we are now on Garden Key and activating. We have some weather rolling in so we may be hit or miss depending on what we get. Winds are picking up out of the north and the front […]

We are one week away from our 2025 Dry Tortugas Activation event! This year we will have about 17 activators and will be running at least 3 stations. Our 3 or 4 person advanced team will be going out on Wednesday to set up and start operating. The remaining team members will be coming out

I have created a new Photo gallery and posted several hundred photos of the fort, our camp site, and operating station. More to come but there is plenty here to see. -N8WXZ

Hello all! We had an exciting trip and are all on our way home. A huge thank you to each one who made the effort to call us! N4T is officially off air and we hope to return next year. We are in the process of uploading logs to the various programs and will do

Good morning, We are so sorry that updates have not been as regular as we wanted them to be. The normal operating area around at the north coal dock was not available due to some repairs happening and we were placed in a much smaller space where we were unable to get more than two

Due to poor sea conditions,we will not be going to loggerhead key. We were planning to canoe the 3 mi distance but the waves are 4 to 6 feet and it is very unsafe, so sorry if you were hoping to reach us there, Maybe next time.

Good morning everyone who is watching our blog. Sorry for the delay in updates. We arrived on the island Friday morning around 10:30 am. We proceeded to set up camp, and met with the rangers to coordinate our setup. We spent a couple hours figuring out antennas. Then we got set up and were on

As I type we are breaking camp in the Keys and getting ready to head out to catch the Yankee Freedom. Some last minute operating notes; -Please if you hear the operator using 2 calls please log both. We are offering a certificate for modes, bands and operators. We have 7 operators, 1 of which

Hello a bit late tonight! We spent the day repacking and readying everything for the ferry trip tomorrow to Fort Jefferson. The ferry allows each person a cooler and a tub, the tub needs to be less than 60#. Julious and Molly went to the dock to say hello to Captain Chet as he refueled