Monday evening 11 pm finds me running FT8 for the last shift. as we have a long day tomorrow I’ll probably shut down soon for some sleep. The captain of the charter boat came this evening and we loaded about half our remaining gear,the other half in the morning at first light. The captain enjoyed […]

We woke up this morning to blue skies, light winds, and wonderful tempatures. There is a front coming this evening that will bring some stormy weather for Monday, but we are going to enjoy the beautiful weather today… the only really good day we’ve had this entire trip. Some of us are going to try

Friday morning finds me (W3NY) starting the first shift of the day at midnight. AK9IT was running SO2R with FT8 and CW when I arrived. I took over the FT8 station and switched the other to 40M SSB and began by hunting DX while running 30M FT8. I’ll run till 5 when a relief op

Well… we have some weather rolling in. A front is moving through and its been cloudy, cool, and windy all day. Waves are 3 to 5 feet and getting worse as the day goes on. We were told that by tomorrow they could be as high as 8 ft. We were also told that its

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.