Saturday Evening We had a really warm day today,and noisy! The birds are coming back to nest and are right behind our operating position. The rangers moved some of their building supplies and a boat that are stored on the north coaling dock down closer to the seaplane beach before the biologists close the nesting […]

Friday evening update. The past couple days have been beautiful weather with lots of sun, a very good thing as the batteries were forgotten when the team and Captian loaded the boat this morning. We are keeping two stations on air until Saturday morning when hopefully another captian will bring the batteries. We have been

Wednesday evening update by W3NY. Tuesday we had beautiful weather and a very eventful trip to Boca Grande Key and the Marquesas Keys where we activated US Islands and POTA, putting US-0244 Key West NWR on the air. K2EAG and N3ARB got droppped off at Boca Grande and AK9IT, AK2G and W3NY went to the

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

Monday evening 11 pm finds me running FT8 for the last shift. as we have a long day tommorrow I’ll probly shutdown soon for some sLeep. The captian of the charter boat came ths evening and we loaded about half our remaining gear,the other half in the morning at first light. The captian enjoyed a

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