[600MRG] RI activation April 19-21

[Eric NO3M]

I'll be leaving tomorrow evening (Fri) between 11PM and midnight. After 
a few stops along the way and visiting with some local RI hams at an 
open house event Saturday morning (World AR Day), I hope to be at the 
state park at 1PM sharp (earliest check-in).  I'll proceed to get things 
set up immediately and hopefully won't run into any issues.  I am taking 
an extra amplifier just in case, but also have provisions to do some 
field repairs if necessary.

Over this past week, I built a 7ft diamond, multi-turn RX loop.  It 
seemed to play well with the limited testing I was able to do and I hope 
it may be useful should the QRN (or local QRM) levels be excessive.

I expect to be fully QRV around sunset Saturday (19th) evening and 
operate through sunrise, and then back on at sunset Sunday evening and 
operate through sunrise Monday (21) morning:

RI Sunrise: 1000Z
RI Sunset: 2330Z

I will upload logs to LoTW (preferred QSL method) each morning as long 
as there are no issues.  I also have some W1R cards printed -- QSL w/ 
SASE via NO3M.  While the majority of operating will be via FST4-60, I 
may operate some CW if conditions allow.

I will also be monitoring the Slack "khz-chat" discussion room.

Looking forward to working all of you from this new activation!!

73 Eric NO3M

On 3/25/25 11:31 PM, Eric NO3M wrote:
> Hi all... barring no unforeseen complications, I'll be activating RI 
> on 630m over Easter weekend, April 19-21 (two evenings).  RI is the 
> only state that currently has had no QSO capable activity on 630m. 
> I've secured the callsign W1R and will be setup at a nice open site in 
> the Burlingame state park.  Intent to operate based on that location 
> was submitted to the UTC (Utilities Technology Council) over 30 days 
> ago with no reply, so good to go!
>
> The equipment will be a Multus Geminus SDR, a homebrew 300W class-D 
> amplifier deck, and a 35ft toploaded vertical.  I've been testing the 
> SDR and amplifier combo over the last three weeks, all solid. The 
> antenna was just finished a couple of days ago for testing and I am 
> still adding radials to get losses further reduced and should be able 
> to get the full 5W EIRP w/ 300W TPO.
>