[SJDXA] N4T - Dry Tortugas Youth DXpedition December 14-17, 2018

[KI4KWR - Steve Molo]

Good Morning, before I forget..we donated towards this and OBARC got both
girls 1000 QSL cards earlier this year.

 

Faith Hannah (AE4FH), Hope (KM4IPF), and Dad (WX4TV) will be operating
amateur radio from the Dry Tortugas National Park from December 14-17, 2018.
This trip to the Dry Tortugas is a dry run to see if it is feasible to take
other young amateur radio operators to the island to give them the
experience of going on an amateur radio DXpedition.  If this trip is
successful, the plan is to form a 501-C3 non-profit to begin to take two or
three young hams each year to the Dry Tortugas or other islands to give them
this experience.

The Dry Tortugas are a desired entity in the amateur radio world, so the
team expects to make lots of contacts during the three days that they are on
the air from the island.  They will be operating on HF (shortwave) and also
the amateur radio satellites, in an attempt to contact as many other amateur
radio operators as possible.

To prepare for this trip, the girls and Dad camped in the Crane Point
Hammock in the Florida Keys and operated during the
<https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2018/riota.shtml> RSGB IOTA Contest in late
July, 2018.  The girls gained experience in primitive camping skills,
preparing food over open fires, and operating from a tent with battery and
solar power.

The National Park Service and the Yankee Freedom Ferry do not allow liquid
fuels or accelerants on the island, so we needed to find a way to boil water
using dry fuel.  We tried many different ways to boil water for food
preparation and every one of them failed-until we found the Kelly Kettle.
We will be using the
<https://www.kellykettleusa.com/ultimate-stainless-base-camp-kit> Ultimate
Stainless Base Camp Kit for food preparation.  Watch the YouTube channel for
a video that we will be producing about this very soon!

 

http://hamradio.world/activities/

 

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