[SMCARA] 2015 US Islands QSO Party on August 29-30

Mon Jul 20 16:21:14 EDT 2015

Tom,
      Myself and Todd W3EME have been kicking St Clements Island around 
for the last couple weeks, along with a few other ideas we are 
interested in.  We have been talking to two gentlemen that have 
activated the Island for US Islands and for Lighthouse association.  
There are a few tied together with the island.  The island is a State 
Park, the Museum group, and I think the Blackistone friends group.  The 
gentlemen in the past had to get permission I believe through the museum 
staff.  They had to work out something with the museum for the ferry 
boat to make a much earlier run than normal to get them to the island 
for setup.  Normal ferry run, weather permitting starts at 10am, and 
last return trip leaves island at 3pm. An over night stay needs to go 
through the state park for the permit.  If the club is interested it 
would be a great 11am to 2pm operation.  My worry is that we may not 
have the time to submit and work out the details with the museum or 
State Park.

If this doesn't go for the US Islands QSO Party, I think there will be 
something for this lighthouse/island in the future!

N3YUG
Jason Rearick

On 07-20-2015 3:31 PM, Clarke, Tom   AIR4.0P NATOPS wrote:
> I wonder if activating St Clements Island would be a worthy club 
> effort?
> 
> Considerations:
> 1. Power source - Solar, batteries, a small, quiet genny like one of
> the Hondas .
> 2. Antenna - Buddiepole, mil vertical, EFZ to a nearby tree.
> 3. Getting there? Is there a ferry?
> 4. Rig - Depends pretty much on the power source. QRP or 100 Watts.
> 5. Stay on island? - I think the island is day only and night-over not
> permitted.
> 
> 73 Tom/W4OKW
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SMCARA [mailto:smcara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Metcalf - W3DMJ
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 2:47 PM
> To: smcara at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SMCARA] 2015 US Islands QSO Party on August 29-30
> 
> I received the following:
> 
> Hi to the St Mary's County ARA ( K3HKI ) and its Members:
> 
> This is to invite the St Mary's County ARA ( K3HKI )and its members to
> participate in the 2015 US Islands QSO Party on August 29-30
> (1200-0300 UTC). Nearly 3000 islands have been listed by the 21 year
> old US Islands Award Program and a little more than 2000 of these have
> been activated.
> There are many more islands in the USA and its territories that
> qualify for listing since an Island only need to be surrounded by
> water, at least 100 feet long and at least 50 feet from the main
> shoreline.
> 
> A mini-expedition to activate an island can be a fun club or
> individual Ham experience. This is especially true during USI’s Spring
> One-Day Getaway and the August QSO Party. Being on the receiving end
> of relaxed pile-ups along with QSOs with other island stations and an
> expanding band of island collectors can be a rewarding activity for
> K3HKI. Some QSO Party island expeditions will be to previously
> activated Islands while others will be activating listed but not yet
> activated islands or new islands they have had added to the list.
> 
> The first reported activators of an island have their callsign shown
> on the list of US Islands. Initial activations require at least 25
> QSOs and contacts with at least two DX entities (usually the US and
> one other), but subsequent activations can be as few or many QSOs as
> you want to make.
> 
> Participating non-island stations are an important part of the USI QSO
> Party, so if St Mary's County ARA will not be operating from an island
> please consider having K3HKI contact the island stations during the
> USI QSO Party.
> 
> Information about the US Islands, the QSO Party and a calendar to post
> your planned operations can be found at: http://www.usislands.org/ It
> would be appreciated if this information were mentioned at your club
> meetings and in your newsletters with the hope some members would want
> to participate as a club or individual effort.
> 73,
> Ralph, NM5RC
> US Islands Award Program Committee Member
> 
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