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

Mon Jul 20 16:34:35 EDT 2015

I'm away from my desk.  
Does this island qualify for IOTA, or is it strictly a US island thing? 
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73 DE N1LID (Boz) Monday, 20 July 2015, 04:21PM -04:00 from  jbr13 at md.metrocast.net :

>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.
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>If this doesn't go for the US Islands QSO Party, I think there will be 
>something for this lighthouse/island in the future!
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>N3YUG
>Jason Rearick
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>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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