{"id":791011,"date":"2024-11-08T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791011"},"modified":"2024-11-08T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:27:04","slug":"rare-california-island-to-be-activated-for-armed-forces-day-first-time-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791011","title":{"rendered":"Rare California Island to be Activated for Armed Forces Day, First Time in 53 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"date\">11\/08\/2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Armed Forces Day, May 1971, 53 years ago, two amateur operators working as WZ6SNI, activated San Nicolas Island, IOTA NA-066. At 61 miles, San Nicolas is the most remote of the\u00a0Channel Islands off the coast of\u00a0Southern California and is owned by the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, weather permitting, Will Costello, WC6DX, has been authorized to be active from San Nicolas Island November 8 &#8211; 12, 2024. He is taking a Buddihex antenna for 6 &#8211; 20 meters and a 100 watt rig.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For island chasers in southern California, Arizona, and southern Nevada who may not be able to hear because of skip, he will also take a Buddipole antenna for 40 &#8211; 30 meters daytime use. Operations will be primarily SSB, and CW if conditions deteriorate due to solar flares. <\/p>\n<p>QSL instructions will be on WC6DX\u2019s QRZ.com after the operation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/rare-california-island-to-be-activated-for-armed-forces-day-first-time-in-53-years?rand=771671\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/08\/2024 On Armed Forces Day, May 1971, 53 years ago, two amateur operators working as WZ6SNI, activated San Nicolas Island, IOTA NA-066. At 61 miles, San Nicolas is the most&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}