{"id":194,"date":"2008-07-22T07:47:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-08-10T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:50:00","slug":"iota-2008-n4a-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"IOTA 2008 &#8211; N4A Rides Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be making another expedition trip to <a title=\"Cape Lookout Info site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/calo\">Cape Lookout NWR<\/a> overlapping the IOTA 2008 contest. Our goal is to put CALO on the air. We&#8217;ll be pounding 10m looking for E skip openings in the periods outside the IOTA contest, and be handing out Q&#8217;s during the contest on all of the contest bands. If we are able to get a 160m antenna up, we&#8217;ll also be on that band outside the contest period. Our time is limited, but we expect to be operating as soon as we get the station\/antennas established, sometime in the early evening of Friday July 25th, probably mostly SSB before the contest.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re lucky to have an additional op joining us this year, K4CZ. The extra help will be a big boost, and this should help us overcome problems of the sort presented by Murphy in 2007. For 2008 the operators are N4YDU, W4KAZ, and K4CZ. There&#8217;s little doubt that N4YDU and K4CZ will do a lions share of the operating. Nate is one of the best ops I&#8217;ve worked with and is an exceptional CW op. Barry is going to be a big assist for Nate for both CW and SSB &#8211; I&#8217;ll need to pull my weight on SSB and the logistics. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we will have a 6m rig available, so our plans to activate CALO on 6m may come to naught.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"N4A Cape Lookout website\" href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/n4a\">The N4A website<\/a> will be updated with 2008 photo&#8217;s after the op is complete. Might see some here too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be making another expedition trip to Cape Lookout NWR overlapping the IOTA 2008 contest. Our goal is to put CALO on the air. We&#8217;ll be pounding 10m looking for E skip openings in the periods outside the IOTA contest, and be handing out Q&#8217;s during the contest on all of the contest bands. If we are able to get a 160m antenna up, we&#8217;ll also be on that band outside the contest period. Our time is limited, but we expect to be operating as soon as we get the station\/antennas established, sometime in the early evening of Friday July 25th, probably mostly SSB before the contest.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re lucky to have an additional op joining us this year, K4CZ. The extra help will be a big boost, and this should help us overcome problems of the sort presented by Murphy in 2007. For 2008 the operators are N4YDU, W4KAZ, and K4CZ. There&#8217;s little doubt that N4YDU and K4CZ will do a lions share of the operating. Nate is one of the best ops I&#8217;ve worked with and is an exceptional CW op. Barry is going to be a big assist for Nate for both CW and SSB &#8211; I&#8217;ll need to pull my weight on SSB and the logistics. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we will have a 6m rig available, so our plans to activate CALO on 6m may come to naught.<\/p>\n<p>The N4A website will be updated with 2008 photo&#8217;s after the op is complete. Might see some [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=194\">IOTA 2008 &#8211; N4A Rides Again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}