K1N Navassa Island Is Active - Update Tuesday PM

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The K1N Team is now active with at at least two stations on the air. They are spotted on 10 and 20 meters today, (Monday 2 Feb).

In an effort to maximize QSOs for those need Navassa they ask that you only work the station on the bands that you need them and only the modes that you need them for all bands. IE if you work them on 15 RTTY please don't work them on 15 SSB and CW. To keep the temptation to work all bands and modes they are not using a leaderboard but do have online lookup to see if you are in their log.

They are limiting their operation to certain modes on certain bands. Also they are not publishing a list of frequencies that they will populate. This also being done to limit malicious interference. Check their web site at: http://navassadx.com/ for further information.

Ending date for this operation is not stated on the web page. I expect eight or nine days and it will probably be announced later.

Check back later for any updates to this post.

GL!

Monday Afternoon Update:

The operators are saying that they only have three stations up, no networking yet and are using the antennas off the lighthouse. As of now they are more of a "holiday style" of operating chatting somewhat with stations they know as they work them and giving information out about their setup. Yet they are putting them in the log, mostly US stations but pick up the occasional EU and SA station, so I suspect they are using a vertical for now. The whole team is not yet on the island but is expected to be by the end of the day where they will complete the final setup to be able to get going full blast. Still - their 15 meter SSB signal is quite good despite the usual detractors, QRMers and DX policemen trying to direct traffic. Their split is large 10 to 20 up and they don't seem to be listening below 10 up at least for now. Watch for "pirate" operations there is a 17 meter K1N calling who is not real.

Tuesday Afternoon Update

All team members are now on the island along with most of their equipment. They are now putting up beams. Their signal on 18 meters this morning was 59 + on a dipole they're probably going to pin our S meters when the get their beams up. They report that it's 116 degrees, they should send about 40 of those degrees here.

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