Welcome to KD8RTT.com
I’m Tony Milluzzi, KD8RTT, an Extra Class ham currently residing in the Kansas City area. I’ve been licensed since 2012 and since then have tried out many parts of amateur radio from SOTA to satellites. I enjoy trying out new areas in the hobby, building electronics projects, and volunteering with the ARRL’s Collegiate Amateur Radio Program.
DM33/DM43 Grid Line Operation
While on my "mini-moon" the weekend after my wedding, I was able to sneak away from the Arizona Biltmore resort while my wife was at a yoga class to get on a satellite pass from the DM33/DM43 grid line. Luckily, we had a rental car, and there was a good public trail...
2025 Kansas QSO Party Report and Kanopolis Lake SP (US-2342) Activation Report
For my fifth year participating in the Kansas QSO Party, I decided to reprise my efforts of last year by again activating several counties as an Expedition station. As outlined in my initial planning post, I was going to head to Kanopolis Lake State Park (US-2342) on...
2025 Kansas QSO Party Plans
For the 2025 Kansas QSO Party, I will be returning as an Expedition station running SSB from a few counties as K0T. I will be in Ellsworth County at Kanopolis Lake State Park (US-2342) on Saturday and at the Marion, Chase, and Morris county corner on Sunday. I will be...
2025 Field Day Report
As with last year, my Field Day plans for 2025 were with my workplace club, The Waypoint Amateur Radio Club (WA0RC), where we set up a portable Field Day operation for the first time in over a decade (before I worked here)! As Vice President of the club, I took it on...
Day Four Update – 2025 VP2V Milluzzi Brothers DXpedition
Well, it's our last day in the British Virgin Islands! Yesterday, we were able make a number of contacts on a variety of bands. Early in the day, I was able to run a small 12m SSB pileup with a lot of great DX stations coming in. We also went to the beach for my...
Day Three Update – 2025 VP2V Milluzzi Brothers DXpedition
Yesterday was a fun day with lots of radio! The bad news is that the bands were in poor shape and the majority of my operating was on digital. I made a few SSB contacts on 20m and 80m later in the day, though. I was pleased that with a random wire plus tuner I was...