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.
2025 WA0RC 2m Simplex Contest
In 2024, the Waypoint Amateur Radio Club (employee club at Garmin HQ in Olathe, KS) hosted a 2m Simplex Contest for all those in the Kansas City Metro. Based on good feedback from participants, we decided to run it again with some minor tweaks to the rules. As Vice...
Activation Report: Little Jerusalem Badlands SP (POTA US-5717 + DM98)
After racing over from Lake Scott State Park and the somewhat frustrating activation I experienced there, my trip to Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park ended up being a nice change in scenery (literally). This park has actually been on my bucket list for some time...
Activation Report: Lake Scott SP (POTA US-2352 + DM98)
After setting out on my first new satellite activation of a Kansas State Park since 2020, I am back home with two new parks in the bag on my mission to operate satellites from them all. It was an exhausting ~36 hours of overnight Amtrak train rides, a couple hours of...
Western Kansas POTA Satellite Rove (DM98 + EM08 Grids)
On Friday, 4/18, I will be making a trip out to western Kansas to activate Lake Scott State Park (US-2352), Little Jerusalem State Park (US-5717), and hopefully Cedar Bluff State Park (US-2330) on satellites. This trip is my first step in 2025 toward (finally)...
2025 VP5/KD8RTT DXpedition Debrief
I am now back from my Turks and Caicos trip and settled with all my logs uploaded. It was a great vacation with plenty of beach time, exploring, and enjoying a respite from the cold Kansas City winter. While my daily update posts shed a little light on the trip, I...
VP5/KD8RTT 2/1 Update
Yesterday was a productive day for radio. I jumped on ISS FM and RS-44 passes and made a few contacts on the former. I was able to get into RS-44 just but was not able to complete a sked with a German ham as hoped. I also got on HF for about an hour and a half last...