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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...
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...
Day Two Update – 2025 VP2V Milluzzi Brothers DXpedition
Quick post this morning to say we will be on the air shortly! We got going a bit later than expected but have our DX Commander, 6m 3el yagi, and Super Antenna all set up and ready to go along with our two station. I will be primarily focusing on 6m SSB today (50.125...
Day One Update – 2025 VP2V Milluzzi Brothers DXpedition
We have arrived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands! After a very early morning flight to Miami to meet up with Andy and grab lunch, we boarded our flight to Tortola. There were some minor delays leaving Miami but we are here more or less on time. Our plan for the rest...
Activation Report: DM68/69/78/79 Grid Corner and Pike National Forest (POTA US-4404)
After volunteering all week at the 2025 Youth on the Air camp in Denver, I decided to rent a Jeep for a day and do a satellite activation on some new grids a couple hours away up in the mountains. I scouted the grids around Denver and found a good grid corner at...
2025 Milluzzi Brothers DXpedition to British Virgin Islands (VP2V/KD8RTT and VP2V/KK4LWR)
Dates: August 8, 2025 to August 11, 2025 Location: Tortola, British Virgin Islands ClubLog Rank: 138 IOTA: NA-023 Grid: FK78 Team: Tony Milluzzi, KD8RTT (Team Captain), Andy Milluzzi, KK4LWR Transceivers: 2+ Bands: 80m to 6m with particular focus on 30m, 17m, 12m, and...
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...