What would you say to a Ham Island DXpedition...

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Originally Posted by KJ3N

I was thinking Kure.

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Given the option, I'd rather do Navassa.

I don't think F&WS will give us the option, though.

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Originally Posted by W3WN

Given the option, I'd rather do Navassa.

I don't think F&WS will give us the option, though.

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I'm willing to lay money they wouldn't. That's why I said Kure in the first place.

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Originally Posted by KJ3N

I was thinking Kure.

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Are they cool with toplessness?

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

I'm too old for the cold.
See ya in Key West.

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It's in the very southernmost part of the Alaskan panhandle; the weather isn't much different than in Seattle.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

It's in the very southernmost part of the Alaskan panhandle; the weather isn't much different than in Seattle.

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I'm on it! Let's do this!

The best we can do here is FIESTA ISLAND!

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Originally Posted by wa6mhz

The best we can do here is FIESTA ISLAND!

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So, Pat, would you be interested in a DXpedition to Ham Island, AK? I promise you all the Top Ramen you can eat...

"It's in the very southernmost part of the Alaskan panhandle..."

Huh? Both Google Maps and Google Earth which use the same database incidentally show it on the Yukon River about 200 miles west of Fairbanks. In any case I'm in the last stage of fattening up before I go into hibernation so I won't be able to make it. When I thaw out I probably can make it to Ham Island in Barnegat Bay just off Long Beach Island, you can use IOTA NJ111 if you want to only be sure the shelters are bug proof because if the wind is right you'll be battling the biggest, meanest mosquitoes you've ever seen, biting flies such as green heads and horse flies and the ever present no see 'ems that are so named for a good reason. You can't see Russia from there but at night you'll easily spot the W2WSC tower at the foot of Murphy Road in West Creek. Still it's better than Alaska that in winter gets down to -60 on a good day and in summer has flies that will eat you alive and have been known to tear through cabin walls and carry people off to feed their young.

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Originally Posted by kb2vxa

Huh? Both Google Maps and Google Earth which use the same database incidentally show it on the Yukon River about 200 miles west of Fairbanks.

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Just because you're unable to use Google Maps/Earth well doesn't mean that I'm wrong. There are two Ham Islands in AK—the one you mentioned in the Yukon River and the far more accessible one in the Alexander Archipelago. The latter is the one I'm proposing for our Island of Misfit Hams DXpedition. There are several reasons for that, one major reason being that IOTA does not recognize islands in rivers.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Just because you're unable to use Google Maps/Earth well doesn't mean that I'm wrong. There are two Ham Islands in AK—the one you mentioned in the Yukon River and the far more accessible one in the Alexander Archipelago. The latter is the one I'm proposing for our Island of Misfit Hams DXpedition. There are several reasons for that, one major reason being that IOTA does not recognize islands in rivers.

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BOOM!