I'm willing to lay money they wouldn't. That's why I said Kure in the first place.Originally Posted by W3WN
I'm willing to lay money they wouldn't. That's why I said Kure in the first place.
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Can you see Russia from there?
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No, but you can see Russia from the flat spot on the top of Sarah Palin's head.
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Thats where im resting my beer....
Anyway, I am all for a trip to Alaska. Money permitting. Does it have an IOTA number?
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The best we can do here is FIESTA ISLAND!
So, Pat, would you be interested in a DXpedition to Ham Island, AK? I promise you all the Top Ramen you can eat...
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
"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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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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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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