Brian Horne, N1BAM, writes on the CT-POTA mailing list:Good morning all,
This coming Monday, 8/11/2025 there are 6 of us that will be traveling to the 3 islands on the CT River.
US-1659: Dart Island State Park
US-1673: Haddam Island State Park
US-1714: Selden Neck State Park
The plan is to get to the first island around 8:30 am, start operating on UHF/VHF, then 40m & 20m. Then moving on, to the next island.
We will be spending a limitedamount of time at each island before moving on, only 10′-15′ per band. While on HF, we will have 3 people working at a time instead of passing the mic to all 6 of us. It will be mostly SSB but there will be CW as well. We will have the ability to use FT4/8 but will likely not spend much time there as it is hard to “pass the mic” on digital.
If you are in the area and want to follow along the river bank to hunt the island and get UHF/VHF contacts for the islands we would love to have the contacts.
A huge thank you to Marc K8LSB for doing the leg work to get this pulled together.
The 6 operators will be,
John – N1CB
Brad – W1BCC
Brian – N1BAM
Paul – W1IP
Frank – N1AEB
Marc – K8LSB
Brad – W1BCC
Brian – N1BAM
Paul – W1IP
Frank – N1AEB
Marc – K8LSB