The Fun has Begun: K1N Navassa Island DXpedition is On the Air!
乐趣开始了！呼号为K1N的Navassa岛远征已经开始呼叫了！
02/02/2015
http://www.arrl.org/news/the-fun-has-begun-k1n-navassa-island-dxpedition-is-on-the-airDecisions, decisions. Watch the Super Bowl or try to work the K1N Navassa Island DXpedition? Given that the Super Bowl happens every year and that a chance to work Navassa Island (KP1) might not happen again for another 10 years, a multitude of North American operators picked the latter option. Many elsewhere in the world apparently were in less of a quandary. The K1N team operators fired up on 40 and 80 meter CW sometime around 0100 UTC, welcomed by gargantuan pileups — with stations stretching 10 to 20 kHz or more up the band from K1N’s transmit frequency. Preparations are under way to expand operation to other bands.
Stations trying to work K1N should not transmit on the DXpedition’s frequency. K1N will always be operating split frequency.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) controls access to Navassa Island (KP1), and it’s been more than 22 years since it was last activated. ClubLog’s DXCC Most Wanted List puts Navassa Island at #2 overall, right behind North Korea. (KP1 is #1 on phone, #5 on CW, and #4 on digital modes.) K1N will not be operating on all modes on all bands but plans to limit most bands to a specific mode, “so that we can work the pileups down to the last little pistol,” the team has said.
Once on the island, the DXpedition team members reported strong winds, high temperatures, rats as large as cats, scorpions, black widow spiders, and even some Haitians. Eight team members had arrived on the island as of February 1. Six remain in Jamaica.
The team is hoping to have four to six stations up and running by the end of the day (February 2). Plans call for K1N to remain on the air for approximately 10 days.
Late last week, a station, apparently in Europe, was pirating the K1N call sign on CW and RTTY.
决定，赶紧决定。是看“超级碗”比赛还是试着跟Navass岛远征(呼号K1N)通联？考虑到“超级碗”比赛每年都有，而Navass岛远征（字头代码KP1）在今后10年都不一定会再出现，北美地区多数的电台操作员选择后者。世界上其他地区的操作员却看起来没那么难以选择。K1N团队的值机员有时会在大约0100 UTC时在40和80米波段用CW操作，那时追捧他们的台站一直从K1N的发射频率向上延伸10到20kHz甚至，团队被排山倒海般的巨大堆积（pileups）所包围。目前其他波段的操作工作也在紧张准备中。
想要和K1N通联的电台千万不要在他们的远征频率上发射。K1N将始终以异频（split）的方式进行通联操作。
Nacassa岛（KP1）的进岛权由美国渔业和野生动物服务协会（USFWS）控制，上次在这个岛上开展活动距今已经超过22年的时间。Clublog统计的“最渴望的DXCC实体名单”中，Navassa岛紧随朝鲜综合排名第二位（在分模式的需求排名中，KP1为“话（phone）”模式第一，CW模式第五，数字模式第四）。K1N不会在全部波段中以所有模式进行操作，但是会限定在最渴望的波段的特定模式，“这样我们可以一直享受堆积到最后一刻”，团队人员说。
上岛以后，远征团队的成员报告说岛上有强风、高温、体型状如猫的老鼠、毒蝎、黑寡妇毒蛛甚至一些海地人。截至2月1日，已有8名成员到达该岛，剩下的6人仍然在牙买加。
远征队希望到2月2日夜，能架起4到6个工作台站并呼叫。预计K1N上线（on the air）将持续10天左右。
刚刚过去的上周末，有一个看起来像是在欧洲的电台曾假冒K1N呼号以CW和RTTY操作。
