QSL of the Month: K4NI – Navassa Island

Starting with this month’s DX column, we are adding some special “QSLs of the Month” provided by Tom Roscoe, K8CX, of . Tom provides the backstories as well as the card images. We hope you enjoy seeing some very cool QSLs from the past! – N2OO Here is a very rare K4NI Navassa Island QSL card dated April 4, 1929. The operator was Russell Dunaja, Jr. (1905-1989), first licensed in 1921 as 3ADY and later as W3BBF. Russell was the lighthouse keeper and radio operator on Navassa Island from 1928 to 1929. A spark gap transmitter was used and later a CW transmitter was built. The receiver was a UV199 detector with a UX222 RF stage to an audio amplifier. The antenna was an 80-meter Zepp from the 160-foot-high lighthouse…

You're reading a preview of

CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.