N4H - The Hunley Special Event - September 19th & 20th 2009

~ The Worlds First Successful Combat Submarine ~

On September 19th & 20th, 2009, a group of Amateur Radio operators in Charleston, South Carolina, will be activating a Special Event Station N4H at the site of the Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley.

Raised on August 8th, 2000, and located at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on the old Charleston navy base, the H.L. Hunley is being preserved in a 90,000 gallon water tank as archeologists investigate the cause of the vessels sinking. The Hunley disappeared without a trace, on a return journey, after using a 135Lb. torpedo to sink the U.S.S. Housatonic four miles off the coast of Charleston, SC. on February 17th 1864,
making it "The World's First Successful Combat Submarine".

Join us as we commemorate this historic event.

Thank you for all the QSO's over the weekend, it was a pleasure to work you all
without your support our event would not have been so successful.

We are happy to report that we made a total of exactly 1100 contacts over the weekend
the online log and some event photos will be available in a few days.

We have a specially designed QSL card available

N4H-QSL

N$H QSL Back

QSL Information

QSL via

Edward Padgett - W4NSC
PO Box 61362
North Charleston, SC 29419

A donation of $2.00 is required, no SASE is needed.
All proceeds after expenses will be donated to
The Friends of The Hunley for Research and Conservation.

For more information on the H.L. Hunley please visit
http://www.hunley.org

The following persons have made this possible:

Mr. Randall Burbage - SC State Appointee to The Hunley Commisson
Ms. Kellen Correia of Richard Quinn Assoc. Public Relations Manager
John Long W4TWW - Event Concept
Paul Jones NN4F - Webmaster
Ed Padgett W4NSC - QSL Manager
Lionel Mackey KF4GLE - Motorhome & Station Accomodations
Randy Hargenrader K4QO - Antennas & Tech Support
Vince Lombardo K4AOC - Event Coordinator

Station Equipment for the 9-5 operation was as follows

Yaesu FT897
Tokyo Hy-Power 500 watt amplifier
80m OCF Dipole at 30ft

To continue the operation as long as possible, three of operators (K4AOC, W4NSC & NN4F) continued to
operate until midnight each day from their home stations all located in the Charleston area.

Station Operators for N4H

Vince Lombardo - K4AOC
Lionel Mackey - KF4GLE
Ed Padgett - W4NSC
Randy Hargenrader - K4QO
Paul Jones - NN4F

Online log will be available after the event.