JUNE 5 – 7, 2026 (FRIDAY – SATURDAY – SUNDAY)
Welcome Aboard the USS Lucid! The last of the great Navy Wooden Ships!

This is one of the most fun events of the year! You get to be the on the air as the “hunted DX” station, you get to hang out with 20 – 30 of your radio friends, and you get to explore antennas, propagation, and even engineer a connection between a modern Yaesu FTDX101MP transceiver and a 75 year old ships antenna system – then see it come together and work.

We made about 650 – 700 QSOs over the course of the weekend. A big thank you to everyone who came out and helped set up, put us on the air and then stayed over night to operate almost all night long. Great food (Thank you Jeff KK6VXB) lots to snack on and a great weekend to relax and enjoy the airwaves, the ship and the cool breezes on the Delta.

Club members were off to a fast start on 20-M phone with a quick 30 – 40 QSOs in the first hour. Solar flares and other propagation challenges would create noise throughout the weekend and a few hours on Saturday and Sunday morning where there no signals to be heard. Still, the event was great fun and some of the stories we heard were priceless – like the 90 year old ham who served on a sister ship in the 50s and 60s.

Our efforts were captured by local videographer and news maker Mike Cockrell who published this story about MSWE in the Soundings Journal Online Magazine today. You can click on this link to see and hear the story….. https://soundingsmag.net/2026/06/09/radio-waves-from-a-wooden-warship/

The N6MSO callsign is listed in OQRS and club log. Stations who worked us can send a $5 donation through Club Log to get an offiial USS Lucid QSL Card. 100% of that $5 donation goes to the USS Lucid as Annie N6ACL picks up the mailing costs for the cards.

Rachelle N6KKE made over $300 in USS Lucid Merch while on board. Last year we raised about $200 for the USS Lucid in QSL cards. As the QSL Card requests come in, we will see how well we do this year.