QRX during storms
There was no 160m activity last night because the 26m high vertical was de-tuned. As we explained before we got high gust of wind yesterday and the wires of the capacitive hat moved and seams to be not at the right place. The wind dropped down a bit and we’ll try to fix that today.
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Almost 80k QSOs done!
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Life at camp is going well, and more opportunities to work us!
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50k QSOs reached
Hello from JDN, all is going pretty well. We reached last night the 50K qso and we continue to run the pile-up that are at certain time of the day really big. We try to exploit the bands from their opening till the end of the propagation. This allow us to work all continents from
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New report from Juan de Nova: lifestyle, pileup and RX
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Ready to be OTA!
After 2 days aboard the « Antsivia » and almost 2000 qso as /MM, we are now achored near Juan de Nova. As our documents indicates, we’ll be allowed to desembark tomorow at sunrise. The team is impatient to put a feet on the island and start setting up the camp. The desembarking plan is already defined.
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March 26th update
We are a few hours before the departure. Yesterday, under a beating rain, we carried out the loading of our equipment on the boat. The 4 crates, sent by cargo one and a half month ago, were set at disposal at the right time by our forwarding agent. Once the documents signed by the customs
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March 23th press release
After more than a year of work, we are happy to finally get into the thick of it. The team will be complete in Mayotte on Thursday around noon! The schedule for the coming days is pretty full, with the last purchases and technical checks and the loading of the boat. We will sail away
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6m TEP & EME plan for FT4JA
TEP We have planned some 50 MHz high-performance equipment including a dedicated station consisting of a DXBeam 6 element Yagi, an Elecraft K3 (with preamp), and an SPE Expert 1.3 KFA amplifier. The 6-meter station will operate mostly in a CW beacon mode (“CQ FT4JA”). As our satellite internet access will be very limited, we
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Less than 3 weeks to go !
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