updatesOperating becomes more stable – next day at Rapa NuiFriday, 06.11.2009 · 09:18 UTC
November 4, 2009
Hi,
Some more news. Since we couldn´t put the Spiderbeam up yet, we decided to make a temp vertical for 20m that replaces the 40m one during daytime hours here. It works great – I already managed to log a couple of EU stations on 20 cw.
Looks like weather starts to calm down but I can´t say anything abt its reliability…
Looks like our operating becomes more stable (no blackouts since yesterday, crossing fingers!) and thus we start to make proper planning when/where we may appear. If wx improves by Friday our time, we will give try to spider installation.
Marco CE6TBN changed his ticket reservation. He was supposed to leave today (Thursday) for Santiago. But he will leave on this Saturday Nov 7 so he will be able to operate with us a bit longer. When he comes back home he will have a great opportunity to work XR0Y :-) We heard our host Edgar (Vai Moana Hotel) saying to somebody that we are one of the best guests he´s been hosting recently ever: quoting: “they are polite, smiling and full of positive vibrations” :-)
I´m currently trying to upload a very first blog episode recorded at the island. It is a bit longer than prev. ones as I´m not sure when I´ll have another chance to upload some more It will come at much lower quality due to upload bandwidth limit at the island (29mb = 2h of uploading = very expensive…). Fortunately guys from Chilid posted it this morning and you can watch it now.
Col, you can announce following: XR0Y premium QSL card will come in 3D technology. It´s gonna be a very very attractive cards for QSL collectors – worth of waiting for! Our OQRS will be functional in a few days and it will be possible to order the special card as one of options to chose from. We will respond to card sent by buro or direct as well, of course.
I also try to record as much on video as possible. We managed to recorded a very first QSO e made on the video! Unfortunately our cams lenses get often covered with moisture due to extremely high humidity here and I must be extremely careful abt them.
SQ8X
I’m following you guy on Twitter as well as the blog and I’m enjoy that much. Hope catch you all on all bands, the Signal still strong from the Island to Brazil. Almost any time of day we can hear you. Keep going with this nice Job!
Good Luck and Good WX. hi
PY2SEX, Alex
Why no activity on SSB when Europe conds are open?
la4uoa
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