Folks,
Here is the final K1B report from Hrane. regards Nenad .... ======================================================================= Finally, "Home sweet home", after so much travel, climate changes, jet lag, and inevitable visit to Dayton Hamvention. We are still very tired, we still struggle with jet lag, but all of this disappears after seeing what was written world wide about the K1B DXpedition, and what we exerienced at Dayton Hamvention. Here is the K1B DXpedition recap: CREW: yt1ad,yu1au,yu1dx, z31fu(zs6mg)z32zm,rz3aa,ra3auu, rw3ah,ly3um, kw4da, n6tqs, kd7rcd,s56a, mr. Doug Forsell, US FW officer. COSTS: $102.000 US IMPORTANT DATES: April.20: Meeting at LAX Airport, and taking exams at the airport. April 22: Arrival to Fiji with team split into two groups: yt1ad, rz3aa,rw3ah,ra3auu,kw4da,kd7rcd went to Tuvalu by plane. They made the following score: yt1ad-t25a 3600 qso's rz3aa-t23a 1400 qso's ra3auu-t26u 1500 qso's kw4da-t2da 1100 qso's ============ T2 total 7600 qso's All others travelled by ship. April 25: Departure to Baker Island. April 27: Arrival to Baker island at 05:00 USA camp assembled first. First QSO with JH1HDT. Other two camps assembled in next 48 hours. EQUIPMENT: The following was the equipment used: USA camp; generator 4,5kW, antennae: MA5B (14,18,21,24,28) mosley 3 el short LP version 14,21, 28 MHz 2 el 6 m bim, all @ 6-9 m.,dipole 40/30 m rig's: IC 756 pro Ii x 2, IC 706 LPA 400 W Serbian camp: generator 4,5 kW,antennae A3S (14,21 28 MHz) vertical Rv4c 7,14,21 28 MHz, dipole 10 MHz vertical 3,5/3,8 MHz, 5 el 50 Mhz, @ 6 m. ground mount verticals with radials in the ocean. LPA ACOM 1000, AL 811 with ic 756 pro II, TS 570 s, and FT 100 (backup for 50 mhz) Russian camp: generator 5,5 kW, antennae, MA5B 14,18,21,24,28 MHz, A3S 14,21,28 MHz, Battlecreek special (1,8, 3,5, 7) beams @ 6 i 9 metara. LPA ACOM 1000, Al 811 rigs: IC 756 pro II 2 x, FT920 IC-756 rigs were constantly turned on and did not experience any problem even at temperature well above 40c (100F). ACOM 1000 was fenomenal, easy to tune on all bands (1.8-50 MHz). Supressors were burnt on one of AL811, but were easily fixed. Twice the 5.5 kW generator was broken, but fixed on spot. The only incident we had was when on of 7 mtrs boats capsized over the huge wave, and injured Miki and Hrane. However both of us continued our operation, and the equipment carried by boat was recovered. Besides this incident, we did not have any problem, other than unbearable heath, and millions of crabs and birds. Mr. Forsell's advices in those situations were more than helpful. He was the USWF representative and without him we would not be even allowed to reach the island. Once again thanks to the USFW service in Honolulu, specially Mrs. Beth Flint! The Baker Island operation came to an end on May 07-th with the following QSO breakdown cw/ssb 89898 QSOs, 4708 rtty QSOs, 446 PSK QSOs and 75 sstv QSOs. On our way back we stopped by on Fiji and made several thousand QSOs with the following breakdown: yt1ad-3d2ad: 640 qso kw4da-3d2cw: 720 qso rw3ah-3d2af: 1750 qso ly3num-3d2um: 2230 qso n6tqs-3d2qs 150 qso zs6mg-3d2mg 1230 qso ========== total 6720 qso k1b 95.127 T2 7.200 3d2 6.720 -------------------------- K1B+T2+3D2= 109.047 Total number of QSOs in the K1B log is: 95.127 which is the all times record for operation from uninhabited island with no facilities, and powered by generators. QSL cards for SSB operation go to RZ3AA, all others to YT1AD. There was a special box opened in Moscow for this purpose. YT1AD address is Dr. Hrane Milosevic, 36206 Vitanovac, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO (Yugoslavia)!! (Added by Nenad: QSL cards with donations go to VE3EXY between now and June 20., but will be mailed from YU/RU). QSL cards are expected from print shop mid June, and the first mailings around the first week of July. Please do not send too many inquires about QSL. Please visit http://www.kragujevac.co.yu/kh1 for more details including link to on-line logs. Special thanks to pilot stations YU1AA, and VE3EXY, web masters 4N1FG@4N1NM, and log master VA3NA. Great thanks to our biggest donors NCDXF 6000 USD, ARRL 1500 USD, ACOM Inc. America 4500 USD including logistics in Bostonu and LAX relevant to transport of equipment. Also thanks to RZ3AA-12,500 USd, YT1AD-17,500 USD. special thanks to ICOM America for borrowing us 6 x IC 756 pro II and HEIL sound for 6 borrowed head sets. Thanks to Princess II and its crew for helping us to put up three camps. Most importantlty thanks to all of you who made 95K + QSOs with us, even those who made zoo on the bands. Thanks for the pleasure we had beeing part of this expedition. 73 Hrane and the Baker Isl. dream team!!!! "The team that linked people and the world, into the World of Hamradio. They all worked as one and touched the hamradio heaven." ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net/