Woohoo!! Fantastic news!!! It will be an ATNO for me (if propagation permits).
Thanks for the heads up!!! Keith AK6ZZ Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos > On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:59 AM, "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" > <e...@elecraft.com> wrote: > > The K9W Wake Island Dxpedition is back on track and should be on the air this > weekend (Nov 3) if all goes to schedule. > (See announcement below and http://wake2013.org/index.html ) > > They are running K3s and KPA500's, so they should both sound great and have > sensitive ears! > > 73, > > Eric > elecraft.com > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:03 AM, John Millerwrote: > > I thought you'd like to know that late Monday, 28-October, we received > permission from the USAF to visit Wake Atoll. You can read the Press > Release on the K9W website. > > http://wake2013.org/ > > I leave tomorrow (Wednesday, October 30) for Honolulu to meet up with the > team, then we depart for Wake at 0230 on Friday morning, November 1. We > hope to be operational by November 3 and continue on the air until November > 15. > > We're excited that this is Commemorative DXpedition is finally coming > together because our primary objective is to honor the Forgotten 98 civilian > contractors who lost their lives on October 7, 1943 during WWII -- 70 years > ago. http://wake2013.org/pages/forgotten98.html > > And, of course, we're looking forward to putting Wake Atoll QSOs into as > many logs as possible over the next two weeks! > > If you'd like to help the DXpedition with a personal donation, here is the > Sponsors page: > http://wake2013.org/pages/sponsors.html > > Assuming we have good internet access, I plan to keep in touch via the K9W > website. > > Wish us luck -- I'll be looking for you in the pileups. : >) > > 73, > John, K6MM > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html