(Araucaria) [newsletter em vp6dx.com] VP6DX News #15 - 2008 Feb 14

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Ducie Isl



 News #15- 2008 Feb 14

 Here are the first words from the island via Iridium:

 Operations began Feb 11/0500z with a little "cooking session" to check out 
the
 stations and available antennas. After several days of hard work, it was
 relaxing to make some QSOs. With another big construction day ahead on Feb 
12,
 the cooking session ended at 11/0930z. The cooking session worked 1034 
QSOs.

 Continuous operations began Feb 12/0300z. Over 10,000 QSOs (excluding the
 cooking session) were logged in the first 16 hours. First day total was 
17026
 raw QSOs (unduped). Peak clock hour rate was 1069 QSOs (seven stations).

 QSO #20,000 was worked at Feb 13/0618z. QSO #30,000 was worked at Feb 
13/2313z.
 Reduced operations occurred during daylight as more antennas were 
completed. The
 second day's total was 14,301 raw QSOs.

Two short breaks in operations occurred this evening around 14/0400-0500z to
 allow the M/V Braveheart to receive weather fax. Depending on the position 
of
 the ship, some of our transmitters can interfere with the fax receiver.

 Online Log
 **********

 The Online Log is now available! It could happen that not all QSOs are in 
the
 database because of difficulties in transferring the data from the island 
to the
 server.

 There is a small bug in the online log script which sometimes shows not all
bands in the table. We are working on that problem.

 Frequencies
 ***********

 Please have a look at the frequency table at
 http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com/operating/frequencies/index.php. We adjusted 
some
 frequencies. Regarding split operation please always listen carefully what 
the
 operator says.



 We would be delighted if DX editors would publish this information as 
widely as
 possible and DXers bring it to the attention of their clubs and fellow 
DXers.