>NEWS FROM THE ISLAND
>--------------------
>The following news was received at 12:15 z on wednesday,
>Jan 15:
>
>- 4 stations on the air full-time
>- The hope to gets station 5 and 6 up and running today.
>- Oscar 10 fully active
>- They are simultaneously on CW and SSB on the same band .
> This is possible because the CW and SSB tents are sepa-
> rated by not less than 700 m!
>- Pacsat irrepairable. Expect logs by e-mail (inmarsat) but
> no promess received. There are some problems to be
> resolved.
>- The beverages are now up.
>- All beacon reports are processed. Two very large propa-
> gation reports are hung in the main tent, one with
> predictions to all continents/areas, one with observed
> openings (Beaconn + feedback from pilots + own logs)
> and with with band/mode data.
>- there was no 80 m operation last night because of
> interference from the 40 m station (let's hope they
> work on it!)
>- the BEACON is temporarily off the air to save gas.
>- THE 30 M TRANSMIT FREQUENCY IS CHANGED TO 10,103.5 MHz
> as requested by mni and "arranged" trough the pilots.
>- WX: air temp: + 6 deg C, chill factor+ - 4 deg C
> wind 20 knots, regular rain showers
>- the team is doing very fine. All material doing well
> (tents, antennas, generators etc). Only set-back so
> far is the broken PACSAT system.
>
>We received no plans as far as their operation for the
>coming night. Stay tuned.
>
>NEWS FROM JAPAN
>---------------
>1) 160m: VK0IR 160m was heard in JA around 21z, not 22z
> as predicted. Peaking 559 at 2110-2120, but calling up
> only for EU. The pilots are informing Heard island to
> look for JA at 21:00-21:30 z.
>
>2) Satellite: Good job by Arie and the satellite ops
> enjoyed their opening to VK0IR on AO-10.
>
>LOW BANDS
>---------
>The operators last night (Jan 14) on 160 were K9AJ (first
>part) and RA3AUU. Tonight there will be operation on 80
>and 160. K4UEE will be operating on 160 tonigt (15th).
>Tomorrow ON5NT is scheduled for top band.
>
>73
>
>Your pilots: ON4UN, N1DG, W0EK, K0EU, W4WW, W2IJ, JH1ROJ
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