>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>* H E A R D I S L A N D D X - P E D I T I O N *
>* PILOT PROGRAM MESSAGE # 75 *
>* MORE ON HEARD - MONDAY JAN 20, 11:15Z *
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>THE LOGS
>--------
>The logs (with data up til Sunday morning) were finally sent
>off the island Monday late morning. The Pacsat radio was
>acting up again. The Pacsat system works wonderfuly well, but
>it seems there is an intermittent in the transceiver (looks
>liks a hair fine crack in a board or a cold solder joint), and
>the transceiver only works when the temperatures are low enough.
>They keep that radio outside the tent in the container which
>serves as the toilet, just to keep it cool....
>We will have the logs available by Monday evening some time.
>Maybe by then the logs will be available with data until Moday
>morning. Please check carefuly in the logserver what is the time
>limit on the log entries. Peter commented that a lot of people
>make dupe QSO's bacause they cannot find their call in the log.
>As it stands now, the logs you have on the servers are TWO DAYS
>behind the facts. Sorry for that, but everybody is working on
>this to improve. One day of lag is the target.
>
>NEW 160 M TX FREQUENCY
>----------------------
>From now on VK0IR will be transmitting on 1822 instead of
>1826.5. This has been asked by JA-stations, who have a lot of
>QRM in 1826.5.
>
>BETTER 160 M OPENINGS EVERY DAY
>-------------------------------
>While I type this (23:33z) I heard VK0IR sending CFM W4ZV on
>1826.5. Congrats Bill. I also hear W0-stations calling (e.g.
>NA0Y in Mo). I's just come back from me 80 meter phone Heard
>info net and I really hated to go and stop the recording I'd
>been making all evening long on 160. Around 23:00z they were
>peaking 599, incredibly loud, and already the they were
>working Michigan (WB8ZRV), VE3's etc. FANTASTIC SHOW.
>If after such an opening everybody is not happy on the east
>coast, then I don't know. We'll try to find out how many east
>coast stations were exactly worked, but it were a great number.
>I must admit that the European stations behaved very well,
>and very few called on top of the USA stations. Anyhow, the
>operator did not pick up any Eu. station when working NA.
>
>SAME STORY ON 80 CW
>-------------------
>AT 00:30 (one and a half hour after sunrise) VK0IR was still
>579 on 3507, working W's all over (W1,2,3,4,5,8,9,0). I even
>heard them working as far West as Colorado! Super!
>
>NOTES ON 80/160 BY AN AUTHORITY
>-------------------------------
>W4ZV wrote "I'm passing this along for anyone else in the
>Southeast US that might be stalking Heard on 80/160.
>Today (Sunday night) they were always coming in on 80 via
>the direct path to the Southeast until I worked them at 2245.
>Then I went to 160 and they NEVER came in direct. There was
>QSB on the signal and it was coming in here via both 30 and
>70 degrees with rapid fluctuations between the two. I put up a
>low dipole today in case they were coming via high angle but that
>was never the case today. Thank goodness the Europeans were
>well-mannered today because there would have been no way to copy
>them with the Beverages toward Europe if we had experienced the
>same QRM as yesterday. Thanks for giving us a chance during
>our brief window guys!" MAybe 160m is a gentleman's band
>after all ?
>
>THE WWW SITES
>-------------
>The vistor's counters showed 27,372 visitors on the USA server
>and 9804 on the European server on Sunday evening. It seems
>like records are being broken all over.
>
>THE E-MAIL LOG SERVER (message from Lyndon, VE7TCP)
>---------------------------------------------------
>After a couple of false starts the VK0IR e-mail log search
>engine is ready to go. To submit a request, send a message to
><heard-log@ve7tcp.ampr.org>. In the message body include ONLY
>the callsigns you would like to search for, *one per line*.
>The TO0R database will also be available SEPERATELY for
>searching shortly. I'll announce the details once it goes live.
>
>JAPAN
>-----
>There was no opening to JApan on 20/17/15/12/10 meter on
>Monday morning. All JA's gone to work??
>VK0IR will from now on concentrate more and more on JApan
>on 160. They wil change to 1822 TX frequency.
>
>THE WEATHER ON HEARD ISLAND
>---------------------------
>Monday morning: Much colder (0 deg C), windchill - 14 deg C,
>wind 70 kph. Hail and snow storm. Peter says it finally
>starts feeling like peter-st, and he added "I love it...
>This is the wather we were waiting for: when the going
>gets tough,... the tough get going.. Yeah!"
>
>
>73,
>
>Your pilots: ON4UN, N1DG, W0EK, K0EU, W4WW, W2IJ, JH1ROJ
>
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>* H.I. INTERNET ADDRESSES *
>*Heard Island reflector: heard@ve7tcp.ampr.org *
>*Heard Island WWW site: http://www.ccnet.com/~cordell/HI/ *
>* http://www.aurumtel.com/hnews.html*
>*WWW log server: http://www.aurumtel.com/heard-log.html *
>* http://heard.eunet.be/ *
>*E-mail log server:heard-log@ve7tcp.ampr.org *
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