Hi Gary,
The link in your email is their current location in Mayotte where
they were active as FH/F2DX and FH/F6BEE.
Juan da Nova, the future location of FT4JA, is 340 miles to the
south-south-west.
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 2:09:15 PM
Subject: Topband: OT - Juan De Nova BC station
Absolutely OT but I thought I'd pass it along; the upcoming FT4JA
DXpedetion to Juan De Nova has some good links on their web page
including
http://www.juandenovadx.com/en/track-us-in-real-time/
I took a look at the island (habited) and saw the smaller island on
the satellite view & wondered about its NW coastline so was checking
it out and noticed at the far north part of the straight coastline, a
broadcast station with obvious radial marks in the ground. Now
that... would make one fine antenna.
And continuing off topic and speaking of fine websites, you might
want to check out the current VK0EK, Heard Island website. While its
all good, what is most impressive is their real time log page. I've
never seen anything like it and it will have to cut down on SLIMs and
dupes. It leaves no question where they are operating, who they
worked within the last minute and what directions they are working DX
in. Type in your call and enter and you see what bands you've worked
them on. Leave your call in there and when you work them on a new
band, a pop-up window tells you so within 1-2 minutes of working
them.
One hell of a desolate place. I scouted around it with google and
couldn't find any sign or previous habitation. Normally there's some
whaler's shacks but if so, I couldn't find them.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heard+Island+and+McDonald+Islands/@-
53.0998772,73.3977204,24585m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0xb301524b88922bf
d:0x261ddac2e5b3767e
or click here:
http://tinyurl.com/zemgpc2
Oh, and the news from Heard is they are hopefully getting their 80 &
160 antennas up today.
73,
Gary
KA1J
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