Update - as
of yesterday:
Greetings from the VP8STI
Southern Thule Island. We are now
QRV with three stations and expect
more stations to be QRV shortly.
Our landing yesterday was very
difficult. The initial team on the
island had to wear wetsuits and go
onto the rocks to establish safety
ropes for team and equipment. One
team member and one generator went
into the ocean. The team member is
recovering. The generator is not.
The seas are very rough which
makes bringing supplies to the
island very dangerous. We are
experiencing high winds and some
snow. We are currently working
through several critical issues:
1) Voltage sags on our three
generators are causing our K3′s to
experience problems.
2) We are missing parts to some
critical antennas.
3) We are down one 6KW generator
until the Braveheart can bring a
backup generator.
We are still actively raising
antennas and we hope to be QRV on
30, 40 and possibly 80 meters
tonight. We plan to upload logs to
Clublog each day starting
tomorrow. Please know that we are
doing our best under very
difficult conditions and we hope
to see you in our logs.
Today,
at 11:58z, VP8STI started
operations from Thule Island,
South Sandwich on 20m CW.