[SEDXC] Looks Like 9M4SLL is QRT

[Weymouth Walker]

Here is the breakdown BY CONTINENT for 9M4SLL ...
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73, Wey - K8EAB


On 3/17/2013 8:54 PM, n4xp at juno.com wrote:
> Well...my ole buddy from Maaa com beat me to it.  Paul and I were
> together on Spratly for almost 2 weeks.  I can assure you he was polite
> in his response as to operating from Spratly.
>
> It is not only a Black Hole, it is also as far as I am concerned the end
> of this earth.   Not only was radio near impossible, the heat was over
> 100 degrees each day allowing outside time only for a few minutes at a
> time.  Antenna erection had to be in short shifts and took forever.  Then
> add to that the nearest tree is in Singapore so you work with what is
> there, nothing!
>
> Now for radio, try hearing through fishing buoys and fishing boats
> screaming in who knows what language on all freqs using ham radios for
> commo everywhere you tuned.   If you were successful then you had to
> listen to the island power generator 24 hours a day.  And don't even
> think about good results on 80 and 160, it just was not easy.
>
> I am not privy to how they did overall but from what I heard in general
> EU faired much better then we did.   In NA South East did not seem to do
> well while the North East and Mid West to West did very well.
>
> Now they are tearing down in the heat Paul knows so well,  I hope they do
> so safely and without incident.
>
> 73
>
> Tom  N4XP