Topband: ZL9HR

[jon jones]

ZL9CI 1999
 
 A bad storm kept the ZL9CI team on the Island one night. Trey ran NA for hours on the Top Band that morning. He peaked well over S-9 on my transmit vertical in KS. A storm is always possible while ZL9HR is there.... the deserving who stay up and watch the band may be rewarded again.  - N0JK  
" What a blast! The ZL9CI hit the air in style with 10,724 QSOs in the first 23 
hours, operating six stations on most bands to give everyone a good chance of 
working us. The CW operators were hot and accounted for more than half of the 
QSOs. We were given a taste of how bad the weather can become in an hour or so 
when a storm dropped the temperature and hit the antenna system with 60 knot 
gusts of wind. The only damage was that one of the 20M Yagis rotated a reflector 
to the vertical position. The bad weather resulted in dangerous conditions to 
transfer the team off the island to the Braveheart and we were forced to stay 
ashore for the night much to the joy of 160M and 80M amateurs around the world. 
Trey N5KO, Declan EI6FR and Andrew GI0NWG were very popular on CW with the low 
band crowd."