VP6WR - Pitcairn Island

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VP6WR Pitcairn Island. Bill Rothwell, G0VDE will be active as VP6WR from Pitcairn Island, IOTA OC - 044, 5 - 15 September 2024.
He will operate on 80 - 6m, SSB, FT8 with some CW.
He is working now on QSL manager arrangement.




Pitcairn Island. Author - Stephen (Steve) Brown.

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I'm planning to travel to VP6, Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, and be active between approximately 5th to 15th September 2024.

I will initially be travelling to Tahiti on the 31st August, stopping there for a couple of days and then travelling on Air Tahiti to Margareva Island (Gambier) on the 3rd September. I then take the Pitcairn Island's boat - the 'Silver Supporter' - for the around 30 hour trip to Pitcairn.

The return trip means I arrive back on Mangareva on 17th September but as the next flight back to Tahiti is on the following Saturday 21st, I'll be staying there for four days and plan to activate Mangareva as FO/G0VDE.

I should return to the UK on the 24th September.

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QSL for VP6WR and FO/G0VDE via M0URX OQRS.

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On air at Pitcairn (and current frequencies of operation)

I arrived yesterday (5th September) and have erected the DXCommander. The BTV is waiting until we find a short pole, which hopefully will be later today. The picture shows my current setup.
We have internet via 'Starlink', which is useful but it is quite slow and bumpy, so I won't be able to do much updating of this website.

So far I have been using the following frequencies - I will try to keep this updated.
(All are FT8 so far)

28.078
24.908
18.107
14.085

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VP6WR from Pitcairn Island on 10131 now FT8.

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VP6WR from Pitcairn Island on 10143 now FT8.

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VP6WR from Pitcairn Island on 14085.6 now FT8.

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VP6WR from Pitcairn Island on 7078 now FT8.