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XR0YD Easter Island DX Pedition

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XR0YD Easter Island News #3 March, 4 2018

The XR0YD team is now nearly 2 days on the air. We now have all planned antennas up (18 m high vertical for 160 m, 18 m high vertical for 80 m, 15 m high vertical for 40 m, 10 m high loop for 30 m and a 5-band-spiderbeam, so we have three stations with 500 watts to 1 kW running . Using a Pentaplexer and several band filters to avoid interferences. The team is really happy to have enough stable main power for all stations around the clock. There is also space enough for antennas, but not ideal for a good the take-off to the North. The fourth backup amplifier was damaged during transport.


The weather is hot during daytime with 28 °C. Andy, DH8WR, is the only Spanish speaking team member. Together with the ham radio friendly owner of our QTH Cabanas Honu Nui he is a great help for us. WiFi is available but slow. Some FT8-QSOs were done with only 100 watts.

The result of bad ham-spirit is quite a number of dupes in this early stage of this expedition. Why do some need second and third QSOs on the same band? These dupe- making stations will get a delayed confirmation by our QSL- manager. So, think about ham spirit and give the other stations their chance to work us for the first time.

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XR0YD Easter Island News #4, March 10th 2018

All team members are in a good shape. The half time of our stay here is over. Our target with 30,000 QSOs is already reached. Pile Ups are still strong. Good to see that there are still operators who have their first QSO with us. We had stormy weather the last days and the 80-m-antenna was damaged but is already repaired. Today we had an unexpected power cut. Since that time the main power isn’t stable anymore. When writing these lines (14.00Z) we don't have any power.


FT8 seems us to be a good mode for long distance QSOs under unstable conditions. By the way “up” in CW means up 1 and more.

Please check our online log which will be actualized once daily. The team is disappointed about so many dupes. Please wait and check the log first! Of course the log will still include some mistakes.

Don’t call again some minutes later when you already sent a report. Mostly we are hearing rather well. We are also disappointed about no respect from some guys when we operate the difficult path to Europe.

We get several dozens of emails each day. It’s impossible to answer each. Remember also our slow internet connection. Requests for log entries will be checked after the expedition by our manager.
73 XR0YD Team