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
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