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VP6D Alert:
In order to achieve a safe departure from Ducie Island - at 15:37z the skipper directed us to shut down today. We are beginning that process as I type this note.
It's been raining all night, with 20+ knot winds. The ship is about 300 meters off shore, the forecast indicates continuing 20+ knot winds, 2 - 3 meter seas.
We are collecting all the logs and will send to the EU QSL management team (hopefully before we leave), they will remove FT8 dupes and refresh the server before turning on OQRS.
We want to thank everyone for their support and hope we met your expectations.
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It rained most of the night, and is windy. We take down the CW camp today.
The SSB camp comes down tomorrow this time (1600z) , non essential items going back to the boat today.
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160m antennas will be down after sunrise on Ducie.
No more 160m after another 5-6 hours.
The CW stations will start to be dismantled as soon as daylight happens on THUR November 1st (tomorrow).Leave a comment:
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VP6D News 30 October 2018
- The weather is cooperating, with only a few rain showers over the past
24 hours.
- We're planning our departure and station take down process. We are on schedule to meet the departure plan providing the weather continues to cooperate, however, if the forecast suggests unfavorable weather or sea conditions on Thursday and Friday, we may move up the departure date.
- On our Weds 31 Oct we remove the EME and 160 antennas and any equipment not essential for the remaining operation.
- On our Thursday 1 Nov we will take down the CW camp and all non-essential camp structures, pack all VP6D equipment, and load the CW camp onto the Braveheart.
- On our Friday we'll finish deconstructing the SSB / base camps, continue loading the boat and depart Ducie Island at 18:00 (local).
- We will unload the entire log before we leave the island, most of the
FT8 dupes will be removed during that upload.
- OQRS will be activated after the upload.
- The team appreciates the cooperation we've received from the DX community. The pilots forwarded your comments and suggestions. It's impossible to respond individually, be assured we read the summary of your comments and have acted on several of these where feasible. Thank you for the kind words; while the team is tired, reading these notes encourages them to work harder.
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We will operate 160m FT8 in Fox / Hound mode, 1.839mhz.
We're making this change because of the incredibly high number of callers on 160.
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VP6D News 28 October 2018
2018-10-28 14:29:38Z:
Sunday morning on Ducie Island.
We have made the on-island network more robust which has improved uploads from our CW camp which is a kilometer from the main camp.
Weather permitting, we will have another four days operation from Ducie.Leave a comment:
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VP6D News 27 October 2018
- We continue to operate on all bands that are are open.
- Earlier today we took the N1MM log, merged all the FT8 logs, and uploaded to our log server at VP6D.com ~81,000 QSOs. We will do a complete log analysis and audit after we leave Ducie.
- 6m EME - last night we made 3 more contacts. We will continue operating 6 m EME on moonrise for another few nights.
- We created an island exit plan with the skipper of the Braveheart. In order to make the once-a-week flight from Mangareva to Tahiti we will begin the tear down process as follows:
Weds 31 Oct: Remove 6 m EME antenna and 160 antenna
Thursday 1 Nov: Begin tear down of CW and SSB camps, antennas, etc
Remove all non essential equipment from the island.
Friday 2 Nov: Remove sleeping tents and move all DX-pedition equipment to the Braveheart
Leave the island approx 15:00 (local)
Depart Ducie 18:00 (local) after stowing all equipment on Braveheart
Above plan dependent on the weather remaining calm.
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