| Results of trip: | ||||||||||||
| Surfing: As usual just great. Not quite as big on average as 2002 but everyday there was great surf with no crowd. The lefts at Namotu are quick and long. The | ||||||||||||
| rights are steep, fast, predictable, rarely close out, and are quite long as the wave twist around the coral. | ||||||||||||
| Radio: 487 qso's, 54 countries. The tuneable 20 vertical and elevated ground plane were suffiecient to work the world on 40 through 10 meters. The kite antenna | ||||||||||||
| was used on several occasions but the winds were not strong at times optimum for 80 meter operations most of the time. When timing was good and the wind | ||||||||||||
| was up few signals were heard on 80 m. K6GT was heard loud and clear about 2 hours after sunset local Fijian time. However he did not hear me calling. | ||||||||||||
| The nearness to the water really made the vertical antennas effective as predicted by simulation. During the WPX SSB contest I had trouble getting a pile up | ||||||||||||
| going. It seemed that many stations could not hear me due to QRM with so many stations on the bands. I did raise many operators and gave them a new multiplier. | ||||||||||||
| Near the end of the contest I moved to 20 m CW. A huge pile up formed. Several operators mentioned that I was the only signal on the CW band. This kept me busy | ||||||||||||
| for two hours and I finally just packed it in as the dinner drums were beating. | ||||||||||||
| I would highly recommend an operation like this. The equipment is easy to carry when using telescoping fishing poles and wire as antennas. | ||||||||||||
| GRASS SHACK | ||||||||||||
| STATION | ||||||||||||
| CANONICAL SUNRISE | ||||||||||||
| QSL CARD IMAGE | ||||||||||||
| Island Activities | ||||||||||||
| NAMOTU PROPAGATION | ||||||||||||
| KITE ANTENNA FOR 80/160 | Weather Prediction for kite aerial: http://www.met.gov.fj/aifs_prods | |||||||||||
| KITE USER EXPERIENCE | 3/24/03: Present conditions look good for kite operation on 3/29 and 3/30, beyond that predictions are not | |||||||||||
| Wilkes - North Side of Namotu | yet available. Probability of 3/29 operation is 60%, 3/30 op 80%. Will start on 80 meters @ 0800 UTC. | |||||||||||
| Lefts - Out the front door | ||||||||||||
| Namotu - a small place | Constest CQ WW WPX SSB: Start 0000 GMT 3/29, 48 hrs, Exchange= RS + Serial Number | |||||||||||
| 3D2IZ will operate the contest between other activities. | ||||||||||||
| QSL via N6IZ | Hi Probability | |||||||||||
| email n6iz@arrl.net | Med Probability | |||||||||||
| Dates of operation: 3/28 - 4/6 | Lo Probability | |||||||||||
| 3D2IZ Operating Schedule | Special Nets | |||||||||||
| Special Nets: | K6GT @ 3513 | |||||||||||
| G3 team @10107 KHz | ||||||||||||
| Charlie @ 14343 | ||||||||||||
| Antennas: 40 thru 10 = home brew tunable vertical with elevated ground plane. | ||||||||||||
| 160 and 80 = Kite born vertical, 1/4 wave with 1/4 wave gnd plane. | ||||||||||||
| Freqs(khz) | 1828 | 3505 | 7005 | 10110 | 14025 | 18075 | ||||||
| 3853 | 7087 | 14 | ||||||||||
| 21025 | 24895 | 28025 | will operate up to avoid QRM. | |||||||||
| 21353 | 28353 | |||||||||||
| 160 meter ops is very weather depedent. Antennas require at least 10 knots of | ||||||||||||
| wind. Watch weather @ http://www.met.gov.fj/aifs_prods for wind conditions. | ||||||||||||
| First Ops: 3/29 0800 UTC | ||||||||||||
| Last Day: 4/4 2000 UTC | ||||||||||||
| GMT | Fijian Time | PST | EST | Japan | CW/SSB | |||||||
| 0:00 | 12:00 | 16:00 | 19:00 | 13:00 | ||||||||
| 1:00 | 13:00 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 14:00 | 28 | |||||||
| 2:00 | 14:00 | 18:00 | 21:00 | 15:00 | 21 | |||||||
| 3:00 | 15:00 | 19:00 | 22:00 | 16:00 | ||||||||
| 4:00 | 16:00 | 20:00 | 23:00 | 17:00 | 21/28 | |||||||
| 5:00 | 17:00 | 21:00 | 0:00 | 18:00 | ||||||||
| 6:00 | 18:00 | 22:00 | 1:00 | 19:00 | 10/14 | |||||||
| 7:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | 2:00 | 20:00 | 14/21 | |||||||
| 8:00 | 20:00 | 0:00 | 3:00 | 21:00 | 7 | |||||||
| 9:00 | 21:00 | 1:00 | 4:00 | 22:00 | 7 / 10 | |||||||
| 10:00 | 22:00 | 2:00 | 5:00 | 23:00 | 3.5 | |||||||
| 11:00 | 23:00 | 3:00 | 6:00 | 0:00 | 3.5 | |||||||
| 12:00 | 0:00 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 1:00 | ||||||||
| 13:00 | 1:00 | 5:00 | 8:00 | 2:00 | 3.5 / 1.8 | |||||||
| 14:00 | 2:00 | 6:00 | 9:00 | 3:00 | ||||||||
| 15:00 | 3:00 | 7:00 | 10:00 | 4:00 | ||||||||
| 16:00 | 4:00 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 5:00 | ||||||||
| 17:00 | 5:00 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 6:00 | ||||||||
| 18:00 | 6:00 | 10:00 | 13:00 | 7:00 | ||||||||
| 19:00 | 7:00 | 11:00 | 14:00 | 8:00 | ||||||||
| 20:00 | 8:00 | 12:00 | 15:00 | 9:00 | ||||||||
| 21:00 | 9:00 | 13:00 | 16:00 | 10:00 | ||||||||
| 22:00 | 10:00 | 14:00 | 17:00 | 11:00 | ||||||||
| 23:00 | 11:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 12:00 | ||||||||
