Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009

VK9DWX - Willis Island, Australia

Today I received two different QSL-cards from the great expedition VK9DWX via the GDXF direct. This was a Dxpedition from the Bavarian Contest Club (BCC) and the result was 95178 contacts with radio amateurs worldwide.
Pictures about this awsome expedition are here
Willis Island is located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea about 450km east of Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
While a staff of four people operates a weather monitoring station on the south Islet, Mid Islet and North Cay are uninhabited.
Meager vegetation with small bushes and grass, a lot of boobies, swallows and frigate birds, some crabs and by nightime also green turtles is all what you will find on these lonesome islets. With a diameter of 250m Mid Islet offered the team enough space to build up the camps and antennas

A soundfile with signals from Europe recorded at Willis Island are here
This was the super antenna farm:
160m V160E
80m 4-Square & V80E
40m 4-Square
30m 4-Square
20m 4-ele Vertical Dipole Array
17m 4-ele Vertical Dipole Array
15m 4-ele Vertical Dipole Array
12m 4-ele Vertical Dipole Array
10m 4-ele Vertical Dipole Array
6m Yagi
HF9 as spare antenna and for Pactor link
Two beverages for the low bands(EU & NA, short and long path)
73 Gerd DL5AWI

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