Pitcairn
56,300 QSOs
21 Jan to 1 Feb 2012
Five DXers travelled to Pitcairn & operated for eleven days making 56,300 QSOs
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Pitcairn 56,300 QSOs 21 Jan to 1 Feb 2012 Five DXers travelled to Pitcairn & operated for eleven days making 56,300 QSOs |
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| The VP6T QSL: Nigel G3TXF, Michel FM5CD, Vincent F4BKV, Gilles VE2TZT and Jacques F6BEE on board the yacht "Pitcairn" with their first glimpse of the island of Pitcairn on the far horizon. | ||||||||||
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| Tnx NCDXF! Nigel G3TXF, Jacques F6BEE, Gilles VE2TZT, Vincent F4BKV and Michel FM5CD in their NCDXF tee-shirts. | Michel FM5CD operating one of the four stations at VP6T. All stations used Elecraft K3s. There were also four amplifiers. | |||||||||
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| Vincent F4BKV gives a demonstration of Amateur Radio to our skipper Bernard who brought us to VP6 in on the yacht "Pitcairn". | Jacques F6BEE, the chief organiser of the VP6T DX-pedition, operates VP6T on SSB with a fine view across the South Pacific. | |||||||||
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| Gilles VE2TZT fixes G3TXF's K3 which was suffering from the "12v err - corroded pins" problem. The other three K3s all worked fine. | Putting up the 27m high Spidermast for 160m is no joke at the best of times. Even less so on sloping ground on the top of a hill! | |||||||||
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| The feed point of the 27m high top-hat 160m vertical showing the numerous radials (in aluminium wire) and the matching capacitors. | Sunset photo of one of the two Spiderbeams and the 30m vertical. All antennas were at 750 ft above sea level with superb take-off | |||||||||
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| The second Spiderbeam was mounted next to the house. The lower part of the 80m vertical can be seen on the far left. | The mains power on Pitcairn runs only from 8am to 10pm. At all other times we relied on Andrew's generator. It never let us down! | |||||||||
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| Antenna farm at VP6T (l-r): 80m vertical, 17m SDA, 40m vertical, 30m vertical, Spiderbeam-I, 160m vertical and Spiderbeam-II. | Wires, cables and antennas were all shipped from France to Tahiti and from there on to Mangareva in various boxes and cases. | |||||||||
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| F4BKV, VE2TZT and F6BEE working on the first Spiderbeam antenna. | Pitcairn's most well known Amateur Radio ops: Tom Christian VP6TC / Betty VP6YL. | Vincent F4BKV and Jacques F6BEE working on the second Spiderbeam antenna. | ||||||||
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| Our host Andrew Christian with his quad bike at the front of his house perched high on a hill with an excellent take off to EU/USA. | The two Spiderbeams and the 80m and 160m verticals can all just be seen in this distant view of the VP6T DX-pedition QTH. | |||||||||
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| F4BKV, FM5CD and VE2TZT continue to run VP6T pile-ups during a visit to the shack by several Pitcairners. | A replica of the "HMS Bounty" is ceremoniously burned each year on "Bounty Day" (23 January) as part of the island's "national day". | |||||||||
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