ARLA/CLUSTER: Activação das Ilhas Sub-Antárcticas da Nova Zelandia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands

Team Antipodes is scheduled to set sail less than two weeks from now.

Cezar is already in New Zealand, and confirms that two full sets of
equipment (rigs and antennas) are already with the Department of
Conservation office in Invercargill, where the quarantine is scheduled for
January 3.

All team members will meet in Invercargill on January 2, and in preparation
for the quarantine need to treat all clothing and footwear in a trigene
solution, a powerful antibacterial. We of us are a little apprehensive that
the trigene will affect long term at least some of the materials and metal
bits, but there is no way around it. Most of all, we are concerned of all
electronic components, including photo/video cameras and laptops, as they
will have to be wiped with a cloth soaked in trigene solution too…

If everything goes according to plan and weather cooperates, the team will
board Evohe by noon local time on January 4, and attempt landing by
mid-afternoon on January 7. It will likely take a few hours before they
will be QRV, since landing will require some serious hiking back and forth
between the shore and camp. One of their stations will be located inside
the Castaway Depot, while the other a few tens of meters away, in a small
tent.

While the landing and operating permit is very strict in terms of where the
radio equipment should be located, the tent allows for some mobility to
reduce interference between stations. To reduce it even further, the team
will have at their disposal a full set of Dunestar filters.

The list of group and individual donors continues to be updated on a daily
basis, and we wish to express our gratitude to everyone who is able to
contribute financially to reduce our personal costs. The original budget
had to be increased by almost 7%, due to unforeseen costs, to which we had
to add another 8% due to the strengthening of the NZD versus the USD during
the last few months. Please keep support coming, we do need it dearly!

This operation will count under the new DXCC entity name "New Zealand
Subantarctic Islands" (the old name - Auckland and Campbell Islands [ZL9])
for DXCC purposes.

A Web page has been activated to provide more details and help collect
funds for this operation at: http://iotahunter.org

Fonte: OPDX
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