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Team member unloading equipments to the island
in rough conditions. |
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Last piece of heavy equipment i.e power plant
container being transferred. |
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The rock climb is very difficult with very few
flat spots. The flat spots tend to have strong accumulation of
thousands of years of guano of birds. With rain the few flat spots had
become muddy emitting pungent ammonia odors that one expects from
guano. The concentration of this ammonia in the air could reach very
high at times making the brain to work slow. However, the team is
making progress to take everything on the top of the rock. |
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75% of equipments have been brought to the top
of the rock, by this time we were all very exhausted. It had been 4
hours of hard work in bringing equipments on the top of the rock. Based
on the past experience Ramon made sure that tarps/sheds get hung first
to at least give us some protection from tough weather conditions, while
we un-pack and build antennas. |
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K2-100 is out of bag and CW team ready to be set
up a station. |
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YV5OHW working hard to install Sigma-5 at the
edge of the rock. Again you can see the danger, one missed foot step,
there is a 50-60 ft of straight fall and can end the DXpedition right
there.
Again the long time experience and presence of mind of these YV
operators come into
play in a huge way. |
Our CW Operating Station Shack is ready to
occupy for next few days.
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Obviously, with limited space for everything
including sleeping, antenna locations we had to make sure we take turns
in resting and operating. YV5OHW and YV5ZV operating during early morning
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The island has thousands of the birds. Based on
the previous DXpedition operators, the population of birds must be 50%
less this time. We observed the boobies at all the time. Here you can
observe Baby bird trying to learn flying. It was an interesting
experience to see at one point the mother just pushed baby off the cliff
and there she was flying by own. |
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