UBARoyal Belgian Amateur Radio Union

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Photo: Couloir

PT0S โ€“ St Peter and St Paul Rocks

Date Until: 
30/11/2012
The ops are all right, but still coping with high waves affecting their equipment and the lack of space which forces them to sleep in the chairs.
I have also updated the log, it now contains nearly 29k QSOs, and George was able to squeeze a long awaited missing log from the earlier days of the expedition which was still missing due to the unreliable satellite link. Clublog is also updated, as well as LoTW, but do not expect your credits to appear quickly, it looks that the delay at LoTW is greater than we had initially thought.

George AA7JV states:
The waves just never stop. The 10m vertical got swamped again, this time we have filled the gamma match capacitor with Teflon grease. No salt water can get in there any more. Also, the CAT5 control cable to the main antenna tuner got shredded by the strong wave action at high tide and the sharp rocks it was laid over. The cable was replaced (and suspended) this morning. We got buried a few times by some large waves as we did the job at high tide; we did not want to lose the time waiting for low tide. (Low and high tides alternate approximately every 6 hours. The tidal range on SPSP is about 2.5 meters.) We are all suffering from a lack of sleep.