Showing posts with label tristan da cunha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tristan da cunha. Show all posts
Monday, 9 March 2015
CTARC Nigel / G3TXF visits CTARC - 7 Mar '15
Here are some photos of Nigel / G3TXF, who accompanied Paul / ZS1S on his recent DX-Pedition to Tristan da Cunha. As those who will have worked him will testify. Nigel is a highly accomplished CW operator!
Thursday, 1 January 2015
CTARC Forthcoming January Meeting - Jan '15
Paul /ZS1S will be giving a talk and presentation of his DXpedition to Tristan da Cunha that took place in September 2014. It promises to be a most interesting event.
Please note that there will be no club meeting in December 2014.
Further details will be announced in the Sunday morning 08h30 bulletins and on this blogspot.
Sunday, 14 September 2014
CTARC - Updates to Tristan da Cunha DXpedition - 14 Sep '14
The Tristan da Cunha DXpedition is currently on the go. Paul, Nigel and their equipment
were airlifted by helicopter to the island. The Agulhas II has now set
sail to Gough Island.
The weather on Tristan da Cunha is currently poor and the operators have not been able to unpack all their antennae. ZS1AU reports that they have not yet been able to put up their beam antenna owing to difficult weather conditions. However, both operators are now on air and have been worked by ZS Hams.
Updates: 22 September:
Paul and Nigel have now managed to erect the beam antenna, owing to improved weather conditions. This development, along with an improvement in propogation has lead to a marked improvement in communications. Nigel /ZD9XF continues to be very active on CW.
On 21 September, listeners to the CTARC Sunday morning bulletin at 08h30 S.A.S.T. were treated to a linkup on HF where Bryan /ZS1NQ /Div 4 relayed Paul /ZD9ZS to Cape Town where he delivered a report via the local 2m repeater on 145.750 MHz. Thanks to Dennis / ZS1AU and Danny /ZS1BL for their involvement.
A good time for local (ZS) hams to make contact with Paul /ZD9ZS is around 10h00 S.A.S.T. on 14195 kHz.USB. Sometimes he operates split on 14205 kHz.
The following operating frequencies apply:
Phone:
7195 kHz, LSB
14195 kHz, USB
Paul / ZS1ZS / ZD9ZS has now been heard and worked on the 20m frequency, operating using a vertical antenna
Morse:
10121 kHz CW
18080 kHz CW
24109 kHz CW
Nigel / G3TXF / ZD9XF is now operational and very active on CW, logging some 1000 contacts per day.
The weather on Tristan da Cunha is currently poor and the operators have not been able to unpack all their antennae. ZS1AU reports that they have not yet been able to put up their beam antenna owing to difficult weather conditions. However, both operators are now on air and have been worked by ZS Hams.
Updates: 22 September:
Paul and Nigel have now managed to erect the beam antenna, owing to improved weather conditions. This development, along with an improvement in propogation has lead to a marked improvement in communications. Nigel /ZD9XF continues to be very active on CW.
On 21 September, listeners to the CTARC Sunday morning bulletin at 08h30 S.A.S.T. were treated to a linkup on HF where Bryan /ZS1NQ /Div 4 relayed Paul /ZD9ZS to Cape Town where he delivered a report via the local 2m repeater on 145.750 MHz. Thanks to Dennis / ZS1AU and Danny /ZS1BL for their involvement.
A good time for local (ZS) hams to make contact with Paul /ZD9ZS is around 10h00 S.A.S.T. on 14195 kHz.USB. Sometimes he operates split on 14205 kHz.
The following operating frequencies apply:
Phone:
7195 kHz, LSB
14195 kHz, USB
Paul / ZS1ZS / ZD9ZS has now been heard and worked on the 20m frequency, operating using a vertical antenna
Morse:
10121 kHz CW
18080 kHz CW
24109 kHz CW
Nigel / G3TXF / ZD9XF is now operational and very active on CW, logging some 1000 contacts per day.
Thursday, 4 September 2014
CTARC DXpedition to Tristan da Cunha - 4 Sep '14
At 14h00 S.A.S.T on Thursday, 4 September 2014, OM's Paul / ZS1S (CTARC Committee Member) and Nigel / G3TXF departed Cape Town Harbour on the SA Agulhas II, bound for Tristan da Cunha. They are planning to be active there from Wednesday 10 September to Friday 3 October 2014 as ZD9ZS and ZD9XF respectively.
Accompanying them on board is OM David / ZS1BCE who is going down to Gough Island to replace OM Pierre / ZS1HF who has been on duty there for the past year.
NOT accompanying them will be two gentlemen from Somalia, who had planned to travel on the vessel without the inconvenience of formal documentation!
You can follow the progress of the Tristan da Cunha DXpedition on Nigel's website, http://www.g3txf.com
The Tygerburger newspaper has a video interview taken at their departure from Cape Town harbour [here].
OM Dennis / ZS1AU is acting as "pilot" for this DXpedition, and kindly requests that radio hams keep an ear open for these ZD9 callsigns on the 20m and 40m bands. Dennis can be contacted on (RSA mobile phone number) 083-450-5232.
We wish all of the best to all involved in this DXpedition!
Accompanying them on board is OM David / ZS1BCE who is going down to Gough Island to replace OM Pierre / ZS1HF who has been on duty there for the past year.
NOT accompanying them will be two gentlemen from Somalia, who had planned to travel on the vessel without the inconvenience of formal documentation!
You can follow the progress of the Tristan da Cunha DXpedition on Nigel's website, http://www.g3txf.com
The Tygerburger newspaper has a video interview taken at their departure from Cape Town harbour [here].
OM Dennis / ZS1AU is acting as "pilot" for this DXpedition, and kindly requests that radio hams keep an ear open for these ZD9 callsigns on the 20m and 40m bands. Dennis can be contacted on (RSA mobile phone number) 083-450-5232.
We wish all of the best to all involved in this DXpedition!
 |
| Left to right: Dennis / ZS1AU, Nigel / G3TXF and Paul / ZS1TF |
 |
| The well-equipped traveller, complete with portable loop antenna! |
 |
Grateful acknowledgement to ZS1AU for sending the above photos.
Grateful acknowledgement to Mike /ZS1FP for the above four photos
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)