Easter Island/Salas y Gomez 1-22 September 1995
Cordell Expeditions

Bulletin: 20 September 1995

And now the 1995 Easter Island DXpedition radio crew:
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  1. Dave Farnsworth WJ2O knows what islands are all about!
  2. Rockin' and rollin' (out the Beverage cable) with Bill Hein AA6TT.
  3. John (W3UM) and Barbara Hilbish.
  4. Tall guys for tall antennas: John Brosnahan W0UN and Enno Korma PA0ERA put up the 40 meter beam.
  5. Max Bachi's XE1XA satellite setup.
  6. Jim Riff K9JSC of key expedition sponsor Motorola operates phone.
  7. View of the camp "Meet and Eat" tent.
  8. Joe Rich demonstrates proper pileup handling to a camp guest.
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  1. Albert Zaehner HB9BCK contemplates the Navel of the World. The ancient Rapanui culture applied this name to their isolated island home. This rock ring at an ahu near our La Perouse camp bears the name as well.
  2. Enno Korma PA0ERA paddling the pileup. "CW is fun!"
  3. Max Bachi XE1XA lines his antenna up with an Oscar satellite.
  4. Oceanside/CW tent overlooking the South Pacific.
  5. Vincent Denecker (G0LMX) in control of the SSB pileup.
  6. The Daily Radio Operators Schedule Board: BE THERE!
  7. Tuning between the crashes for Europe on 160 meters (owner of hand unknown).
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  1. Bob Allphin K4UEE works some far out stations on CW.
  2. The "CQPU": Central QSO Processing Unit. CT (by K1EA) in action.
  3. John Brosnahan W0UN, representing Dick Erhorn K4ETO, sponsor of the Alpha 91B linears.
  4. GUESS WHO! Expedition Leader Bob Schmieder KK6EK, who with Carlos Nascimento NP4IW/6, made the whole thing possible.
  5. Wes W8FMG: One heck of a loyal team member!
  6. 6 Meter M2 beam which provided the only 6m moonbounce QSO with OH2BC (thanks to Mike Staal K6MYC for providing the hardware).
  7. Luis Chrartarifsky XE1L. Hey! What do you say!
Some summing up from the Web Administrator: This is the last update we will be posting from the Easter Island NASA station. Although frustrated in some of our endeavors, we have managed to accomplish our core goals of uploading radio data and posting bulletins concerning the status of the expedition on the Web Page.
Our ambitious goal of establishing an active link in the La Perouse camp by means of wireless LAN setup was frustrated by geographic and equipment difficulties, but provided some valuable insights as to procedures for any future attempts.
As of today we have finally managed to implement the web based QSL log search. Our system administrator informs us that between 3 am and midnight on the 19th there were 200 hits on the form. Extra special thanks go out the Bob Wilson N6TV, who supplied the initial structure and programming for the search.
Including this update we will have generated four bulletins over our three weeks in camp. Not quite the output that I was hoping for (which was a bulletin daily) but then, I could have spent all my time in front of a computer screen or I could have seen the ahu at Tongariki, the petroglyphs at Orongo, the moai at Rana Raraku...
This is not the last bulletin. I will be connecting the ftp directory to the page in a nice GUI fashion. Included in this will be some additional images that were not placed in the web page. I will also be posting some more images of the folks - Rapanui, Chilean and expedition members - without whom the operations would never have succeeded.
This has been a fascinating exprience. I have wanted to visit Easter Island for many years and this opportunity was unexpected but highly desired, and richly rewarding. GAH