Expedition Operations

Camp Location: Easter Island

The campsite on Easter Island is located on the northern coast, about a mile from Anakena beach, which was the campsite for the 1955 archaeological expedition of Thor Heyerdahl. The site is a relatively flat terrace. It is very near the Ahu Te Pito Kura, location of the largest moai ever erected. It is within hiking distance of Rano Raraku, the site of the quarry where the moai were carved, and the Poike peninsula, which was the site of an ancient battle between warring clans. Ana O Keke was the traditional site of the Cave of the White Virgins, in which young girls were held to lighten their skin color. .

Camp layout

The camp is laid out as a central compound, two radio operating tents, and the boat-launching area. In the central compound, there is a GEM greeting, eating, meeting) building; a communications tent with the Internet termainal, multimedia computer, and miscellaneous specialty radios; and the sleeping tents and latrines. Electric power at 240/120 VAC is provided in all tents. A laser-based intrusion alarm protects the site.

Camp facilities

• Generators: 5.5 kW (3), 4 kW, 1.9 kW
• Lights: halogen (6); clamp lights (5), desk lights (4), flashlights (18)
• Romex (1000 ft.), plugs and outlets, 16 extension cords, various lengths
• Antenna masts: 36-ft. (6), 40 ft. (3)
• Tents: 10x16 ft., 2 rooms, each sleeps 8 (8)
• Kitchen units: work table, sink (2)
• Stoves: 2 burner Coleman (2)
• Electric skillets (2)
• Thermos bottles (3), fans (4), pair binoculars (2)
• Flatware, kitchen utensils
• Microwave oven, coffee pot, TV/VCR combo, copier
• Tarps (15), backpacks (4), umbrellas (3), rain ponchos (12)
• Sleeping bags (24), blankets (30), airbeds (18), airmats (4), beach towels (4)
• Toilet tents (2), toilet units (4)
• Tables (plywood) (10)
• Folding camp table w/umbrella, hand truck
• Marker boards (4), assorted stationery supplies
• Strongbox for valuables
• Garbage can, supply plastic bags, ice chests (2)
• Water jugs (6 1 gal, 2 6 gal)
• Gasoline cans, 10 gal (2), jerry cans (2)
• Inflatable boat w/outboard motor
• Shovel, pick

Radios

• Kenwood TS-950 (2) HF
• Kenwood TS-850 (1) HF
• Kenwood TS-690 HF+50 MHz
• Kenwood TS-50 (2) HF
• Yaesu FT-890 HF
• Motorola Portable HF
• Motorola Handheld (12) 2 m
• ETO Alpha 91B (5) HF linear amps

Electronics and software

• AEA PK232MBX TNCs
• Xircom wireless LAN
• Motorola MT2000 Data link
• Citadel 1.3 UPS
• K1EA CT 9.23
• WJ2O Master Logging Program

Antennas

• Force-12 EF160V 160 m (vertical)
• EF180B 80 m (rotatable dipole)
• C-3 20/17/15/12/10 m (beam)
• C-4 40/20/17/15/12/10 m (beam)
• EF320 20 m (3 el beam)
• EF240S 40 m (2 el beam)
• Cushcraft A4S 20/15/10 m (4 el beam)
• A3WS 17/12 m (3 el beam)
• 20-3CD 20 m (3 el beam)
• 40-2CD 40 m (2 el beam)
• A148-10S (4) 2 m (10 el beam)
• 22XB 2 m (22 el beam satellite)
• 738XB 0.7 (38 el satellite)
• Cushcraft R5 trapped vertical for 5-band NCDXF Beacon
• WØCD and others Battle Creek Special 160/80/40 m (vertical)
• K6MYC Moonbounce 6 m (10 el beam)
• Fritzel FD-4 Multiband Windom dipole
• Electric fence Beveridge

Salaz y Gomez Operations

The radio team will be QRV Salas y Gomez as XR0Z approximately 7-11 Sept. 1995. The frequencies can be found on the Home Page.

QSLing

• e-QSLs - An internet message is automatically launched within 24 hours of the QSO;
• Next-day QSLs - Within 24 hours after the first contact, a printed QSL is put into the U. S. mail;
• Regular QSLs - A normal printed card is sent in response to a request with an SASE (manager WA3HUP).

The QSL Barcode

QSL cards from XR0Y and XR0Z will contain a barcode. Although currently no validating agency such as ARRL makes use of barcode technology, it is likely that in the future, such barcodes will be used. The following design will appear on the QSL cards:

The upper line of characters gives the is standard EI/SyG data line. It contains the following fields:

where CALL1 is the logged station and CALL2 is the logging station. The barcode line is created by recoding the standard line to make it more compact. It contains the following fields:

• *: initiator
• AAAAA: logged station
• %: separator
• Y: year
• M: month
• D: day
• TT: time (UTC)
• FFF: frequency
• M: mode
• SS: signal report
• NNNNNN: user code
• BBBBB: logging station
• *: terminator

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