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Gloriosos 2009: Official Press ReleaseThursday Aug 20, 2009
Gloriosos 2009, Official Press Release:
Click for FT5GA website
The FT5GA team has in hand, the flight tickets from Paris CdG to St Denis, Reunion Island airport. The departure is scheduled on September 11th and the return on October 8th.
The information about the French Forces Transall flight from Saint Denis to Grande Glorieuse will be published as soon as the FASZOI Hq will have confirmed them. (FASZOI = French Armed Forces for the South Indian Ocean Zone)
The stay on Grand Glorieuse is considered about three weeks in length.
All the gear has been picked up and is now ready packed on pallets, to be sent to Reunion island, in the next few days. Thanks especially for that to the Provins ARC, F6KOP members Serge, F6AML and Frank, F4AJQ.
Please forward and spread this information without any change.
73
Didier, F5OGL team leader for Gloriosos 2009
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Official release – August 25, 2009
GLORIOSOS 2009 and the Magic band.
The propagation forecast for the Magic band from Gloriosos is very bad at the expedition time, in all directions.
Taking advice from 6 meters specialists, they inform us that chances to give FT5GA to world hams are very low and even less.
The only one antenna available is a 2 el HB9CV, with no other possibility to bring several other more efficient one(s), included for EME; So it has been considered we had to focus on HF bands.
So we sadly decided to concentrate our activity only from 160 to 10 meters..
We ask the 6m community to understand our decision.
73
Didier, F5OGL, Team leader,
FT5GA ?? Official press release: September 7, 2009
Hi friends
291 kg of gear on the scales ( transceivers, PA??s, power supplies, antennas , masts and miscellanous also ..) have been picked up by Didier/F5OGL, Yves/F5PRU and Franco/F4EVR .
They gave it to Mr Alain LEFELLEC, Export freight manager of the LOGFRET Society, located at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport. We thank him for his kind reception and his help to make this expedition a success.
Two pallets will fly tomorrow to Reunion island, were they will be returned by the Airforce base 181, freight service.
We now have in hand the authorisation to transmit on the Radioamateur Service bands, from Grande Glorieuse. This permission is being shown on the Glorieuses 2009 webpage at http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/index-e.htm
73
Didier, F5OGL, team leader
The scheduled team departure to La Reunion island is expected around 1640 UTC Friday afternoon (Sept 11). The departure to Gloriosos via Mayotte is scheduled on Monday (Sept 14) morning.
F5CQ via G7VJR
The FT5GA team landed safe on late Saturday, at Saint Denis de la Reunion Airport.
While this weekend, the members of the crew spent some time to check and finalize the laptops and the Wintest soft. They were heard doing that on the bands, barefoot, on Sunday using CW and RTTY, from Sainte Clotilde.
This morning the departure to Mayotte is scheduled around 0900 local time. Then they will fly to Glorieuse, were they are expected to land around the end of the afternoon.
Tonight I??ll call them by satellite cell phone to know approximately when they will begin to traffic.
The Higher Authorities of the Territory and the others from the French Forces presence on the island, may delayed that a little bit. So it seems reasonable to expect the first signals on Tuesday in the morning (GMT time)
By the way I will thank all of our pilots and friends who are already QRV to collect all the useful information to permit us the best traffic organization.
Jeff, F6AOJ did a good job and send it us, about propagations predictions, Floyd is ready to receive and transmit us all what will be useful for the whole American Continent.
We know the poor conditions today for the FT/G/Americas way so with the pilot help we will try to be as top as possible for them.
This morning, Lee, ZL2AL sent us some predictions for the VK/ZL area. The Middle and Far Asian observation are awaited, and will come soon.
The FT5GA has the chance to offer you a rare possibility to get the 4th Most Wanted country (The last time was in the 1999/2000); Could we ask the Ham community to don??t mess up the party ?
Please hear and hear before coming in the pile up. The operators will give also some instructions while beeing behind laptops , keys and mikes. They have received strict orders to keep the traffic under their control.
The logbooks will be able as soon as possible on the Web page at : http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/searchlog.php.
Rafik, F5CQ our webmaster, will update as often as possible, receiving conditions permitting.
Thank to him too for the big job done in the past and for that he will have to do in the next days.
So beam your antennas, keep your ears and rigs ready. The crew members are motivated as ever and they will do all their best to make all of you happy.
Didier F5OGL ?? Glorieuses 2009 leader
From Didier, FT5GA, team leader
Yves-Michel, F5PRU said :
The departure from La Reunion had been delayed of one hour. Now all the Authorities and crew are at the French Foreign Legion base on Mayotte.
At the time, they are taking off to Glorieuse.
Yves-Michel, F5PRU confirmed that it seems very difficult to set up any antenna before the sunset.
They will set up all the antennas tomorrow morning.
If you QSO??d some of the members of the crew yesterday, from FR, it was thanks to a FR ham who loaned his barefoot station with a light vertical.
73, be steady
Didier, F5OGL, FT5GA team leader.
[Through Maurice, F5NQL??s mailbox, Maurice, Communication Internet and mail for FT5GA]
The Transall plane, carrying the TAAF and Mayotte authorities, the French Foreign Legion detachment and the FT5GA crew has landed on Grande Glorieuse at 13h30 GMT ( 16h30 local).
At this moment all the Servicemen, including the FT5GA Op??s are busy unloading all the Military and dxpedition gear and supplies.
The night falls very quickly so, when the plane will be completly unloaded, it will be too late to set up the antennas, even one. It will be done tomorrow just after the sunrise.
The FT5GA team will live in the anticyclonic shelter and will have a special room for Ham traffic. This evening and sometime in the night, they will spent as long as possible the most part of their time to set up the indoor parts of the stations ?? rigs, pa??s, laptops, bandfilters …).
After more then five years, some hours to wait again is undoubtedly the best achievement we would had hope, isn’t it?
73
Didier, F5OGL, Team leader,
[Through F5NQL??s mail box, Maurice, in charge of the Internet communication by mail]
From Didier, F5OGL, team leader
Yves-Michel/F5PRU by Satellite cell phone says :
We are showing to the TAAF, Mayotte and French Forces authorities what Ham Radio is. We are working for the future of possible dxpeditions to the Eparses.
Only one station is QRV, (with a 5 bands Spiderbeam antenna).
The demo transmission is on 14190 SSB, and will end around 000 utc or a little bit later.
This afternoon the two other Spiderbeams will be set up on the afternoon and the low band antennas tomorrow..
So be lucky.
73
Didier, F5OGL, FT5GA team leader.
LINK for FT5GA QRV info
After the first day only one station was set up.
The first day was reserved to exhibitions to the VIP.
At the end of the first day, a vertical for 80m was also in service.
They were on 80m all last night long.
A huge QRN annoyed the traffic.
Today part of the crew sets up the antennas and the other , indoor is assembling rigs, PS, Pa??s and so on, for the two other stations.
The traffic will grow up during the day, more and more.
However, know that four times a day, the crew must stop the transmissions around 04h00, 09h00, 16h00 and 17h00 UTC, for control , especially of the AC supplies, by the Chief of maintenance crew and members.
Rafik, F5CQ waits the first log to be uploaded on the web page at : http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/searchlog.php tonight or tomorrow in the morning. The first part of the FT5GA log will be available , on Sept 17th, in the morning, + or less, .
73
Didier, FT5GA, team leader
This morning, after a very windy night the operators discovered that the V40 was broken in 2 pieces (it has been repaired), the V80 was slighty bent but also repaired. The WARC Spiderbeam had a faulty contact (fixed), 5 band Spiderbeam is ok.
All three stations are installed, tuned and correctly configured.
This afternoon, they will setup the V160 and K9AY. Hopefully they got precious help from the Glorioso military.
This will allow to certain op to operate. All three stations will be back on air as soon as the third Spiderbeam will be erected.
Tonight, two stations will be actives for the whole night.
73′s de Didier, F5OGL – Gloriosos 2009 team leader
[translation from Google translate]
On September 17, 2009
Yesterday, the day was devoted to assembling solid air. The wind is strong enough there. The three Spiderbeams are operational and the V40 and V80.
Having started its activity around 19:00 on 30 meters and 20 meters, the team managed to find a good spread on the U.S., which was not a foregone conclusion. The spread was excellent on Europe.
During the night, the spread has been very changeable and zero to 03h00 and then returned to 04h30 on 40 meters.
This morning, two stations were active on 18 SSB and 21 CW. Other operators have set up the V160 and all K9AY.
This afternoon, three stations were active on 24 CW, 21 SSB and 21 CW.
The first logs arrived and found at: http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA
A priori, they will be uploaded every day or every two days.
Remember their hours of mandatory cuts.
That night, they expected to be active on 30, 40, 80 and 160 meters under the propagation observed.
73′s F5OGL Didier – team leader Glorious 2009
We ask all of you who qso??d FT5GA and who have any question to avoid sending claims to Rafik, F5CQ but :
1st) check you are in the log. The log could be put online several days after your QSO)
2nd) You can try to make another QSO.
3rd) On your QSL card, add a little post-it with your observations and send it to the QSL manager.
Claimings by mail to F5CQ and other inquiries to FT5GA crew ( included F5OGL, operators on Gloriosos, pilots and F5NQL will not be answered.
About the propagation :
Bernie, W3UR informed us that Bob, N6TV has put online on his website the propagation tables calculated by Dean N6BV : http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/ft5ga_prop.pdf.
Logs:
Rafik (who is also in Strasbourg) wait for a new batch of logs today, which he will put online as soon as possible.
That??s all folks for to-day from F5NQL who will drive to home from Strasbourg, where he attended yesterday the Clipperton DX Club Convention..
73
Maurice, F5NQL, Internet communication for FT5GA.
From Rafik, webmaster for Glorieuses 2009 ?? FT5GA -, September 20th in the evening and September 21st in early morning.
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Didier/F5OGL had some difficulties to join the team by satellite cell phone. The link was not reliable enough, with numerous cuts. The logs were transmit not very easily.
The last log uploaded at : http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA contains 10416 QSO and the last one was recorded on September 20th at 11:04 utc.
About 500 QSO are missing, for the date/time are not correct. I??ve not uploaded them to avoid disturbing on the ‘best time to work FT5GA’ page.
I??m waiting for some more information about the time track; when corrected, these 500 QSO will be add on the logsearch page.
I??m receiving a lot of complaints about QSO??s made on 40m and 17m.
After checking, I discovered that a lot of them were not made with the FT5GA crew, but were QSO??s with pirate stations who are jamming the bands.
73 de Rafik, F5CQ Webmaster
*************
From DIDIER, F5OGL, Gloriosos 2009 ?? FT5GA ?? team leader, September 21th
Today there will be an AC cut of several hours to do the maintenance on the only one generator active on the island. Unfortunately, the second broke down at the end of the last week.
The crew will spend this time to check the antennas and reinforce their guys and anchored.
Two of the four transceivers are temporarily out of order ; the operators will do the maintenance of them also.
They have tried the 160m band but the conditions and the propagation are atrocious.
Tomorrow, Jeff, F6AOJ will transmit, some new traffic instructions to use the more efficient propagation tracks by band and continent.
The satellite digit link use seems to be better from this morning , so we will try to upload the logs every day.
For the Digital fans, F8CRS will put FT5GA on the air during the next CQ WW DX RTTY (Sept 26&27).
Even if the discipline becomes better, the crew members inform that too much time is lost repeating the callsigns heard with holders who do not confirm or who confirm after several times. Please listen to the operators.
73
F5OGL Didier ?? Team leader de Glorieuses 2009-09-21
Informations via Maurice, F5NQL, Communications Internet par mail
for FT5GA.
The ops are leaving 20m before it’s even open here in NCDXF country. I’m hearing FH/DJ7RJ at 1700z, a fine signal. Please consider mixing up the schedule a bit, it’s impossible to work FT5GA if the band isn’t even open yet. Same is true in the evening, not much overlap of daylight from antipodes.
Thanks for considering, keep up the good work, and enjoy!
Latest FT5GA news, Sept 22, 2009
1st) from RAFIK, F5CQ, webmaster
The log book is online and updated at 2009-09-21 04:17utc, last QSO recorded among a total of 12699
The 485 missing 40m CW QSO??s, in the preview updating have been corrected and merged in the database.
http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA
We regret to confirm that pirates are operating with the FT5GA callsign on or around the original frequencies, so we can consider their QSO??s indeed.
If your QSO is not online, it will be quite sure you have been cheated, by those bad boys. We suggest you retry contacts.
73 de Rafik, F5CQ – Webmaster
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2nd) From Didier, F5OGL, team-leader.
Following some complaints forwarded by Lee, ZL2AL, about the SSTV sub-band in the IARU band plan, the crew has confirmed that they never listen between 14240 to 14260.
The frequencies used are those announced at : http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/index-f.htm and the splits follow strictly the IARU bandplan for the zone.
They cannot be responsible of the indicipline of some operators, sending too high or too low or of those who are jamming and jamming the bands.
73
Didier, F5OGL.
Informations via Maurice, F5NQL, Communications Internet par mail
for FT5GA.
Latest news from FT5GA
The FT5GA crew continues to try satisfying the international Ham radio community.
The propagation is very changeable, in these equinox and higher sunspots times.
Two rigs fell down some days ago. Now one is again in order but the second have to be repaired when coming back home, because of new parts missing on Gloriosos.
By the way, three stations are on the air as often as possible.
On next weekend, the crew will enter the CQ WW DX RTTY contest, in Multi/single class.
The two other stations CW/SSB will be also on the air.
We have now 14 days of traffic to do . We hope more quiet pile ups for these two weeks.
The logs are received at F5CQ??s every evening and uploaded in the row at : http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA
The operators have confirmed to us once again the loss of time with unruly operators. Some other seem death for they have to repeat very often their callsigns to get confirmation of the QSO.
Listen the operators sending information or instructions !
About the QSOs/QSL, Didier, F5OGL, team leader and Rafik/F5CQ webmaster are receiving complaints about wrong callsigns or more. As it was said in a previous message, no answer will be give to these messages.
If there are problems, they will be solved when the future QSL??ing operation after FT5GA return.
We say once again that the cuts, which are systematically denounced on the clusters, are service imperatives, for maintenance. During these times, no AC nor DC is available, and at these moments the operators are doing service job, especially doing the generator maintenance.
These mandatory cuts are used also by the crew, during their very short spartime to study the Traffic instructions written upon pilots observations. It??s essential to make the most of you satisfie.
73
Didier, F5OGL, FT5GA team leader and QSL manager.
From Maurice, F5NQL:
Yesterday about the pirates who make QSO??s on the FT5GA frequencies , even with the same callsign, a typo was made . You had to read : ??so we cannot consider their QSO??s indeed.? , and not ??we can?.
Apologises!
73
Informations via Maurice, F5NQL, Communications Internet par mail
for FT5GA.
Glorioso lastest news; from Didiier, F5OGL, team leader.
After a good CQWW DX RTTY contest, the team has come back to the traffic instructions, written masterfully by Jeff/F6AOJ, using the usual propagation studying tools and Pilots reports.
Last night a Spiderbeam antenna felt down. Fortunately nothing was broken, and all have been set up without any problem.
We got from Yves-Michel/F5PRU, the following crew observation about the low bands:
As it was expected the 16om band is very poor. The QRN is very important.
On 40 and 80m, the propagation is not particuarly good and the reception is poor because of this QRN.
This noise is probably due to the almost permanent presence of thunderstorms, in the Gloriosos and Comoros archipelago areas.
About the higher bands, the crew focuses at the time on 10, 12 and 15 meters. The results in the past days were good, particularly on 10 where we found, at our surprise, very good conditions
In the morning, all the windows to Oceania, East/South-east Asia, Africa, South America and the west coast of north Ameria will be visited.
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From Didier/F5AOJ and Jeff/F6AOJ
We are very sad to observe the big activity of the Pirate Crew, around the FT5GA frequencies. Some hams do not know what Pirate means.
Please check the log and try again, if your QSO is not in it. The pirate crew cheated you.
From Rafik/F5CQ, webmaster:
Last Log updating as follow : http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA
Last QSO : 28/09 at 15:43 UTC
Total QSOs : 29701
Unique Callsigns : 10133
Included the CQWW DX RTTY contest log.
73
Maurice, F5NQL, Internet communication for FT5GA.
FT5GA news
Jeff/F6AOJ, EU pilot, has accepted to write some words.
FT5GA team is only 5 young completely unexperimented op’s in low-band traffic, even not DXers, they are only pilupers, on the wrong side of the island and with antennas away from sea costing, which means 10 to 20db signal loss
Beach access is prohibited for it??s a Turtles reproduction area.
But FT5GA is on the air ! It was this or nothing after 5 years of lobbying, so …. ?
We are not responsible for:
- SFI = 70
- poor S/N ratio in the evening
- and legions of QRMers
- low band peak from 2 to 5 in the morning EU local time
- power availability
- operator avalaibility
Radio is only 2/3 of time. 1/3 is job as military.
We dont have control on sharing time, and local organisation makes number of activities on the island for all residents ( 100% ) at the same time. It is a compromise.
In balance it is:
- a long expedition
- low cost cost operation for an very isolate place and nobody complains about .
In the evening the propagation is quite poor, because this dates are very early in the season and noise level reduces the signal to noise ratio and so many peole who are listening nothing are permanatly making deliberate QRM and it is just time lost.
So up to you, you have until Oct 8th to try again.
Pilots received about 500 requests a day, for ultra selective operation.
We can??t and we don??t want to manage in that way(planning prog require a Cray computer us in back office, and operators. We are sure to be in line with DXCC concept.
Remind, DXCC is a competion, and expeditions not a minium public service for everyone.
Dxpeditions working via list operation or equivalent selective mode should not be accepted by dxcc desk.
If a red carpet is spread between dx and dxer??s what is a QSO value? nothing more than contact via MSN.
We hope 35000 qso’s today in the log, which made 35000 smiles.
73 Jeff F6AOJ Eu-Pilot
This is the last weekend for FT5GA.
Some zones are still to be worked, if the propagation will come with us.
So the team will pay some attention on 80m CW to the USA, and also on 160m, even if these bands are very very noisy.
Jeff, F6AOJ, EU Pilot is writing the strategy lines for the last week, according to these considerations.
Some friends from over the pond have indicated the presence of numerous pirates using the FT5GA callsign near the team band plan, so we ask you to check the daily updated online log, about your QSO??s. We don??t understand the reasons which cause these strange actions, maybe are they a little bit neurotic?
Instead of this presence of pirates, our friends, the crew members, are not annoyed at all.
We know also that a lot of friends haven??t yet contacted FT5GA. It will be done all that it??s possible on Gloriosos to QSO??ed them at least one time, during this last week.
The pilots, instead of their own job restraints, are receiving a 500 message range a day. They have to read them, to work them, and also to answer, for the most part.
We are receiving from the world, observations and FT5GA??s signal reports from friends. We thank them for the good help.
When all the received information are compiled and analysed, the traffic strategy is sent to FT5GA.. So daily, the crew can make the plan of the day ?? Traffic, Service.
73
Didier, F5OGL
FT5GA Oct 6, 2009
Yesterday, the crew, while in full pile up on 20SSB, 24CW and 28rtty had to stop suddenly because of technical reasons concerning the power supply.
Yesterday evening the op??s were active again but this morning the traffic had been cut again.
Now 4 station are active; the 4th was put under repairs and after some DiY, it??s on the air again. These 4 stations will be on the air until the last moment and as longer as possible.
The crew must dismantle the 80 and 160 area farm included the K9AY, this morning. The plane which will come with the new reserve, is awaited a day early as scheduled, and the air track and its surroundings, are to be cleaned of any obstacle.
It could be possible that all of the antennas have to be dismantled to day and the traffic, could be ceased, in such a case, this evening of course.
We will inform you of any change , if it??s happened.
73
Didier, F5OGL, FT5GA team leader.
Freddy, F5IRO and Yves-Michel F5PRU have sent the dismantling plan for both antennas and stations.
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Tonight, the crew continue to traffic with 4 stations on the air, untill 2100 utc + / -
On October 7th morning, dismantling of a complete station and 2 spiderbeams.
Exceptionnally, and for the Ham Community we will do a last effort, with traffic until tomorrow 0900 utc, with two stations, which will be found, propagation permitting, from 40 to 12m, in CW, then SSB, then RTTY and again CW, SSB, RTTY etc …
On Wednesday in the afternoon, the two last stations will be dismantled.
If the plane flight plan is again delayed, (no more information yet), we will be ready to continue the traffic with only one station, until the departure, which is scheduled on Thursday at 1100utc.
Leaving the Gloriosos, after a touch and down on Mayotte, we will arrive in the evening to Saint Denis, Reunion Island.
On next weekend, we will clean and pack the gear all the two days long, making it ready for its return to Metropolitan France.
Via F5NQL??s mailbox, Maurice, Internet communication for FT5GA.
Hello Dxpeditioners,
I like to thank you all for the contacts-you fellows did a great job ! and thousands thank you all for your efforts, all time new country for me and many others, these folks saying things should be in your shoes, your Jobs come first then amateur radio take them as a grain of salt!
Take Care men, have a safe journey home and a pleasant trip-God Speed.
Paul K8PG
From the FT5GA crew just before their departure from Gloriosos
Hi all
We want to thank :
First Didier, F5OGL, of course, otherwise nothing had been possible. His great patience, and relationship mastery with the HQ both in Paris and Saint Denis de la R?Šunion, and the Civilian authorities. Thanks also Didier, for having trust on us.
Rafik, F5CQ , the dxpedition webmaster , and also for the daily updating of the online log and for the complaints treatment.
Jeff F6AOJ, pilote, who maintained at our disposal his great technical knowledge. Thanks also for the statistics. Thanks for having answered with humour on his personnal website, to defend us against the grizzly OM who never, at least one time in their life , left their armchair, except, maybe , to go sometimes to the toilets. THE CREW HAVE APPRECIATED
The KOP TEAM F6KOP (F4AJQ F6AML F4TTR F4EVR F5AGB F9IE and may be other whose callsigns have been forgotten) , otherwise nothing about the gear and technical help could have be possible,. They helped us from the beginning in 2004, . We thank them for their help include their effort to go along us to the airport. They did so, on front of numerous French and foreign Hams reluctances. We think the real Ham Spirit is their, they are an exemple for all,included the French community.
All of the previous , both Servicemen and hams who were at a time or another on the list of operators and who did leave the crew for Service reasons, like F5RQQ F5TLN F5PHW F5PTM F5CQ F5CW F5JKK and many other.
All of you who, in the background, helped us inspite of the difficulties which appeared all this aventure long.
We hope we have won our challenge, in spite of the Service duties and our more or less habits of each of us in this kind of traffic. Nobody is perfect and those who never did will never know and will never be mistaken.
The goal of 50 000 QSO??s was reached by a 5 operators crew, with two and sometimes three stations. We think It seems correct for a spare time activity. Of course with two more operators, it could have been possible to traffic 24 hours a day, and why not to break the K5D results, but the Service has decided differently.
Freddy has now to sort the pictures and the videos, a joint job with Florence??s job who made the dxpedition report. A documentary movie will be realised, to be came out for the next Clipperton DX Club Convention.
To all of you, Thank you and once again Thank you, see you soon on the air from Metropolitan France.
73 from FT5GA operator??s : Yves F5PRU – Bernard F5LPY – David F8CRS – Philippe F4EGS – Freddy F5IRO
Rafik, F5CQ finished a very exhausting work , checking and checking again , the FT5GA log, before uploading it on Lotw. It was made to day at UTC 1235.
Of course some stations will not find one or several of their QSO’s on.
To these hams I say “don’t worry!”. Every situation will be checked with big care. It had been possible, in the huge pile ups, that some mistakes happened.
However, know also that FT5GA was pirated a lot of times, even on the scheduled DXpedition frequencies.
These malevolences are not of our fact, and we ask the community to understand us if some QSO’s will be rejected , for having not be found in the log.
73′s et merci, Didier, F5OGL