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VP8SGK – South GeorgiaSaturday Jan 26, 2013
UPDATE - VP8SGK will not now be active during this visit to King Edward Point. This is due to the limited time that the ship is alongside.
Ship webcam when at King Edward Point, South Georgia.
November 20, 2012 – VP8SGK was QRV from South Georgia at 17:35z, working 10, 17 and 20m SSB. He went QRT at 18:55z.
November 5, 2012 – The following is the latest information on the proposed operation from South Georgia by Mike, VP8SGK.
The JCR is now at King Edward Point, South Georgia, but is at anchor, which makes getting ashore more difficult. I will try to get to the base for 16/17Z. If the ship does arrive at 12z then I am likely to have work to carry out for most of the morning and part of the afternoon. I do have to visit the base to look over the radio equipment and once I have done this I would hope to be able to operate as VP8SGK. I anticipate this to be after 17 or 18z. [more]
*South Georgia is #12 on Club Log most wanted list.
**Note: Previous VP8SGK activity from April 2012, with audio clip, can be found here.
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Does he plan to go on the air at a later time or is this it?
73,
Jonathan W6GX
He was heard, albeit very weak, on 17m here in VU while working the few stations who called him. Didn’t sound like he had many callers going by the leisurely pace of his QSOs. Seems people were too busy chasing PT0S without realising that VP8/G sits higher on the Most Wanted List than PY0/S :-)
now if only i had the firepower to blast thru…. ;-)
73,
Deepak VU2CDP
The propagation gods did not favor propagation to USA midwest – maybe next time….
Safe travels Mike!
Yes it´s hard. Check out the location of King Edward Point in Google maps and you see there is a bad take off to EU, NA, SA…high mountains in less than 1km in these directions.
Dan, Deepak & others,
Unfortunately the propagation gods did not favor anyone but a few in southern Africa (XS & V5) and South America. While Mike remained nil heard here ) I could clearly hear those who did work him.
I observed an effort to try both ten and twenty meters to no avail also.
Perhaps it is time for someone to mount a serious DX operation from VP8-G and VP8-S of the caliber of the VP8ORK operation.
Thanks to Mike for his efforts in any case.
I couldn’t hear him the last go around. Propagation to Hawaii was very low to non-existant. Hopefully this time it’ll work. Safe travels.
73, Delwyn KH6DC
Thanks Mike,
even just to try it,
It is very nice what you do,
congratulations for the site and the online webcam