YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
Update 27th of December 2019
Everything is on schedule for our Swains DXpedition. Last month Martin PA4WM en Gerben PG5M have been working on the antennas for Swains. After some small design changes, the antennas are ready now (thanks to Dado E74AW for helping with the 160m antenna).
We also have collected a lot of other equipment and tools. We were in doubt if everything would fit in the 3 boxes we created especially for this adventure.
This morning we started packing all the equipment. At the end of the afternoon we were ready. Luckily everything fitted in the boxes: 14 RX/TX antennas, 800 meters of coax-cable, 2.4 KM of radials, bandpass filters, power supplies and tools were packed in the boxes.
The boxes are ready for transport, the total weight is approx. 200 KG. Within 3 weeks we will transport it to American Samoa.
After finishing this phase of our project we will now focus on the next phase; the radio and computer equipment.
The whole team is looking forward to activate Swains Island as W8S.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 – From 10-25 March 2020 an international team of 10 operators will be active from Swains Island as W8S. QRV on all HF bands in CW, SSB, FT8 and RTTY with 4 stations from 2 separated camps. More info will follow the coming weeks. Website
