Topband: [The Daily DX] TO4E -TO4WW - news December 1st

["Bernie McClenny, W3UR" <bernie@dailydx.com>(by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)]

        Some interesting info here about the low band antennas at
TO4E.  Hopefully they will be a bit more active now that they have
the antennas up...if the turtles will leave them alone!

					73,  Bill  W4ZV

Didier F5OGL and Rafik F5CQ has been in touch with Dany and his team
this
morning. All is fine even if they are a bit tired after their contest
operation.

They realised a bit more than 13000 QSO, 4000 of them during the CQWW (5
millions of points).

Dany F5CW, Eric F5JKK & Pascal F5PTM has been the operators of TO4WW.
Jean-Louis F5NHJ & Freddy F5IRO has been active as TO4E during the same
period.  They are all doing a fantastic job even with hard conditions on
the island and we can thank them for that.

Some stations droped me a mail because they hearded TO4E out of the WARC
bands and sometime on CW (infos from Pilots stations and clusters).
T04E was allowed to be used at any moment on any bands (even during the
CQWW) so, it's absolutly possible that TO4E give a multiplier to T04WW.

Dany hopes the intensity of pile-up will decrease a bit but doesn't
believe
it too much.

Turtles are actually a problem there. Low bands antennas are installed
on the beach.  Every night, these animals, protected, knock over the
antennas and destroy the radials when they jump out from the ocean to
reach the top of the beach to lay during the night.  Daily, the team
must repair and raise again all these antennas.

The 80m is wide open to all continents at the same time. The team is
looking
to modifiy the operation schedule.

The atmosphere and health is good.
The moral of the guys is high.

To follow ...

Rafik F5CQ, Co-organizer Europa 2003

http://europa2003.free.fr/
e-mail : f5cq@free.fr
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