Solomon Islands & Temotu
IOTA Expedition 2018
H44R Russell Islands (OC-168)
H40D Duff Islands (OC-179)
NEWS
28 September 2018
DL6DH confirmed that he received the replacement set of QSL cards shipped with FedEx #782938517350. As such, I hope that all respective GDXF members will finally receive the QSL cards they have long awaited for next week. 25 September 2018 I have been announced more than two weeks ago by DL6DH, the GDXF QSL Manager, that none of the three packages with QSL cards I mailed him on Aug 7 for the group members arrived. It was extremely difficult to accept that not one, but three packages, each weighting 350-400 g, would just disappear into the thin air. After an additional wait, I have written last night a complete new set of cards, which I am shipping to DL6DH today by FedEx. A few GDXF members have submitted yesterday and today separate, direct QSL request via the Club Log's OQRS system. I have returned their funds in full, but I would appreciate very much if other members will refrain from doing this. They will get their cards via the GDXF QSL Manager shortly. 7 August 2018 All direct QSL requests received until Aug 6 have been mailed out in the same batch. The bureau requests will be attended to later on. I would like to use this opportunity to thank again all those mentioned in the "Donors & Support" section of this website. Thank you all. 2 August 2018 QSL cards have been arrived from the printing house! Thank you all for (im)patiently waiting for your QSLs. I will over the coming days to reply to all those who requested direct confirmations of their contacts with H44R, H44R/P, and/or H40D. I hope to mail all the direct requests received to date by coming Monday, and I will post a note here if/when this happens. 18 July 2018 QSL cards have been printed and plasticized. They are currently cut and will be packed before the end of the day. Finally, they will be shipped to me from the printing house tomorrow, July 19. 15 June 2018 The QSL designs are almost done. There are only a couple of minor touches left, which will be finalized on Monday, Jun 18. 10 June 2018 The three different QSL cards are currently being designed by Alfio (IT9EJW). In the meantime, I would like to share with all IOTA chasers the following statistics. The maximum number of cards possibly requested is 5,862, which is the sum of the unique number of stations that logged each IOTA group. To date, I have on order to mail directly 1,300 cards, and 480 via the bureau. The sum represents 30% of the maximum number mentioned above. About 10% of the direct requests have been received by mail. The rest of the direct cards are for the pre-expedition donors who made the logs (individuals and group members), and for OQRS submissions. All the bureau QSL requests received till now, except less than a handful, arrived via Club Log. 27 May 2018 A number of photos have been posted in the Gallery section. 14 May 2018 (10 UTC) Please read the updated QSL information on the QSL info section of this website. 13 May 2018 (10:30 UTC) The logs for H44R, H44R/P, and H40D are now available for searching / checking at Club Log. I will update the QSLing instructions later today and open the OQRS. 10 May 2018 (9 UTC) I finally arrived back home today at 3:30 UTC (8 May at 23:30 local). Slept only a couple of hours, due to jetlag, and wish to update you on my next priority work: - Finish the conversion of the H40D log, so that I can upload it at Club Log as soon as possible. - Update the final list of pre-expedition donors, since a few donations were received after my departure to Solomon. - Issue the final QSLing instructions and open the direct OQRS. - As a Thank You for their trust and support, I wish to provide automatic direct QSLing to all pre-expedition donors who contributed $10 or more towards this project. More info soon on the "QSL info" section of this website, before the direct OQRS will be open via Club Log. However, anyone wishing to submit direct OQRS requests will certainly be able to do it. - Prepare and maintain the combined list of all donors (before and after the start of the operation) in the Donors & Support section of this website. - Design and produce the QSL cards in collaboration with Alfio (IT9EJW). 8 May 2018 (23 UTC) I am delighted that Air Canada checked me in and I am now waiting to board the flight which will take me first to Vancouver, and then to Toronto. If everything goes well, I should be home by 02:30 UTC on May 10. 8 May 2018 (9 UTC) I spent quite a bit of time last night trying to post an update from Honiara. Unfortunately, the update wasn't saved, I have no idea why. The internet communication was slow, so perhaps I left the site too early, although I am sure that I have seen the message indicated that the changes have been accepted. In any case, I am presently in Brisbane, where I arrived about an hour ago. It is 7 pm local time. I decide that I will overnight on the airport. I have too much luggage and it would be a huge deal for me to go with it back and forth to a hotel. Also, I would have to be back here bright an early, in hope that I could find a seat on the plane to Toronto. I'm not on the flight at this time, we'll see what happens. I will be on the internet all night, trying to reply to some of the folks who sent me private messages, and also work on the logs. Here is the summary of what happened during my trip to Temotu: - Flight to Lata was delayed in Honiara due to mechanical problems with the aircraft. One of the wing elerons wouldn't extend, which also happened last week. As such, they couldn't land the aircraft in Lata back then, since the airstrip is tiny, and had to return to Honiara. Everyone was relieved when we were announced that everything was fixed, and so we can go. - I overnighted on Pigeon Island, from where various hams operated over the years. It's a beautiful, very quiet place, part of the Reef Islands. - Trip to Duff was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that it was done entirely under a scorching sun. After a couple of hours or this intense baking, I couldn't take it anymore, and moved into the shade offered by the trip of the canoe, where various things were stored. That's a very bumpy place, but I was happy to take the hits rather than staying in the full and merciless sun. - The driver, his helper and I was welcomed warmly by the locals in Duff. Our location was on Tahua Island, which was made over many, many generations, right on the reef, long before the arrival of the first European travellers. The island is tiny, but I found sufficient room for the antenna by bothering three families, not only one! I was delighted that the path to NA was good, unobstructed by the rising cliffs of the Taumako Island. Moving onto its east side for the operation seemed a very bad idea. First, because of the mosquito world offered by Taumako (which is the reason why people built Tahua in the first place). Second, because there is very little habitation on that side, and so no resources what so ever. - Made about 3500 QSOs. Propagation was wildly different than that from OC-168 and 158. The distinctive feature was that the most reliable bands were 17 and 20 m, in this order, while 30 and 40 were not at all. Each band would behave differently from a day to another. Without internet resources available, I don't know how much of that was the result of the K/A indices, but sufficient to say that I had changed the frequency up to 10 times in a period of 60 min, fighting to get some propagation, to anywhere. Yes, I did sleep, but waking up and trying every 30 min or so. Sometimes I could only copy JA stations on 30/40, sometimes with some East EU ones, sometimes nothing at all. I did log a few NA and EU stations though, but these bands didn't work nearly as forecasted. A word on the propagation forecast: it is obviously based on a model, and there is no question that it is approximate. It reminded me how different the propagation was during the operation from SA-031 compared to that from SA-097, despite the fact that the two IOTA groups in CE9 were located only 150 km from each other. - Return from Duff was eventful. The first 20 km were on a pretty rough see. However, after that an intense tropical rain started, which calmed the sea incredibly. The rain lasted well past our arrival at Pigeon Island, unfortunately, long throughout the night. I had a very good raincoat, but only covered me from above the waist. Between the intense tropical rainfall and the jets of salt water displaced by the boat, I felt completely pickled, hi. - A strong shower next morning wasn't good news, and so I learned that the airstrip in Lata cannot be used, since it is completely flooded. The airstrip is made of compressed soil, but the rain transforms it in a deep pool. With the Flight cancelled, I tried to work on converting the paper logs, but couldn't. I slept, on and off, most of the day. - Next morning the news came that the flight will be made today, so I prepared for the boating trip to Lata (72 km). Being inside the lagoon, I couldn't sense how the sea was, but wasn't surprised when the driver (the same who took me back and forth to Duff and the only one who would venture there in an open canoe) told me that we may not be able to get to Lata, so I should be prepared to return if the sea will be too rough. I told him that I MUST leave, so he has to take to me Lata! What followed was absolute, utter madness. Most of the trip was in 2.5 m waves, with white crests every 30-50m, sometimes coalescing into 10m long spurts of foam. As the driver used all his skills to keep the boat on top of the waves, he obviously couldn't do always do it. It was a very intense struggle, where at times the boat would slide down the wave engine first and then, when you thought that it was all over and it would rotate and incline dangerously, the driver would accelerate just enough to get out of any roll, and kept going. The bounding was generally nicely kept under control, but every now and then the boat would jerk inclined at up to 30 degrees. I wasn't afraid of sinking, because the water was very warm and we had some emergency equipment by which we could have alerted someone. But I was very concerned that somehow all the cargo (yes, the logs!) could be damaged. Well, everything ended well, but the trip took a heck of a long time, and we arrived bare minutes before the flight from Honiara arrived! - Needless to say, I was concerned for the driver, so I asked him if he really has to go back now. He told me "No way!", and I was relived when he mentioned that he will overnight in Lata and wait for the sea to calm a little. This 23 ft canoe has no careen at all, it is nothing else than a fiberglass shell, which can be easily driven on a calm sea, but it is a true nightmare of a rough sea. - There was no flight to Brisbane the next day, so I had to overnight in Honiara two nights instead of one. Moreover, I haven't been yet able to secure a seat to Toronto. However, Solomon Airlines stuff in Honiara have done their best alerting Air Canada why I couldn't make the scheduled flight, and asking them to help me resolve this situation which occurred through no fault of mine. 27 April 2018 (10:30 UTC / 9:30 pm local) I am sorry that I cannot provide now a full update, but I have very limited internet communication at the present time. In short: - The amplifier died on Mbanika after the first 200 QSOs. We don't know why, there are several possibilities, but it was very unfortunate. The log from OC-168 has about 3400 QSOs. The second night, a few eastern EU stations decided to force me to change my operating plan through deliberate interference. I will have a discussion with each of them after my return home. However, I am contemplating never sending them a QSL card. - I wanted to extend my stay on OC-168 an extra day, but the weather forecast scared the few boatmen who could have potentially take Bernhard and I privately to the end of Guadalcanal Island, from where we would get the bus to Honiara. As it turned out, the sea was very bad only the first of the two forecasted day, so it would have been OK. Perhaps locals used this as an excuse to avoid taking us back anyway. - We returned very late to Honiara, well past the time of the last private boat to Tulagi (OC-158). By miracle, one guy had a business in town and was returning with his own boat and boatman to a neighbouring island, and agreed to take us to Tulagi first. We arrived in full darkness, which was pretty... interesting (landing, getting a place to stay, putting up the antenna, etc.). - Operated for 1.5 day (two nights) from OC-158 and logged about 1250 QSO. Massive local noise level starting at night fall and lasting until morning, besides some Australian radar I think, all of which made copying stations on 20 m a big challenge. I assume that it must have been just as annoying for them as it was for me. I didn't check the SFI or K upon my return to Honiara, but 17 m didn't return nearly the same results for EU as from OC-168. - Unfortunately, not many with EU, sorry. There was one NA station who deliberately created unnecessary interference, stubbornly not allowing me to look into EU when a few EU stations came in. I logged the respective station, but I will also consider whether such attitude can be rewarded by a QSL cad. - I spoke on the phone with my contact for Duff, who will be flying to Lata tomorrow, and so we will meet on the airport here in Honiara in the early morning. - I had a couple more minor equipment problems / failures. With time being of the essence, I had to keep going with the spares. I'll look into fixing things once I will return back home. - Thank you all for the patience and the fun. I am really sorry that I couldn't log more stations during the respective periods of time. 21 April 2018 (10:30 UTC / 9:30 pm local) Bernhard and I will to depart from Honiara at 9 am tomorrow morning. If everything goes well, I hope to be QRV by 6 pm local time, which corresponds to 22 April at 7 UTC, or shortly after that. 20 April 2018 (20:30 UTC / 7:30 am local) I arrived in Honiara just past 11 UTC, and met with on the airport. Took a taxi and arrived at his QTH at 12:30 UTC, and not long after went both to bed. Plan today is to do some shopping required for the trip to Mbanika tomorrow morning. Bernhard mentioned to me that he will come along but won't be doing any radio himself, so QSO. I told him that we can see how it goes, and if he changes his mind we can set up a second station. 20 April 2018 (05:30 UTC) Flight's departure to Honiara was delayed for 08 UTC. I learned that on the way into Brisbane, the aircraft was struck by lightning, which resulted in the on-board radar suffering some damage. After a lot of work and testing, the technical crew seems to have everything under control. The aircraft is supposed to be brought to the gate at or shortly after 07 UTC. If I can depart at 08 UTC, I will arrive in Honiara at 11:15 UTC, which corresponds to 22:15 local time there. I haven't been able to establish contact with Bernhard, but I assume that he must be in Honiara by now. If so, we will do some shopping tomorrow, and hopefully travel by boat to Mbanika Island in the Russell group on April 22 (local time). 20 April 2018 (01 UTC) The original departure time to Honiara was supposed to be 0:30 UTC, but the flight was postponed for 05 UTC. Well, at least this is what was announced. Apparently the crew found some technical issues with the aircraft. 20 April 2018 (00 UTC) I am waiting now to board the flight to Honiara. Everything went well, except that I had to repack some luggage to meet the demands of Solomon Air and pay AUD 400 for excess weight on an economy class ticket. I found it difficult to digest the fact that the charge per kg is CAD 7 in Canada and AUD 16 in Australia, given that CAD 1 ~ AUD 1. 19 April 2018 (05 UTC) Made it to Vancouver, a while back. My flight to Brisbane is scheduled to depart at 07:35 UTC. 18 April 2018 (20 UTC) I am in front of my boarding gate on the Toronto Airport, with lots of time to spare. I drove to Toronto a lot more in advance than usual. My luggage is composed of two large suitcases, each of 23+ kg (51 lbs), a very heavy carry-on, the telescopic fibreglass poles, and a bag with various items. Total weight is 65 kg, with less than 10 kg of non-radio gear, including clothing, laptop, camera, protein bars, some gifts, etc. Going with the antenna poles and the electronic key in the carry-on through the security check took a while. I fly first to Vancouver, and after a stopover of over 4 hours I will board a second flight, to Brisbane, Australia. Once there, the luggage won’t be automatically moved to the Solomon Air flight to Honiara. Instead, I have to pick it up, go through customs, and go to departures, check it in, go through the security check, and hopefully make it in time to be on my third flight! If the plane doesn't arrive late in Brisbane, I will have 2 hours and 15 minutes to board the flight to Honiara. While this is a legit connection, I realize that I need some luck to avoid delays of any kind, hi. 7 April 2018 All equipment has been bench tested successfully. During this process, some connections, connectors and cables were either repaired or replaced. Subsequently, the equipment was carefully packed and is now ready for travel. 28 March 2018 The amplifier arrived today - many thanks, Bill! The generators I will be using on the islands have only 240 VAC output, while the amplifier's power supply operates at 120 VAC. I couldn't find a step down transformer in Honiara, and as such I decided to bring one with me. I ordered it yesterday, and I expect it to arrive here soon. 23 March 2018 Big news: Bill (K9RR) has very generously offered to land me his ALS 500M mobile amplifier for this ambitious project! He will ship it to me on Monday (Mar 26) or Tuesday. Once received, I will run in with the rig and antenna setup, and make sure that everything works as intended, before packing it up for the trip. I will use the amplifier if and when necessary. 20 March 2018 Time flies incredibly fast, and I am now only 4 weeks away from the start of my trip. I need to schedule my visit for vaccinations, check and pack all the equipment, purchase and pack some supplies, as well as my personal effects. I consider that I have done my best to prepare carefully the logistics for each of the two IOTA groups I plan to operate from. Despite the information gathered to date, I expect that specific details will only become available once on site. Consequently, to mitigate the negative effects of unforeseen problems, I made sure to incorporate several contingencies for each of these operations. Rather than bringing with me the best available equipment, I opted for redundancy. I will have a spare rig, antenna, and various other components, as well as various power sources, including generator, batteries and solar panels. I studied the propagation forecast and I will follow a band/time schedule that will allow me to maximize the opportunity of logging AF, EU, NA, and SA stations, while offering those in AS and OC plenty of chances too. Please listen to my on-air instructions indicating which continent(s) I will be listening for from time to time. The majority to the IOTA chasers pay careful attention and generally follow the operator's indications. It is the best way to maximize your chance of making the log! 2 March 2018 In order to avoid possible confusion, if I can operate from other IOTA groups in the region I will use H44R/P from any IOTA group in Solomon Islands DXCC other than OC-168, and H40D/P from any IOTA group in Temotu DXCC other than OC-179. I wish to underline that this is a remote possibility, which depends on available time and logistics. 28 February 2018 I am happy to announce that TCSI has just issued me the callsign H44R for the announced operation from Russell Islands! I wish to thank Aaron Hopa, the Telecommunication Commissioner in Honiara, for his understanding and consideration. Bernhard and I will attempt to run two stations from Russell (OC-168), for as long in the day as possible. We will both operate with the above callsign. 14 February 2018 TCSI issued me the radio license for Temotu, and the callsign for Duff operation is H40D! The license for Solomon Islands has been issued too, but the callsign isn't what I have requested, due to an error. Bernhard relayed my request for re-consideration to TCSI, and I am hopeful that the matters will be resolved next week, when the Telecommunications Commissioner will return back in office. With Bernhard's support, I purchased the deep cycle (gel) 100 AH batteries for Duff, which were delivered from the store to the boat loading dock area in Honiara. They should be on their way to Lata on Saturday (Feb 17), scheduled to arrive by Wednesday next week (Feb 21), where will be received by Ben, my contact in Temotu. Ben is also bringing for my trip 400 litres of gas from Honiara, on a special delivery barge, which is scheduled to make it to Temotu later this month. Bernhard will depart Friday (Feb 15) 8 am local time to Auki, Malaita Island (OC-047), where he will stay about a month. He plans to be on the air, hoping for better noise conditions compared to those in Honiara. I will have no email communication with him during this period of time. 8 February 2018 During his short trip to Russell, Bernhard was able to arrange for our accommodation in late April. One of the locals will rent us a small and simple wood house, about 20 meters from the ocean. There is no AC power on the islands, and no internet. There is also no running water. He was able to locate a small and rusty gas generator, which will be available to rent. However, we will need to bring additional power sources from Honiara, to ensure the necessary contingency. 4 February 2018 Bernhard, who is residing in Honiara several months per year, is travelling now to Russell Islands, on a very short and exclusive scouting mission related to our planned activity in late April from OC-168. He will try to find a location close to ocean where we can lodge and operate from, as well as investigate the possibility of renting a generator. 26 January 2018 I have compiled and analyzed the propagation forecast for the expedition period. For the chasers who recall last year’s E51LYC operation from Pukapuka Atoll (OC-098), note that Russell and Duff are located approximately 4,000 and 3,000 km away from OC-098, respectively, closer to Europe. The results outline that the propagation is expected to be open at the end of April, for various periods of time, to all parts of the world, on at least three bands from 17 to 40 m. 22 January 2018
Unlike Duff, Russell islands are pretty flat, so no steep hills to obstruct various propagation paths. However, we don’t expect AC power there. These islands have been a plantation for about a century. A labour dispute between the largest employer in the country and the respective union led to a strike in 2002. Declared illegal by the Solomon Islands High Court, the dispute hasn’t been settled to date. As such, work has never re-started, but many former employees from outside Russell set in. Given this complex socio-economical situation and the relatively short distance of the islands from Honiara, Bernhard will go on a short scouting trip to identify a suitable location for our planned activity at the end of April, as well as the possibility of resourcing locally items such power generator, batteries, etc. 12 January 2018 - Time Schedule Several significant developments occurred during the last few days, and I would like to update you on them below: (1) An operation from Russell Islands (OC-168, Solomon Islands DXCC) was added to the one already planned from Duff Islands (OC-179, Temotu DXCC). Russell Islands were last operated from in Feb 2001 or 17 years ago, and this IOTA group is in demand by about 94% of IOTA chasers. This addition extends the duration of the original project by a week and adds new logistical challenges. (2) The expedition time schedule has been finalized and all plane tickets purchased today: 18 April: depart Toronto to Honiara via Brisbane; 20 April: arrival Honiara; 22 to 25 April: operate from Mbanika Island (Russell Islands, OC-168; MWL 6.3%); 28 April: depart Honiara to Lata; 29 April to 3 May: operate from Tahua or Taumako Island (Duff Islands, OC-179, MWL 3.0%) 5 May: depart Lata to Honiara; 6 May: depart Honiara to Brisbane and overnight there; 7 May: depart Brisbane to Toronto. (3) Bernhard (DL2GAC, H44MS) will join in the activity from OC-168. The team will operate two stations, using CW and SSB, mainly on 17, 20, 30, and 40 m. (4) There is a small possibility that following the OC-168 operation I may attempt to operate from Nggela Sule Island (Florida Islands, OC-158; MWL 15.7%) on 26 and 27 April. However, under no circumstance I will rush to end the OC-168 operation in order to squeeze in some activity from OC-158. (5) I will spend 9 days in the Solomon Islands DXCC (H44) and 8 days in the Temotu DXCC (H40). Between the two DXCCs, Temotu is certainly more in demand. Club Log indicates that H40 is ranked world-wide #43 at Mixt, #66 in CW, and #23 in SSB on the DXCC Most Wanted list. However, it is ranked higher in Europe: #37 at Mixt, #45 in CW, #25 in SSB, and even higher in Western Europe: #26 at Mixt, #29 in CW, #24 in SSB. Interestingly, it is a very high demand in Western Europe on some bands: #13 on 40m, #15 on 30m, #30 on 20m, and #26 on 17m. 6 January 2018
My new passport arrived. The Solomon Islands radio license officer I am trying to reach will be back in the office on January 15, and I look forward to submitting my radio licence application after that. Meanwhile, I intend to purchase the plane tickets early next week. In order to account for possible delays in boat travel due to weather and sea conditions, I decided to arrive in Honiara a week earlier than originally planned. This will extend the overall trip from 12 to 19 days. If the ride to Duff can be taken timely and everything there goes well, I will try to operate from one or two more IOTA groups in the area. If this happens, I will do my best to announce it on this website a little bit in advance. My overall plan is to transmit from Temotu (H40) for 10 days, and from Solomon Islands (H44) for 3-4 days. 11 December 2017
I am currently waiting for my new passport to arrive, after which I will be applying for the H40 license. 5 December 2017
OC-179 is in demand by 97% of the IOTA membership. About 70% of those who had this one confirmed are from EU and 25% from NA. Temotu (H40) sits on the world-wide DXCC Most Wanted at #43 at Mixt, #66 in CW, and #23 in SSB. For Europe, it is at #37 at Mixt, #45 in CW, and #25 in SSB. Interesting, for West EU it is at #13 on 40m, #15 on 30m, #30 on 20m, and #26 on 17 m. For East NA it sits #40 at Mixt, #59 in CW, and #20 in SSB. 21 November 2017
I will operate in early May 2018 from Taumako Island, the largest in the Duff Islands group (OC-179) of Temotu, for a period of at least 5 days, while the entire trip is expected to last 12 days. This IOTA group has been activated only once, 25 years ago, by Bernhard (DL2GAC, H44MS), when he made about 400 QSOs. After a long haul flight from Toronto to Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, I will fly to Lata, the capital of the Tomotu Province. From there, I will travel to Duff Islands in a small open boat, and the boatman will stay with me for the entire duration of this project. Due to steep rising cliffs close to 300 m high, Duff Islands do not seem provide a location with good openings to all areas of the world, particularly to EU and NA. If necessary, I will attempt to operate from two locations, one on the western, the other of the eastern side of Taumako Island, in order to give all chasers an opportunity at logging this IOTA reference. There are no touristic facilities on Duff, electricity, running water, or toilets. |
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