Campbell island is the New Zealand's southernmost subantarctic territory and has a unique ecosystem, hosting more species than any other subantarctic island, except Crozet. There are six species of Albatross, the rare Hookerii sea lion, yellow eyed penguins and an unique flora.
I was thinking how to reach them on the bands. As distance from Ireland via S/P is .... 19714 km !!! and via L/P 20289 km so there is no difference which way signal will go is far enough from EI.
ZL9HR started operations shortly before 05:00UTC on 20 & 40 SSB. I was on the radio at about 8:00AM. Massive signal on 40mSSB but I don`t like big pile-up on SSB. Much more feel CW to give it try.
Signal was big on 20mSSB as well. But no luck. Thanks God they started also CW operation on 30/17/15m. No signals here on 17/15 but on 30mCW signal was quite good! About 559 in peaks here.
Heavy pile-up , and a lot of QRM on DX frequency. They were calling EU ONLY! Wide split and EI9KC was trying to rech them. QRX on the frequency for about 5 minutes and back in action. After few calls EI9KC 599! I was about 7up! 599 TU! Cambell Island in my log! As NEW DXCC !
My dipole on 30m is the weakest but for some reason likes Pacific Area to show its best! And this time he did great job again!
20 minutes later ZL9HR went QRT as night falls on Cambell Island and Team had to leave the Island!
Signals this morning were massive here on 40/30/20 Will try in the evening to listen them as night is short down there at this time of the year.
Good Luck to ALL!
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