Pitcairn Island DXpedition NOW

[Robb]

Pitcairn Island DXpedition talking on 28.505mHz and they are listening on 28.510mHz - running a 'split' frequency.
Nabbed them @ 5/9 just a few minutes ago.
A RARE contact; so listen for "VP6T" and point your beam appropriately.
DO IT NOW!

They will be out there until Feb 4th.

That's is all . . .

 

[kd-5-bgt]

Talking about a pile up !! WOW!! Gonna be a while before I can break through that :headbang

 

[Wiskey Delta-40]

Indeed one heck of a pile up !! I may try again



Ok went back to shack and made contact ! BIG stations back east gone now

 

[Quiksilver]

Website says their on 28.490, no split mentioned. Wonder if they changed things up?? Guess I need to give the VFO a workout...

http://www.vp6t.org/plans/

 

[Moleculo]

Did anyone happen to see the rigs these guys are running? NICE!

 

[Robb]

Did anyone happen to see the rigs these guys are running? NICE!

Oh, you must be referring to the Alpha 76A amp.
Very nice.

Or...were you referring to the K3 Elecraft?
Hehe . . .

http://www.vp6t.org/equipment/

 

[airplane1]

Dog gone it, I should have been on.

 

[Robb]

Heard Pitcairn out there again today.
Was very busy.
Anyone else make contact with them?

 

[148 Alaska]

I be to far north, with the recent solar activity, maybe when things calm down a bit

 

[bobcat115]

Pitcairn

Worked VP9MV 1-23 2012 on 10 meters Pitcairn DX Pedition.
KB3NXT

 

[Beetle]

I have Pitcairn on 40 through 10M - all VR6TC. That's Tom Christian, a direct descendent of Fletcher Christian who led the Mutiny on the .... oh, what was the name of that ship.....? :headbang

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I have Pitcairn on 40 through 10M - all VR6TC. That's Tom Christian, a direct descendent of Fletcher Christian who led the Mutiny on the .... oh, what was the name of that ship.....? :headbang

I'll bet the replies to that question will be bountiful.

Speaking of that, did you know that the ship made for MGM's 1962 movie about the mutiny was made here in Nova Scotia? Lunenburg in fact, and was hand crafted in the same fashion as wooden ships have been made for hundreds of years. When the ship sailed from Nova Scotia to Tahiti for the filming of the movie a couple crew members were from my home town.One returned a year or so later with a bride and new daughter Moorea who was named after one of The Society Islands near Tahiti where she was from.

Just another piece of useless trivia babble from someone who worked last night and has been awake since yesterday and and does not know how to stop babbling because his brain has gone to sleep before the rest of him has.

 

[wavrider]

Good Trivia

 

[wavrider]

I heard the pileup on 17 meters the other day, had an old TEN TEC MNI on the bench with freq counter issues. Damn what a pileup.

 

[Moleculo]

I heard the massive pileup on 80m last night for them, but I never could actually hear them. It was a mess with stations all over a 10+khz spread calling.