[ADXA] VU4 INFO

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Subj:   RE: [DX-NEWS] VU4 update 00830Z Dec 18  
Date:   12/18/2004 3:56:13 AM Central Standard Time 
From:    k4vud at hotmail.com (Charles Harpole)
Sender:    DX-News-owner at njdxa.org
To:    k4vud at hotmail.com, dx-news at njdxa.org
    
    


Hello determined callers and all DXers....

Today's news from Andaman:

1.  Mr. Suri, VU2MY, head of NIAR, has arrived here and is arranging for 
publicity for the op all over India.  He is cheering the operators on and 
giving them lots of encouragement to stay awake and keep the bands hot with 
their calls !!!

2.  We have a PSK station on the air from time to time and it has made over 
100 contacts.

3.  Saraha the computer whiz of the group, has also activated the slow-scan 
TV station and yesterday made the first two contacts... one to India and one 
to Japan.

4.  I got some great interviews with many of the gang here on video.  Also I 
have video of operations in action and antennas, etc.  Bharathi's CW station 
got into the audio in my video camera and I will have to do those shots 
again.  Thee is a lot of FR flying around here.  Bharathi today claimed that 
she could feel RF on the genuine gold threads in her sari (dress), so she 
changed into a simpler sari.

5.  Everyone is determined to continue to give "that first new one" to as 
many ops as possible.  This is our first and main goal.  However, in the 
last two weeks we will activate more on 40 (YES we do know about splits into 
the American phone bands) and get 80 working too then.

6.  Bharathi's station is in the Hotel Sinclairs.  Saraha's op location is 
in a dorm room of a local college (vy spartan room... we just got him a 
mattress for the wood bed yesterday and he is getting spoiled).  Ram's 
location was in a rented room in a small apt. bldg. but now he has moved to 
the Port Blair Science Center where the public can watch the ham radio 
action.  In the rented room, he worked on a mat on the floor.... it was 
quite something to see the most advanced electronics working from the floor 
of a bare room ....

Best of luck to all callers and be patient and stay the course....73

Charles Harpole
k4vud at hotmail.com