[Elecraft] ssb mod complete

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:45:45PM -0400, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:
>    From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>
>    Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:33:21 -0700
> 
>    I don't think there has been any activity from Clipperton for
>    several years, so it was probably somewhere else (there are a couple of
>    FO stations active presently).
> 
>    73,
>    Bob, N7XY
> 
>    On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:22:52AM -0500, John Cooper wrote:
>    > Finally got the last cap i needed in the right size from scott for
>    > the 2.5bandwith mod.  Put the k2 on the air last night snagged me a
>    > station in the honduras, clipperton island in the south pacific,
> 
> I've not heard of anything from Clipperton lately, but it's not
> impossible.  Sport fishing boats from San Diego visit the area
> regularly, and I'm told they often put people ashore for surf
> fishing, so transportation isn't that difficult.  It'd probably be
> easy, if time consuming, to do a QRP DXpedition to there, just
> piggyback on a fishing trip.  It takes about a week to get there from
> San Diego, though.
> 
> 73, doug, part of FO0AAA
> 

Yeah, but legal landing permission and licensing isn't all that easy to
obtain as you undoubtedly know, and it wouldn't count otherwise. 
Hopefully there would be a bit of publicity on the DX mailing lists,
etc., if another trip there was in the works.  

I suspect the FO contact was in Tahiti or the Australs, which is still
a very nice way to break in a new K2!

I still need Clipperton on SSB and would be happy to see another
operation there.  I was inactive for most of the times it has been on
the air and my only QSO was with FO8AJ (in 1954, I think), which was
one of the really early DXpeditions and may have been the first one to
Clipperton.

73, Bob N7XY