[OKDXA] 4W6A Status

[dave]

I'm ready for him.

I worked DU1DP this morning and broke the pile-up on the second call.

73, Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Tom Laszynski
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:49 AM
To: okdxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [OKDXA] 4W6A Status

Here is the lates on East Timor:


Bernd, VK2IA, arrived from Sydney on Wednesday 
afternoon in Darwin. With 5 members of the team 
now at Stuie's house we had a meal and talked 
about the work ahead of us over the next 12 days. 
It had to be an early night for all as we needed 
to be awake at 3am to leave Darwin, Northern 
Territory, Australia for a 0545 hrs local time 
flight with Air North to Dili, East Timor. It was 
in the departure lounge that the team met with 
the Timor-Leste, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, 
our team leader VK8NSB Stuie had the chance to 
inform him of our DXpedition to Atauro Island. 
The team had a group photograph with the Prime 
Minister before boarding our flight.

The team were met at Dili International Airport 
by Kim & Tony our local support team and driven 
to the Hotel where the team members had various 
pre DXpedition shopping and logistical matters to 
deal with. The final two members (9M6DXX & 
9M6XRO) of the team are still in Bali, Indonesia 
prior to leaving for Dili on Friday. We had a 
meeting with Kim & Tony to discuss all the duties 
that we would need them to assist us with in 
getting the fuel over to the Island daily for the 
generators along with supplies for the team. The 
Hexbeam was delivered to the hotel, and the 
generators have been checked over for collection later.

This afternoon has been a stressful time for the 
team - by mid afternoon it became obvious that 
there was a problem developing with the customs / 
shipping office. Our team leader headed down to 
the offices with Kim our contact and after some 
long negotiation and hours later Stuie pulled 
through for us. The generators collected and 
together with the 500 kgs of communications gear, 
everything was transported to the boat ready for an early start Friday.

On Friday the roads will be closed for the Tour 
de Timor race, this will add a few problems to 
our transport plans, but we are on target to get 
two stations on air dark by Friday. This IS a 
third world country and you must all realise that 
problems do and will arise; problems can can be 
overcome with diplomacy and being cool headed. 
The sewers here run along the side streets and 
into the sea and yes we do have to walk through 
that to get to the boat, something worth thinking 
about when you are trying to work us in the 
forthcoming pile ups. We do ask you to follow the DX Code.

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