[SADXA] August Meeting Program

[Wes (N7WS)]

Folks,

The program for the August SADXA meeting will be (in addition to the usual 
business stuff) a video about the HK0NA operation on Malpelo Island.  The is a 
K4UEE production, so it should be excellent, if his past work is any 
indication.  K4UEE writes:

    "Malpelo Island, off the coast of Colombia in the Pacific, ranked #12 on the
    DXCC "most-wanted" list -- but no longer!An international team of twenty
    hams from six nations made an astonishing 195,292 QSOs in fifteen days of
    operation.This set a new world record for "tent and generator"-type
    DXpeditions.And we were rewarded by being selected as DXpedition of Year for
    2011-2012.

    This near-vertical island of 86 acres represented an extreme physical
    challenge for the team.Team members were winched onto the island from
    zodiacs and then faced a 300' climb just to get to the first operating
    site.Even more challenging was the 600' vertical climb to the operating site
    located at the top of the 980' mountain peak.

    This video captures the planning and organization phases, the non-stop
    pileups, humor and local animal life -- as well as incredible footage of
    team members climbing the mountain.In all my experience, this was the most
    physically difficult DXpedition of all. "


Wes  N7WS