[SJDXA] Fwd: Banyandah Newsletter

[BobSchenck]

SJDXA members,
Back in 1979, I was fortunate enough to have sailed on the Banyandah as part of the 1S1DX Spratly DXpedition, and I have kept touch with Jack and Jude who still own and sail Banyandah to this day.
I recommend that you listen to the MP3 Audio Podcast story. Sit back and experience a little bit of what it was like to be on Banyandah for a DXpedition. This story describes the 1981 adventure to Kingman Reef.

73
Bob Schenck, N2OO 
Sent from my Apple portable radio device

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> From: Jack and Jude <capjack2j at gmail.com>
> Date: September 5, 2021 at 5:55:54 AM EDT
> To: Bob Schenck <n2oo at comcast.net>
> Subject: Banyandah Newsletter
> Reply-To: capjack2j at gmail.com
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> A Voyage to the Centre of the Pacific
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> Covid restrictions can become boring, so we thought a high-seas adventure to the centre of the Pacific with a purpose, just might take you away for a pleasant spell. It’s not a 5 minute read. So grab a cuppa and find a quiet corner, and let your mind visit a place of beauty rarely visited.
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> We’re trying something new this time.
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> So many enjoy podcasts that we’re taking the plunge, producing an audio file of our adventures for the very first time.
> Download MP3 file
> Please give us feedback, remembering we’re very partial to praise. :)
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> A very long time ago, back in better times living life afloat with our two children, we still had to earn our Freedom Chips and would try just about anything legal to do that. Fixing marine toilets for the rich and famous being the worst. The best and most exciting came by chance, or maybe it was fate our meeting Harry Mead when a plea for help came over our amateur radio one hot sunny day in Malaysia.
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> For those who have never heard of Amateur Radio, or think it’s just about long-winded chats across the airwaves, a portion of Ham operators just want to contact as many countries as they can. And here’s the interesting part. There are just over three hundred countries in the world with a unique call sign. The last twenty being little more than a pile of rocks or sand in the middle of nowhere that are deemed a country simply by their sheer isolation. Mellish Reef is one, located 500 miles east of Bowen in the Coral Sea. Spratly Island is another, a pancake of sand 400 miles north of Borneo in the South China Sea. These rare call signs can only be reached when a team goes out to these very isolated spots and sets up a radio station.
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> Harry Mead wanted to do just that and he needed a ship to take his team 500 miles offshore with a captain able to find a bare pile of sand less than a person’s height. We’re talking 1978–No satellite navigation, inaccurate charts, no rescue possible. But Harry offered a year’s cruising money, and I felt we had the ship and crew that could do it, so I grabbed the deal.
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> Just a quickie this time. Cheers, bye for now and be safe or get inoculated.
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> If you enjoy our tale of high-seas adventure then you will enjoy
> Around the World in a Homemade Boat.
> Exciting, descriptive stories of our three year journey around the world in 1984/86. Our boys were older, more capable of running the ship, and we taught them to navigate while doing home schooling. They took us around the world.
> Children bond all races, opening doors across the continents that gave us an inside look at local life.
> A special and unique opportunity.
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