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Equipment Setup and Operations Plan for Remote Location

Detailed plan for staging equipment including generators, antennas, and tents with real-life scenario of adjusting to cyclone risks while maintaining communication system.

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Equipment Setup and Operations Plan for Remote Location

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  1. Staging Equipment

  2. Staging Equipment

  3. Rebar Dead Man Used on Many Stakes

  4. Op, Generator and Rest Tents

  5. Masked Boobies Queued up to Use the Loo

  6. Break Tent

  7. Generator Shed

  8. CrankIR

  9. Dave K3EL

  10. Partial of Antenna Farm

  11. 4 Square & Birds

  12. SSB – Generators - CW

  13. SSB / RTTY Tent Luigi IV3YER – Heye DJ9RR – Gene K5GS

  14. SSB / RTTY Tent

  15. Operations Plan Plan- 6 stations running for 10 days24 hours per day Actual – 6 stations running for ~5 days24 hours per daypropagation permitting - 6x Elecraft K3 - 1x Icom IC-7000 back-up- 1 x Elecraft K2 back-up- 4 x Elecraft KPA 500- 2x Tokyo HyPower - 1 x Tokyo HyPower back-up - 4 x generators 4 kw each - 7 x 200 liter drums~1,200 liters fuel, - 2,000 feet RG-8X

  16. Antenna Plan Antennas • 160 m -  Spiderbeam 18m fiberglass mast – Inverted L 1/4 Vertical • 80 m - Spiderbeam 18m fiberglass mast w/SGC • 40 m– 4 Square • 10 – 20M – Folding Hex Beam x 2 • CrankIR x 3 • BigIR x 3 • Pennant RX antenna

  17. Actual Schedule

  18. Then Reality Arrived

  19. Cyclone Ita • What did we know and when did we know it? • We knew it was the end of the cyclone season • When we arrived at the island it was windy – approx 20 knots • As the days went on the winds got stronger • On about April 1st the skipper told us of a tropical depression forming to the North • He said these events are known to form cyclones • What’s the difference between a cyclone, hurricane, or a typhoon? • The skipper was closely monitoring the weather • At one point he said he “isn’t panicking yet, but if we saw him running we should be close behind him” • We received radio reports of death and destruction in Honiara • He was receiving NOAA WEFAX images and maritime Wx warnings every 4 hours • On the early morning of April 5th we decided it was time to start packing

  20. Forming of a Cyclone

  21. WEFAX Evohe crew: l-r Hamish, Lindsey and the Skipper Steve Kafka

  22. Met / Nav Warning Forecast

  23. Low Profile CrankIR

  24. Wind’s Effect on OP Tent

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