Watch out for Kinabalu Laurence - it's highly magnetic! Used to totally
screw our compasses when I was flying out there in the 50's.
Walter G3JKV.
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From: "Laurence KL1X" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: LF: Sabah E Malaysia Ops
Greetings - Im packing my wellies and pack-a-mac but here are some more
details of our trip to Borneo. All times UTC and refer to around the end
of Feb -
Station operation - Kota Kinabalu = Site faces sea some 5 miles in land
but a few hundred feet asl
E probe Aerial height will be around 60ft, and hi-z wire will start at
that height. The place is noizy but I have plans to mitigate some of that.
We arrive on 24th Feb and stay till 10th March but some of that will be
radio less.
I plan to be qrv by the evening of the 24th.
Sun sets (when it shines although we are hopefully coming to the end of
the one of two monsoon seasons in March) at OJ85BW is appx 1027-2227 UT
Mutual darkness windows :-
Western Eu appx 1732-2227 UT - nice long window
East Coast N America 1027-1142 UT - small window
Mid Continent N America 1027-1253 UT
West Coast N America 1027-1432 UT
Some background of what Im doing there =
http://www.raleighinternational.org/overseas/malaysia.html
Cheers Laurence KL1X 9m6/gm4dma
em26br
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