Willis Island DXpedition update

Excerpts from the VK9DWX Web site state that the DX team has been busy last week testing all antennas and getting nearly everything ready to ship.

Dale, VK4DMC, got all their tents and also tested them.
So they are ready to be built on Willis Island City. All the heavy items and Peli Cases were brought together in Goch at the location of DR1A where a workshop was set up.

On a 5-day-weekend, Markus DJ7EO, Jorg DL8WPX, Dieter DL8OH and Chris DL1MGB put all the material into boxes, cases and tubes, labeled them and prepared the shipping documents. The week after the material was transported to the harbor of Hamburg where it is now waiting to be shipped to Australia.

In total they packed 29 cases, boxes and tubes with a total weight of over 1,300kg. This included the following main items:
5 ACOM1000 amplifiers
Over 1000m of coax cable
Nearly 300m of power cable
All antennas
Power distributions
Tools
Most parts of the station equipment..

Transceivers, notebooks and MK2s will be carried on the flight baggage as they have to be tested in advance in Germany for proper interaction.

The VK9DWX team now offers a "Newsletter" via E-mail.
It will inform you about the latest news available about their DXpedition. The only thing you have to do is subscribe via their Web page (in the News section) at:
http://vk9dwx.de/news/index.php

Source: OPDX