ZL7T team to leave for Chatham Island

The ZL7T Team will leave for Chatham Island tomorrow around 0130 UTC and expect to be on the ground in ZL7 around 0400 UTC.

The schedule is as variable as Air Chatham is. Work will begin on assembling the antennas Thursday night in the dark. We will do as much preliminary work and preparation as we can before Friday morning.

We are hoping to have the two Yagis and 30M vertical up by lunch on Friday and will work through the afternoon to get the 80M, 40M wire antennas up in the trees. The 160M inverted "L" will be the last antenna to go up.

We should be on the air with two stations on the higher frequencies sometime after 1200 UTC Friday and will probably activate all four stations by the early evening.

Keep a watch on packet cluster or go to http://www.dxsummit.fi/DxSpots.aspx and you will see us spotted for information on our active frequencies.

If you are new to DXing, go to the ZL7T website www.zl7t.com and have a read of tips on how to work us.

Don't be afraid to call. Our aim is to help all of you who want ZL7 to get it in your log over the next 5 days of operation.

On behalf of the ZL7T DXpedition team please accept our heartfelt thanks for your support, kind words of encouragement and donations which will help defray some of the cost of this operation. It makes all the effort required in mounting a DXpedition worthwhile when we receive your good wishes.

73, Lee ZL2AL