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K4T DXpedition successThe K4T DXpedition to Dry Tortugas proved a great success. They ran two amateur radio satellite stations, hopefully other DXpeditions will now consider running a satellite station. On the AMSAT bulletin board Mike Forsythe AC2V provided this update: Well, the party is over and we had a great time and we hope you did too. You can see a few of the pictures here: We had a few glitches but it all worked out. We ran two 910H's. One with yagis and one with egg beaters plus a portable station. It was pretty cool to see CW and FM worked simultaneously. We hope this sets a new standard for satellite operations on DXpeditions. By the way, we ran two satellite stations, two HF stations, inverter, lighting and all acc. 24 hours a day all on green power for four days and made over 8,000 contacts with only batteries and a wind turbine. The wind turbine was making so much power that we never even took the 900 watts of solar panels out of the case! The wind turbine is a TLG500 http://www.tlgwindpower.com/ . They are bomb proof and worked flawlessly. The cost is $1,375.00 and if you mention K4T as a promotion code they will give you $25.00 off of the shipping. I built a special tripod for it to make it portable and we had it up and making power in about ten minutes. 73's Mike Forsythe, AC2V
KP4WK and KP4TR work K4T via AO-51 K4T DXpedition to Dry Tortugas AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
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