FT5GA Gloriosos 2009 news

The Transall plane, carrying the TAAF and Mayotte authorities, the French Foreign Legion detachment and the FT5GA crew has landed on Grande Glorieuse at 13h30 GMT Monday (16h30 local).

At this moment all the Servicemen, included the FT5GA Op's are busy to unload all the Military and dxpedition gear and supplies.

The night falls very quickly so, when the plane will be completly unloaded, it will be too late to set up the antennas, even one. It will be done Tuesday, just after the sunrise.

The team FT5GA will live in the anticyclonic shelter and will have a special room for his Ham traffic. This evening and sometime in the night, they will spent as longer as possible the most part of their time to set up the indoor parts of the stations - rigs, pa's, laptops, bandfilters ...).

After more then five years, some hours to wait again is undoubtedly the best achievement we would had hope, isn't it?

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Didier, F5OGL
Team leader,

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