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What is your best memory? (N2OO)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:25 - 30 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (K4UEE)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:24 - 2 minutesWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (EY8MM)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:23 - 32 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (K0IR)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:22 - 29 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (N6HC)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:21 - 57 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (LA6VM)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:20 - 22 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (WB9Z)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:19 - 56 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (K9CT)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:18 - 36 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (UA3AB)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:17 - 29 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (FM5CD)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:16 - 41 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (VE7CT)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:15 - 1 minuteWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (HK1R)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:14 - 29 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (VA7DX)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:13 - 31 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
What is your best memory? (K4ZLE)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:12 - 15 secondsWhat's the best memory you have from your adventure?
Wrap up of FT5ZM and QSL information (N2OO - Bob Shenk)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - February 22, 2014 17:00 - 9 minutesSome statistics for FT5ZM: * 170,000+ contacts * 10,000 contacts per day * 8 operating stations * 37,000 uniques * 160m - 10m, including WARC bands, Phone, CW, RTTY * 7,000 RTTY contacts * 14 team members * 6 people on Braveheart * 20 people on Amsterdam Island * 10 yagis on two sites * 7 vertic...
Information Technology and the thrill of DX. (K9CT - Craig Thompson)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:11 - 16 minutesInformation Technology DXpedition style. How is it working in a system many miles from support? How do you protect against data loss? The KISS principle - Keep It Simple Stupid. How did computers and Amateur Radio evolve? The excitement of the contact. Spratley Islands, 160m CW in 30 second openi...
What antennas will you be erecting? (WB9Z - Jerry Rosalius)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:10 - 4 minutesWhat are you looking forward the most? What was your most vivid recollection for your first DXpedition in 1999? Can you give us a fly-over view of what antennas you're going to be erecting?
How will you deal with sleeping arrangements, the day to day logistics? (VE7CT - Steve Wright)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:09 - 6 minutesWhat is the shack on Amsterdam Island going to look like? What about sleeping arrangements? Any rivalry between Canada and the USA? What about your memorable contacts?
How do you make a contact to such a high profile entity? (VA7DX - Neil King)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:08 - 6 minutesWhat do you expect to get out of this DXpedition? What is it that makes you keep coming back? How can you help yourself get the contact? How do you work split?
What's the thrill of being in a DXpedition? (N6HC - Arnie Shatz)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:07 - 4 minutesWhat's the thrill of being in a DXpedition? What makes you keep coming back? What's the most gratifying part of DXpeditioneering? What was your most memorable contact?
Adventure of a lifetime and learning morse. (HK1R - Jorge Prieto)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 11, 2014 17:06 - 3 minutesVery excited to be on this adventure of a lifetime DXpedition, his second one. Looking for QRP stations from home in Colombia. What do you recommend to make contacts on Morse, how do you get started? Everybody is going to be on Kitchen Patrol. What's the traditional Colombian dish you're going to...
How do you fund a quarter million dollar project? (K4UEE - Bob Allphin)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 10, 2014 17:05 - 8 minutesThis is a half a million dollar project, how does one finance such a large project? The CFO perspective. How do you get from the idea to the actual journey? Where does the funding come from? How did you get started? Memories of a contact on 160m, working Burma, into India and others.
What's involved in getting such a project off the ground? (K4ZLE - Jay Slough)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 10, 2014 17:04 - 7 minutesWhat's required to make FT5ZM happen? It's been a two year project. What's the work - environment like? Is everyone a computer expert? Memories of a 20m CW contact with an 80-year old who developed radar in WWII. A re-enactment of the US Civil War, speaking with an artillery-man.
Going from 8C to 10C via 44C is hard work. (UA3AB - Andy Chesnokov)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 10, 2014 17:03 - 4 minutesThe weather in Amsterdam Island, from 8C in Moscow to 44C in Perth, through to 10C in Amsterdam Island. 100,000 contacts in log. Now I can give new countries to other people.
Expedition Team Leader (K0IR - Ralph Fedor)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 10, 2014 17:02 - 4 minutesTeam Leader of DXpedition to Amsterdam Island. How do you herd cats to make an expedition work? Memories of expeditions to the Island of Peter the First.
Introduction to Amsterdam Island (N2OO - Bob Shenck)
FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island - 2014 - January 10, 2014 17:01 - 7 minutesOverview of Amsterdam Island as one of the top DXCC most wanted. Not activated for 15 years. 1979 - Spratley Islands, first DXpedition. Memories of contacts with Amsterdam Island, with Tristan da Cunha Island, Andaman Islands.
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