2009 September 14 DX World permalink
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 ( 16h30 local).
At this moment all the Servicemen, including the FT5GA Op’s are busy unloading 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 tomorrow just after the sunrise. The FT5GA team will live in the anticyclonic shelter and will have a special room for Ham traffic. This evening and sometime in the night, they will spent as long 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?
73
Didier, F5OGL, Team leader,
[Through F5NQL’s mail box, Maurice, in charge of the Internet communication by mail]
FT5GA crew has landed on Grande Glorieuse at 13h3
Posted - 15 Sep 2009 : 03:59:42 AM
