Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands - February 14th, 2025

V73WW - Game continues

The team is in very good spirits, though the antenna installations continue. As of today we are QRV from 80m through 6m. QSOs on all these bands were conducted successfully already.

A first try out with a lowband RX antenna away from the shack will likely happen tonight. As we post this, we are currently working on the project in the middle of the night. We are also searching for a local noise source on island which is causing us little interference on the lowbands.

The highband VDAs are standing strong against the tide and wind in a very hot climate. Our 160m antenna has been prepared today and will go up just after sunrise in the early morning. Thus, it will be ready just in time for our planned ARRL CW contest effort.

Further, there is still no internet availability in the shack due to several crazy reasons. We are on it to solve the issue timely.

A manual log upload to Clublog including LOTW is done once or twice per day free of charge.

Thanks for all QSOs and the amazing feedback so far, we love this game!

10m 2ele VDA.jpg
10m 2ele VDA
12m 2ele VDA.jpg
12m 2ele VDA
15m 2ele VDA.jpg
15m 2ele VDA
160m T-antenna prepared to go up just after sunrise at V73WW.jpg
160m T-antenna prepared to go up just after sunrise at V73WW
17m 2ele VDA.jpg
17m 2ele VDA
Jamie M0SDV shooting footage for the V73WW video.jpg
Jamie M0SDV shooting footage for the V73WW video