- Travel Options:
- Fly into Santiago, ATA flight into Juan Fernandez
- Might be a bit difficult as it seems hard to find english information.
- There is a charter boat option that seems to be about a day to a day and a half trip each way.
- Operations:
- Nice size operations in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- It has not been on the air since the last dxped team left in March 2015.
- 2013 – XR0ZR Video from their activation
- It looks like they ended up chartering two planes to bring the crew and their gear in.
- Chartered a boat to shuttle from airport to San Juan Bautista.
- Looks like they rented an entire house.
- QTH was in a bowl, but looks to have a nice take off to NA.
- These guys ate very well while there.
- Local brewery on the island***
- 14 day operation.
- Folding hex beam, 40m vertical, Siperbeams, 80m vertical, 8 ele 6m yagi, spiderbeam alu masts, 160m vertical.
- K3’s , Bandpass filters, microham controllers, QRO
- Propagation:
- Really nice trans equatorial prop.
- Grey line to EU.
- Only about 4700 miles to NA.
- Loding:
- Lodging does not seem to be an issue. There are very nice options on the island. Some of the travel guides suggest various b&b’s on the island.