- Travel Options:
- Fiji Airlines flies directly from the states to Vanuatu.
- Roughly $2600 round trip coach class.
- Operations:
- Oddly sparse for how easily accessible this place is.
- Last worked analysis
- Large operation back in 2014 with 13.5k qso’s, but since then has been lacking. 1700q’s in 2016.
- YJ4AO 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFlSwKSPL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LX9ZubLjK0
- Eratap Beach Resort, Efate, Vanuatu
- operating “holiday style” mainly during the local evening and night hours…
- Rig: Elecraft K2 with 100 watts (sorry, no amplifier), Palm Radio Mini Paddle
- Ant: Vertical dipoles (10m-20m), Lambda/4 Groundplanes on 30m/40m,
- Inverted L (80m) and an Inverted V dipole for 160m (thanks to Rod, YJ8RN)
- YJ0VK 2011 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRxBOaGq37M
- Arrived in Port Villa
- Nirvana (?) resort and spa.
- 40m vert, 20m vert, mosely jr tribander, “wires” for 80/160,
- Running 4 stations
- TS-480
- They ran during the OC dx contest too
- Propagation: