TX5C Dxpedition Journal

 

 

 

N6OX.jpgK8LEE, Wayne McKenzie

 

 

Date

 

Entry

3/7  

good morning from one HOT island. took the most of 2 days to of load the gear.

biggest problem is to keep all team members well. Very hot around 97F 98 hum.

as of the morning of the 7th still lots of work to do to try to meet our planned start up time.as of yet the crabs and dirty birds are not a problem.

i will get back to you all laterit,s 6am and work to do 73,3 from TX5C

3/4  

i had some radio time this morning,talked to a bunch of guys that are following us down, neat stuff.when i get on the island the first couple of days i may not take time to send e-mails or update my journal.and on the island for the first 2 or 3 days my sked may not allow me time to use the only pc on the island to send messages. with 24 people wanting to use 1 pc the "line" may be long.believe it or not we just passed by a large tub just floating along!

3/3  

hello caleb and zach. so far so good, real calm seas,and clear skies.  the ocean temp is about 75f.i think we will be at the island late Thesday but it may be too late to try a landing, so we will try at first light in the morning wensday. i have not looked at our  web site but i think there is new info posted.

3/2  

good day guys another very good day calm seas and really good food! this morning it was very hot at 7 in the morning,a good thing in as much as we are getting closer. i just came from the gps  unit in the wheel house and it looks like 2 days and 13 hrs left.today we are making the operating skeds.having just retired 2 months ago i am going thru some adjustments on how to relax, but being on this ship for 6 days i find this very hard.but i know that all the rest of the team feels the same

3/1  

Our plan today is too start building the wagons that will be used to drag our "stuff" on the island.also we will make sked for operators as too times to change operators.  We have ckecked all the lap tops to be sure they are all the same.

I took a quick look at the FO5A/mm logs and see that jim/k8fl and don/n8de along with kirk/w8qid are"in the log" also think i saw w8ilc and aa8ll in the logs, also shep/wa8joc was there.

2/29

 

 

      Hello zach  and caleb

 

  we are close to the 1/2 point on the jounry to clipperton.  there are new pictures on the web site. the weather has been very good calm

seas. feb 29th 08

 

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