8Q7KP Maldives 23-30/4/2013

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Pai, VU2PAI and Krish W4VKU will be active from Bodufinolhu, South Male’ Atoll in the Maldives between April 23 – 30, 2013.

Operating as 8Q7KP, plans are for 2 stations (Elecraft K3/Acom 1000 and TS480Sat/Tentec Hercules II), with two Butternut HF9V and a 2 ele SteppIR for higher bands.

They plan to setup OQRS and also upload logs to Lotw/eQSL/QRZ.com.

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UPDATE from 8Q7KP: We have been running two stations most times. At our nights we are running into a problem with QRM. The neighbours are not happy with us on SSB at night. Two of them have switched rooms two days in a row. We are trying to accommodate them and either stay low on our voice levels or switch to CW and RTTY.

We are also looking for LP openings on 10/12m, so we can get into the West coast. On our sunrise, we will look into 40m and 30m again. There is S9 noise on 80m. We might go QRT on Apr 30th after the morning here say 0500Z and take the antenna apart and pack up. Our boat will leave very early the following morning and we think it’s better to not mess with repacking 200kg of gear at the last couple hours (amps, antennae and long runs of LMR400 is not light). VU2PAI has been running CW and SSB. W4VKU has been running SSB and RTTY.