RSGB Convention 2018 lecture KH1/KH7Z Baker Island DXpeditio

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Don Greenbaum, N1DG.

Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll about 2,000 miles south-west of Hawaii. Until recently it was one of the top ten most wanted DXCC entities on the planet. Don, one of the team leaders, describes the planning process, setbacks, solutions and outcomes from the July 2018 DXpedition that made around 70,000 QSOs and tested the new FT8 data mode under DXpedition conditions for the first time.
The expedition also commemorated Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer, who disappeared near Baker Island in 1937 and the Hawaiian students who attempted to found the settlement of Meyerton on Baker in 1935.

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