Heard Island Dxpedition 2014

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BREAKING NEWS

After 5 months of planning, Cordell Expeditions is pleased to announce a DXpedition to Heard Island, Territory of Australia, in early 2014. We have assembled a core team, arranged for the vessel, and are awaiting the landing permit and radio callsign.

Initial team members, collaborating organizations, and other resources will be announced in the near future. The expedition will be multi-disciplinary, with three major activities: Communications, Environmental Science, and Documentation. We will be active on all bands and all modes, implement a variety of innovative real-time communications technologies, and field a variety of scientific projects that are designed to observe and document some of the unique resources on this extraordinary island. We will use the latest version of DXA (http://www.cordell.org/DXA) for real-time online presentation of log data, images, and video from Heard Island.

This project follows the very successful expedition to Heard Island carried out by this group in 1997. Details of that operation can be seen at http://www.cordell.org/HI.

The website for the 2014 DXpedition is http://www.cordell.org/HD.

We invite your participation in this project, as a potential team member, supporter, or eventually as a callsign in our radio log! If you have a particular interest in Heard Island or may be interested in joining the expedition, we invite you to contact us.

For information, please contact the Expedition Leader, Dr. Robert Schmieder at schmieder@cordell.org.

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UPDATE - Partial team list includes: KK6EK , ON6TT , DL1MGB , N6MZ , DJ9ZB , NP4IW , AD6E , N4GRN , DJ5IW , N6PSE , W3WL , W0GJ , AA7XT
More ops required..

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UPDATE: Heard Island 2014 Documents:
http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_Documents.html

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We have confirmation of the vessel Marion-Dufresne for the expedition, the same vessel we used for VK0IR in 1997. We will now be working with the AAD concerning the permit. We are interested in establishing a collaboration with any person or group that can fit into the research program (or extend it). The next NEWS update will be on Sept. 15. The next round of team members will be announced on October 15, but if you are interested in joining the team (on the island or offsite), we invite you to contact us anytime.

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Updates of the Project Description and the TEAM.

The Heard Island 2014 expedition are pleased to welcome Steve Chamberlian VK6IR and William (Wild Bill) Beyer N2WB to the radio team. They also welcome several other persons to the offsite team, including Yasuo “Zorro” Miyazawa JH1AJT, Tommy Horozakis VK2IR, and Christopher Wells N9LXR, who is implementing a real-time interactive video capability for the TX5K Clipperton Expedition, and will do the same for Heard Island.

More.. http://www.cordell.org/HD/HD_pages/HD_News.html