VK0EK NEWSLETTER

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Heard Island Expedition Newsletter will contain breaking news, advance notices, inside information about the radio operation, contacts, invitations to special events, and a variety of other exclusive information that will not be available on the open websites. You can subscribe for free by going to http://www.heardisland.org.

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The Heard Island Expedition Newsletter contains inside information about the expedition, the radio operation,
personal information about the participants, developing ideas for new technology, environmental science on Heard Island, special images, and a variety of other exclusive information that will not be available on the
open websites. Four issues have been published so far, the latest is dated 30 August. Free subscription: http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php (where there is also a link to download back issues).

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The Heard Island Expedition project "offers to its participants and supporters a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a Voyage of Discovery, to be a personal experience that likely will never be repeated". In the fifth issue of the Newsletter, published on 10 September, "we share some of the reasons these people came together to carry out this extraordinary journey". Subscribe to the Newsletter for free by going to http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php (where there is also a link to download back issues).

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In the sixth issue of the Heard Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 14 October, "we celebrate and thank our sponsors. While the current list is incomplete (we receive new sponsors almost every day), we take this opportunity to thank not only those who have contributed already, but all who will help us complete our fundraising goal. The good news is that we are on track to completing the financial resources to carry out the expedition". Subscribe to the Newsletter for free by going to http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php (where there is also a link to download back issues).

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The seventh issue of the Heard Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 28 November, contains excerpts from the book written by KK6EK about the January 1997 DXpedition to Heard Island. "Twenty
men, supported by hundreds of others, spent two weeks at the bottom of the world and the bottom of the sunspot cycle, making a world-record number of two-way radio contacts using the callsign VK0IR. For those of us who were participants, it was an amazing journey to the edge of our planet and beyond the edge of our experience. But it was much more than that: it was a new kind of journey for amateur radio: a shared, collective experience in which thousands worldwide use advanced technology to become nearly
real-time participants in this extraordinary adventure".
Go to http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php and subscribe to the Newsletter for free (there is also a link to download back issues).

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The eighth issue (Vol. 2, No. 1) of the the Heard Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 14 January, contains "amazing images of Heard Island" that "stimulate research plans". Go to http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php and subscribe to the Newsletter for free (there is also a link to download back issues).

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The tenth issue (Vol. 2, No. 3) of the the Heard Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 1 March, is the last one before the adventure starts. It contains links to the various websites for the expedition, and many other places that will help follow along as the voyage progresses: http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter_back_issues.html.

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The final issue (Vol. 2, No. 7) of the Heard Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 30 September, contains the names and/or callsigns of every single sponsor (either individuals and organizations):
http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter_back_issues.html.