KINGMAN REEF 25 October DXpedition Announcement

For immediate release.

Kingman Reef 2000 Update

A big opening to EU today on 15 helped to put K5K in many logs there. They are still working the RTTY, there are some problems but they are working on it. They have 6 generators and 2 have quit but one of those is being fixed; this means that temporarily they are barefoot on 17.

The wind and high tide has driven the water clear up to the top of the reef at times waking the operators who were asleep on the sand with water in the sleeping bag. They are now using cots behind a wind break. The wind will diminish over the next 4 days which should help. They were on 80 SSB at 0830Z and have now been on all 17 band modes.

No word yet on whether they will operate CQWW this weekend. Even if they do a small operation they will prbably have to pull the plug to begin to dismantle before the end of the contest.

73
DRBill