Henry LU4DXU departed from Buenos Aires on January 15 th, and travelled 3.190 Km to de city of Ushuaia on the furthest south point of Argentina, where he will be making the final arrangements to board “Almirante Irizar” icebreaker, on January 26 th and sail to the Orkney Islands. Exactly to Laurie Island. It is estimated that he will arrive there on January 29 th. He will operate with the AY1ZA special call granted by the CNC, from January 29 th to February 22 th, when he will be, probably, returning to the continent. Henry travelled with the equipment supplied by Multiradio S.A. a TS-570, an AL-811 amplifier and he takes a JVP34DX antenna for 10-15-20 metres. He will also use dipoles antennas and a rhombic antenna which is already in the base.

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29-Jan 04:00 UTC Fortunately, Henry had a quiet voyage when crossing the strait of Drake. The "Almirante Irizar" icebreaker is anchored in front of Laurie island's cost. Henry is waiting for the helicopter to load the boxes and take them to the island, this will probably take place about 08:00 utc. Henry hopes to do his first qso´s in the night. 

10-FEB 04:00 UTC was on holiday for one week, and now I am back. I will update you with the latest developments. Henry is having some interference difficulties with the official base station which is establishing lots of contacts with the continent because of the 100 th anniversary of this base which will be celebrated in the next days. For this reason, he is not making as many QSO’s as he wishes, and is not observing the frequencies pre-established in the table below. The propagation condition is not helping him either.
I receive e-mails asking for the log, but the problem is that there is no Internet on the island for Henry to send me the log. He will probably send it to me via packet, or failing that, I will place it on the Internet.

Last 20 Spots of AY1ZA in the DX Cluster

This is the “Almirante Irizar” icebreaker which will take Henry LU4DXU to the Orkney islands , together with the equipment, the antennas and the crew for the Antarctic campaign 2004

The Orkney base is located in Laurie Island , situated in 60º 44´ 20” S – 44º 44´ 17” W, this base was opened on February 22 nd, 1904. Henry will be operating and will celebrate the 100 years of the base.