12 feb 2006 2130utc: the team has spent the better part of the past 36 hours putting the gear that arrived yesterday on the air. we are now up to seven active stations and we'll get the 8th up by daybreak tomorrow. this is allowing operations on 12m and 10m while putting two stations on 40m.
we put up another 40m vertical today and all the steppirs are up now (both verticals and beams).
we can now man 30m virtually around the clock and we'll be watching for the lp european opening that occurs during the ja runs.
because we've been so intent on getting the inter-station lan up and running, we've been forced to neglect collecting the logs off each machine (or they would have been out of sync or worse, missing qs on the website). we found the network was also susceptible to rf and it took quite a few torriods (and time) to correct those issues.
now that the network is running well, we can finally pull the logs and upload to n1dg which will be done sometime tonight.
we know the dx community wants the online logs, but getting the island network running was judged more important for putting qsos into the logs than confirming ones already made.
we are about three days behind the island infrastructure plan due to the continuing challenges of bad weather.
thanks for your patience,
73 from the peter i team!
