ja1bk写的：
after three and half years' struggles, finally the dxpedition of kh8si swains island as a new entity became reality. it was an amazingly eventful story, for which i would be able to write a book. but it is waste of time to write the entire story anymore. please read the travel record.
soon after dxcc2000 was announced, i found three new entity candidates. i urgently went to marquesas and australs and carried out qrv at fo0miz. at this moment, i knew that timotu could be a new. i asked vk9ns to go there, because there was not enough time for me to visit three places by myself.
chesterfield and ducie became new for clause c) subsequently. i have called first cq's from four brand new ones. after a stalemate before reaching the first objective of five new entities, i could finally operate from the fifth new. swains island kh8si is my memorable event.
unlike before, it was not round trip. the outward ship did not wait for us to return. two-times round trips was the requirement at the beginning.
i was supposed to take tokelau flag-flying ship, mv tokelau for outward, and for return, mv sili chartered by am samoa government.
i had a breakdown for one-week postponement of departure due to the schedule of two ships and length of our stay. i once abandoned the plan and prepared to go back to japan on july 25.
at any rate, we could cut a deal. we left for swains at 12:20 on 27 and arrived at 8:30 on 28. jgx and i went ashore in the lead.
since i had an eye on adequate palm trees for antenna, we made station layout pretty soon and set up the station in about two hours.
the first qso was ah8lg on july 28 at 2219z. the ten stations, ja1xqc, vk3pa, vk7ac, ja3mha, ja1sls, jn4miv, jf1pjk, jh1hgc and vk3sx follow it.
in spite of the worst conditions, we had got lots of piles. we could not handle them without number at the beginning.
unlike in the case of the previous event, the season was winter there. as it was quite cool at night, we did not have to go out from the tent to cool ourselves and worked efficiently.
in the meantime, i myself had to take the plane on july 30 for honolulu to attend the iaru r3 conference at bangalore. as mv tokelau stayed one night for fishing fortunately, i left the island for apia, samoa after 32 hours stay at swains island. i voyaged for 20 hours to apia, traveled 25 kilometers to the airport, took 30 minutes to pago pago by small twin-engine plane. i waited for three hours to take plane for honolulu, then arrived at honolulu at 5:30 in the morning, waited for four hours and boarded an airplane for narita. i came back to japan at last. i had never been exhausted like this before. but it was good that i could make qso with kh8si, which was still operated. hi hi
i cannot organize all the logs before go to india. as i would like to work bit by bit, there is no need to hurry to send sase.
attention
please attach all qso data together in one qsl. i will search the labels by station. since all qso's are printed in the label, it is impossible to split it.
please understand it, as it is simple. in the case you made five qso's, if you send five sase separately, i have to open five envelopes. it needs five-times needless energy. i receive tens of thousands of letters. thank you for your consideration.
