ZL7T - Chatham Island Latest News

A team of nine ZL DXers will be activating Chatham Island in the South Pacific during the next few days. The team left for Chatham Island today, March 5 at 15:30 local (02:30z UTC), landing about 2 hours later.

As much preliminary work and preparation as possible is being done on their arrival, assembling the antennas and continuing into the dark tonight at around 08:00z. Both Yagis and the 30m vertical should be up and running by 00:00z tomorrow, with the 80m and 40m wire antennas going up in the trees later tomorrow. The 160m inverted "L" will be the last antenna to go up. ZL7T should be on the air with two stations on the higher bands sometime after 00:00z tomorrow, March 6 and will probably have activated all four stations by about 08:00z. They will be active until March 10.