After 3days sailing, we finally found the reef.

Prepare the dinghy.

 The reef is 200m long

 Mats the taxi driver.

 Splash splash !!

 First thing we did is assembling the antennas

 However, no one followed.....

Because of rough water, no one could land, lots of stuff were gone under the sea....

Mats, Jun were left on the reef without any food, just with two tens and a gallon of water.

You see the sunset at right, nothing on the reef, just sand and the sunset.....

Rough water turned over the dinghy, and much stuff were gone to the bottom of the sea. Pekka lost IC735, his Solid State amplifier and PC, Pekka and Garry lost every personal stuff including passports, money, clothes ... Jun lost most of his clothes.

In the afternoon of two days later, we managed to load some equipment up finally. We worked hard to set up one station.

In the evening we finished to set up one station at last.

Pekka fired up the station as the first operator. Thousands of DXers were waiting for us. The pile up was unbelievable big.

 Mats followed to activate CW.

 The C3, our only antenna at first.