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EVERY COT.  THIS WORKED WELL DURING THE FEW HOURS OF BITE FREE SLEEP.  UTI,
KS6FO, LOOKED FOR A FEW YL CONTACTS, BUT MOSTLY RAN A VERY EFFICIENT MESS
HALL, ASSISTED BY HER SISTER.  SHE WAS A WONDERFUL COOK AND ABLE TO
CONVERSE WITH ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS IN 
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COCONUT TREES ON THE BEACH THAT WE USED TO PULL UP THE INVERTED V/DIPOLES
FOR THE LOW BANDS.  WE SET UP OUR FLAGPOLE WITH THE COLORS OF THE USA,
JAPAN, FRANCE AND AMERICAN SAMOA.  OUR FIRST DAY AND NIGHT WERE SPENT
GETTING AS MANY STATIONS AS POSSIBLE IN THE LOGS ON SSB.  WE ESTABLISHED
SEVERAL GOALS FOR THIS FIRST SHORT DXPEDITION TO A NEW ENTITY AMONG THEM
WAS TO GIVE A CONTACT TO THE LARGEST NUMBER OF STATIONS.  TO ENSURE THIS,
WE COVERED EVERY AREA OF THE WORLD WHERE THERE WAS AN OPENING.  FOLLOWING
THE DX IS LEAD OF CASS AND THE WEST COAST DX BULLETIN, WE ESTABLISHED
FRIENDLY DXPEDITION IS AS OUR MOTTO NO UNFRIENDLY ACTS, PERSISTENCE IN
GETTING THE CALL WE HEARD INTO THE LOG AND IGNORING THE JAMMERS AND OTHER
INTERFERENCE.  ON THE NEXT DAY WE TOOK THE QSL CARD PHOTOS AND CONTINUED
ERECTING ANTENNAS, PUSHUP MASTS FOR THE YAGI AND MORE WIRES.  WE BEGAN CW
OPERATION IN ADDITION TO SSB, WITH TWO STATIONS ON CW AND ONE OR TWO ON SSB
AS CONDITIONS DICTATED.  WE GENERALLY MAINTAINED A STATION ON CW AND SSB
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EVERYTHING ON THE BEACH IN A FEW HOURS.  THE ONLY ENTRY TO SWAINS ISLAND IS
THROUGH A NARROW CUT IN THE CORAL REEF THAT ALLOWS A SMALL BOAT TO REACH
THE BEACH.  SINCE OUR MARCH 2005 EXPERIENCE INCLUDED SWAMPING THE BOAT AND
OVERTURNING IT AND DROPPING THE OUTBOARD MOTOR TO THE BOTTOM, WE LOADED
CAREFULLY AND HELD ON TIGHT.  UPON ARRIVAL, WE WADED ASHORE, CARRYING
EVERYTHING.  THE ASSISTANCE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS, EAGER TO WELCOME US
BACK, WAS GREATLY APPRECIATED.  THE FIRST BOAT CARRIED KAN AND TETS WHO
QUICKLY GOT THE FIRST STATION ON THE AIR SO KAN COULD MAKE THE FIRST
CONTACT FROM SWAINS ISLAND DXCC ENTITY 337.  KAN HAD HIS EYE ON AN ADEQUATE
PALM TREE FOR AN ANTENNA.  THE TWO INSTALLED THE FIRST STATION IN ABOUT TWO
HOURS WITH THE FIRST CONTACT GOING TO LARRY, AH8LG, ON JULY 28 AT 2219 UTC.
WE SPENT OUR FIRST DAY SETTING UP THE CW TENT, SSB TENT, A COVERED AREA FOR
SLEEPING AND ANOTHER FOR THE DINING AREA, AND GETTING ALL OUR EQUIPMENT TO
THE AREA IT WAS NEEDED.  THE GENERATORS WERE LOCATED MIDWAY BETWEEN THE CW
AND SSB TENTS, ALLOWING FOR EASY REFUELING.  WE HAD AN 8 KW FOR CW AND 5 KW
FOR SSB AND A SPARE GENERATOR THAT WAS NOT NEEDED.  THERE WERE SEVERAL TALL
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