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Our duties on expedition

The large part of success in operation from expedition depends on correct distribution of duties among its participants. How each participant of expedition knows his duties also in the time makes the matter, the success QRP-operation depends.

Dmitriy UU4JCQ and Victor USIRCH were basic operators, which ensured operation of EM5QRP in ether. Being by the perfect foremans of operation in ether they conducted QRP-QSO sometimes it would seem in improbable conditions! The guys taught to operation in ether our youth - Pavel US1-555 and Sergey - US6IRL. Each member of our expedition worked in ether. The special operating schedule was not, but place behind transceiver never was be empty. All this time of our stay on Ai-Petri call EM5QRP was in ether.

Peter, chairman of our QRP-club worked RTTY, trained to this aspect of operation all of us. Often he asked us to yield to him transceiver for operation in ether on RTTY and SSTY. But when there was a good propagation we tried to make as much as possible QSO by conventional mode - CW and SSB and did not give Peter to work in ether. Therefore majority of time he attempted to work in ether at not so good propagation. It also explains a small amount conducted RTTY QSO.

I had to do infinite resolderings of switching cords, to eliminate small inaccuracies, which arose by operation of our equipment. I worked on CB-range. For this time I have trained to operation of the guys on CB-radio Set and has shown them advantages and deficiencies of this range. In the evening and day I conducted observation over "whistler atmosphericss", told to the guys about this phenomenon. Gave to listen them my ELF receiver.

On shoulders Wladimir UR7IRL put one of most difficult for the men matters - cooking. And though we were on duty on a galley in turn, under the graph, to tear off the radio amateur from the transceiver and to make him to clean potatous for dinner was rather hard matter. His sons, Sergey - US6IRL and Pavel - US1-555 helped all of us with preparation of dinner, studied in skill of operation in ether from us.

As it is visible from this, everyone had duties, and each day on Ai - Petri saturated with various events interesting matters and discoverings.

We were shared among themselves by radioamateur experience, told radioamateur folks such as " that on such small power has caught such large DX! ". In the evenings in dinner - room Wladimir Romanovich and Nickolai Mihailovich UA3WX told infinite histories, which descended to them in their campaigns. Sometimes in the shelter the tourists spent the night, and then they also told histories, which with them happen in their tourist campaigns. And all this was certainly under magnificent Crimean vine! Yes, still it will be long each of us to recall these days as probably best in the life! When circle the friends, when you are occupied by the liked matter and when it seems that so was, and so it will be indefinitely long. But, unfortunately, only it seems. Certainly, each of us had the duties before monogynopaedium, before job and our expedition should all the same be completed. But for ever with us there was stayed that special radioamateur spirit, which we felt, when were together.


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