2. Staging Equipment

4. Rebar Dead Man Used on Many Stakes

5. Op, Generator and Rest Tents

6. Masked Boobies Queued up to Use the Loo

7. Break Tent

8. Generator Shed

9. CrankIR

10. Dave K3EL

11. Partial of Antenna Farm

12. 4 Square & Birds

13. SSB – Generators - CW

14. SSB / RTTY Tent Luigi IV3YER – Heye DJ9RR – Gene K5GS

15. SSB / RTTY Tent

16. Plan- 6 stations running for 10 days 24 hours per day Actual – 6 stations running for ~5 days 24 hours per day propagation permitting - 6 x Elecraft K3 - 1 x Icom IC-7000 back-up - 1 x Elecraft K2 back-up - 4 x Elecraft KPA 500 - 2 x Tokyo HyPower - 1 x Tokyo HyPower back-up - 4 x generators 4 kw each - 7 x 200 liter drums ~1,200 liters fuel, - 2,000 feet RG-8X Operations Plan

17. Antennas 160 m - Spiderbeam 18m fiberglass mast – Inverted L 1/4 Vertical 80 m - Spiderbeam 18m fiberglass mast w/SGC 40 m – 4 Square 10 – 20M – Folding Hex Beam x 2 CrankIR x 3 BigIR x 3 Pennant RX antenna Antenna Plan

18. Actual Schedule

19. Then Reality Arrived

21. Cyclone Ita What did we know and when did we know it? - We knew it was the end of the cyclone season - When we arrived at the island it was windy – approx 20 knots - As the days went on the winds got stronger - On about April 1 st the skipper told us of a tropical depression forming to the North - He said these events are known to form cyclones - What’s the difference between a cyclone, hurricane, or a typhoon? - The skipper was closely monitoring the weather - At one point he said he “isn’t panicking yet, but if we saw him running we should be close behind him” - We received radio reports of death and destruction in Honiara - He was receiving NOAA WEFAX images and maritime Wx warnings every 4 hours - On the early morning of April 5 th we decided it was time to start packing

22. Forming of a Cyclone

23. WEFAX Evohe crew: l-r Hamish, Lindsey and the Skipper Steve Kafka

24. Met / Nav Warning Forecast

25. Low Profile CrankIR

26. Wind’s Effect on OP Tent