I have just received a mail from Wally, VK6YS, explaining the last news about VK6CHI from Cheyne Island (IOTA OC-193) & Rottnest Island (OC-164):

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All is in order, and we have the permissions to camp and transmit from the island so Bruce and I should be on air from mid to late Friday afternoon local time (0600 to 0400 UTC)

Propagation is not looking too bad to Europe so hopefully we should work plenty of dxers and IOTA chasers over the weekend.

For Cheyne island we will be camping and travelling as light as possible as we have to use a small 3.4 metre dinghy to get to the island, and weather can be interesting, although the forecast now is for a reasonably fine 4 or 5 days.
Antennas are 2 Force12 XK40's, mainly for 40 and 30 metres, and a Spiderbeam for 20 and above if propagation gets there.

Rottnest Island on the other hand should be a real breeze with us staying in a villa above the
bay and only a short walk from the Hotel. Ah well, someone has to do these things in the name of amatuer radio !! We will only have one XK40 on Rottnest island as space in the villas etc is at a premium.
Regards

Wally
VK6YS
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 Take a look at his web page at: http://www.westozdx.net/

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Posted on September, 10th: 

Wally/ VK6YS,Bruce/ KD6WW and Nigel/ VK6KHD will be active as VK6CHI from Cheyne Island , IOTA OC-193 , from about 9 UTC on 12 October until about the UTC midnight on the 15th.
They plan to operate CW and SSB mainly on 40 , 30 and 20 metres . On their way back from Cheyne Island , VK6YS and KD6WW will stop on Rottnest Island , IOTA OC-164 . They plan to operate on 40 , 30 and 20 metres CW and SSB as VK6YS/P from about 11 UTC on 15 October until about 3 UTC on the 17th .
QSL for both Dxpeditions via VK4AAR .

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