I made another trip to American Sa’moa (KH8 for the radio amateurs in the audience) to deploy instrumentation. It was a tight timeframe but the instruments seem to work and I managed to make a few ham radio contacts as well.
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- Flock of Pelicans in Honolulu. Big overweight baggage bill.
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- Waiting to board 767-300ER from HNL to PPG.
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- Ubiquitous lizard
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- Seascape on the road to Tula.
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- Bell fashioned from a discarded gas cylinder, a common sight.
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- Loading coil for the GU Special fashioned from wire I found on the side of the road (not joking). This made the radio happy on 40 meters.
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- Believe it or not, there’s a C-130 in this photograph.
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- Car says it was 90 F (32 C) outside.
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- Traditional Samoan home or “fale.”
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- Requisite selfie from “today’s office.”
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- Building infrastructure to support the experiment.
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- Blockhouse for instrumentation (and radio shack) now with WiFi and GNSS antennas.
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- We live in the future: Raspberry Pi computer plugged into hotel TV.
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- Crepuscular rays from Cape Matatula.
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- Ham setup. I spent a lot of time sitting on Pelican cases.
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- Freezed-dried food is remarkably tasty…or I was hungry.
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- Hammer (drill) time!
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- Critter of the dark: Coconut crab the size of a basketball. Crabs this big are rare and prized for their tasty meat.
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- Critter junior: coconut crab the size of a softball.
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- Some of the research antennas.
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- Research receiver instrument.
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- Cable runs dressed.
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- Beautiful.
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- Yes, that is a jacked-up Corolla.
