WAKE ISLAND DXPEDITION 98

N6MZ/KH9   K8XP/KH9   N2OO/KH9   N2WB/KH9  






N2WB Working the pileup!





 N2WB on 15M CW!





Interstate W-1, WAKE ISLAND 





WAKE ISLAND on landing approach.





Wake Team at Army Missile Defense Sign.





N6MZ at the rig.







The Martin M-130 (better known as the China Clipper) 

November 11, 1935...Pan American Airway's China Clipper piloted by Captain Edwin C. Musick, made the first transpacific airmail flight from San Francisco to Honolulu,Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila, The Philippines.

The first nine passengers paid $1,438.20 for a round trip from San Francisco to Manila. It cruised at 150 miles per hour and had a range of 3,200 miles. 







MAP OF WAKE ISLAND
 IOTA OC-053

SIZE
 Total area: 6.5 sq km 
Land area: 6.5 sq km 
Comparative area: about 11 times the size of 
The Mall in Washington, DC 

 

23 Feburary - 13 March 1998

22,500 TOTAL QSO's


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