Area and history
Continent: Oceania - Coordinates: 11.05S 171.05W AH48LW - Zones: WAZ 32, ITU 62 - Allocation: AH8 - IOTA: OC-200
Swains Island (Olohega) is an atoll in the Tokelau chain, the most northwesterly island administered by American Samoa. Although culturally belonging to Tokelau, politically, it is a territory of United States of America. It has variously been known as Olosenga Island, Olohega Island, Quiros Island, Gente Hermosa Island and Jennings Island throughout its history. The current population of the island is 37, all located in the only village. The island has a land area of 1.508 km² (0.582 sq mi, or 372.55 acres).
KH8SI - Juli 2005
...and previous activities
In June 2006 the DXCC Desk of ARRL pblished amendment (c) to Section II, DX List Criteria, 1. Political Entities of the DXCC: The entity contains a permanent population, is administered by a local government, and is located at least 800 km from its parent. To satisfy the "permanent population" and "administered by a local government" criteria of this sub-section, an Entity must be listed on either (a) the U.S. Department of State's list of "Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty" as having a local "Administrative Center," or (b) the United Nations list of "Non-Self-Governing Territories.
Thus American Samoa was re-defined as a political entity according to DXCC rules. Consequently the DX Advisary Committee would have to accept Swain's Island as a new DXCC entity. The Radio Amateurs of American Samoa were eager to represent themselves in the IARU as their immediate neighbors in Samoa (formerly British Samoa) do. So the organizers of this expedition thought Swains could be a new DXCC Entity under DXCC2000, and as soon as the DXCC Rules removed the IARU category they decided to go to Swains Island, anyway. Read their report.
JA1BK's KH8SI video (15:48): 
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N8S - April, 2007
'The Big One'
27 March, 2007
Doug (N6TQS) and Allan (K6SRZ) arrive in Amercan Samoa and have confirmed our shipment of equipment from Long Beach, California and San Francisco, California has arrived safely without damage.
30 March, 2007
Hrane (YT1AD) and YU members have arrived at LAX this evening and will depart to Fiji on Friday morning and will ultimately arrive in American Samoa on March 31, 2007.
David (K3LP) departed Baltimore (BWI) this morning at 5:30 AM and will arrive in Honolulu, Hawaii via San Francisco on Friday evening, March 30, 5:35 PM using Northwest Airlines. Krassy (K1LZ) has arrived in Honolulu.
31 March, 2007
Our Swains Island team members with non-USA licenses are scheduled to take the USA Amateur Radio License examines prior to departure to Swains Island.
1 April, 2007
Toaday N8S team haved FCC examination on Pago Pago, American samoa.
1.Bogdanov Mladen, YU7NU, T,G,E
2.Djeric Velimir, YZ1BX, G,E
3.Markovic Milovan YU1AU, E
4.Gekas Vangelis, SV2BFN, T,G,E,
5.Aleksej Romanov, UA4HOX, T,G,
6.Tkachenko Roman, UR0MC, T,G,E,
7.Eulishov Evgenij, RK3AD, T,G,E,
8.Vasiljenko Victor, RU4SU, T,G,E
(T-Technician, G-General, E-Extra)
April 2, 2007
All equipment has been loaded on the boat. We are in the process of having operator personal luggaged moved from Hotel to Boat. We have decided to purchase two additional 5K to 6K generators to ensure we have proper back-up. They'll cost us additional $1k each here on American Samoa.
Our team of international operators have arrived safely and are ready to serve the DX-Community with pride.
We will depart American Samoa at 1:00 PM today, April 2. We expect the boat ride to take approx. 30 hours.
Last evening, our team had a review meeting to discuss any concerns and to obtain any addition items deemed necessary by team members. The main issue was getting additional generators. We expect to get the first station on the air within 2 hours after arriving on the island, April 3. Our team will work through the night to get all antennas and equipment up and running by the end of April 3, 2007.
15 April, 2007
Closing down. The new record set by N8S is 117.205
Interview with team leader Dr. Hrane Milosevic, YT1AD, recorded 11 April, 2007 via satellite phone.
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Introduction and Interview with Hrane, YT1AD (09:54) [MP3 , 2.3 MB]
N8S, 4 April, 2007 - 08:00UTC - 21.295 - SSB (02:00) [MP3 , 474.5 KB]
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NH8S - Third attempt
6.-16. September, 2012
Expedition Web Site: ext. Link
Operators: 9V1FJ, Barry Fletcher; AA4NN, Joe Blackwell; DJ2VO, Juergen Borsdorf; DL3DXX,
Dietmar Kasper; K5AB, Alan Brown; K9CS, Carl Schroeder; K9CT, Craig Thompson, Team Leader; K9NW, Mike Tessmer; N2TU, Lou Dietrich; N6HC, Arnie Shatz; N6HD, David Greenhut; NA6M, Mark Stennett; ND2T, Tom Berson; SM5AQD, Hawk Eriksson; W6KK,
Charles Spetnagel; W8GEX, Joe Pater, Team Leader; W8HC, Hal Turley; W8TN, Clark Stewart; WB9Z, Jerry Rosalius. - 105.455 Contacts. - QSL: Swains Island DXpedition, P.O. Box 5005, Lake Wylie, SC 29710, USA
