Flight 960 from Toronto to Antigua
The Air Canada jet
As we boarded we offered communication assistance!
The engines didn't fail us
The airport in Antigua
The plane to Monterrsat
With a Rolls-Royce engine!
The airport on Monterrsat - we're finally VP2M's
Going over the mountain
Our wives wondered "what did they get us into?"
The entrance to the house we rented from Doc, VP2MF
The front door
We noticed the vertical on the roof!
The view off the back porch
Redondo Island with Antigua in the background
The entry way into the house
The back porch and the pool
Rear view of the house and yard
Hank VP2MEH with Stan's wife Trish VP2MFA watching. Rig an Atlas 210X
Stan VP2MFE on the Atlas
Hank down in the third bedroom - the main shack. Drake R4B, T4XB and a Clipperton Amp.
And Stan down in the shack
The rear of the operating position!
The back yard flowers
Yucca plant
Trish, Hank and Doc Hollatz VP2MF
Downtown Plymouth - Now under volcanic ash!
Typical street
The Government house
A gas pump...We tought 2.69 a gallon was outrageous...well, it was in 1979
The orange pumpkin - travel info. Kathie (Hanks wife) and Trish (Stan's wife). Mint yellow VW - notice the "L" on the bumper for "Learner"
Kathie, Hank, Stan, and resident Chod Harris WB2CHO VP2MN?
The Montserrat detention center (jail!)
One of the many mirrors on one of the many switchbacks
The clothes dryer on "Windy Hill"
Stan & Hank got to ride with Doc Hollatz (the island veterinarian) to Saint Martin to pick up a dog
The "leaf lady"
The 9 seat plane. Doc, the dog in a cage and Hank
Coming back to Montserrat
The airport runway
Hank put the camera on the dash and started clicking off pictures!!
Whew!
They guys had to do the dishes for going on the trip!
Walking up to the Soufeirre - the volcano that has since erupted and covered the south of the island in lava and ash.
Hank sitting on a rock by some of the fissures
Banana tree on the way down from the volcano
Arnold VP2MO's house and yagi. He was from northern MI
Arnold at his shack.
We went to visit Chod Harris
and his shack.
The day before the 1978 IARU Radiosport contest we erected a 4 element quad on a 60 ft pipe mast
And the contest started - Multi-Single using Trish's call VP2MFA
Sunset on Saturday evening - 24 hours and over 1500 contacts
Sunday and another 1800 contacts. Third in the world for contacts, but 12th world score.
Kathie & Hank and Trish & Stan
And after 11 days we left Montserrat to go back to Michigan .....
and bags full of QSL cards from all over the world. Will we go again? Absolutely!
