Heard Island Expedition 1997 (Planning Documents)

EQUIPMENT

Carlos Nascimento NP4IW

This is a very preliminary outline of the plan for acquiring and shipping the gear to Heard Island. This document will be changed often in the next few weeks. Please consult this document often.

Last update: 10 August 1996
Schedule

Sept. 1 - 1st container leaves SF.
Oct. 1 - 2nd container leaves SF.

General plan

The equipment will be sent in two 20-ft. ocean-freight containers. The first will contain most of the equipment assembled by Ralph KØIR for the 1995 expedition. This gear was returned from Australia. The second container will contain additional supplies needed for the enlarged team.

Participants may send any personal or team gear with either container. Please observe the deadlines. They are drop-dead dates. We will need your packages well in advance of the ship dates, in order to get it packed. There will be no other shipments.

Cost for shipping the containers to Reunion is about $5K. We plan to send two containers and return with only one. The rest of the gear will be liquidated on the ship or on Reunion

Facilities

We are working to keep you as comfortable as possible. To that end, we will have the following:

Equipment

The following lists were derived by envisioning the sequence of operations. It therefore contains some redundancies. We are developing a cross-list to eliminate these redundancies, and to identify the equipment already available. We are beginning purchases at this time (Aug. 10).

A) ON BOARD:

1. Access to containers/crates
2. Stationary supplies
3. Video/maps/slide of HI/books
4. AC power transformers/computer protection strips
5. GPS
6. Entertainment

B) LANDING ACTIVITIES:

1. Rubber landing gear/wet suit protection
2. Warm clothing
3. Marine radios (hand held)
4. Hand held (2m) radios
5. Visual Signals (Rescue): smoke /glare device/lights/flags
6. Binoculars
7. Flags to indicate landing places.

C) LIFE SUPPORT (TRANSIENT):

1. "Energy box" containing: Chocolate bars/drinks(can)/Coffee
(thermos)/cereal bars
2. First Aid box kit (it could be an appendix of a maJor one).
3. Generator (1850W) with generator tool kit/oil/starting fluid/Jerry can (with gas)/Extensions cords/multiples (water proof)
4. 2 Tripods flood lights
5. 2x4 lights (trouble lights/halogen) with stands
6. Drinking Water (bottles)
7. Hand warmers
8. Working Gloves (several types)
9. Tool kits: basic tools, containing tools to open crates
10. 2m hand held radios
11. Expedition Flag ("Take possession of island, [it would be
temporary, we'll return it to the Australians at the end of
expedition])
12. Marine Radios (with 6 hy battery)
13. Sealed-water proof pouch containing documents/maps of
island/camping plan/detail list of crates number and their contents
14. Flashlights
15. Water Pump (manual)

D) SHELTERS/ERECTION:

1. Generators (we need 2 operating with power strips/extension for drilling/lights
2. Electric Drills (2) with assorted bits (heavy duty)
3. 2 x 8ft ladders (wood/aluminum)/self stand
4. Long tape measure
5. Marking flags (12) to indicate location of shelters/generators/crates/etc
6. Tool Box for erection of shelters: 2 shovels/picks/garden
tools/hammers/gloves/
7. Webbing material (rolls?)
8. Double-header nails (4")
9. Screw-eye (assortment of sizes)/shells
10. 1-1/2" nails
11. Ropes (1000 ft/heavy duty); (1000 ft light duty)
12. 12 ropes/25 ft with shackles
13. Socket wrench tool kit (2-3)

E) FOOD PREPARATION/EATING

1. Stoves + fuel
2. 2x electric skillet
3. Microwave
4. Electric tea kettle
5. Utensils
6. Cooking oil/salt/spices
7. Dishes/glasses/coffee mugs
8. Paper towels/towels/soap/detergent/brushes/scrubber
9. Bins (wash dishes)/buckets
10. Can opener
11. Food: fresh/cans/dry/liquor/snacks/drinks

F) SANITATION

1. Portable shower
2. Portable Potty house
3. 4-6 portable potty/plastic bags/chemicals
4. Urine receptacles (inside tents)
5. Towels
6. Liquid detergent (laundry)
7. Hot air blower
8. Clean/disinfectant soap
9. Brushes (for boots)
10. Brooms
11. Mirror
12. Mats for tents
13. Compress air/air pump
14. Goggles (with elastic straps)
15. Toilette paper
16. White buckets

G) EMERGENCY RESPONSE

[To be provided by VK2TQM]


H) POWER & LIGHTS

1. 15 Regular 120V plugs (3 prongs AC)
2. 2,500 ft Romex
3. 220V plugs for generac/coleman generators
4. 4 Outlet boxes, with 4 plugs each)
5. Assortments of extension cords (10/25/50/100 ft)
6. 5 Ground rods/stakes
7. 6 ground clamps
8. Cooper wire (heavy duty)
9. Spare spark plugs for generators
10. 2 gas pumps
11. Hoses/siphons
12. 3 plastic funnels
13. 4 Jerry cans
14. 20 flash lights (one for each member)
15. Transformer (we have them)
16. #18/4 wire, all that we have
17. 18 (20) green army crates
18. Water purifying sprays ((lots)
19. Lanmans pliers/Tools

I) RADIOS

1. Power supplies m(what we have)
2. Marine radios
3. 3 signs with radio call
4. Maps, Team's roster with calls/op. frequencies (KK6EK)
5. Centralized box (manuals)
6. 24 hr. digital clocks
7. Logs (paper) (KK6EK)
8. 50 ball pens
9. Pads
10. Radio Filters
11. Desk Lamps (we have them)
12. 3 small waste baskets with bags
13. 1 big waste basket with bags (galley)
14. 50 Rags
15. 30 Paper towels
16. 6 Position logs (document)/KK6EK
17. 2 8ft ladders
18. Ropes

J) LIVING FACILITIES

1. 10 Tables 2x4 ft
2. 3 Tables 3x6 ft
3. 24 Plastic chairs
4. 2 Propane Heaters
5. 2 Heavy Duty electric heaters with blower
6. 2 Medium duty heaters with blower
7. Fire extinguishers: 1 big size (galley)/1 medium size/5 small
8. Tent rapair kit
9. Cots
10. Dryer house (NAPA)
11. 4 Door mats (heavy duty with "fingers")
12. 6 Broom
13. 6 Dust pans
14. Bottle liquid detergent (kitchen)
15. Ajax Powder
16. 409
17. Brillo pads
18. Large sponges
19. Towels
20. Bars of Soaps
21. Matches
22. Insect repellent
23. Insect killer spray
24. Clorox
25. Pine sol
26. Garbage bags (plastic)
27. Plastic glasses + 1/2 dozen spares
28. Coffee mugs
29. Bowls
30. 2 urinals
31. 2 heavy duty umbrellas
32. Gloves: 8 pairs mule skin/2 super heavy duty/assortments
33. Ice chest (medium size)
34. 12 of 8ftx2x4
35. 36 3ftx2x4
36. 6 3x8 ft 3/4" plywood
37. Electric kettle
38. Electric water heater
39. Propane bottles (verify fittings)
40. Liquors: Whiskey 1 big bottle/4 rums/4 card board wine/Champagne/pisco
Coffee: 6 cans of ground/filters (Mr. Coffee)/2 instant coffee flask

K) STORAGE

1. 4 Crates to be hinged/sealed
2. Water pump (electrical)
3. Hoses
4. Water house
5. 2 fuel` pumps
6. box (spare parts)
7. steel box for valuables (KK6EK)

L) SECURITY

ID tags/sticky labels/tags (tied)

M) RECORD KEEPING

1. Pencils
2. Xerox copy
3. Diskettes/computer supply
4. Radio logs
5. Bronze plaque (VK0IR)
6. White Boards: Radio sched/Announcements/Progress rpt./Tasks

N) WATER

1. Jugs
2. Tablets (Clorox) to make it safe to drink
3. Water testing kit
4. Clean funnels (marked for water use only)
5. Plastic tubing
6. Stream splitters/valves
7. 100 x 10 ft 1" PVC/glue/coupling/valves/elbows

O) ANCHORING AND WIND PROTECTION

1. 1 Drill, heavy duty/Bits/Anchors
2. Eye screws (200 of them)
3. 20 2 ft metal stacks used in construction
4. 150 army stakes
5. plastic stakes (marks)
6. plastic ribbon
7. 7,000 ft of 3/16" nylon
8. 20 screw eye for crates (to secure for wind)
9. 500 ft of 1/2" nylon braid
10. Webbing

P) MISC.

1. Video equipment
2. Party gear
3. Bell
4. Megaphone
5. Shut down box: caulking/sylicone'gun
6. screws (dry walls)
7. Metal banders/ plastic banders(?)
8. Lots of duct tape
9. Markers to identify boxes
10. Liquid wrench/WD40
11. Bolt cutter
12. Flares
13. Smog producers
14. Stroboscopic light
15. Rolling wheel platform
16. Gifts for members

Q) SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT (KK6EK)

1. GPS
2. Labels
3. Jars w/lids
4. Fixer
5. Log
6. Hand lens/microscope
7. Digging tools
8. Funnels
9. Ultraviolet lights
10. Marking pens.

R) DEPARTING ACTIVITIES

1. Last radio
2. Flares, other signals
3. Handheld radios
4. Anchor removal tools
5. Incinerating supplies

You are invited to make suggestions: carlos_george-nascimento@cc.chiron.com

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