60 лет назад закончилась экспедиция Кон-Тики

**RA1AOM** · 08.08.2007, 15:34

Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki 4300 mile balsa raft expedition across the
Pacific ended 60 years ago today.

The Kon-Tiki's callsign was quite unusual LI2B. I remember hearing
that they used frequencies slightly outside of the amateur band on 20
meters, but I've never been able to verify this.

They used only CW. LI2B was operated by LA7Y.

LI2B was the amateur radio (ham radio) call-sign of Kon-Tiki raft
expedition (1947). Through this expedition, Thor Heyerdahl tried to
prove that it was possible for people from South America to have
crossed the Pacific from east to west and thereby to settle the
Polynesian islands. Heyerdahl was accompanied by five crew, including
former Norwegian underground radio operators, Kurt Haugland (LA3KY)
and Torstein Raaby. Throughout the 101-day voyage, the expedition
members collected meteorological and oceanographic data and sent them
to the United States via widely-spread ham radio stations. The
expedition's scientific and radio apparatus were their only
concessions to the use of modern equipment.[1]. During the voyage,
LI2B kept a schedule with W1AW and other U.S. stations (From Wikipedia
entry for LI2B)

See these links:
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/03/05/1/?nc=1
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/20...1/sibebar.html
www.geocities.com/w8jyz/LI2B.pdf

Wikipedia entry for Kon-Tiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki
Torstein Raaby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torstein_Raaby
Knut Haugland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Haugland
The first article (link above) was written by Bob Merriam, W1NTE
Director and Curator of the "New England Steam and Wireless Museum"
http://users.ids.net/~newsm/ who is a member of this group.

In French / franГaise http://www.f6blk.net/main_fr.php?page=96
In Norwegian /Norge http://www.la2d.com/?side=Artikler&id=18

**UT5IPA** · 12.02.2021, 22:15

Через 62 года после окончания экспедиции (которая состоялась в 1947 году), не стало последнего участника экспедиции - радиста Кнута Хаугланда, LA3KY, ему было 93 года.

Во время плавания, в эфире звучал позывной LI2B (использовался американский приёмник “NC-173” и армейский передатчик времён второй мировой войны - “British Mark II”). Проводились постоянные трафики с W1AW (на частоте 13,990 МГц).

QSL-карточка экспедиции: https://forum.qrz.ru/attachment.php?...6&d=1399657577

Более подробно об экспедиции: https://www.computer-museum.ru/connect/li2b.htm