（Tweets of the Southern Cross）
チューニングダイアルは14050kHzで止まった。
ゆるやかなQSBの中、ゆったりしたキーイング・・・
”..E5....ND...CQ...de...51....k"
誰だ・・・？
彼は何度も何度もゆっくりキーイングを続ける
"CQ...Q....1A.........CQ..de...E5...pse k"
奇妙な感覚を覚えながらも問いかけてみた。
"QRZ QRZ? de JJ5IZX JJ5IZX k"
彼はこう囁いた。
"J..I..X JJ...ZX de E5..ND.."
間違いない・・・Callback。
しかしコールサインはまだわからない。
すかさずコールサインの再送を打ち返した。
"de JJ5IZX JJ5IZX SRI AGN CALL BK"
ゆったりしたキーイングはこう続ける
"JJ5IZX JJ5IZX de E51.. 51AN..pse k"
QRZ.comを見て驚き。はやる気持ちを抑え、
彼のキーイングにあわせ返答した。
"R R E51AND de JJ5IZX JJ5IZX GE OM UR 539 539 HW? BK"
彼はゆったりしたキーイングでこう呟いた・・・
"R JJ5IZX de E51AND GE OM UR 539 539 BT HR NAME is ANDY ANDY HW? BK"
巡り会わせと言うのでしょうか？
一期一会とはこう言ったものなのか？
たった2分間程度のQSO。
しかしながら南洋の孤島からの信号は、私にとって記憶に残るものとなりました。
South Cook Islands
1965年、住民はニュージーランド内での内政自治権の獲得を選んだ。同時に軍事および外交部門以外の立法権および行政権をクック諸島政府が有することになった。1973年のニュージーランドとの共同宣言で、独自に諸外国と外交関係を持つ権利が認められる。
The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century CE byPolynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti, to the southeast.[8]
Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century; the first written record of contact with the islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1595 who called it San Bernardo (Saint Bernard). Portuguese-Spaniard Pedro Fernández de Quirós, made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga in 1606, calling it Gente Hermosa(Beautiful People).[9]
British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777[10] and named the islands the Hervey Islands; the name "Cook Islands", in honour of Cook, appeared on a Russian naval chart published in the 1820s.[11]
In 1813 John Williams, a missionary on the Endeavour (not the same ship as Cook's), made the first recorded sighting of Rarotonga.[12] The first recorded landing on Rarotonga by Europeans was in 1814 by the Cumberland; trouble broke out between the sailors and the Islanders and many were killed on both sides.[13]The islands saw no more Europeans until missionaries arrived from England in 1821. Christianity quickly took hold in the culture and many islanders continue to be Christian believers today.
The Cook Islands became a British protectorate in 1888, due largely to community fears that France might occupy the territory as it had Tahiti. In 1901 the New Zealand Government decided to annex the country despite opposition from the country's traditional chiefs. As many of the islands were independent and ruled by local chiefs, the Cook Islands had no federal statutory law to decide the constitutional constraints regarding whether to agree to the country's annexation. When the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 came into effect on 1 January 1949, Cook Islanders who were British subjects gained New Zealand citizenship.[14] The country remained a New Zealand protectorate until 1965, when the New Zealand Government decided to offer self-governing status to its colony. In that year, Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party was elected as the first Prime Minister. Henry led the country until he was accused of vote-rigging. He was succeeded in 1978 by Tom Davis of the Democratic Party.
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彼（Andy）のQRZへの書き込みから
I'm not a DXer and not skilled at operating pile ups -- please be patient with me. On CW please QRS to <8wpm if you want me to respond -- demonstrating your CW prowess will guarantee that I wont be able to copy you. I work only the QRS stations.
本来なら自分自身のQSOを録音したいのですが
大抵の場合、準備することもなくQSOに入るので
「もったいない」事をしたものだと反省しています。
今回もQSO後、他局とのQSOの様子を録音してみました。
20120905 0917UTC 14050kHz E51AND
Date : 05/Sep/2012 0917UTC
Freq : 14050kHz CW
Rig : ICOM IC-7200
ANT : LOOP
PC recording
