Today the wind changed to north – northwest, and together with the old sea from the south it creates pretty big waves flushing more than 30% of the island. When writing this it’s much worse than it is on the pictures. We went out on a ’buoy rescue’ today. The buoy was moved earlier but today as the waves got larger it was in danger again. The plan was to retrieve it to the lighthouse, but as most of the eastern part of the island is flushed by waves we had to make a run in between the waves to get to the buoy. We decided to just move it into a safer location and try to ancor the chain between some rocks. On our way back we didn’t manage to get thru dry, the waves flushed us good up to the knees. Now drying up, and SM0W/Teemu has started to work the SAC SSB. Less than three hours into the contest, I just heard him giving out numbers above 500! As for conditions, this night was kinda slow with much static (S9 on 40m). We worked perhaps 150 NA on SSB and 200 on CW. 80m was pretty much dead. 10m and 12m provided some good JA runs on both CW and SSB during today. The HF9V might have to be moved again during the afternoon. It’s almost being flushed by the waves on the southern side. UPDATE 20:23z: More blogs from the Lighthouse Keepers http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_061011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_071011/ http://www.majakkaseura.fi/eng/market/market_diary_2011/diary_081011/