This is a typical operation from VK9, on little, now we are not sure what is the cause, is it lack of power, or no propagation, or just do not have the time to operate? This was supposed to be a two entity effort, one week on Christmas and the other on Cocos Keeling. So far little operating, they were spotted by an Alaskan station and one West Coast station on 14.247 at 0700Z few contacts resulted.
So, in all fairness, there could be other circumstances, but this has been the pattern for some time. We have all the VK9 entities, however a couple of them we can use a CW contact, or other bands then 20. Stay Tuned.