I'm happy to report that I am organizing a DXpedition to a newly
discovered island in the Gulf of Mexico called Parody Island.
This island meets all the requirements of the ARRL to become a
new DXCC Entity and there is positive reaction that it will soon
become a new Entity.
I will assemble a crew of 10 operators. Of these operators, all will
have RTTY experience. We will operate all bands CW and RTTY
and maybe, just maybe SSB. Since the team leader (me) does not
like SSB, we will bring along 2 experienced DXpediton SSB operators
but will not allow them to operate SSB.
We will have one station dedicated to RTTY 24 hours a day around the
clock on 21080 kHz. We will operate RTTY on all WARC bands and
160M.
This DXpedition will take place over a period of 11 days, perhaps as
early as February 2003 after the closing of Duck Season. We will operate
Multi-Multi in the CQ/RJ WPX RTTY contest.
We will have 3 pilot stations. One will be Barry, W2UP, who will be
instructed to tell those inquiring, that SSB will start on a certain date. Of
course, we will not operate SSB on that date. Instead we will operate RTTY
and CW on 20 meters listening all the way up to 14300 khz.
A day or two after this announcement and no show on SSB, we will
instruct Barry to tell the SSB masses that we are having problems with
the only microphone we brought with us (this, of course, will not be true
because we snuck in an SSB QSO with 2 of our friends).
Then on the 3rd to last day of the DXpedition, we will have Barry announce
on our website that there might, repeat might, be SSB on 20M the next day.
We will start on RTTY on 20M and at no set time, move to SSB, where we
will work 10 hours of SSB. We will then have Barry put out that there will be
no more SSB operation.
Please stayed tuned for more details as they emerge.
73, Don AA5AU
Team Leader
2003 Parody Island DXpedition
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