Excellent idea Don! Put me down for one position, and I'll even bring along a
broken microphone.
73,
Army - AE5P
Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas
acurtis@andersoft.com
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On 3/28/02 at 8:48 PM Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
>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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