[Mldxcc] Fwd: [NCDXC Chat] Fwd: Greetings from the VP8STI/VP8SGI team

[Rick WA6NHC]

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Subject: 	[NCDXC Chat] Fwd: Greetings from the VP8STI/VP8SGI team
Date: 	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:29:52 -0800
From: 	Mike Flowers via Chat <chat at ncdxc.org>
Reply-To: 	Mike Flowers <mike.flowers at gmail.com>
To: 	NCDXC Discussion List <chat at ncdxc.org>, members at ncdxc.org



 From Paul, N6PSE ...
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73 de Mike, K6MKF - President, NCDXC
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From: *Paul N6PSE* <paul at n6pse.com <mailto:paul at n6pse.com>>
Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:37 AM
Subject: Greetings from the VP8STI/VP8SGI team
To: Mike Flowers <mike.flowers at gmail.com <mailto:mike.flowers at gmail.com>>


Mike, would you please send this message to NCDXC chat.
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Thank you and best wishes,
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Paul N6PSE
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Greetings to our NCDXC friends from the VP8STI/VP8SGI team,
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The team is packed and about to head out to the Falkland Islands to meet 
the Braveheart. We hope that good weather and
calm seas prevail so that we can land at Southern Thule Island on 
January 17th as planned.
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Our ship owner, Nigel Jolly tells us that it is common to have to wait 
offshore for days at a time for calm enough
weather to make the already treacherous landing on Southern Thule.
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The team is excited and extremely motivated to do a good job from these 
remote and rare islands. Our full focus is on amateur radio
and making as many contacts as possible with the Global DX Community. We 
will use proven techniques to maximize the number of unique call
signs in our logs.
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Our W6/W7 Pilot Relay Station is Chuck-AA6G. He will relay reports to us 
on a daily basis of when and how we are being heard
on the West Coast. At times, we will need to ask the West Coast to QRX 
so that we can check propagation to VK/ZL and JA/Asia.
Out of turn callers will have difficulty working us.
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Given how well we are hearing VP8NO right now, we are confident that 
propagation on the higher bands is good. We also plan to make
a major effort on the low bands, with four square antenna arrays on 30, 
40 and 80 meters. We will work very intensively on 160 meters
with our phased vertical arrays.
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We will make every effort to upload our logs to Clublog each day. Our 
Inmarsat satellite provider tells us that Inmarsat is not reliable below 
55 degrees and we will be camped at 59 degrees South, while on Southern 
Thule Island.
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We are extremely grateful for all Foundation, Club and Individual 
sponsors and donors. We sincerely hope to satisfy the need for South 
Sandwich and South
Georgia contacts.
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See you in the pileups!
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Paul N6PSE
Co-Leader, VP8STI/VP8SGI



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