[RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement

[Andrew J. O'Brien]

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The Cyber Amateur Radio Club  (CARC) has announced it's intention to
establish what will be a first in Amateur Radio, DX-peditions to under water
reefs.  It has also announced it's intention to seek ARRL DXCC approval of
these entities claiming that the submerged status of these reefs is a
natural barrier and , as such, should not be excluded from official DX
status.

Additionally, the RSGB has been contacted with regard to the establishment
of a UW-IOTA program.  The Under-Water Islands On The Air awards program ,
according to CARC "will provide an unique opportunity for the experimental
applications of under-water radio propagation and transmission techniques"

Joining CARC in support of this new radio application , John Dreher, Staff
Astronomy,  at the SETI Institute said the CARC intent will advance studies
of interest to other non-amateur communications enthusiasts.  According to
Dreher...

"Salt water conducts electricity too well to allow radio waves to propagate
without severe losses.  Typically radio waves will only penetrate the ocean
by about a wavelength.  That's why the Navy is interested in extremely low
frequency radio transmissions: since wavelength = speed / frequency,
the corresponding wavelengths can be long enough to get penetration to
useful depths for communication with submarines.  The antennas needed are
really big, however, so this method is probably impractical for submarine
to submarine applications.  I don't see any obvious reason why radio waves
should not propagate pretty well through distilled water however.

Andrew O'Brien KB2EOQ, of the CARC said; " Since salt water propagation is
associated with severe losses, the status of the under water DXCC program,
and the UW-IOTA awards could be expected to exceed that of traditional
DXCC/IOTA awards in the DX community.".

The CARC has used it location close to Lake Erie to experiment with
under-water radio transmissions and several English stations have used the
facilities at the Institute of Fresh Water Ecology at Lake Winderemere,
Cumbria, to conduct similar research.

Mark W2MAW, assembling the HF vertical at CARC's Lake Erie  site.



Salt water reefs present the most significant challenge, and permission is
being sought to use Osprey Reef off the coast of Queensland, as the first
news under water DXCC entity.   CARC is working closely with Reef Check, and
an environmental group dedicated to the preservation of reef sites.  Reef
Check is the largest international coral reef monitoring program involving
recreational divers and marine scientists. Recently, Reef Check teams
completed the first global survey of coral reefs. Over 750 volunteer sport
divers were trained and led by 100 volunteer scientists in surveys of more
than 300 reefs in 31 countries.  The initial list of 300 reefs will be used
to determine the 100 submitted for DXCC approval.

Look for Osprey Roof soon!

NNNN
/EX





----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 21:48
Subject: [RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement


> 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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