[RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement

[Ed W4EP]

Oh, I'm glad you said that Don and the scenario was perfect. I hope you get 
stuck with the $68,000 cost of the boat because I ain't even sending but 
one dollar to your Mexican QSL manager.

Thanks....I needed that!
Ed



At 08:48 PM 3/28/02 -0600, you 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.
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>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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