[RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement

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I will be sure to tell everyone that SSB is a "frill."
Barry

On 28 Mar 2002 at 20:48, 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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