[RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement

[Larry Lindblom]

Hey, what about AM!  You are discriminating against those who use pure
Amplititude Modulation over Single Slop Bucket.  And, by all means what
about 2 Mtr FM???

73 W0ETC

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:48 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.aa5au.com
> > http://www.geocities.com/writelog
> >
> >
> >
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