[RTTY] Re: Aves Island Location & Weather

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

Hurricane Andrew passed 100's of miles north of Aves Island so didn't take out the tower mentioned. When I first heard about a DX-pedition to that spit of sand called Aves Island during the hurricane season I thought it a bad idea and poor planning.

BTW I worked them on RTTY and PSK31 and thought the rude behavior in the pile ups was a travesty, especially on phone and CW. I'm to the point that I don't want to tune my VFO anywhere near a DX-pedition.

73,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL, USA
Grid Square EL87WX
Lat & Long 27 58 31 44N 82 09 51 98W

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----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Kriss, AA5VU 
  To: rtty-contesting 
  Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 8:56 AM
  Subject: [RTTY] RE: Aves Island location & weather


  Check out he pictures from on of the earlier DL2GG/YV5 operation and you
  will understand why YV0D operation pulled the plug.  I hope the guys are
  okay. The following is subset of the URL  I posted yesterday.

  http://www.qsl.net/dl2gg/Aves/aves6.html

  I recall one caption where he said a communications tower was taken by
  Hurricane Andrew including the concrete base.

  73 de Dick, AA5VU


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