[SECC] Fw: [DX-NEWS] FJ St. Bart's update - December 20 1945Z

[Bill Barr N4NX]

Bernie ( W3UR ) gave his permission to forward this Daily DX Bulletin!  I 
really get a lot of good stuff from his daily emails.

73
Bill N4NX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie McClenny, W3UR" <bernie at dailydx.com>
To: <dx at qth.net>; "DX News - (NJDXA)" <dx-news at njdxa.org>; 
<dx-list at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] FJ St. Bart's update - December 20 1945Z


I just spoke (1845Z Thursday December 20th) to Olli and Martti.  They were
having a lunch break and should be QRV again afterwards.

The goal of their activity is to get into as many logs as possible to give
the Deserving their first QSO and a Christmas present!  To continue with
that goal Martti will remain on 20 meters SSB.  The band seems to open just
before 1100Z and here concentration is on Europe/Middle East and Africa.
Once signals seem to die down to that area he picks up the Americas
(NA/CA/SA).  Around 2100-2200 the bands starts to open to Japan and the Far
East.  Once the band closes to that area he goes back to the Americas and
Oceania until just after 0000Z when the band totally closes.  North American
stations (US included) are asked to please do not call when the operator
asks for certain more difficult areas, like JA, parts of Europe and the
Middle East, VK and ZL.  Give them the opportunity for their first QSOs.
Working VK's and ZL's has been difficult.  So if a few VK's and ZL's would
let me know when the FJ/OH2AM signals are peaking for you and on what band
that will be relayed to the team.  Olli will be mostly doing the sub bands
of 40 and 17 meters, mostly on CW.  Again if he asks North America to stand
by please honor this request.  Olli thinks the VK's and ZL's should be able
to get them on 20 meters around 0400-0600 if the solar flux is high enough.
Otherwise VK/ZL try 40 meters between 0700 and 1100Z.  As of this moment the
guys do not know when they will QRT.  They can stay in their hotel until
December 27th and then they must leave as all the accommodations are booked.
Many have asked about on-line logs.  There will be no on-line logs while on
the island and might be after the operation.  More on that later.  Again
remember there are two operators and two radios so they are a little limited
and their main strategy above is to maximize the head count for first time
QSOs.  They are only using one callsign (FJ/OH2AM) to avoid dupes.  OH2AM is
the OH DX Ring club callsign.  As of the moment they will not start any new
bands between now and the end of the weekend (Sunday)!  Activity will be on
both CW and SSB on 17, 20 and 40 meters.  QSL FJ/OH2AM via OH2BN.  This
email may be forward to your friends or club reflectors.  I will also post a
copy of this email to http://www.dailydx.com/barthelemy.htm

73
Bernie

Bernie McClenny, W3UR
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