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The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1030.1
BID: $OPDX.1030.1
October 5, 2011
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW (Currently in Murfreesboro, TN)
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network VE3EXY and G3XTT for the following DX information.
T32C Bulletin #7 (Press Release)
We have now been operating for four days and have passed the 50,000
QSO milestone. There is still almost 3 weeks to go, so those who are
still needing us on various bands and modes have many opportunities
still to come. This bulletin is by way of a summary of what has been
done and what is planned.
Bear in mind that this has turned out to be something of an unplanned
Field Day style operation, and we now have no expectations of our
container of equipment arriving while we are here on Christmas Island.
Instead, the team hand carried just over one metric tonne of equipment
(poles, cables, radio gear, computers, etc) to the island. We are ex-
tremely grateful to all those who loaned equipment at short notice to
help enable the expedition to take place and be successful. Inevitably
we have had teething problems, as we have a variety of amplifiers,
Microham routers, etc. where we would, ideally, like to have standard
equipment and interfaces. Fortunately the transceivers are consistent
as Yaesu came to our rescue with the loan of ten FT-450D radios at very
short notice.
Antenna-wise, we have two-element vertical dipole arrays by the sea for
20 through 10, quarter-wave verticals with elevated radials for 30 and
40, a quarter wave vertical with ground radials for 80 and a 15m high T
antenna with ground radials for 160. We also have two Beverage receive
antennas for 160 and now have additional vertical dipoles for 10, 15
and 20 to allow us to retask the low band stations as second stations
on those bands when LF is closed. We are continually refining our antenna
systems within the limits of the wire, poles and coax that we have here,
though the second tranche of operators who arrive in a week's time will
bring more.
We started our SSB operations at the weekend with an entry in the Oceania
SSB contest in which we believe we have comprehensively beaten the previous
contest records. We will not, however, be entering the CW leg as this
would undoubtedly lead to a lot of unnecessary duplicate contacts as
we will by then have been very active on CW on all bands.
There has been high demand for Christmas Island, especially on LF and
also on 10 and 12 where, for many years, there has been little or no
propagation. So far the sunspots have been helping those bands along,
with 10m being our QSO leader to date. We have pretty much been working
all comers to clear the decks so that we can begin to focus more on Europe
where band openings are much more limited than to the US and Japan. We
would appreciate cooperation from those two areas - US and Japanese
stations should find plenty of opportunity to work us on all bands. We
did have to delay starting our RTTY operations - our original plans would
have allowed us to be on RTTY right from the start. The good news is that
RTTY is now well under way on several bands. If 10m continues to play
well, we may even show up on FM!
On 160, we made our first European contacts last night, Italy and Germany
and at our sunset and Russia, Ukraine and Finland at our sunrise. Hopefully
these openings will improve over the next week or two. 80m shows a similar
pattern but with longer openings, but right now only our topband station
has access to the Beverages.
We will continue to make regular updates on our website and Michael G7VJR
will no doubt update Twitter while he is here (he leaves with the first
group next week). The online log on ClubLog is getting a very high hit
rate, as expected - we are uploading logs twice a day, at 7am and 7pm local
time here. The Internet connectivity from the hotel is turning out to be
better than we had anticipated (since our site visit a year ago the hotel
has installed a satellite Internet), and not only does this make log
uploading easier but has meant that we have been able to follow everyone's
feedback better than expected - we are grateful for that and it feeds into
our daily team meetings. There is a feedback facility on the t32c.com
website, which is the best way to reach us.
Finally, for that small but enthusiastic group of 6m EMEers, we are still
hoping to give this mode a go in the second two weeks of the expedition,
but cannot at this time make any guarantees.
Don G3XTT
T32C Publicity Officer
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Latest news from Rotuma.
73 Nenad VE3EXY
Today is the sixth day of our activity. Propagation not so good,
but our team continues to work with much pleasure. Current situation,
as you can see on the chart, is 54.600 QSO's.
Important: We must finish our activity 12 hours earlier than what
was anticipated in our schedule. Our last QSO will be on October 5th
at 11:00 GMT. Our expected time of departure will be at 12:00 GMT,
October 5th from Rotuma to Suva, Fiji Islands.
We will do our final LOG update upon arrival in Suva,
Fiji on October 8th 2011. There shall be no more updates from
Rotuma Island after this.
On-line log is at: http://www.qslnet.de/member/yt3w/yt1ad/logsearch.php
Thanks for all contacts,
3D2R TEAM
SSB CW RTTY SSTV PSK31 band
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160m 2 1048 0 0 0 1050
80m 1144 2773 0 0 0 3917
60m 12 0 0 0 0 12
40m 1495 3819 314 0 0 5628
30m 0 3421 170 0 0 3591
20m 4840 2088 341 0 60 7329
17m 1527 4966 220 0 3 6716
15m 4873 4577 557 0 0 10007
12m 2444 3222 626 0 22 6314
10m 4743 4366 694 10 37 9850
6m 121 65 0 0 0 186
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mode 21201 30345 2922 10 122 54600
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