[ADXA] FW: T32C DXpedition to Kiritimati

[E Glenn Wolf Jr]

FYI - 

 

 

From: Neville Cheadle [mailto:g3nug at btinternet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 06:04
To: k9iw at arrl.net; n7ff at arrl.net; n5rn at adxa.org
Subject: T32C DXpedition to Kiritimati

 

To the members of the Board or Committee of the Arkansas DX Association 

 


President - Bill Harper K9IW

 <mailto:k9iw at arrl.net> k9iw at arrl.net


Vice President - Frank Fahrlander N7FF

 <mailto:n7ff at arrl.net> n7ff at arrl.net


Secretary & Treasurer - Glenn Wolf N5RN

 <mailto:n5rn at adxa.org> n5rn at adxa.org

 

>From Neville G3NUG, Team Leader T32C DXpedition to Kiritimati

 

 

Dear Bill, Frank and Glen,

I hope I have addressed this note to the current members of your club’s
Board or Committee. If not please forward this email to the appropriate
person(s).

 

I am writing to you about the forthcoming DXpedition to Kiritimati
(Christmas Island) in Eastern Kiribati being organised by the Five Star
DXers Association. This will take place in September to October 2011 with
the callsign T32C. See our web pages for further details.  www.t32c.com

 

The attached brochure gives a great deal of information about our
forthcoming operation and we would be grateful if you could forward this to
your club members and to friends. 

 

We would like to contact as many of your members as possible. On our part we
are taking a huge number of antennas (both for transmitting and receiving)
and excellent radios (16 Yaesu FT-5000 transceivers and 16 VL-1000 linears)
so your members should be able to hear us. 

 

We will be writing articles nearer the time describing wire antennas with
which everyone should be able to make a contact. Best times and bands to
make QSOs will be shown on our web pages and these will be updated regularly
based on actual data.

 

Please ask your club members without good antennas to be patient. We are on
Kiritimati for a long period including four full weekends. Most people
should be able to get through in the final two weeks of the operation
particularly on weekdays. 

 

We believe that some members of European clubs, particularly those who are
recently licensed or are returning to the hobby, may never have made a
contact with the Pacific. This is a great opportunity to do this.

 

We’d like to encourage clubs to run “fun” competitions such as:

*	First member to work T32C
*	Member working the most band-slots (30 slots are available)
*	First RTTY QSO etc.

 

We want to work as many unique callsigns as possible. The target is 40,000
uniques, this is tough but achievable and we have done it before.  Note
that, from our past experience, on average every fourth QSO is a unique. We
also have a target to make 150,000 QSOs.

 

We will be making a huge effort on LF and on the edge bands. We will have
eight Beverages as well as many verticals (see the brochure). Altogether
there will be 40 operators at T32C; 30 operators will be on site every day
of the operation.

 

In the case of European clubs we intend to focus on every propagation
opening. Generally these will be limited to a maximum of four hours per band
each day. We will also make similar efforts to contact the Eastern United
States.

 

In the case of UK clubs we want to contact between 1,000 – 2,000 unique
callsigns. We have done this before. This is a tremendous challenge as many
amateurs in the UK have limited space or cannot get planning permission to
install Yagis or similar antennas. We would appreciate the support of clubs
by encouraging their members to get on the air.

 

We are actively seeking sponsorship. With a project of this magnitude, the
huge amount of equipment, antennas and other ancillary gear necessary needs
to get to the island in a container weighing around nine tonnes. We are
seeking sponsorship from DX clubs, societies and individuals. All members of
the DXpedition are paying in the order of £3,500 (GBP) to £4,800 (GBP) each,
(US$5,250 to US$7,200) to cover their own travel expenses, their
accommodation and food on the island. This includes a contribution to the
logistics costs of £500 (GBP) or US$750 per head. Sponsorship monies will be
used to fund the balance of the costs of equipment including two 10 KVA
generators, antennas, coaxial cable, computers and ancillary equipment,
together with the cost of shipping and insurance from Europe to Christmas
Island and back, and Customs and other legal paperwork.

 

Clubs and individuals can help the DXpedition by making donations through
the sponsorship page on our website. All sponsors will be shown on the
website and on QSL cards (subject to certain limits); links will be shown to
the web sites of sponsoring clubs.

 

Much of the data normally requested by sponsoring clubs is set out in our
brochure. There is some additional information below:

 

FINANCES:

INCOME                                           

Contribution by team members:        £128,000 (GBP):          US$192,000

Sponsorship to be raised:                    £30,000 (GBP):
US$45,000

QSL income                                         £7,000 (GPB):
US$10,500

Raffle, video etc.                                 £9,000 (GBP):
US$13,500

Sale of used equipment:                     £15,000 (GBP):
US$22,500

TOTAL INCOME                                  £189,000 (GBP):
US$283,500

 

EXPENDITURE

Team travel and subsistence:             £113,000 (GBP):          US$169,500


Logistics:                                             £22,000 (GBP):
US$33,000

Power:                                                 £16,000 (GBP):
US$24,000       

Team preparation and site surveys:   £12,000 (GBP):            US$18,000


All other costs inc. equipment:           £28,000 (GBP):
US$42,000       

TOTAL PLANNED COST:                      £191,000 (GBP):          US$286,500

 

DEFICIT                                                £2,000 (GBP):
US$3,000         

 

OTHER INFORMATION:

Internet services provided: Online log search using Club Log, propagation
projections by country and zone and online QSL request forms. Further
developments are planned. 

 

Logbook of the World: Upload within six months of the end of the DXpedition.

 

QSL Management: Neville, G3NUG will again lead a team of up to 16 QSL
managers using the internet-based StarQSL system to ensure rapid and
efficient QSLing.

 

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Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. I look forward
to hearing from you.

 

Best Wishes and 73

 

 

Neville G3NUG

Team Leader T32C

Chairman FSDXA

g3nug at btinternet.com

www.t32c.com

 

Formerly Team Leader of the 3B7C (Jointly with G3BJ), 3B9C, D68C and 9M0C
DXpeditions.

Elected to the CQ DX Hall of Fame in May 2009.