[ADXA] CY9C on 6m August 6th, Tuesday

[HamOP]

Yes, EJ, I had to back out from some added medical issues and not able to do my part in setting up, all the travel to get there, worried about ‘setbacks’ while there, etc. So I was an Off Island team member and available by phone 24 hours a day for medical questions, etc. Everything went well on the island from that standpoint.

The CY9 and CY0 trips dates are determined by the Parks Commission etc and we have a VA3 team member who helps to co-ordinate from his end. The CY0 is VERY difficult to get permission and the time allocated to go. Narrow windows.  It is late next year. Strict weight limits per person and # of flights allowed and such. The CY9C of LAST year 2018 was cancelled and I was on that team, along with N0TG Randy. The thoughts were that this year 2019 might have more need to DXers world wide, and the # on the Need List did go up a few but not to the level of CY0… anyway, instead of delaying til 2021 for CY9 and fearful of a possible change in the Parks’ Commission permissions, it was decided to go this year and do a lot of FT and EME, some satellite and try to make a dent the band/mode needs list until a later trip.

So, the team per se had to accept the date time given them, no way of doing it in May or June. So the government of Canada and the Parks people are the main ones to deal with and often a long time before the trip happens. 
San YY

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From: EJ
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 9:13 AM
To: 'HamOP'
Cc: 'adxa'
Subject: RE: CY9C on 6m August 6th, Tuesday

Excellent!  Were you planning to go on this expedition?  Any reason they chose to go later in summer rather than closer to solstice?  The openings in late June would probably have been hours instead of seconds

EJ

From: HamOP [mailto:k5yy1 at cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 8:21 AM
To: ejj at suddenlink.net
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Subject: CY9C on 6m August 6th, Tuesday

August 6th a Tuesday at 2241Z, 5:41 PM our time but was working guys there on SSB for a least an hour before I think, those with a shorter single hop to CY9C, many 4/3/2/1 stations, then 8/9/0 later. Oh, there were other QSOs on freq with a loud W7 working other USA stations several minutes! I asked him politely to move up 2 and he did. 
San

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From: ejj at suddenlink.net
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 8:08 AM
To: w5zn at w5zn.org; HamOP
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Subject: Re: CY9C on 6m

Congratulations on new one!  What was day and time of day of QSO?  I listened on weekends but during week days just had my radio on FT8 during working hours.  Had a lot of east coast prop but never good conditions that far east

EJ
---- HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote: 
> A tough catch for me and Jay, W5JAY..  As ZN has experienced on the low bands and having a narrow SR or SS window, sometimes coming and going in 3-4 minutes with nothing before or after is a tiring situation. But the “DX chase” is partly hearing nothing and hoping the DX . . . . .



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