[OKDXA] VU4 Dxpedition-again??

[Bill Clark]

Amen Jim. When it's a needed one you pay your money
and take your chances??? When it's the only game in
town the options are few?? I wouldn't fuss about what
mode was available.

73  BILL-W5VW

--- k5tt <k5tt at cox.net> wrote:

> As I recall, when I worked Bharathi there back in
> the 80's, she operated SSB
> only and usually operated on the  W7PHO Net.  She
> had trouble with pileups.
> Now, having said that, no one else has been able to
> get permission to
> operate since then.  If she can get permission to
> operate, all amateurs need
> to applaud her and support her operation in
> everyway.  We need to encourage
> her to bring good equipment and maybe a couple of
> good CW operators.  There
> is certainly the risk that a person will make a
> donation and not get a
> contact.  But, without her operation, there seems to
> be little hope of
> hearing VU4.  There also may be the opportunity here
> for this operation to
> lead to larger operations in the future if handled
> positively by the amateur
> community.
> 
> I am currently looking for some additional info on
> the operation and will
> let you know what I find out if anything.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Chouinard" <k5yaa at okdxa.org>
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] VU4 Dxpedition-again??
> 
> 
> > Bill:
> >
> > I'm reading releases from the Weekly DX and dust
> seems to be settling on
> > who, where, how to send funds / support.  Sounds
> like it will not be a
> > multi-op multi-station effort which may come if
> this one get's off the
> > ground OK.  Sounds like a more casual sort of
> expedition to me.  Probably
> > be a real 20 meter SSB dog fight to work 'em. 
> More news is coming as
> > things come together.
> >
> > K5YAA
> >
> > At 04:26 PM 11/16/04 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Hey folks, any comments at all on some possible
> > >support for the VU4 Dxpedition discussed in the
> last
> > >OPDX bulletin?????
> > >
> > >BILL-W5VW
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