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Thu Aug 2 09:58:58 EDT 2018

Please include this in the club website tnx Don N6JRL Co Founder YDXA, PPRAA Member   

Donald J. DuBon
N6JRL
DX'er, Contester, Pilot
USMC Retired
Home 719-418-5921
Cell    937-416-2277

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Storms <ab8yk at hotmail.com>
To: Don Dubon <n6jrl at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 9:58 am
Subject: newsletter article

The Curacao 2018 Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure of PJ2Y went QRT at 5:45 pm EDT on Monday July 23. The youths made 6,261 QSO’s starting Thursday evening at 7:30 pm EDT and ran until QRT time. There was a concentrated effort to have a FT8 station on the air as much as possible. Also, there were 2 additional radios on the air almost constantly. One was on SSB, and the other alternated between SSB and CW. All CW QSO’s were made by the youth. The adults only made a few SSB and FT8 contacts, as the youth were quite active on the radios.

We had a few challenges. During prime band opening time on two of the days we had power losses resulting in lost time. This amounted to about 8 hours. The youth chose to do their sightseeing on Monday to permit contacts on Sunday while people were off for the weekend. Each operating day we didn’t see bands open until about 10 and they usually operated until midnight when most bands closed for us. 

The team was very compatible and work extremely well together. We thank all of our sponsors and especially all those who contacted us. The multiple contacts on a band were great, as usually it was a different one of the youth. I know several people tried to work all kids (WAK) on not only one but more than one band.

The QSO card will be designed and printed soon. See our PJ2Y QRZ page for more information. The entire log has been loaded to LoTW and ClubLog. At this time, we do not plan to do OQRS. 
Thanks to the Curacao Bureau of Telecommunications for speeding the process of getting the PJ2Y call.
All CW but 1 was made by David Samu. All Dig were FT8.
Total Contacts by Band and Mode:

 Band       CW   Phone     Dig   Total       %
   ----           --       -----       ---     -----      ---
   80            21         31         0        52        1
   40          451       848       15   1,314      21
   30              0           0     145      145        2
   20       1,061    2,372         0   3,433      55
   17              0       265     265      530        8
   15            67       494     184      745      12
   12              0           8         0          8        0
   10              0         34         0        34        1
                    --       -----       ---     -----      ---
 Total     1,600    4,052     609   6,261    100

 Total Contacts by Continent:

 Continent   Total     %
   ---------      -----     ---
   NA          4,072     65
   EU          1,803     29
   SA             236       4
   AS               77       1
   AF               42       1
   OC               27       0
Total Contacts by Operator: (Kids only)

 Operator      Total     %
 --------           -----     ---
 KM4SII       1,895    30     Mason Matrazzo
 VE7DZO     1,581    25     David Samu
 KM4ATT    1,237    20     Violetta Latham
 KC9ZJX      1,213   19     Dhruv Rebba

Once again a big thanks to the Pike Peak Club for supporting our 2018 team.

Jim Storms, AB8YK
2018 Team Leader

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