[SADXA] FW: [The Daily DX] Update - Cezar is SAFE! - VY0V DX Cluster Spot by W3HQ - SOS March 31 0219z

[Wes Stewart]

I'm not sure this is the full story but I know that Skip did a heckof a job.

--- On Fri, 4/2/10, Keith KR7RK <keith at kr7rk.com> wrote:

> From: Keith KR7RK <keith at kr7rk.com>
> Subject: [SADXA] FW: [The Daily DX] Update - Cezar is SAFE! - VY0V DX Cluster Spot by W3HQ - SOS March 31 0219z
> To: "'Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector'" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:31 AM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dailydx-bounces at kkn.net
> [mailto:dailydx-bounces at kkn.net]
> On Behalf Of
> Bernie McClenny, W3UR
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:08 AM
> To: The Daily DX mailing list
> Subject: [The Daily DX] Update - Cezar is SAFE! - VY0V DX
> Cluster Spot by
> W3HQ - SOS March 31 0219z
> 
>  
> Looks like a good ending to the VY0V/VE3LYC, Cezar, story!
> Bernie, W3UR
> 
> Please forward this or publish as needed to inform all
> concerned.
> 
> At 9:45PM CDT/0245z April 2, I spoke by phone with Cezar
> VY0V/VE3LYC's
> wife Lucy. 
> Lucy had convinced RCMP that an air rescue was needed
> because the ground
> team was way 
> overdue. She said the 2 man ground rescue team arrived
> (after 27 hours)
> about the same time the twin otter plane did around 8PM
> local. Cezar
> called Lucy upon arrival back in Fort Severn, about 120km
> from East Pen
> Is. NA-231. One of the two guides who took Cezar to the
> island was
> aboard the plane to assist in exact location. He was one of
> the two who
> abandoned Cezar approximately 8am on Tuesday, saying they
> had business
> back in the village of Ft. Severn and would return. Cezar
> put out his
> SOS for Rescue Wednesday afternoon after they didn't return
> after 38
> hours and he had run out of generator fuel, had no fire,
> battery running
> low for radio, rain and wind howling. 
> 
> A good ending to a really tense time!
> 
> Skip W5GAI
> Austin, TX
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