[South Florida DX Association] Fw: Update-SABLE ISLAND Dxpedition - October

[K2EWB]

 June 20, 2009 11:55 AM
Subject: [SEDXC] Fw: Update-SABLE ISLAND Dxpedition - October


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> Greetings:
>
> I have just a few of you folks' address; please pass our best wishes to 
> the other club members.  Again, we the "CY0 Sable Team" appreciate your 
> support.  We wanted to just touch base and let you know that all is on 
> target.  Our pre-planning and preparation continues to move along.  A few 
> items of interest perhaps discussed below:
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> A challenge for us is to keep the weight allowance under control.  The 
> charter aircraft limits us to 1400 pounds total weight.  That includes 
> body weight for the team (3), personal items, equipment, antennas, 
> computers, food, EVERYTHING.  The weight creeps upward pretty fast and 
> must be watched carefully.
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> It looks like the low bands will still be very productive ones as Cycle 24 
> lingers.  I personally am pleased and excited to have the Battle Creek 
> Special going with us.  There seems to be lots of interest on 160 by the 
> EU's and others as well.
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> One thing that we are "not" is experience RTTY operators.  However, the 
> recent few weeks we have equipped our stations with the necessary computer 
> interface, software, etc. and becoming a bit more enlighten on RTTY 
> operation.  We've made a number of contacts and pleased to have this set 
> up and ready.  NCDXF in particular encouraged us to include RTTY.
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> Web traffic continues to increase from world-wide QTH's.  Certainly, we 
> know CY0 not one of the most rare spots..but it does look like many are 
> looking for it to fill in a mode/band combo and hopefully it'll be an 
> interesting event and promote activity for our wonderful hobby. 
> Thanks..we appreciate the support; we can't express that enough!!   We 
> look forward to working you.
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> (  www.CY0dxpedition.com )
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> 73,
>
> Randy - N0TG/CY0 and team (Murray-WA4DAN, Ron-AA4VK)
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