[Special-Events] Camp-X Special Event - VESCX

Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:56:20 -0400

Camp-X Back on the Air in 2002

Date: May 11 - 12, 2002

Time: 1300 hrs to 0100 hrs UTC May 11; 1300 hrs to 1900 hrs UTC May 12 (UTC -4)

Location: Camp-X Intrepid Park in Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Sponsors: North Shore Amateur Radio Club of Oshawa, South Pickering Amateur
Radio Club, Whitby Amateur Radio Club, Camp-X Historical Society and 2
Intelligence Company (Canadian Forces Reserve)

Call Sign: VE3SCX (Secret Camp-X)

Bands: HF 80 / 40 / 20 / 10
VHF 2 meters on the club repeaters (VE3OSH 147.120, VE3WOM 147.150, VE3SPA
147.375)

Modes: SSB and CW (as operators become available for CW)

QSL Cards: We will be providing a colour commemorative QSL card for those
interested upon request. For our QSL a letter size SASE please. (DX 1 IRC or $1
US) Send QSL requests to: Fred Bengel, VE3TIG (email: [email protected]) 679 Aruba
Crescent Oshawa, Ontario Canada L1J 6B7

Camp-X information: http://www.osha.igs.net/~lsolomon/nsarc/campx.htm;
                     [email protected]

Camp-X was where 'agents' trained before being parachuted into Nazi occupied
territory to not only lead the resistance movement, but to provide valuable
information to invading Allied Armies. Camp-X was administered by British
Security Co-ordination under the leadership of Sir William Stephenson, known as
Intrepid. An integral part of Camp-X was Hydra, the top secret radio
transmitting building that received data from all around the world. The majority
of the Hydra operators were Amateur Radio operators. The public is invited to
join in the festivities and see static displays.

Information: email: [email protected]