PJ4C Bonaire, Jan 12-23,2012 by F6KOP Team
We will be located in the south eastern of Bonaire. Locator will be FK52VC .
The location gives a 360 degres clear path.
The very sympatic ower of the Kontiki beach hotel allow us to use all place availabe around the hotel. We will use 2 villas as shacks and some appartements.
Official Bulletin No 1
Following the TJ9PF DXpedition to Cameroon in 2011, the Provins ARC F6KOP team have plans to be active from Bonaire as PJ4C.
Schedule is for January 2012 with 24 operators & six stations 10-160m.
More info to follow..
Official Bulletin No 2:
On the way back from our last dxpedition in Africa, TJ9PF, we already had lots’of ideas for our next trip: Africa, Asia and Pacific.
After a few month of hard work we had to cancel many of them for different reason (mostly security related to the last events in the world). Some others were just too expensive for our team.
Finally we have chosen to go to Bonaire (PJ4) because we found a place to accept all our equipment and operators. Thanks to the help of Peter PJ4NX everything has been organised very fast.
So we will be PJ4C from 12 to 23 January 2012.
This year our goal will be 80 000 Qso in 11 days, and maybe get the rtty world record back home. As usual we will operate 3 modes SSB, CW and RTTY with as least 6 stations, 24 ops, and 24h/day.
Team members are experienced operators: F4AJQ, PJ4NX, K4SV, I2VGW, N2WB, DJ7JC, DJ9RR, OE3GCU, OE3JAG, ON7RN, F1HRE, F1NGP, F4DLM, F5EOT, F5VHQ, F6BIV, F6ENO, F6JMT, F8BJI, F9IE, PA0R, OZ1IKY, F2VX, F5QF.
Your could find all information on our web site http://www.pj4c.com
All the team hope to hear you in the pileups, welcome in this new dx-pedition by F6KOP'Team.
Official Bulletin No 3
All the team wish you an happy New Year 2012.
We are now a few days from departure and all the team is very enthusiastic.
In mid-December around 600Kg of equipment has left Europe to Bonaire, Peter PJ4NX will take care of it until our arrival.
Jeff F6AOJ has repaired equipment damaged in TJ9PF last year, Mat F5PED has prepared the 30m 4sq, and Yann F1NGP has configured all the computer network.
Thanks to all the F6KOP team everything has been prepared and packed on time. Eric ON7RN and Peter PJ4NX have organized everything with the shipper.
We will use the following equipment :
5x FT 450
1x ICOM IC7200 et 7000
1x K3
6x ACOM 1010
1x AMPLI 50 MHz
4x SPIDERBEAM 5 BANDES
1x SPIDER 3 BANDES
1x SPIDER WARC
1x 5ELEMENT 50 MHz I0JXX
1x VERTICALE 20m
1x FOUR SQUARE 30m
1x FOUR SQUARE 40m
2x VERTICALES 80 (CW and SSB)
1x VERTICALE 40m
1x L 160m
BEVERAGES
We have also in-band filters for 80 and 75m simultaneous operation. Jean Paul F8BJI made the operating schedules. The 7th station will be used on 6m (sometimes as a beacon on 50.104MHz, please let us know is there are any openings)
F4AJQ leader, F6ENO co leader, F1NGP leader SSB, F8BJI leader Digi, F9IE leader CW.
F5UFX will be our pilot and webmaster
F5NQL will be in charge of communication
F9IE is our QSL manager
Logs will be uploaded as frequently as possible on.
Departure is scheduled from Paris January 12, 2012 morning, arrival in Bonaire late in the evening.
We would like to thanks our sponsors for their help. Of course you could help us to cover the expense for shipping all equipment, even small contributions are very appreciated, you could use paypal on our web site or send an email to f6eno@wanadoo.fr .
On the Air !
All stations are now actives since 21:00z yesterday. All the team is in a very good spirit.
More details soon !
Have fun
"In" the air
All the team is now flying to Bonaire ! First signals expected Friday 13th late in the afternoon. Stay tuned !
18000 Qos
After the first weekend more than 18 000 Qso are in the log.
All equipment is installed except the second antenna for 80m, but it will be soon.
Last night they had some difficulties with HF disturbing computers on 160m, that's why they sometimes disapear, it is now fixed.
We also have many difficulties with HK0NA pileups for 2 reasons : 1)they were not supposed to be active now, so we did not arranged qrg with them befor departure 2) people do not understand CW and spot wrong calls on the cluster.
So from today we change all *.024 qrg to *.018 on CW. We have also asked the ops to give their callsign every qso to prevent any mistake.
Logs are uploaded real time on clublog for CW and SSB. The RTTY qso are uploaded manually 1 or 2 times per day.
If you are not in the log please work us again. If you cannot, send an email to the qsl manager AFTER the expedition.
Everything is going fine, Bonaire is a nice place, and ops have a lot's of pleasure to work you !
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