Sunday, July 1, 2012

FP/KV1J, July 2012 DXpedition to Miquelon

http://www.kv1j.com/fp/July12.html

Grid GN17 CQ Zone 5 ITU Zone 9

IOTA NA-032 DIFO FP-002 WLOTA 1417

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Schedule 2012

Time Zone is GMT minus 2 hours (during daylight savings time)
Current weather

Monday 9 July – Arrive St. Pierre, may get on the air from Saint Pierre in evening with limited antenna.

Tuesday 10 July – Take morning boat to Miquelon. Setup antennas, Setup new QTH.

Through early Tuesday 17 July – On the air – SSB, CW, RTTY, PSK31 - 160M - 6M Primarily SSB, CW and RTTY Generally on the highest frequency band open. Will try 6M if indications of openings May also operate SO-50 and AO-27 Satellites in good WX and daylight Also working on other projects while on the island.

14 - 15 July - IARU HF FP/KV1J – 160 -10 Single-Op - Mixed Mode - High Power (500 Watts)

Tuesday 17 July – Take down and return to Saint Pierre

Wednesday 18 July – Fly to Halifax, drive back to Boston

Equipment

Elecraft K3

Yaesu FT-817 (for satellites)

Heathkit SB-200 Amplifier (modified) (80 -10M)

laptop with N1MM logger, MMTTY

Tigertronics SignaLink USB

WiFi internet access (not sure if it will be available yet)

N6BV Propagation Predictions from Radioware

Antennas

(New location on island so not sure what antennas will be deployed)

N1IW Off-Centered Fed Dipole 80M - 10M, height = 6m (will use extensions for 160M) W1STT Custom 1+KW Balun - Thanks Richie!!

SteppIR Vertical (Thanks Roger G3SXW and Nigel G3TXF ) – 40M through 10M (will be working on the repair of the antenna, have temporary verticals to use during repair)

Phased verticals for 20 meters.

6 Meter Moxon.

Arrow 146/437-10 (for sats)