David, I always saw you as more of a trilby (or perhaps a homberg) gent rather than a baseball cap guy..... Still, at least it's not a Burberry baseball cap with a matching white shell suit (apologies to those who don't travel to UK cities - you'll miss the joke there)
I too think that congratulations and many thanks should go to the Desecheo team. They did a wonderful job in "persuading" recalcitrant US Government pen-pushers to allow the operation, have shown that amateur radio enthusiasts can organise and behave responsibly where there's political sensitivity involved and have done a simply magnificent job of setting up the station, putting excellent signals out and handling the pileups. As I predicted on this forum a few weeks ago, the Italians (plus a few others) have performed true to type like monkeys at the zoo but the guys on the dxpedition handled them well. I hear on the grapevine that the FWS are to allow an operation from KH4 at some point this year, so let's hope that in view of the success of K5D they now agree that an operation from KP1 will be a good idea too. Operations along with FWS staff seem like a sensible compromise. Well done K5D! Fingers crossed for a safe journey home cheers Dave G0OIL --- On Wed, 25/2/09, David Rollitt <da...@g3xyp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: From: David Rollitt <da...@g3xyp.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: [DX-CHAT] Desecheo 2009 baseball cap arrives! To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Date: Wednesday, 25 February, 2009, 5:58 AM Hi Guys, Congratulations to the guys on Desecheo on reaching the massive 100,000 QSO's ... well done! I hope everyone has got their contacts in and is happy. Not many more hours to go but we do have a sunspot so maybe if you are still looking today will be better. I was lucky to get a CW QSO about 2 hours into the operation. My K5D baseball cap arrived yesterday and it's great, well made and clear printing, I am happy with it. So, go to the shop and order yours, help the expedition. Here as promised is my photo from yesterday on my Flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrollitt/3306650693/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrollitt/2804191664/ a QSL from Desecheo http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrollitt/ Keep looking for the dx, its out there somewhere. 73 David G3XYP ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
