Note the 160 focus for the W6s and W7s..... ------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 11/15/2014 8:55:45 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time Subj: [CADXA DX Talk] VooDoo Contest Group at 9K2HN - an update
CADXA people: We are starting to pack our bags for this year's adventure. This trip will be one for ages, I believe. Our basic missions are to break the 15-year old record score for Asia in CQWW DX CW set by a Super Station built at A61AJ in the late 90's and to have fun. Here is the plan.. On 20 Nov, Mike (KC7V), Bud (N7CW) and I (AA7A) will board our flight to start the two day trip to Kuwait City (local time UTC +3). We arrive Saturday AM and will meet our host, Hamad (9K2HN). We will then travel to the contest site which is located in the northern part of Kuwait...roughly 5 miles from the YI border. We will walk through the contest site and make last minute lists of needed items that can be obtained back in the city. After we pick up the necessary material on Sunday, 23 November, the three of us will likely move in to the contest station in Abdali for the duration of the trip. Through the week before the contest, we will be busy building LF receive antennas, a 160 meter TX antenna or two and assembling a sixth operating position during the days while at the contest location. We are also bringing WARC band dipoles to hang off the towers during the week before the contest. While not building the station, eating or sleeping, we more than likely will be operating radios. Here is a set of times when we will likely be looking for suffering 6's and 7's from the contest site during the week before the contest. Activity should start on 24 Nov except for 160: 160 m (starting Wed 26 Nov, likely) 01 to 04Z 80 m SP 01 to 04Z; LP 14 to 15Z 40 m SP 01 to 04Z; LP 14 to 15Z 30 m SP 00 to 03Z 20 m SP 00 to 03Z and 13 to 16Z 17 m SP 14 to 18Z 15 m SP 14 to 18Z 12 m SP 15 to 17Z 10 m SP 15 to 16Z The balance of the team (G3XTT, G4FON, G4IRN, N4QS and W6RGG) arrives on Thursday, 27 November. We will operate in the Multi/Multi class in CQWW DX CW with the 8 visiting VooDudes and Hamad, 9K2HN, as operators. With 9 operators and 6 operating positions, each operator will have around 27 hours at the bottom of a pileup. We will depart Kuwait City on 2 December for a particularly long day in order to touch back down in our respective home QTH's later that day (as we cross 10 or so time zones). Dave, N4QS (a former CADXA member), has a different adventure planned. His trip to the middle east is part of a round-the-globe itinerary he will be pulling off. So, he will continue on to the East while the rest of us go the other way on departure day. I will try to post daily updates on our progress and expected operating practices. Hopefully we can help you make a few tick marks in your band slot charts for 9K. 73 and GL from all the VooDudes. Ned AA7A ---------------------------------------- Central Arizona DX Association General Discussion Listserver To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] and type "unsubscribe dxtalk" (without quotes) in the body of the message. ______________________________________________________________ AOCC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/aocc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
