Press Release #1
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
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The Intrepid-DX Group, led by Paul Ewing-N6PSE and David Collingham-K3LP, is pleased to announce our next Dxpedition. In January 2016, a multi-national team of fourteen operators will converge in Stanley, the Falkland Islands and start a 34 day voyage aboard the R/V Braveheart to the #4 most wanted DXCC, South Sandwich Island and the #9 most wanted DXCC, South Georgia Island.
The team will set up and operate from each island for approximately eight days, weather and sea conditions permitting.
Our primary objective is to activate South Sandwich and South Georgia with a goal of providing as many Dxers as possible a "new one" with these rare DXCC entities and, as a secondary objective; we will focus on low-band contacts.
The team consists of fourteen operators including:
Paul Ewing-N6PSE Co-Leader
David Collingham-K3LP Co-Leader
Bill Beyer-N2WB
Arnie Shatz-N6HC Team Physician
Dmitri Zhikharev-RA9USU
Jun Tanaka-JH4RHF
Krassimir Petkov-K1LZ
David Jorgensen-WD5COV
Al Hernandez-K3VN
Craig Thompson-K9CT
Jay Slough-K4ZLE
Kevin Rowett-K6TD
Stephen Wright-VE7CT
Mark Stennett-NA6M
The group plans to have six stations on the air from 10 through 160 meters with SSB, CW and RTTY. The radios will be the venerable Elecraft K3 while the amplifiers will be the Elecraft KPA500, 600 watt amplifiers. We will also use an Acom 1500 on the low bands. There will be low band receive antennas and every effort will be made to utilize the propagation on all bands to all population areas.
Our QSL Managers will be Bob Schenck N2OO and Steve Wheatley KU9C working with the QSL team from the South Jersey DX Association. We will have OQRS, we will accept direct and bureau QSL cards. We plan to upload our logs to Club Log on a daily basis where conditions permit. The Club Log Leaderboard feature will not be activated for this Dxpedition.
Thank you,
Paul N6PSE
David K3LP
