SAINT BARTHELEMY SIX METER DX-PEDITION

TO5E

BY W7XU, N0QJM AND W0SD

JUNE 28 THROUGH JULY 6TH 2008 GMT

Our St. Barthelemy Operating site location

The purpose of this DX-Pedition is to provide a new country for six meter operators.

DAILY NEWS

July 4, 2008 0206z We had a good day today after two poor days. We are now at 1108 qsos after we take the dupes out. We are really disappointed in especially the CW operators who are to lazy to check the on line logs which would clearly show they are in the log but instead they work us two or three times causing QRM to people who need us yet and wasting our time working them again. It is Very, very disappointing after going to all the work to have on line logs and people don't even take a few seconds to see if they are in the log. If it is the same day we understand but these are people we worked on previous days and they were in the on line logs. We worked ND, MT, and a number of WA again so we have WY, ID, OR, NV and UT that we have not worked of the contiguos 48. We are now at 42 counties, new ones today CT3, SP, EA8, SV in EU. It was a good day into EU. We stood by about 10 times for W7, W0 and W6 about half on CW and half on SSB. THANKS FOR STANDING BY THOSE OF YOU IN THE OTHER DISTRICTS. It was absolutely dead quiet on the frequency. Some people just don't seem to get it. We want signal reports like 55 or 559 or whatever and not grid squares. For one thing our dx pedition logging program does not take grid square but we can work around that putting it in as a name BUT as a safety measure so we dont log a contact without a report we have to have a rst/RS report. We could care less about what your grid square is and over a 10 day period it wastes a lot of time!!!. Most of the time the signals are just there a few seconds so be quick. To many of you send your call over and over and we never get your signal report and you are NOT IN THE LOG! WE DO NOT LOG a CONTACT UNLESS WE COPY A SIGNAL REPORT! I am just amazed at how uninformed a lot of people are. All they need to do is read any DX news or type in To5e in GOOGLE or other search engine and you can find out we are in St. BART IN FK87ov. We have people ruining other peoples QSO's so they don't get a new country because some stations are asking and asking what is your grid square, what is your country??? We are putting in long days trying to give as many as possible a new country and we have people to lazy to do a little work on there own to look up our info. Nearly everyone is using phonetics which is great and really saves time and cuts down on logging mistakes and saves lots of time. We will be on the air though Sunday July 6th and maybe and hour or two into July 7th. Please check if you are in the on line log and if you are in it don't work us again on the same mode. A CW and SSB CONTACT ARE FINE. You can be assured we are on 50.103 all day long starting in the dark here and continuing long after dark. I am seriously thinking about starting a DX HOG list of those who work us three or more times AFTER they are in the on line log!!! This is just uncalled for to work us over and over when we have on line logs and people are in the on line log!!!! This is preventing other people from working a new country!!!!

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FREQUENCY: The frequency will be 50.103 CW & SSB listening up as directed.

SPLIT FREQUENCY: Please listen carefully for instructions as we will almost always be split frequency so be sure you know how to operate your radio split frequency so you don't QRM our transmit frequency. Hint:Please don't get to close to our frequency as it will QRM our frequency and also we will not listen close to our frequency.

LOCATION: Grid Square FK87ov, please don't send us your grid square as we are not collecting grid squares on the DX-pedition so we don't care and it just slows things down. You have our grid square so we don't need to send it and it will be on the QSL card or LOTW.

BEACON: We will be running beacon mode or operating on 50.103 during all the hours we are on six meters.

DONATIONS: If you care to make a donation it may be sent with the QSL card to W7XU QSL manager or anytime via Paypal to w0sd@triotel.net Be sure and specify ST. Bart Dx-pedition and "YOUR CALL SIGN". There is a link to Paypal at the bottom of this page.

OPERATING SITE: We will be on a rocky point 70 meters above the ocean with a clear shot from northern South America through to North America, Europe to northern Africa.

EQUIPMENT: We plan on using a FT-897(K3 arrived to late) and ACOM 1000 amplifier(500 watt limit). We have a back up radio and amplifier. The antenna will be a 32 foot boom Yagi with rotor.

SIX METER DX-PEDITON EXPERIENCE: 9G5AN, CY9DH, FP/W0SD, FY/W7XU, 8R1/W7XU, VP2V/W7XU, CE0Y/W7XU, J3/W7XU, W0SD/KL7 and others

QSL Card: QSL via W7XU, address in qrz.com. USA please include SASE and others SAE and IRC or $1 US for direct card to cover printing and postal expenses. There will be some QSL delay because of waiting for printing. Bureau cards will take quite some time and eventually we hope to upload all QSO's to LOTW after all the QSLing has taken place which is likely to be mid 2009.

LOTW: Eventually after all qsling is complete all contacts will be uploaded to LOTW. Given the typical rate that qsl cards come in this would probably be mid 2009.

IMPORTANT REQUEST:Please check the ON-LINE log and if you are in the log please don't work us again to give others a better chance to get a new country.

OTHER BANDS BESIDES SIX:We are there for six meters and will not take schedules for any band. There may be some local night time CW & RTTY HF activity on 30 and 20 meters(approximately and sporadically between 0200z to 1000z) but it will be totally secondary to the six meter operation.

HF Frequencies

10.103 CW

10.123 RTTY

14.023 CW

14.080 RTTY

14.195 SSB

14.260 SSB, IOTA NA146

73 and hope to work you on SIX, Arliss W7XU, Holly N0QJM, Ed W0SD

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