CQ WW CW 2002
from Jamaica
Team Vertical beats Lance
Bass into Space!
Well, kinda. A dedicated satellite station has been added to Team Vertical
this year that will be heavily manned during our trip. We will
also have another station specializing in the following modes: 6m, HF
RTTY & PSK 31. If you’ve been
looking for Jamaica on these modes, this is the year to get them!
General Operating:
Date: The group
will arrive in Jamaica on November 16, 2002, and the first antennas to be
installed will be the 6M and satellite antennas. Then we will install the HF antennas over the next day or
two. Departure will be on the morning
of November 26, 2002.
Operators: N6BT, KE7X, W7CB, W6NS, W6FOG, N6XG, &
K2KW
Activity: Outside the contest look for activity on 6-160m +
satellites with homecall/6Y5.
Operations will be in grid FK-18,
and Jamaica is IOTA NA-097
160m Operations: We will
look for Japan (daily) starting November 18, at 1030z
Contest Operations
Team Vertical will again enter the CQ WW CW
Contest with single band QRP entries.
CQ
WW CW Contest QRP single band entries:
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10m = 6Y1A Limited activity 15m = 6Y9A by N6XG 20m = 6Y2A by KE7X |
40m = 6Y4A by K2KW 80m = 6Y8A by N6BT 160m = 6Y0A by W7CB |
QRP Tactics: While our signal may be a bit
weaker than normal, we can easily hear your QRP signals with our high
performance antennas! If you can hear us, we should be able to hear
you.
Satellite Operations
Neil, W6FOG will head up the dedicated satellite
station in grid FK-18, with
around the clock help from the Team Vertical crew. Activity will be on the following satellites: AO-7, AO-27, AO-40, FO-20, FO-29, UO-14, and
packet on UO-22, NO-44 and the International Space Station (ISS). Activity will focus on the birds that allow
us to put a new one in the log for as many stations as possible. When AO-40 is in, you can bet we will be
there. At times we will be active on
both AO-40 and the LEOS with the backup rig. To help us give a new one
to as many people as possible, please just work us one time per satellite. If we are begging for QSOs later in the
week, we might welcome repeat contacts.
For additional satellite information and live satellite DXpedition
updates, visit www.w6fog.com
Grid expedition? Depending on activity levels at the main station, Neil may take grid
DXpedition to FK-08. This trip is not
guaranteed. Announcements will be given
on the air, and on www.w6fog.com after the
group arrives in Jamaica.
6M / RTTY / PSK31 Operations
Tim, W6NS will head up a dedicated station
focusing on 6m, and HF RTTY and PSK31.
N6XG will also fire up on RTTY, so at times we may have 2 RTTY stations
going at once. When not on the bands,
Tim will run a CW breakable beacon on 50.101.
6M Equipment: ICOM 756 PRO
transceiver + Yagi antenna.
HF Stations:
HF Antennas: We will be using the famous Force 12 vertical arrays used on past Team
Vertical operations. For more information about the antennas, visit: the Force
12 SVDA web page, and K2KW's vertical analysis page. QRP doesn’t have to be weak when you are
using verticals on the ocean!
HF Equipment: Five Elecraft
K2's all running 5 watts during the contest.
Most pre/post operation will also be on QRP, though not always. Armed with 6 K2’s in 2001, Team Vertical
operators set 3 QRP World Records and 4 North American Records in the CQWWCW
contest. This year we hope to finish
off the World Records we missed!
QSL Instructions:
QSL all QSOs via WA4WTG.
USA-only Satellite QSLs: W6FOG will do a 100% QSL mailing for
outbound USA QSOs via AMSAT. If you are
a USA satellite operator and not an AMSAT member, you will need to send
an envelope with postage to AMSAT to collect your card. For AMSAT QSL information, visit http://www.amsat.org/amsat/amsat-na/qslburo.html All non-USA satellite QSLs go via WA4WTG.
WA4WTG will QSL all contacts made by this
operation for: 6Y0A, 6Y1A, 6Y2A, 6Y4A, 6Y8A, 6Y9A, K2KW, N6BT, KE7X,
W7CB, W6NS, N6XG, W6FOG.
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QSL Manager Address: Robert Kaplan, WA4WTG |
For
QSLs: Please send SASE or SAE +
IRC/greenstamp if you want the cards returned directly. Otherwise they will go via the
bureau. WA4WTG is an avid stamp collector,
so if you have some stamps you were going to throw away, please send them to
Kappy! Thank you! |
For further information, contact Kenny, K2KW
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