We have added some pics taken whilst on Sable, we hope you enjoy them, we have also added the North American Grids worked graphic and the Global Grids worked, courtesy of ON4IQ. (these images are quite large but have been left that way so you can see in detail the grids worked)
Can we just take this opportunity to publicly thank our sponsors whom you can see listed on the web-site, as with many DXpeditions without them it would be almost impossible to get any expedition off the ground
The first run of 1000 QSL Cards have been printed and are being sent to Canada so they should be going out quite soon, you can see a preview of the card in the gallery section of the site |
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CY0X is the first 6-meter focused DXpedition to CY0 Sable Island since the June 1996 CY0AA operation by Mike, VE9AA and company. The DXpedition dates (June 25th through July 12th 2008) were chosen to maximize the possibility of transatlantic multihop sporadic-E propagation to Europe, Africa, and the Mideast. We will be on six meters 24 hours a day from the main station in grid FN93 an 8 element custom M2 yagi (40 foot boom courtesy of Robby, VY2SS) and Dick’s 800 Watt linear amplifier. Operation will be on both CW and SSB and also look for us on meteor scatter. We will be using either Dick’s K3 or Pete’s Yaesu FT-650 for the main 6 meter transceiver plus a 0.3db NF pHEMT low noise 6m preamp. We will be transmitting on 50.108 MHz. Please do NOT send your grid square as it consumes valuable time during an opening. We will also try and activate rare grid GN03 if there is a solid opening, using a portable station with a 5 element M2 6M5X yagi and the call CY0RA. We plan on also being on HF on 20 meters and 40 meters, CW and SSB – but the HF operation will always take lower priority over the 6 meter operation. HF antennas will be elevated monoband ground-plane verticals for each band, the IOTA island designator is NA-063 The special call sign CY0X commemorates the 225th anniversary of the 1783 Loyalist landing in Nova Scotia http://www.loyalistlanding2008.org Many thanks to Adrian EA5/G0KOM for creating the cy0x.com website and for sponsoring the web hosting |
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