3y0x news...........
peter i island dxpedition qrt. as your editor was putting the final
touches on this week's bulletin, the 3y0x dxpedition went qrt at 1813z
on december 19th (last contact was with k8ltg on 17m cw). according
to their web page the peter i team reported at 1900z, february 18th:
"the weather cleared sufficiently to offload even more of the 'ready to
go' gear -- and four team members! gary/k9sg, carlos/np4iw, wayne/ku4v
and robert/sp5xvy are all safely aboard the ship. the rest of us are
working in consolidating loads for the helicopter and trying to elevate
the qso count even higher than the 81.9k qs uploaded as of 1400utc today.
even though gary/k9sg (our team physician) is no longer on the island,
we were able to persuade him to leave the defibrillator behind (just in
case)!" qsl via n2oo. remember, updates, pictures/videos and logs can
be found on the 3y0x web page at:
http://www.peterone.com/ added note: just before going to print, your editor checked the peter
one web page one more time and saw the following: "this ham radio log
contains 86,522 qsos from 8-feb-2006 0550z through 19-feb-2006 1100z."
3y0x qso statistics band/mode breakdown
band ssb cw rtty
160m 2 1312 0
80m 3358 2502 0
40m 5735 7117 0
30m 0 9053 1101
20m 13767 10373 1374
17m 7003 5949 689
15m 6339 3851 848
12m 1726 2034 0
10m 1602 782 1
6m 0 1 0
2m 0 1 0
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total 39532 42975 4013
(ed. great job guys! where are you going next?)
what dxing is all about? congrats to john, w1bih, a veteran dxer, for
working the 3y0x. "why" you say does john get a special mention in the
opdx? john is 90 years old. he lives in a retirement community and sold
his complete station last year when he moved. for john, peter one island
is the last country john needs for dxcc, and he missed the last two peter
one island dxpeditions. however, on thursday, february 9th, don, n1dg,
picked up john and took him to his station. about thirty minutes later
there was a big smile on john's face. you see, john has now worked his
last country (335 current), and he can now get back on the top of the
honor roll. "oh", by the way, peter i was his country number 390
(including deletes)! wow!!!! since then, john has worked 3y豖 from his
retirement community station on 20m cw with 100w and a g5rv strung from
his window 20' above the ground. see john's qso with 3y0x at:
http://005d89a.netsolhost.com/videos/w1bih.htm congrats to the 3y0x team for having a qso with commander bill mcarthur
on the international space station, na1ss, on february 13th. the 3y0x
qso pushed mcarthur's count of dxcc entities worked from space to 104.
read the story at:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/02/14/4/