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Conway Reef 2012
September 24th 2012 till October 5th 2012
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Press Release #6
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
The 3D2C team has just arrived in Suva from our return voyage from Conway Reef. We are very pleased to have made 71,693 contacts from Conway Reef.
We expect to have QSL cards in the mail in late November. We will upload to LoTW within six months.
We are very grateful to all of our equipment sponsors, including ICOM and ACOM. We appreciate all of the financial support from INDEXA, NCDXF and all club and individual sponsors.
We have now placed much of our equipment into storage and we hope to activate other rare South Pacific entities next year. We are updating our website with our statistics and OQRS information.
Best Regards,
The World-Wide DX Team
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Press Release #5
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
The 3D2C team is very pleased to report that our vessel, the Island Dancer II is loaded of all of our equipment and we areabout to start our voyage to Conway Reef. We expect to arrive at Conway Reef 36 hrs after our departure from Lami Bay, Suva.
One of our generators failed to start during testing and we replaced it with a new generator today. We are doing everything possible to ensure for our complete success and your many contacts in our logs.
We hope that you have as much fun working the 3D2C team as we expect to have working all of you.
Thank you for supporting our mission to activate Conway Reef.
The 3D2C Team
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Press Release #4
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
The 3D2C team is now making their way to Suva, Fiji to board their vessel for the 36 hour voyage to Conway Reef. The advance team is in Suva and has prepared, tested and loaded our equipment. We now have 19 operators from all over the globe to participate in this tent and generator operation.
We have updated our website with the following features: On-line log search, which will be updated as frequently as possible, We also list the most recent spots/DX Cluster courtesy of dxwatch.com.
The main goals of this DXpedition are to work every amateur radio operator who needs Conway Reef for a new DXCC country. In addition, we will be active on all bands from 1.8 MHz to 144 MHz, including the 5MHz and 50 MHz bands.
We will be active on CW, SSB and RTTY. Special attention will be made to work far away stations such as Europe and Africa during those periods when propagation permits. The propagation window for EU and Africa is very brief at times and signals may be weak, so we ask everyone in the honored HAM SPIRIT to stand by when asked so that we may fulfill this need. Our destination will have a wide range of options and possibilities.
We will use our Satellite phones to upload our logs on a daily basis to our on-line log. We will upload to LOTW approximately six months following the DXpedition.
Our team consists of these Operators: Hrane-YT1AD-Leader, Aleksej-UA4HOX-Co-Leader-Operations, Paul-N6PSE-Co-Leader-PR & Fundraising, David-WD5COV, Vasily-RW4NW, David-AH6HY, Alan-K6SRZ-Team Physician, Alan-AD6E, Sergej-RZ3FW, Craig-K9CT, Stan-LZ1GC, George-N6NKT, Peter-PY5CC, Mike-K6MKF, Jim-K9JM, Miguel-PY3MM, Luciano-PY5KD, Dragan-YT3W and Tevita-3D2TR.
Our Pilot Stations are: Aca-YU1AA, Toma-YU1AB and Andre-V51B.
We wish everyone good propagation and we hope that you enjoy working the 3D2C Team.
We are very grateful to INDEXA, NCDXF and all of the Clubs and individuals who have provided monetary support for this Dxpedition. We sincerely hope we can satisfy your needs!
3D2C Team
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Press Release #3
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
It is with great excitement, that we announce that our preparations for a large multi-national Dxpedition to Conway Reef are going according to plan. We now have 19 operators from all over the globe to participate in this tent and generator operation.
Conway Reef is located in the South Pacific Ocean and is #35 on Club Log's most wanted DXCC list.
The bulk of our equipment has arrived and is staged in Suva, Fiji. ICOM is shipping the IC-7600 rigs to us this week, which will travel with the team to Suva. Our advance team is arriving in Suva on September 21 to commence with equipment testing and loading on our vessel, the venerable Island Dancer II.
The main Team is meeting in Lami Bay, Suva and departing by ship to Conway Reef on September 24th. The Team expects to arrive at Conway Reef and become active on September 26th. We will complete our Dxpedition on October 5th, 2012 and return to Suva.
The main goals of this DXpedition are to work every amateur radio operator who needs Conway Reef for a new DXCC country. In addition, we will be active on all bands from 1.8 MHz to 144 MHz, including the 5MHz and 50 MHz bands.
We will be active on CW, SSB and RTTY. Special attention will be made to work far away stations such as Europe and Africa during those periods when propagation permits. The propagation window for EU and Africa is very brief at times and signals may be weak, so we ask everyone in the honored HAM SPIRIT to stand by when asked so that we may fulfill this need. Our destination will have a wide range of options and possibilities.
We will use our Satellite phones to upload our logs on a daily basis to our on-line log. We will upload to LOTW approximately six months following the DXpedition.
Our team consists of these Operators: Hrane-YT1AD-Leader, Aleksej-UA4HOX-Co-Leader-Operations, Paul-N6PSE-Co-Leader-PR & Fundraising, David-WD5COV, Vasily-RW4NW, David-AH6HY, Alan-K6SRZ-Team Physician, Alan-AD6E, Sergej-RZ3FW, Craig-K9CT, Stan-LZ1GC, George-N6NKT, Peter-PY5CC, Mike-K6MKF, Jim-K9JM, Miguel-PY3MM, Luciano-PY5KD, Dragan-YT3W and Tevita-3D2TR.
Our Pilot Stations are: Aca-YU1AA, Toma-YU1AB and Andre-V51B.
We wish everyone good propagation and we hope that you enjoy working the 3D2C Team.
We are very grateful to INDEXA, NCDXF and all of the Clubs and individuals who have provided monetary support for this Dxpedition. We sincerely hope we can satisfy your needs!
At this time, we are seeking additional Club and Individual Sponsors to help us defray the costs of carrying out this DXpedition. Donations can be made via the 3D2C web page. OQRS will be available upon completion of the Dxpedition.
3D2C Team
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Press Release #1
By N6PSE, Paul Ewing
The World-Wide DX Group, led by Hrane Milosevic-YT1AD, is pleased to announce our next DXpedition, as 3D2C from the remote South-Pacific atoll of Conway Reef. This Dxpedition will take place from September 24th to October 5th, 2012. The World-Wide DX Group is the same group which brought you the recent 3D2C Rotuma Island Dxpedition in September, 2011.
Our primary objective is to activate Conway Reef with a goal of providing as many DXers as possible a "new one" with this rare DXCC entity and, as a secondary objective, to give as many band-slots as possible. We will target European contacts during those periods when propagation is possible and we will ask JA and North America to stand buy during those brief periods when the bands are open to EU.
The team consists of twelve operators including: Leader-Hrane Milosevic-YT1AD, Co-Leader Alex Romanov-UA4HOX, Co-Leader Paul Ewing-N6PSE, Co-Leader Dave Flack-AH6HY, David Jorgensen-WD5COV, Vasily Kozerodov-RW4NW, Dr. Alan Eshelman-K6SRZ-Team Physician, Alan Maenchen-AD6E, Sergej Yanovsky-RZ3FW, Craig Thompson-K9CT, Stanislav Vatev-LZ1CG, George Williams-N6NKT, Peter Sprengel-PY5CC, Mike Flowers-K6MKF and Jim Michener-K9JM.
Our QSL Manager is Hrane Milosevic-YT1AD. 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.
At this time, we are seeking Foundation, Club and individual support for this Dxpedition.
You can find out more about our plans at our website: http://www.yt1ad.info/3d2c/index.html
Thank you,
The World-Wide-DX Group |
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