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BI5D will be on air from 1999/04/29 to 1999/05/04

Announcement of BI5D IOTA-pedition NO.1

        Date:
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:32:54 +0800


    The BI5D IOTA-pedition team has been founded and will be active from Dongtou Island in the Zhejiang Province Group (AS-???) between 29 April and 3 May.
    The team consists of BA1AA, BA1AJ, BA1DU, BA1FB, BA1HAM, BA1KA, BA4AA, BA4RD, BA4RF, BA4RX, BA4TA, BA4TB, BG4AGM, BG4RUC, BD5HAG, BD5RV, BG5BAC, BD6AA, BD6CQ, BA7IA, BA7JG, BA7JK, BD7IX, BD7JA, BD7NI, BD7NQ.
    We will operate on all bands 70cm - 160m. On HF bands we plan to have six transceivers, three yagis and three amplifiers. Please look for us on or around 1.826, 3.530, 3.755, 7.025, 7.055, 10.115, 14.038, 14.260, 18.098, 18.128, 21.038, 21.260, 24.918, 24.945, 28.038, 28.465, 29.280 (FM only) and on or around 7.040, 10.140, 14.080, 21.080 and 28.080 for RTTY.
    We will pay special attention to NA on following bands, modes and time: 0000Z-0400Z 15m, 17m and 20m on CW; 1100Z-1500Z 40m on SSB/CW; 1100Z-1300Z 75m on CW; 2200Z-0000Z 15m, 20m and 40m on SSB/CW. and will specially work EU during 0700Z-1800Z on several usable bands and modes.
    On VHF and UHF, we will use 4ELE HB9CV antenna on 6 meters, 13ELE yagi on 2 meters and 70 centimeters bands. The frequency will be 50.115 (SSB/CW), 144.10 (SSB/CW) and 432.20 (SSB/CW). We will specially look for JA, HL and BV stations on 2 meters and 70 centimeters.
    QSL via P.O.Box 1713, Guangzhou city 510600, CHINA ( direct only ). Any suggestions, comments and questions should be sent to Alan BA1DU ( [email protected] ) or Yang BD7JA ( [email protected] ).

Announcement of BI5D IOTA-pedition NO.2
    BI5D IOTA DXpedition was QRT at 2348 May 2nd. We did not operate for 96 hours that we expected, due to electricity and transportation problems.
    Total 16178 QSOs covering 134 DXCC entities and 37 CQ zones have been completed during about 80 hours, including 8121 on SSB, 7927 on CW and 130 on RTTY. But we did not do well on 160m, 80m, 6m, 2m and 70 cm bands. Even on HF band, some time the propagation was good, but some time all stations were calling CQ but had no answer.
    The detail as follows: 40m: 2163 QSOs; 30m: 1057 QSOs; 20m: 7107 QSOs; 17m: 923 QSOs; 15m: 4123 QSOs; 12m: 453 QSOs; 10m: 340 QSOs and 6m: 12 QSOs.
    We had three QTHs and set up total six transceivers, three amplifiers,three yagi and three vertical antennas. The distance is about 2 kilometers from one another QTH. The UHF hand-held transeivers were not possible to keep communication between the QTHs, we had to use GSM mobile phones. We also rented a car to solve the transportation problem between the QTHs.
    The No.1 QTH was at the hotel. It was not very good for radio, maybe because it is shielded by the rocky hills. The No.2 QTH was in an abandoned pillbox at a hill top. The signal there was much better than of No.1. However the electricity was broken twice for total about 12 hours, and the usable space is very small, also it was cold and windy in the evening.The No.3 was in the home of a fishing family. The conditions were not better than of No.2 but were better than of No.1 QTH.
    QSL via P.O.Box 1713, Guangzhou city 510600, CHINA ( direct only ). Any suggestions, comments and questions should be sent to Alan BA1DU ( [email protected] ) or Yang BD7JA ( [email protected] ).
73 !
Alan Kung, BA1DU