July 24th-31st 2002
Bahamas DXpedition Group
Members of the SWODXA
(Southwest Ohio DX Assn.) will be in the
Bahamas for the 2002 IOTA Contest, operating from Eleuthera Island.
We will be QRV on 40 through 6 meters CW, SSB and PSK31.
IOTA NA-001/Grid FL15
Listen for C6DX in the contest and C6AJR or home
calls/C6A at other
times. The crew this trip will be Joe W8GEX, Wayne K8LEE, Ron W8ILC,
Byron WA8NJR, Mike N9NS, and Jim K8FL.
We will be running 3 low band stations and a 6M
station.
QSL for this trip C6DX via N8QET
QSL for C6AJR via W8GEX
All other /C6A via home calls
See below for other trips........................
Location: The Newberry House on Double Bay, check here
for details
of the house www.bahamasweb.com then click on
Eleuthera, then Double
Bay, and finally Newberry house.
Sponsors: We would
like to thank Mike Traffie of HexBeam for
the
5-band beam. He let us use it last year as well. We had great performance
with this antenna, it was easy to assemble and very lightweight.
FluidMotion Antenna
Systems of Issaquah, WA. is sending us a 3-element
beam, each element has individual stepper motors. We have agreed to use
this new type antenna and give Fluidmotion Antenna Systems our evaluation
of this antenna under DXpedition conditions.
On July 1st. we received our three element beam as
promised. The crew
members unpacked the antenna and all the parts were there. We quickly and
easily put the beam together. The manual was right on the money on all
installation instructions. The antenna was 1.1 VSWR on all our operating
freq.
This is a great 6 band beam 6 to 20 meters. Joe W8GEX
The 5-band HexBeam
L/R Joe W8GEX, Kirk W8QID, Mike N9NS, Byron WA8NJR,
Ron W8ILC, Jim K8FL (taking the picture).
Mike N9NS and Ron W8ILC operating
Any Questions or suggestions E-mail us
QSL for all 1998 via WZ8D no Buro Cards
Search Log 1998 ARRL 10M C6DX
QSL for June 2000 via W8GEX
QSL for 2001/2002 via N8QET
Search Log 2002 IOTA C6DX
QSL
for Oct/Nov 2004 via W8QID
John WZ8D installed a beacon C6AFP/b FL16iq on 50.062 in 1996
Details from Dec. 1998 C6DX
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