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CI3XXV THE POLAR BEAR DXPEDITION 98 AUGUST 16 TO 23 1998

The "Canadian Islands" and "Marine Mobile"

section of the DX-pedition.

This section of the DX-pedition was manned by members of our other station XM3PBX. Station CI3XXV/25 was operated on August 18th on Fossil Island (ON198) by Don - VE3UNA and Doug - VE3BKR.

On August 20th, Terry - VE3GTS and George - VE3INB initiated two new Canadian Islands, Sawpit Island (ON244) and South Charles Island (ON245) . The Canadian Islands section operated for about three hours and netted 140 contacts.

This is Doug - VE3BKR operating on Fossil Island (ON198) on August 18 1998.

Photo taken by Don - VE3UNA.

This is the TWO BAY TOURS, M.V. Polar Princess on which we operated our "Maritime Mobile" section as CI3XXV/MM . The trip went from Moosonee, downriver to James Bay, then up river to Moose Factory Island. At Moose Factory, where the above picture was taken, passengers are taken on a tour of the island before returning to Moosnee.

Craig - VE3CIJ, Doug - VE3BKR and George - VE3INB were the operators of record. Operations commenced at 13:00 hours UTC and ended at about 19:00 hours UTC. We operated for about one hour on 40 Meters and then moved to 20 Meters where we operated for the remainder of the time. Band conditions were quite variable, but approximately 125 contacts were made. Photo taken by George - VE3INB

This is our makeshift antenna mount and ground plane. As crude as it looks, the PROAM stick antenna worked extremely well. Photo taken by George - VE3INB

Seen here are Craig -VE3CIJ (right) and Doug - VE3BKR (left) getting ready to start operating from the M.V. Polar Princess. Photo taken by Paul - VE3KBL

Craig - VE3CIJ is seen here chatting about "HAM RADIO" with several interested passengers on the M.V. Polar Princess. Note the PROAM stick in the background. Photo taken by George - VE3INB

Captain Flarity (right) and John Romanow (left) were our hosts on the M.V. Polar Princess. John was also our guide for the "Canadian Islands" section. Photo taken by Paul - VE3KBL

The QSL Manager for CI3XXV is VE3INB

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