Jamaica DXpedition 2007 is a GO!

Jamaica DXpedition 2007 - N0NJY and KB0IRW ^ | 3 October 2007 | Rick Donaldson

[Rick.Donaldson]

Who: NØNJY/6Y5, KBØIRW/6Y5 (Rick and JoAnne Donaldson)
What: Jamaica DXPedition
When: 12-14 October 2007
Where: Runaway Bay, Jamaica, West Indies
Why: For FUN! Island DXpedition (Celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary and 18 years as hams radio operators together!)
QSL: Home call (NØNJY)

Operational Times: APPROXIMATELY 17ØØ-21ØØ UTC on Friday and Saturday, and 17ØØ-2ØØØ on Sun

Frequency: Split frequency operation during operations hours on 14.19Ø +/-1Ø KHz, TX, Listening 14.2ØØ – 14.23Ø (+/- 1Ø KHz)

Equipment: ICOM IC-735, Alinco Power Supply, Home brew antenna (Pictures on blog site for equipment)

Blog site with much more information for comments, and QSL information etc is located at: http://jamaicadxpedition2007.blogspot.com/

Thanks everyone!

73,

Rick Donaldson
US Callsign NØNJY
Jamaica Call NØNJY/6Y5

[Rick.Donaldson]

My wife and I are celebrating our 30th Anniversary (it was actually on 5 August) in Jamaica next week. We're also both Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) and if there are any Hams reading FR today, we'd like to invite you to chat with us on the dates listed in the message above. Go to the blog site for more information about our "DXpedition".

For everyone else, who is not ham radio operators if you have a short wave radio capable of receiving single-side band signals you can listen for us as well. We will send QSL cards to those who request them, if they can hear us. Please read the blog for more information!

A DXpedition is a trip that amateur radio operators will take sometimes, taking HF radio equipment with them and then they will make radio contacts with many people around the world. We chose to do this in Jamaica.

QSL cards are a type of "confirmation of contact" post card which Hams around the world use to verify you've made contact with them. This is considered "the last courtesy" usually, meaning that after the contact is over, many days (and sometimes years) later one Ham will send a contact card (QSL card) to another so that they can place these in their albums, or use them for contests. Some contests garner awards like plaques or certificates from various Amateur Radio clubs, or organizations (like the ARRL for instance). SWLers, or Short Wave Listeners also receive QSL cards from radio stations they listen to by sending confirmation letters with reception information to the Short Wave stations. We will be QSLing SWLers.

Please visit the blog site and post comments if you have any, since I'm going to be pretty busy the next few days and will be checking the blog from time to time. If you have questions or comments you can write to me at n0njy@earthlink.net (that's a ZERO in the address!) and I'll do my best to reply before I depart.

The blog site will NOT be updated while I am gone, and I can't promise to answer all the messages, but will try.

So, until next time, 73!

Rick Donaldson, N0NJY