PJ4C Bonaire Island 12-23/1/2012

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F4AJQ , PJ4NX , K4SV , I2VGW , N2WB , DJ7JC , DJ9RR , OE3GCU , OE3JAG , ON7RN , F1HRE , F1NGP , F4DLM , F5EOT , F5VHQ , F6BIV , F6ENO , F6JMT , F8BJI , F9IE , PA0R , OZ1IKY , F2VX , F5QF , F8ATS saranno attivi da Bonaire Island 12-23 gennaio 2012 come PJ4C
Trasmetteranno su tutte le bande in CW , SSB , RTTY
QSL , LOTW

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On the way back from our last DXpedition in Africa, TJ9PF, we already had lots of ideas for our next trip: Africa, Asia and Pacific.

After a few months of hard work and we had to cancel many of them for different reasons (mostly security related to the events in the world). Some others were just too expensive for our team.

Finally, we have chosen to go to Bonaire (PJ4) because we found a place to accept all our equipment and operators. Thanks to the help of Peter PJ4NX everything has been organised very fast.

So we will be PJ4C from 12 to 23 January 2012.

This year our goal will be 80,000 Qso in 11 days, and maybe bring the RTTY world record back home. As usual we will operate 3 modes SSB, CW and RTTY with as least 6 stations, 24 ops, and 24h/day.

Team members are experienced operators: F4AJQ, PJ4NX, K4SV, I2VGW, N2WB, DJ7JC, DJ9RR, OE3GCU, OE3JAG, ON7RN, F1HRE, F1NGP, F4DLM, F5EOT, F5VHQ, F6BIV, F6ENO, F6JMT, F8BJI, F9IE, PA0R, OZ1IKY, F2VX, F5QF, F8ATS.

Your can find all information on our website.

All the team hope to hear you in the pileups, welcome in this new dx-pedition by F6KOP Team.

Best 73′s from F4AJQ Franck and F5UFX Seb, team leaders.

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PJ4C Official Bulletin

All the team wish you a Happy New Year 2012. We are now a few days from departure and all the team is very enthusiastic.

In mid-December around 600Kg of equipment has left Europe to Bonaire, Peter PJ4NX will take care of it until our arrival. Jeff F6AOJ has repaired equipment damaged at TJ9PF last year, Mat F5PED has prepared the 30m 4sq, and Yann F1NGP has configured all the computer network. Thanks to all the F6KOP team everything has been prepared and packed on time. Eric ON7RN and Peter PJ4NX have organized everything with the shipper.

We will use the following equipment :

5x FT 450

1x ICOM IC7200 et 7000

1x K3

6x ACOM 1010

1x AMPLI 50 MHz

4x SPIDERBEAM 5 BANDES

1x SPIDER 3 BANDES

1x SPIDER WARC

1x 5ELEMENT 50 MHz I0JXX

1x VERTICALE 20m

1x FOUR SQUARE 30m

1x FOUR SQUARE 40m

2x VERTICALES 80 (CW and SSB)

1x VERTICALE 40m

1x L 160m

BEVERAGES

We have also in-band filters for 80 and 75m simultaneous operation. Jean Paul F8BJI made the operating schedules. The 7th station will be used on 6m (sometimes as a beacon on 50.104MHz, please let us know is there are any openings)

F4AJQ leader, F6ENO co leader, F1NGP leader SSB, F8BJI leader Digi, F9IE leader CW.

F5UFX will be our pilot and webmaster.

F5NQL will be in charge of communication.

F9IE is our QSL manager.

Logs will be uploaded as frequently as possible on.

Departure is scheduled from Paris January 12, 2012 morning, arrival in Bonaire late in the evening.

We would like to thanks our sponsors for their help. Of course you could help us to cover the expense for shipping all equipment, even small contributions are very appreciated, you could use paypal on our web site or send an email to f6eno@wanadoo.fr .

See you in the pileup.

Best 73’s from all the team.

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Only two days before the end of PJ4C. The pile ups are still as big as it was yesterday on 10m. This morning they are very active on 80 to 20m, incl WARC bands, in the three modes.

On Jan 23, the team will begin to dismantle the stations; all the gear should be packed late in the afternoon. PJ4C will be aired as long as possible. However, the last days of traffic have begun. Stay tuned and be lucky.

Our good friend, Jeff/F6AOJ continues to monitor the low bands, from near Paris ; these are his observation for this morning.

A new batch of pictures has been posted on http://www.PJ4C.com

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More than 80000 QSOs are now in the log ! Congratulations to the team and thanks all for calling. They are now fighting hard to get the 2000 QSO left for the RTTY World Record. We will cross fingers for them, please call !!

A new batch of pictures has been posted on http://www.PJ4C.com