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Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 1031.2

The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 1031.2
BID: $OPDX.1031.2
October 10, 2011
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)

Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network and G3XTT for the following DX information.

T32C PRESS RELEASE (Bulletin 8): "With two weeks still to go, T32C now
has over 100k QSOs in the log, including 22k with Europe (and 23k with
Asia), our target area. As the JA and US pile-ups continue to diminish,
we hope the percentage of EU will increase. However, the decline in solar
activity since we first started has not helped. That said, we are on
track to set at least a few new records.

We have been increasingly active on RTTY, with 6.5k QSOs now on that mode
and increasing rapidly. The demand for RTTY, as all DXpeditions have
discovered in recent years, seems to be never ending.

We continue to cover as many band/mode openings as we can, with the
equipment we carried here - we are well aware that the situation would
have been better had our container of equipment arrived, as we would
have had the opportunity to install a greater variety of antennas, and
would have had linears at all operating positions. Nevertheless, we
feel justified in pressing ahead with the expedition - 100k QSOs in
9 days, Field Day style, can't be bad! That said, it has been a constant
battle to keep everything working - an antenna party a week into our
operation found lots of sal****er corrosion in connections and coax and
guys that were badly abraded, just as one example. We are currently able
to operate two stations simultaneously on 10, 15 and 20 and are looking
at being able to do the same on 12 and 17 to make the most of the main
band openings, but with limited coaxial cable (it's heavy to hand carry!)
we are having trouble achieving the antenna separation we ideally need.

There is a team changeover tomorrow (Wednesday our time), when 11 operators
leave and another 11 arrive, with 16 remaining for the whole period. The
incoming team are bringing a couple more FT-450D radios and one more
amplifier, as well as some other useful items. We stopped operations for
a couple of hours yesterday evening our time for a party to wish the
outgoing operators well.

It's not all work, work, work here on Christmas. Apart from last night's
"Christmas Party" (which was, naturally, attended by Santa himself), a
couple of groups' have been deep-sea fishing when not on operating duty,
with great success. The local people that we have met in our travels
have been, without exception, friendly and helpful. It's a fascinating
location, with some equally fascinating history (some of which appears
on our website).

Don G3XTT
T32C Publicity Officer"

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Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW - --or--
Editor of the "Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin" (OPDX - "DXer's Tool of Excellence")
President of the "Northern Ohio DX Association" (NODXA)
DX Chairman for the "Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society
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