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J6, ST. LUCIA (Update). Members of the "Buddies in the Caribbean" DX-
pedition group which specializes in 100 watt or less low power radios
and the Buddipole portable antenna system is off again to a new DXpedition
site on February 2-11th, 2010. This is an annual effort to demonstrate
"ultra-lite" DXpeditioning into magnificent "vista" locations, operate a
field portable battery-only radio with backpackable, lightweight antennas
and most of all "have fun!" The nine operators from eight states mentioned
are: Budd/W3FF, Chris/W6HFP, Scott/NE1RD, Dan/WZ1P, Steve/WG0AT, Mike/
KC4VG, Guy/N7UN, Paul/KB9AVO and Wey/K8EAB. The team negotiated with the
amateur license regulatory process through the St. Lucia Telecom to
receive their J6/homecall licenses in six weeks. In early February they
intend to have 3 villa stations in operation on 160-15 meters and some
occasional operations on 10m and 6m, propagation permitting, using CW,
SSB, and the Digital modes. At the same time, several teams will be
battery-only field portable either at St. Lucia beaches or mountain tops.
QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or mail to operator's home callsign (SASE required).
For more details, see the following Web pages:
** http://sites.google.com/site/caribbeanbuddies/home
http://caribbeanbuddies.blogspot.com/
** Please note that this Web site has an on-line chat feature for
realtime dialog with the DXpedition team.
Via Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 942

J6 - The "Buddies in the Caribbean" DX group, which specializes in 100
watt or low power radios and the Buddipole portable antenna
system, is off again to a new DXpedition. K8EAB, KB9AVO, KC4VG,
N7UN, NE1RD, W3FF, W6HFP, WG0AT and WZ1P will be active from St.
Lucia (NA-108) on 2-10 February. They plan to operate CW, SSB and
digital modes as J6/homecall. QSL via home calls, direct, LoTW or
eQSL. The group has weblog at caribbeanbuddies.blogspot.com and a
website at sites.google.com/site/caribbeanbuddies/home [TNX N7UN]
Via 425DXNews No 977