FP/KV1J
July 2020 DXpedition to Miquelon   Op - Eric KV1J

Grid GN17       CQ Zone 5         ITU Zone 9
IOTA NA-032     DIFO FP-002    WLOTA 1417

Updates

ClubLog search

Preliminary Itinerary

Schedule 2020 

Time Zone is GMT minus 2 hours (daylight savings time)       Current weather

Sunday 28 June – Drive to Halifax, NS. May be on satellites during trip

Monday 29 June – Fly to St. Pierre late afternoon. 

Tuesday  30 June –   Take morning boat to Miquelon.  Setup antennas, station.

30 June Through 14 July  – On the air – SSB, CW, RTTY, FT8, FT4 - 160M - 6M
                                                                              Primarily SSB, RTTY, and FT4/8
                                                                              Generally on the highest frequency band open favoring 12M, 10M and 6M.
                                                                             
                                                                              Limited 160 with low antenna

                                                                              60M may be authorized by the time of this trip.  If it is, I will be on with a vertical antenna.
 

  I will also be on the SSB Satellites - XW-2x, AO-7, CA-4x (also the FM birds) when the WX is good enough to operate from outside. Watch for Grid, may also be in GN16.  span>

4 - 5 July - DL-DX RTTY Contest

11 - 12 July - IARU Contest - Mixed CW/SSB

Tuesday 14 July  – Take down and take afternoon boat to Saint Pierre (Bastille Day)

Wednesday 15 July  – Fly to Halifax then drive to Maine

Equipment

Elecraft K3

Heathkit SB-200 Amplifier (modified) 80 -10M

Two FT-817s for satellites

laptop with N1MM+ logger, TinyFSK/2Tone

WiFi internet access

N6BV Propagation Prediction

Antennas  

N1IW Off-Centered Fed Dipole 80M - 10M,  height = 4m

SpiderBeam HD - 5 band - Wire Yagi Beam 20M-10M  up 4 meters.

160M Inverted-L (W4TWW 1/4 wave Broad Banded Coaxial Inv-L)

30M Dipole

60M Vertical if band gets authorized for F (and FP)

Arrow 2M/70cm yagi for satellites

6 Meter 3 element yagi up 5 meters

QSL Information

Direct to KV1J.  Please include self addressed envelope with return postage, or US$1, or new style IRC*
                                                                                            *Please only latest style IRCs,  Thanks.

Buro to home call - KV1J

Logbook of the World, ClubLog, eQSL  (will load LoTW and ClubLog about every night and eQSL about one week after I return)
Satellite  QSOs are paper logged so may be a delay in uploading them.

QSL Printer - Mr. QSL

 KV1J is ok on QRZ.COM

Links

Cheznoo.net – includes webcams

Thank you to all that have helped me prepare for this trip, especially Jean-Pierre FP5CJ

Log (all FP/KV1J trips))

Martin RF Supply

Last page update - 15 January 2020 - KV1J       kv1j (at) arrl (dot) net