FP/KV1J
June / July 2023 DXpedition to Miquelon   Op - Eric KV1J

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

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Updates

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Tuesday 27 June 2023 -Arrived in Miquelon. Raining and high winds to only put up the dipole and the 6 meter beam. On 6 and 12M.

Thursday 29 June - Yesterday afternoon the WX improved. Jean-Christophe, FP5AC, helped me put up the Spiderbeam. Good opening to mid USA and Central America on 6M. Today active on 12M 17M and 60M.

Schedule 2023 

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

Sunday 25 June – Drive to Halifax, NS.

Monday 26 June – Fly to St. Pierre late afternoon. 

Tuesday  27 June –   Take morning boat to Miquelon.  Setup antennas, station.

27 June Through 11 July  – On the air – SSB, CW, RTTY, FT8, FT4 - 80M - 6M 
                                                                              Primarily SSB and FT8
                                                                              Generally on the highest frequency band open favoring 12M 10M and 6M.
                                                                              Also active on 60M FT8 (allocation is 5351.5-5366.5 15 watts so mostly FT8 on 5357)
                                                                              Some 160 depending on antenna layout
                                                                              No satellite operations this trip
 

1 July –   Canada Day Contest. 

8 - 9 July –   IARU HF Contest / WRTC

Tuesday 11 July  – Take down and take evening boat to Saint Pierre

Wednesday 12 July  – Fly to Halifax then drive to Maine

 

Equipment

Elecraft K3, IC-7300

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

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.

30M Dipole

60M Vertical

6 Meter 3 element yagi up 4.5 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.  eQSL will be loaded about one week after I return)

QSL Printer - PHOTOQSLs

KV1J ERIC WILLIAMS 763 PLEASANT ST MARLBORO MA 01752 USA

 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 - 29 June 2023 - KV1J       kv1j (at) arrl (dot) net