Re: [IRCA] Autumn 2016 DXpeditions?

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark and thanks for putting together a list of prospective DXpeditions.

After joining the crowd at LBI in a couple of weeks, Iâll be making the trek to Quoddy House in a month or so - Nov. 13-20 - then back to Fleeton, VA, on the Chesapeake Bay, for a few days in early December and then Grayland in February, 2017.

Hoping for quiet geomag conditions and mild weather!

At all locations Iâll be using what has become my âstockâ 160â DKAZ with Vactrol termination.  Just completed two more Vactol units yesterday and may summon the energy to try an in-line array of closely-spaced DKAZ for some added directivity â or take another shot at a broadside array of DKAZ.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA

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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Mark Connelly via IRCA <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Autumn 2016 DXpeditions?
> Date: October 20, 2016 at 11:55:02 PM EDT
> To: badx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> I'm curious as to what DXpeditions are on tap before winter sets in.
> 
> "Who's going where when?"
> 
> Of greatest interest to me are ones along the US and Canadian Atlantic coastline such as:
> PEI - I think Bruce Conti, Brent Taylor, and some others are signed up for that
> Newfoundland - ?
> NJ coast (Long Beach Island?)
> 
> Of course, here in the east, results from those outings are augmented well by near-DXpedition-grade home-based reporters such as Allen Willie in NL, Michael Yule in NS, Brent Taylor in PEI, Sylvain Naud in QC, a few of us in New England, and sporadic contributors from other coastal hotspots such as the NC Outer Banks and south FL. 
> 
> Still somewhat relevant to me would be news about DXpeditions in Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.
> 
> The West Coast guys must have some activities cooked up (such as Rockworks, Grayland, and Haida Gwaii).  Every so often trips to Hawaii are mentioned.  Japanese and Australian DXers are likely to be active sometime too.
> 
> I'm thinking of doing at least one or two sessions from the car at beach sites within an hour's drive time.  Typically these would be around local sunset at sites providing more consistent / strong TA and South American signals than can normally be obtained at the house.  Maybe I would try to coordinate a mini-DXpedition night with others' activities in PEI or NL as I've done in some previous years.
> 
> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA

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