YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
http://www.to2u.contestgroupduquebec.com
First settled by the French in the early 17th century, the islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France’s once vast North American possessions.
Europeans began to regularly visit from the early 16th century and their settlements are some of the oldest in the Americas. At first the Basque fishermen only visited the islands seasonally during the fishing season, by the mid-17th century there were permanent French residents on the islands.
About 5500 of the total population of more than 6000 live on the smaller island of Saint-Pierre, where the capital town of the same name is located. Fishing Cod on the Grand Banks was the main industry for centuries.
The archipelago is characterized by a cold borderline humid continental/subarctic climate, under the influence of polar air masses and the cold Labrador Curren. The average temperature is 15.7°C in August and -3.6°C in February.Precipitation is abundant and regular, falling as snow and rain. Because of its location at the confluence of the cold waters of the Labrador Current and the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the archipelago is also crossed a hundred days a year by fog banks, mainly in June and July.
To enter St.Pierre and Miquelon, all nationalities other than Canadian citizens must have a Passport. Canadian passengers are required to have a passport or driver’s licence with picture or government issued ID with picture. Certain Countries with the exception of EU, USA, Japan and Switzerland may require a Visa. Here is the link how to get there http://www.st-pierre-et-miquelon.com/english/comment.php.Today weve got an approval by REF for using a special callsign for the DX-expedion – TO2U. Thanks to Youri! He knows how to do that:)) But we decided to use this call only during the contests – WW VHF and IOTA). Beside that we are going to use FP/VE3DZ and FP/VA2WA.
Victor, VA2WDQ
| BAND | CW | SSB | RTTY |
| 6mt | 50.104 | 50.115 | – |
| 10mt | 28.024 | 28.440 | 28.080 |
| 12mt | 24.894 | 24.940 | 24.914 |
| 15mt | 21.024 | 21.240 | 21.084 |
| 17mt | 18.074 | 18.140 | 18.104 |
| 20mt | 14.024 | 14.240 | 14.084 |
| 30mt | 10.114 | – | 10.142 |
| 40mt | 7.024 | 7.060 7.140 | 7.041 |
| 80mt | 3.524 | 3.790 | – |
| 160mt | 1.824 | – | – |
We plan to operate two stations. Given the difficulties in getting large amounts of heavy equipment to the island, we plan to use lightweight but high performance K3/TS-590S transceivers and a small HLA-300V amplifier.
Tranceivers
1 x Elecraft K3/100 with RigExpert Plus interface
1 x Kenwood TS-590S with K1EL WinKey interface
Amplifiers
1 x RM Italy HLA-300V
Antennas
20/15/10m: 1 x Spiderbeam 3 bands on 10m mast
30m/40/17/12 SteppIR BiggIR vertical
160/80m: 11.5m top loaded vertical
6M: 3 el. Yagi (Cushcraft)
Band Pass filters
Remo (Russia)
Here is FP/VA2WA QSL as an example:
