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In less than two weeks the CY9C DXpedition team will arrive in
Dingwall, Nova Scotia, in preparation for the DXpedition to St Paul
Island. The dates for the DXpedition are July 31 - August 8th. All
seven team members are ready with gear packed and weighed to help
facilitate an efficient process of ferrying the gear to the island via
helicopter.
The team is not employing a boat for this DXpedition as all operations
will be from the Northeast Island. There are no longer any facilities
for a boat to be able to dock at the Northeast Island with its
foreboding cliffs and sharp rock formations that encompass the island.
With that being the case, extra care must be taken to transport the
generators and fuel by helicopter.
Pat N2IEN, the helicopter pilot, and helicopter mechanic Barry Smith,
will supervise and oversee the loading of all gear on each flight. An
advance team will fly to the island first in order to erect the
operation tents. While that is taking place, the first of many chopper
trips will commence with all of the other DXpedition gear.
Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we have good VFR flying
weather. On the 2016 CY9C DXpedition we had a number of very stormy
days (and fog) where flights were not possible.
Updates will be provided to the bulletins by Murray WA4DAN or Randy
N0TG as well as at
www.cy9c.com
Phil VA3QR will again be giving updates and status reports on his blog
which was very popular in 2016.
73 Boye