C5A - Gambia DX-pedition by OM0C in Oct/Nov 2011

Hello,

as You can find on the club web sites the members of the OM0C Contest Crew are pleased to announce another Contest DX-pedition to the Gambia. They will be active from October 21th till November 1st and November 19th till November 29th 2011 using renewed callsigns from previous DX-peditions, C50C and C5A. The special call C5A will be reserved for SSB and CW CQWW Contest.

The Gambia 2011 DXpedition will use various transceivers from ICOM. They will setup 6 full time stations that can be used simultaneously in order to take advantage of all bands openings. Most of the time they will use 3 or 4 station only. The whole setup of 6 station will be used during the CQWW SSB and CW contest only (in Multi/Multi category). NO WARC bands!!!

Transceivers & Power Amplifiers:
They will use various ICOM transceivers: 6 x ICOM IC-756PROIII and 1 x IC-7600. All stations will be equiped with OM-POWER!

Antennas:
160m - 27m high vetrical, 80m - 4square, 40m - 4square, 20m - 4square, 15m - 2 x 4square, 10m - Stack Yagi 5 over 5

Receiving antennas:
1. Receiving 4square by DXEngineering/OK1RI on 160m
2. Receiving 4square by DXEngineering/OK1RI on 80m

QSL info:
If you want a QSL card from any of our expeditions, please send it to our QSL manager Brani OM2FY. Branislav Daras, P.O.Box 6, SK-820 08 Bratislava 28, Slovak Republic.

QSLs are accepted either direct or via bureau ... direct way is faster. For Direct cards, please enclose a S.A.E. (Self Addressed Envelope) plus sufficient return postage:

Europe - 1 Euro, 1 IRC or 2 USD (price to EU is 1 Euro/1,3 USD)
Outside of Europe - 1,20 Euro, 1 IRC or 2 USD (price outside of EU is 1,20 Euro/ 1,56 USD)
Direct without a S.A.E. or without sufficient return postage - confirmations via the bureau.


Because running a DXpedition is a very expensive business, they are inviting us to donate them. If you are company, you can be a official sponsor.

I tried to contact Riso, OK8WW to gently ask him for possibility arrange some time frame for 60m band operation. As we can expect all depends to the time during/after the DX-pedition... Of course they are focused mainly to build Super Multi-Multi station for CQ WW Contest. They are bringing more then 1 ton of hardware material to Gambia so it will not be easy to manage. Riso promised to me that they will try it if "they will have rest of the power". Good luck to guys and hope to work them on the air.

73 - Petr, OK1RP