Buddies in the Caribbean

Members of the 'Buddies in the Caribbean' DXpedition group which specializes in 100 watt or less low power radios and the Buddipole portable antenna system, is off again to a new DXpedition site on February 2-11th, 2010.

This is an annual effort to demonstrate 'ultra-lite' DXpeditioning into magnificent 'vista' locations, operate a
field portable battery-only radio with backpackable, lightweight antennas and most of all 'have fun!'

The nine operators from eight states mentioned are:
Budd W3FF, Chris W6HFP, Scott NE1RD, Dan WZ1P, Steve WG0AT, Mike KC4VG, Guy N7UN, Paul KB9AVO and Wey K8EAB.

The team negotiated with the amateur license regulatory process through the St. Lucia Telecom to receive their J6/homecall licenses in six weeks. In early February they
intend to have 3 villa stations in operation on 160-15 meters and some occasional operations on 10m and 6m, propagation permitting, using CW, SSB, and the Digital modes. At the same time, several teams will be battery-only field portable either at St. Lucia beaches or mountain tops.

QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or mail to operator's home callsign (SASE required).

For more details, see the following Web pages:
http://sites.google.com/site/caribbeanbuddies/home
or
http://caribbeanbuddies.blogspot.com/
Please note that this Web site has an on-line chat feature for realtime dialog with the DXpedition team.

OPDX