Buddies in the Caribbean DXpedition group head back to St. Lucia

The 'Buddies in the Caribbean' DXpedition group which specializes in 100 watt or less low power radios and the Buddipole portable antenna systems is back again to St Lucia (J6) on Dec 5 ­ 13, 2010.

The north shore Villa location was magnificent on our first visit in Feb 2010 and we want to demonstrate with a new group of operators, "ultralite" dxpeditioning into magnificent "vista" locations, operating a field portable, battery-only radio with backpackable, lightweight antennas and most of all "having fun".

The entire DXpedition is limited to equipment that can fit in your airline "suitcase".

The eight operators are: Budd/W3FF, Guy/N7UN, Wey/K8EAB, Bill/W7ZT,Todd/N4LA, Kent/K4MK, Gary/NX8L, and Tom/W4OKW.

There will be 3 Villa stations in operation at various times on 160-10m using CW, SSB, and RTTY.

During the day, several teams will be battery-only, field portable either from St Lucia beaches or scenic mountain tops. The group has received a unique J6BP callsign for the ARRL 10m contest on Dec 11-12th. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or mail to the operator's home callsign (SASE required).

For more details, see the following web page: http://sites.google.com/site/caribbeanbuddies/

Jack Hartley

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