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AMATEUR RADIO TRIPS TO GHANA-9G5KW

ST. PAUL-CY9DH AND MIQUELON-FP/W0SD

Arliss W7XU, Dick K5AND and Myself-W0SD operated from Ghana. The VHF call was 9G5AN. This was the end of October and the first part of November 2001. Edith and I operated with others as CY9DH the last part of June and the first part of July 2002 and from Miquelon the last part of July 2002. W0SD also operated from Labrador and Zone 2 in northern Quebec. Following are some selected pictures and audio clips from those operations. Other pictures are found in the 2002 Travelogue to Canada.

GHANA 9G5KW AND 9G5AN PICTURES

HF RESULTS

 QSO'S  80 - 40 - 30 -  20  - 17  - 15   -  12  -  10   total
 CW       15 - 17 -  0 - 308  - 0   - 0    -  0   -  0  -  540
 SSB    0 -  1  -  0  -   222 - 440 - 1320 - 737 - 494 - 3204
 RTTY   0 -  0  -  3   - 270  - 5   - 520  -  0   - 217 - 1014
 PSK      0 -  0  -  0 -  12  - 0   -  93  -  0   -  0  -  105
 TOTAL 15 - 18  -  2 - 812  -445  - 1933 - 727  - 711 - 4663
   

Arliss-W7XU and Dick-K5AND operating 9G5AN in Ghana.

Six meter beam and G5RV for HF in Ghana

W0SD operating HF as 9G5KW in Ghana

W0SD Ed opeating HF as 9G5KW

Audio Clip of My friend Arliss-W7XU in Ghana talking to his wife Holly N0QJM at their amatuer station near Parker, South Dakota. The second clip is Arliss talking to his son Nolan N0LAN. Nolan is about 10 years old at the time.

Audio clip that was recorded at 9G5AN. This is an amazing recording because what actually happened it that this was recorded at W7XU and then Holly is playing it back to us from W7XU and we are recording it in Ghana at 9G5AN so it really is a recording of a recording!!!

Audio Clips of myself, in Ghana as 9G5KW talking with WD0T at my station and my son K7BI in Glendale, AZ. The Second clip is with my wife Edith W0OE near Salem, South Dakota on our amateur station.

ST. PAUL ISLAND CY9DH PICTURES

Operating from CY9DH were W0SD-Ed, W0OE-Edith, W7XU-Arliss, N0QJM-Holly, VE9DH-Jim, VE1AAO-Billy and WV2B-Duane

We made 12,396 qso's from St. Paul on HF and of those I operated all the RTTY and made 1084 qso's on RTTY

CY9DH Operating site

HF Operating site

Base of the vertical for 40 meters, has 25 radials

Base of mast for hex beam, rotatable

W7XU Arliss operating

Jim-VE9DH far and Duane-WV2B close operating

Bill-VE1AAO far and Duane WV2V close operating

W0SD opeating HF

Bugcatcher used for Winlink 2000 E-mail on 30 meters

E=mail set up in cook tent

W0SD operating

W0OE-Edith by cook tent

Ed W0SD tearing down vertical

Arliss W7XU tearing down vhf antenna

Holly-N0QJM packing things up

Gear stacked up on shore

Unloading boat at end of Dx-pedition

FP/W0SD MIQUELON OPEATION

We made 1267 qso's from Miquelon. 563 were RTTY and despite a valiant try only 27 on six meters

Antennas at Motel Miquelon (now Maxotel) in Miquelon

Another view of the antennas at Miquelon

Equipment setup at Miquelon

W0SD Ed operating at Miquelon

Christina who could speak excellent English, manager of motel and great host

W0SD/VE2 ZONE 2

We made 313 qso's and 133 of these were on 6 meters. The grid square was FO62ac

Operating site in Zone 2 FO62AX

Antennas at Zone 2 in northern Quebec FO62AC

Link to Personal web pages of Ed and Edith including photo's and travelogues of trips since retirement