Overview

This is a high power "Unlimited" category operation for the ARRL CW DX contest, February 20-22, 1998, with overall coordination being furnished by the Caribbean Contesting Consortium.

The goal is to set a multi-multi scoring record that, for this stage in the sunspot cycle, will be very very difficult to ever beat. Our fun comes not so much from posting a big score, but from trying to marshall together all the factors of operators, location, equipment, technique, planning, and strategy to get the very most out of each one. It sounds like a cliche, but the idea is to really extend the state-of-art of "unlimited" operation in the ARRL CW contest.

The site will be the famous "Hamlet" contest QTH of Jody Millspaugh, VP5JM. Many of us have operated there in the past for the VP5VW and VP5FOC operations, and Jody's hospitality is the BEST! Also, the QTH is one of the best spots in the world, about 150 feet above salt water in all the right directions. VP5JM is located on the north shore of Providenciales, one of the major islands in the Turks and Caicos. Please follow the link for more information about the site or the Turks.

We are out to have fun. This means that the team consists of guys and gals who have their fun in many different ways. Some prefer to operate, so the team includes some of the best CW contest operators in the world. Others like to build stations and do antenna work, so we've included team members who may not want to operate, but have a lot of fun building. Others are wizards at electronics and emergency equipment maintenance. Still others want to do logistics support and even cook. Our point? There's room on the team for ALL KINDS of interests -- not just for hotshot CW operators!! Everyone can have fun in a teamwork environment like ours!