The destination is Silent Lake provincial park in eastern Ontario. Trip dates are Feb 15, 16, and 17th.You can see my notes from last years "event" at http://acomeau.blogspot.com/2009/01/winter-portable-operation.html
Travel:
The park is about 240km due west from Ottawa where we live. The drive will start early Sunday morning so that we can arrive at the park entrance at about noon time. From the park gate we will drive to the park Warden's office where we will transfer the camping contents of the truck to snowmobile for the remainder of the trip into the winter camping areas of the park.
Location:
Silent lake park is located in eastern Ontario, not far from the eastern sea coast of North America.
Radio Equipment:
The key radio equipment will be an ICOM 7000 which is a compact 100W HF and VHF radio. Antenna tuning, if needed will be delivered with an LDG AT-7000 auto tuner.
Power:
Power plant will be 4 50AH 12V Gel-cells. 200AH should provide me with about 18 hours of operation.
The battery booster will "step-up" voltage from the gel-cells to a stable 13.5V even as the gell-cell discharge. This helps the radio perform. The efficiency used in the calculation below is 80% and the booster is only enabled on tansmit.| Battery Storage | 50 | (Ahr) | |||||
| # batteries | 4 | ||||||
| Total Storage | 200 | (Ahr) | |||||
| Radio | (A) | (W) | Eff. | (min) | (A) | ||
| Transmit | 22 | 264 | 0.8 | 15 | 5.5 | ||
| Recieve | 4 | 48 | 1 | 60 | 3.2 | ||
| (A) | (W) | ||||||
| Radio | 8.7 | 104.4 | |||||
| Laptop | 3.0 | 36 | |||||
| Total Average Current | 11.7 | 140.4 | |||||
| Expected time | 17.1 | (hr) | |||||
Antenna: (HF)
HF Antenna will be the Buddipole, I have a configuration for 20m and 40m. Both are L shaped.
Antenna: (VHF 2M) & Repeater Access:
I'd like to have a chance to hit the repeater near by and link with IRLP back to Ottawa. The nearest node is imaged below.
There are really only two nodes which are candidates within 50km of the park.
Operation Plans:
Plans are to operate 20m during the day, and 40m in the evening. I will be equipped to operate PSK and a SSB.
I will not be able to operate VHF and HF at the same time as I will only have the 1 radio.
Packing List:
This is my packing list for the the expedition.
| Booster | Battery Regulator | 1 |
| Booster | Coax (3ft) | 1 |
| Booster | SO239 to BNC adapter | 1 |
| Booster | UHF T adapter | 1 |
| Budipole | Black Coil | 1 |
| Budipole | Carry case | 1 |
| Budipole | Dipole arms | 4 |
| Budipole | Guy rope ground pegs | 3 |
| Budipole | Long whips | 4 |
| Budipole | Mini Banana to BNC converter | 1 |
| Budipole | Red coil | 1 |
| Budipole | Short whips | 3 |
| Budipole | SO239 to BNC adapter | 1 |
| Budipole | Spare thumb screws | 5 |
| Budipole | Tripod base | 1 |
| Budipole | Tripod mast (w/ 3 guy ropes) | 1 |
| Budipole | TRSB | 1 |
| Budipole | Versatee | 1 |
| Computer | Fused power cable (15A pair inline) | 1 |
| Phone | HTC Phone | 1 |
| Phone | USB Cable (Phone) | 1 |
| Computer | Laptop | 1 |
| Computer | Laptop Power Inverter 12V i/p | 1 |
| Computer | Laptop Power Inverter Power cable | 1 |
| Computer | USB Mouse | 1 |
| Creature | Reading glasses | 1 |
| IC7k | Coax (75ft) | 1 |
| IC7k | Earphones | 1 |
| IC7k | Extra cooling fan | 1 |
| IC7k | Fused power cable (30A paired) | 1 |
| IC7k | Icom 7000 Power cable | 1 |
| IC7k | Mic HM-151 | 1 |
| Power | 12V Gellcell | 4 |
| PSK31 | 12V battery jumper cables | 6 |
| PSK31 | 13pin ICOM to Signalink Cable | 1 |
| PSK31 | RS232 – CIV Converter | 1 |
| PSK31 | Signalink USB | 1 |
| PSK31 | USB Cable (Sugnalink) | 1 |
| PSK31 | USB to Serial Converter | 1 |
| Soft | AT-7000 manual pdf | 1 |
| Soft | DM780 | 1 |
| Soft | HRD | 1 |
| Soft | IC7k manual pdf | 1 |
| Spare | Fuses (15A Paired, ¼ in inline) | 4 |
| Spare | Fuses (30A Paired) | 4 |
| Spare | Fuses (40A Single) | 2 |
| Spare | Fuses (5A mini Single) | 2 |
| Spare | SO239 to BNC adapter | 2 |
| Spare | SO239 to SO239 adapter | 1 |
| Spare | Spare fuse / misc box | 1 |
| Spare | USB Mouse Batteries Spare (AA) | 2 |
| Tools | Leather man tool | 1 |
| Tools | Tiewraps | 1 |
| Tuner | AT-7000 Auto tuner | 1 |
| Tuner | AT-7000 control cable | 1 |
| Tuner | Coax (1ft) | 1 |
| VHF (2M) | Coax (25ft) | 1 |
| VHF (2M) | Vertical | 1 |
| YP-3 | 1inch nuts | 6 |
| YP-3 | Boom – Center (w/ pigtail and h/w) | 1 |
| YP-3 | Boom – Director | 1 |
| YP-3 | Boom – Reflector | 1 |
| YP-3 | Carry case | 1 |
| YP-3 | Coils () | 6 |
| YP-3 | Coils () | 6 |
| YP-3 | Cresent Wrench | 1 |
| YP-3 | Elements (ends) | 6 |
| YP-3 | Elements (first) | 6 |
| YP-3 | Elements (tips) | 6 |
| YP-3 | Hairpin shorting bar | 1 |
| YP-3 | Hairpin stub elements | 2 |
| YP-3 | Measureing tape | 1 |
| YP-3 | SO239 to SO239 adapter | 1 |
| YP-3 | Spare thumb screws | 2 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy rope clips | 3 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy rope ground pegs | 4 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy rope ground pegs hammer | 1 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy rope ring | 1 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy rope ring spacer | 1 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Guy ropes (10m) | 3 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Through keys | 4 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Tripod base | 1 |
| YP-3 (STAND) | Tripod mast | 1 |
| Pad Paper | 1 | |
| Pen | 1 |
Thanks
Adrien
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Pretty darned cool, literally and figuratively. Glad I could be a contact during this "DX Expedition"!
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Thank you for sharing.
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