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Where the Heck is St. Martin?
Perfect location: No skip zone in the U.S. and 1 heading (320 deg) covers entire U.S.
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Eastern Caribbean Area
St. Martin is 125 miles from the Virgin Islands and 200 miles from San Juan
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Nearby Islands
Some of the nearby islands within 200 miles which can be reached on VHF from the mountaintop
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Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Facts
Smallest island divided into two countries
Area of 37 square miles –the size of a typical Vermont town!
Divided in 1648 – Border crossings unattended
Netherlands Antilles: Curacao (PJ2), Bonaire (PJ4), St. Eustatius
(PJ5),
St. Maarten (PJ7) and Saba (PJ8)
Saint Martin administered from Guadeloupe (FG) as a department of
France
Population of 70,000 (PJ7: 38,000; FS: 32,000)
Official languages: PJ7: Dutch, FS: French, but everyone speaks
English
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Princess Juliana Airport
Second busiest airport in the Caribbean
Built on a thin strip of island between ocean and lagoon
Back end right at Maho Beach – bathers get sandblasted
by jet blast!
Front end only 2 miles from St. Peters Hill – 950 foot
elevation!
747’s use the relatively short (7150’) runway
Take offs and landings can be somewhat exciting!
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Looking down runway 9 from the cockpit of a 747. Notice those mountains!
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View looking West toward the airport from the top of St. Peter’s Hill (950’)
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Flying low over Maho Beach just before landing
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W1SJ and W1DEB arrive on March 2nd at 3PM
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Maho Beach is a plane watchers delight but a poor place to hold Field Day!
Make sure your speakers are turned on!
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When a 747 lands, don’t reach up! The wheels are only 30 feet off the ground!
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View of an American 757 looking DOWN from the 8th floor of the Sonesta Beach Resort!
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Rare shot – usually this room is a mob scene!
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Where we stayed at the Simpson Bay Yacht Club – Unit is at center.
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Suzuki Samarai used to climb the mountain. Didn’t try the rollover test!
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The Dutch – French border on the island is totally unmanned
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Getting Hosed at the Gas Pump
Go-Go Gas in Essex (3/1/06): $2.19
Texaco on Sint Maarten: 1.75 NAF per liter
NAF = Netherlands Antilles Florin. 1.80 NAF = $1, or 1 NAF = $0.55
3.8 liters = 1 gallon
Actual Price = $3.69 / gallon
Calisto on Saint Martin: 0.86 E per liter
1 Euro = $1.06 (accepted at par)
Actual Price = $3.27 per gallon
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You can get gas and dinner at this convenience store, but I don’t like chasing dinner!
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I didn’t have much of a appetite for goat, either!
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Never trust a Burger King which can drive away!
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The start of the road up the mountain
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It may be Paradise Peak, but it’s the road to hell! This part is very steep!
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This section goes up at a 45 degree angle. Hold on to your hat!
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Some of the bull you have to deal with on the ride up.
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Shack is comfortable, air conditioned 20x25’ room with everything needed to contest!
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Tennadyne T8 8 element log periodic at 75 feet. It rocked!
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Close up of the Tennadyne and also the 160 meter dipole
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Commercial tower with the 80/40 meter dipoles at 75 feet.
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It’s 5:00 and the antenna work is done!
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Spectacular view to the East looking over Orient Beach
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Musical amplifiers I: Alpha 78 – died before contest
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Musical amplifiers II: Alpha 374 – didn’t fire up!
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Musical amplifiers III: Dentron 160-10L – ran 3 hours, blew cap, emitted smoke!
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Musical amplifiers IV: Alpha 87A – no tune, no worries! GREAT AMP!
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Station included a Kenwood TS-440S, TS-570, Alpha 87A, Vectronics Tuner
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I’m smiling because the contest is over!
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Look at those rates – don’t think I can contest from New England anymo’
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This fella came in and informed me that he could save me a bundle on my car insurance!
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And he’s a avid SSB operator since he headed right for the mic!
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Contest Results
Call used: FS5KA Location: Saint Martin
Category: Single Op All Band Mode: PHONE Power: 1500W
Callsign of Operator: W1SJ
Hours of Operation: 42:30
band QSOs points mults-----------------------------------160 102 306 29 80 636 1908 54 40 767 2301 56 20 1530 4590 60 15 2996 8988 59 10 12 36 6-----------------------------------TOTAL 6043 18129 264 SCORE: 4,786,056
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Hourly Totals
FIRST DAYUTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total----------------------------------------------00Z 0 0 0 268 0 0 268 26801Z 0 128 0 7 0 0 135 40302Z 6 110 0 0 0 0 116 51903Z 0 73 0 0 0 0 73 59204Z 0 65 3 0 0 0 68 66005Z 0 0 135 0 0 0 135 79506Z 1 0 91 0 0 0 92 88707Z 0 2 63 0 0 0 65 95208Z 1 0 33 0 0 0 34 98609Z 1 10 0 0 0 0 11 99710Z 0 44 0 0 0 0 44 104111Z 0 0 27 8 0 0 35 107612Z 0 0 0 176 0 0 176 125213Z 0 0 0 22 204 0 226 147814Z 0 0 0 0 241 0 241 171915Z 0 0 0 0 234 0 234 195316Z 0 0 0 0 244 0 244 219717Z 0 0 0 0 244 0 244 244118Z 0 0 0 0 250 0 250 269119Z 0 0 0 0 194 0 194 288520Z 0 0 0 0 179 0 179 306421Z 0 0 0 0 180 9 189 325322Z 0 0 0 251 5 0 256 350923Z 0 0 0 239 0 0 239 3748----------------------------------------------tot 9 435 349 956 1975 9 ---- 3748
SECOND DAYUTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total----------------------------------------------00Z 0 0 0 118 0 0 118 386601Z 0 0 100 0 0 0 100 396602Z 0 0 118 0 0 0 118 408403Z 1 91 32 0 0 0 124 420804Z 55 21 0 0 0 0 76 428405Z 3 29 38 0 0 0 70 435406Z 27 28 0 0 0 0 55 440907Z 1 0 51 0 0 0 52 446108Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 446109Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 446110Z 6 32 0 0 0 0 38 449911Z 0 3 75 0 0 0 78 457712Z 0 0 0 80 0 0 80 465713Z 0 0 0 13 88 0 101 475814Z 0 0 0 33 41 0 74 483215Z 0 0 0 29 57 0 86 491816Z 0 0 0 1 61 0 62 498017Z 0 0 0 0 94 0 94 507418Z 0 0 0 0 174 0 174 524819Z 0 0 0 0 174 0 174 542220Z 0 0 0 0 111 0 111 553321Z 0 0 0 0 121 3 124 565722Z 0 0 1 22 100 0 123 578023Z 0 0 0 263 0 0 263 6043----------------------------------------------tot 102 636 767 1530 2996 12 ---- 6043
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Time to put the radios away and
vacation!
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DX Contest is over and now the shopping contest begins with W1DEB leading the charge
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Front Street - Philipsburg
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Great Bay Beach. Notice that the HT is at the ready!
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Philipsburg is only 3 blocks wide. In 2003 we stayed in the 3 story building in the center
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Philipsburg view from the Repeater site
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Marigot in foreground, Anguilla (VP2E) in distance
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Grand Case Boulevard
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Grand Case Beach, looking north towards Anguilla
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Lotsa’ barbecue chicken, ribs and lobster. What a feast!
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Orient Beach near sunset
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Where old New Jersey highway signs go to retire
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PJ7UQ and PJ7A ham shack location. Log periodic and dipole up on the hill
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View from PJ7A looking over Simpson Bay Lagoon, towards PJ7R Repeater site
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PJ7A Shack. Alpha amps repaired and back in service
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Home of PJ7R (146.76) and lotsa radio stations
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When this bridge in Simpson Bay goes up, you don’t go nowhere!
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Bye-bye at the airport: Mitch W1SJ and Mort PJ7UQ / FS5UQ / W1UQ
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Simpson Bay Yacht Club from the eye in the sky
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Bye-bye Sint Maarten / Saint Martin