Amateur Radio Mini-Expedition to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada VY0 Land

This information is approximate.

The Expedition Is Over

Our Iqaluit Grid Square was FP53rs

Lyne VE3ASO was present for these QSOs and was a great deal of help during our little expedition, especially getting the antennas up and working, and helping us maintain a positive attitude under adverse conditions.

All contacts were on 20M USB. 40M was absolutely dead up there. Next time we will focus on the high bands only.

We used dipole antennas which favoured east and west. Unfortunately, this is not the best orientation when you are north of 60, but it was the best that we could do considering our digs and the environment. Next time I'd like to try a vertical, either roof top or car top. If someone would like to donate or sell (cheap) an ATAS-100, it would really be appreciated.

**Successful QSO's by VE3CVG/VY0**
UTC Date Time	Call	Name	Location	RS Sent	RS Rcvd
2000-09-21 0032	VE3XJ	Jim	Rockland, On, Canada	59	35
2000-09-21 0045	VA3WK	Manfred	Kanata, ON, Canada	48	33
2000-09-21 2320	EA3JE	Lou	Barcelona, Spain	59	59
2000-09-22 0215	WD8AHR	Brian	SE Wisconsin, USA	57	54
2000-09-22 0340	W7OG	John	Whitby Island, Washington, USA	59	59
2000-09-22 1120	GI4TUJ	Bill	Belfast, Ireland	58	46
2000-09-22 1120	VE3ILA	Lloyd	ON, Canada	55	46

**Successful QSO's by VE3NJK/VY0**
UTC Date Time	Call	Name	Location	RS Sent	RS Rcvd
2000-09-21 0038	VE8SMF	Stuart	Inuvik, NWT, Canada	57	43
2000-09-21 2326	EA3JE	Lou	Barcelona, Spain	59	59
2000-09-22 0230	WD8AHR	Brian	SE Wisconsin, USA	57	54

Intro:

Iqaluit is located on Baffin Island in Canada's north and is the capital of Canada's new territory, Nunavut. Baffin Island has the IOTA designator of NT-001. Note that Iqaluit is on CDT (Central Daylight Time) - strange but true. For more info on Iqaluit see the following web sites:

http://www.imagix-research.com/gocb/

http://www.arctictravel.com/chapters/destinations.html

http://www.arctictravel.com/maps/iqaluitmap.html