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FY/G3SXW - FY/G3TXF - French Guiana
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| Roger G3SXW and Nigel G3TXF made 6,216 QSOs (net) during a three-day CW-only operation from Kourou in French Guiana as FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF in June 2007. |
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80m
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40m
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30m
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20m
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17m
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15m
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12m
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10m
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All
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G3SXW |
G3TXF
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G3SXW |
G3TXF
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G3SXW |
G3TXF
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G3SXW |
BOTH
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118
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782
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1,294
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1,131
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1,148
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792
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673
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278
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6,216
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| French Guiana (FY) is a small piece of France (an overseas department - DOM) in the equatorial northern part of South America. |
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E-mail Bureau QSL requests:
FY/G3SXW :
FY/G3TXF:  |
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40m Pirate! FY/G3TXF was not QRV on 40m wkg JAs - sri!
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| Kourou in French Guiana at 5 degrees North is the location of the European Ariane rocket launch site. |
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| Roger G3SXW and Nigel G3TXF set off from Gatwick for French Guiana (FY) via Barbados (8P), St Lucia (J6) and Martinique (FM). |
The Hotel des Roches (complete with cell-site, satellite dish and the ubiquitous Guyanian toucan) in Kourou was the location. |
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| Dreyfus Tower was used to telegraph to the Iles du Salut, including Devil's Island. |
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FY/G3TXF's WARC band vertical as seen through the palm-trees behind the beach. |
Roger G3SXW attends to his E-mails using (somebody's) wi-fi at Barbados airport. |
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Roger FY/G3SXW operating with an Elecraft K2/100 transceiver and using Win-Test in DX-ped mode as the logging software. |
The Hotel des Roches beach provides a clear take-off (and a sea-path all the way) towards Europe for FY/G3TXF's WARC vertical. |
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FY/G3SXW and FY/G3TXF operated with two separate vertical antennas (HF6V and WARC) placed 30m apart along the beach. |
FY/G3TXF's beach mounted three-band WARC vertical at low-tide. The Kourou river joins the ocean here at the Pointe des Roches. |
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| The Hotel des Roches is directly on the beach. The HF6V 80m-10m vertical can just be seen by the smaller red door on left, and the shorter WARC band vertical is over on the right of the photo. |
The wide Kourou river joins the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred metres to the south of the Hotel des Roches. |
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