[LCC] The Mississippi Flooding and K5N

[Dan Edward Dba East edwards]

maybe there will be some new islands when this is all over ??
good luck, w5xz, dan

--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Marshall Williams <k5qe at sabinenet.com> wrote:

From: Marshall Williams <k5qe at sabinenet.com>
Subject: [LCC] The Mississippi Flooding and K5N
To: "Lousiana Contest Club" <lcc at louisianacontestclub.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 9:21 AM



  

    
  
  
    Hello to all....here is our "latest and
      greatest" announcement from K5N.  

      

      A NEW  ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE K5N GROUP:

      

      The K5N Activation group wishes to make the following
      announcement.  Please feel free to forward this to anyone that you
      think might be interested.  Thanks....the K5N Activation Group.

      

      

      ACTIVATING EL58 in 2011

      

      As you may know, the Mississippi River is currently undergoing
      "The Great Flood of 2011".  River heights are at record levels. 
      The peak of the flood will fall during the time that we had
      planned to be at EL58--or very close.  The team does not believe
      that traveling the river will be safe.  In addition, the island
      where we must setup may quite possibly be under water.  Burwood
      Island was only about 2 ft above the Gulf of Mexico when we were
      there in 2009.  Current river heights are running 3 ft above
      normal and rising.  None of us are prepared for a Scarborough Reef
      type expedition.  

      

      Hence, we are moving our DXpedition dates.  Here is the latest
      plan:

      

      June 29th    Team arrives in Venice, LA

      June 30th    Load the boats and leave for EL58.  We should be
      operational by 1PM or so

      July 1-3      Operate from EL58

      July 4th       Operate until 9AM.  Then the team will pack out and
      leave the island.

      

      For all  the details, please check out our new EL58 web page which
      may be accessed from the Grid Bandits home page
      (http://www.kcvhfgridbandits.com/) by clicking the DXpeditions
      button at the lower right.  Or, just go to
      http://kcvhfgridbandits.com/kc_vhf_grid_bandits_044.htm.  Also,
      please note the addition of Russ-KB8U of CM79 fame.  

      

      All email concerning this event should be addressed to
      k5n at bellsouth.net, NOT to our personal email addresses.   Team K5N
      wishes to apologize for having to change our plans again, but we
      believe that fighting the Mississippi River is probably a
      seriously losing proposition.  We believe that the water will be
      down to manageable levels by June 30th.  

      

      We hope to work everyone possible, so listen up for us.  Thank
      you.

      

      73 de N5OMG, KE5KDM, WN2E, N5YA, K5QE, KB8U, K5YG, W5TFW and N0IRS

      A Grid Bandits DXpedition

      

      END OF ANNOUNCEMENT

      

      Please understand that none of us wanted this change.  It was
      forced upon us by Mother Nature.  Getting agreement on these dates
      for all these people is hard enough--vacations have to be juggled,
      etc.  We are doing the best that we can....

      

      73 Marshall K5QE

    
  


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