The (J5C) team members, located near Paris have spent a lot of time to package the antennas, coaxial and guys, the four PA's and five transceivers. Are also in the box all the micellaneous pieces of gear, like connectors, solder and irons, measure gear, laptops and so on.
The laptops net and all interfaces have been controlled and tested, they all run well. The Cat systems are on also.

Frank F4AJQ, said me on Xmas Eve, he has in hand both licences and flight tickets.

Know they had to pay 4 licences; One for J5C, the official DXpédition call sign, and one for each operator's different nationalities (1 for F, OE and K)

And to answer some inquiries, the expedition callsign will be : J5C (Julliett five charlie)

They all regret Serge, F6AML's missing, They have all warm welcomed Jean Marc,F8IXZ who accepted to join them at the last moment.

They will depart from Roissy CDG on January 11th to Bissau, then transshipmenttowards Bubaque Island late in the afternoon.

Even with the great knowledge and skill about mounting antennas (Spiderbeams,verticals and wires) and settling stations, they gained in previous expeditions,it seem very difficult to expect the first signals before 1500 utc on January 12th.

The pilote stations, Thierry, F4TTR and Bruno, F5AGB, will look at these operations on real time and put the first signal on the air, directly on the various clusters (They will have just to play Enter on the keyboard).

During the expedition Pascal, F5JSD, will try to send information every day to be forwarded on Internet.

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Frank, F4AJQ, expedition leader and all of the crew members want to say Many Thanks, to all of you who sent donations, those who sent their contributions and encouragements ; thanks to all of those who signed our guest book, Your help is always very appreciated .

For other information, have a look on the bilingual French & English languages

J5C's website at : http://www.j5c.eu/

To all of our friends, have a nice end of 2007 and warm and best wishes for 2008

Rendez Vous from Guinée Bissau, January 12th to 21st.

For the J5C team

Maurice, F5NQL, Official Internet communications Officer for J5C