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Contesting Curacao is also the home of world famous contesting station PJ2T of the Curacao Contesting Consortium.
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Contesting Curacao is also the home of world famous contesting station PJ2T of the Curacao Contesting Consortium.
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The Caribbean Contesting Consortium is a
contest club dedicated to fun, international friendship, and advancement
of the contesting art through superior operating technique and maximum
application of technology. CCC's roots are in the 1994 VP5VW CQWW CW
Multi-Multi expedition organized by Don Karvonen, K8MFO. Three years
later, many of the same operators returned to Providenciales and operated
as VP5FOC. In 1997, the group was named and somewhat formalized by Geoff
Howard, W0CG (now PJ2DX), who then organized contest expeditions for
VP5FXB, VP5CW, PJ2C, and KP2F. In mid-2003 PJ2T held a World #1 win in
each of last season's CQWW, ARRL DX, and WPX contests. Winner's plaques
are gradually being added to our trophy case, with hopefully many more to
follow.
In 2000, PJ2T was fortunate to acquire the famous Curacao QTH of PJ9JT,
and now honor the long contesting history of that place by maintaining a
superstation and supertradition of contesting from there. We're calling it
Signal Point, and use the call PJ2T in recognition of the long tradition
of excellence established by CQ Contest Hall of Famer John Thompson,
W1BIH. PJ2T became an ARRL affiliated club in February, 2003.