Story 49DX/E096 Story from 49DX/E096 activity. Myself and the family had holidayed at Es Cana resort a couple of times, I'd always fancied activating E-096 Es Cana island, we finally got around to it in 2009. A local boatman called Steve agreed to take us using his speedboat which he normally uses for fun things like pulling a bright yellow banana-boat or a long rope hoisting up tourists parascending, the date chosen was the 11th July. Equpiment packed and he was early at the meeting point, weather and sea conditions were absolutely perfect, all we needed now was good propagation. The ride on the speedboat was fun, landing on the rocky island wasn't too hard, within a few minutes Sean was erecting antenna and I was setting up the little iC706, pics / proofs were collected while the radio received on .555, the band seemed in good shape, with proofs done, time to press the PTT. " CQ this is 49Delta X-ray / ECHO 096 listening .570 ", on spinning the vfo to .570 I was met by a healthy pileup, first in the log inevitably was 47DX101 Mr. John, it was great fun working the mini pile-up, time was limited, after a couple of hours we'd worked over 180 friends, last in the log was 14GT337 Eric. Thanks to all which called in, see you from the next island. return