Monthly Archive 09/14/2017

NEWS UPDATE by ZD7VDE/G0VDE You may remember I sent you notification of my planned DXpedition to ZD7 St Helena over a year ago. I had to cancel my trip due to commercial fights not starting as planned. Well, they are finally starting on 14th October 2017 and I am hoping to be on the first […]

Victor, WB0TEV will again be QRV as V31VP on 80-10m (mostly SSB and RTTY) from the Maya Hill Lodge ham shack in Blackman Eddy, Belize during the CQ WW DX Contest, RTTY (Sep 23-24, 2017). QSL via Club Log, buro, or direct to WB0TEV.

An Argentinian team featuring LU3YK, LU5FF, LU7VB, LU7YS, LU8YD and LU9VEA will be active from San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands as HC8LU between November 29 to December 8, 2017. QRV on 160-6m; SSB, JT65, FT8, PSK31 + SAT. More info here

Dima, RA9USU was active from Libya as 5A5A in April this year. You can find detailed info on his activity from Tripoli here

Champ, E21EIC will be QRV from Laos as XW1IC on Sep 21-25, 2017. Active 80m-6m and will QRV in CQ WW RTTY Contest. Maybe Single op 20M category.  QSL request via Club Log, Paper QSL via E21EIC and LoTW.

Here’s the very latest FREE DX-World Weekly Bulletin written by Bjorn, ON9CFG. As always, it’s packed full of info. This week it runs to 16 pages. You can download it here.

NEWS UPDATE — We do apologize to inform all that the DXpedition to St Maarten PJ7T is suspended. Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of infrastructure on the island and it will impossible to arrive and live there for a long time. By this, we change the destination to San Andres Island and we are obtaining the […]

Jeremy EI5GM, Dave EI9FBB and Col MM0NDX have been issued with the Liberian callsigns EL2GM, EL2BB and EL2EL. It’s their plan to use these calls after the 5L3BI activity from the LRAA (Liberia Radio Amateur Association) in Monrovia, probably on November 3rd. However, if due to bad weather / sea conditions we cannot land on […]

PRESS RELEASE #3 — SEPTEMBER 13, 2017. The wet season is in full force in Liberia this year. This makes any road travel tricky and potentially dangerous which in-turn has so far prevented Richmond EL2BG and Dickson EL2DT from making a 2nd recce trip to Baiyah island. The images shown depict current road conditions on […]

Brian, N3OC and Bud, AA3B will be active from Antigua as V26OC and V26K between September 13-20, 2017. QRV on HF bands + 6m. QSL via H/cs.

The time has come to tell you of the launch of the new IOTA website www.iota-world.org and the software system that in future will run the IOTA Programme. The Big Day will be 14 September. In preparation to moving IOTA to its new website we are disabling user logins on the RSGB IOTA website at […]

Rich, N0HJZ will be back on Grand Bahama Island (NA-080) as C6ARW from October 23 – November 1, 2017. He will also be competing full-time in the CQWW DX SSB Contest as a single-operator, all-band, low power entrant. Operation outside the contest will be on WARC bands, as well as on Phone & CW on […]

Bruce, AA4XR (3W3B) is returning to Vientiane, Laos and will be active again as XW4XR between October 12-24, 2017. QRV on 60-10m, CW/RTTY/FT-8. QSL via E21EIC/LoTW.

NEWS UPDATE — Haru, JR4OZR will be active as A35W during the CQWW RTTY DX Contest (Sep 23-24, 2017). QSL via JJ2VLY, LoTW. JANUARY 28, 2017 – Thanks to Yutaka JQ2GYU for sending the images from A35W. Hi DX-World! I am pleased to announce that JE1CKA (Tack), JJ2VLY (Miho), and JQ2GYU (Yutaka) will be active […]

Look for Mike KB8KB and Jim K8JH to be active from Aruba as P40M & P40N between September 27 to October 3, 2017. QRV on HF bands, FT8, SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via H/cs.

The Association des Radio Amateurs Tunisiens, ARAT, is pleased to announce that the Tunisian Ministry of Telecommunications has finally approved the law organizing amateur radio licensing in Tunisia. It will now be possible for all Tunisian Hams to have their own individual licenses like all other hams in the world. It’s been a long journey […]

QRV between 18 and 24 September. Team: ON4ANN – ON4CCV – ON5PDV – ON2BDJ – ON4ACP – ON6MI -ON8CW– ON4AAQ. Special attention 160 -80 – 40 & 30M, SSB, CW, DIGI. Equipment : Spiderbeams, Verticals, Inverted-L for 160 M, RX antenna’s. QSL via M0URX.

Konstantin R7KF will be active from Beringa Island AS-039 as RI0ZF between September 16-22, 2017. Dates are very tentative and depend on weather. This is not a DXpedition, but he will try to make some CW/SSB activity mainly on 20m and 30m using 100 watts/simple antennas and using paper log. QSL via R7KF bureau or […]

NEWS UPDATE – At 16:06UTC today another massive X flare occurred – this time an X8.2 again from sunspot AR2673. Radio blackouts immediately happened. X8.2-Flare NOW! Big #hamradio blackout, #GPS & #satellite phone issues next 2hrs, especially USA, Europe. #Hurricane #Irma #RedCross impact! pic.twitter.com/giPL1K8JRR — Dr. Tamitha Skov (@TamithaSkov) September 10, 2017 The X8.2 solar […]

NEWS UPDATE – E6AG website now up and running. JUNE 25 — This will be a one man holiday style Dxpedition with family, and so operating will be at times limited. I will try and plan some days when I will definitely be active (working around solar storms etc if needed) and publicise them at […]