Yearly Archive 11/16/2017

NEWS UPDATE — We left on Monday, November 13 by car from Wroclaw to Berlin and spent the night in Berlin. Our flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle was at 6 AM the next morning. We were successful in our airport transfer in Paris within our narrow 3 hour time window. We were now home […]

PRESS RELEASE # 01 After 8 months of preparation, we are proud to announce a DXpedition to Macao (XX9) from March 9th, 2018 to March 17th, 2018. Although this DXpedition does not count on donations, participants will be supporting all costs for transporting 215 kgs of equipment, as well as costs with air tickets, accommodation, […]

Oliver, F6ARC will be QRV as FG/F6ARC from Guadeloupe (NA-102) between November 15-29, 2017 (focus on low bands – also active as a Single Op/Single Band entry on 15 meters during the CQWW CW contest with that callsign). Logs will be uploaded to LoTW and eQSL after return back home.

PZ5V will be operated by members of the Voodoo Contest Group from around Sunday, 19th November to Tuesday, 28th November 2017. Team members will be Ned/AA7A, Ray/G4FON, John/G4IRN, Lee/KY7M. Unfortunately Bud/N7CW has dropped out due to unforeseen circumstances. Web

Andy, DL3YM will be active from Entebbe, Uganda as 5X8B during the CQWW DX CW contest (Nov 25-26). Most likely QRV as SOAB LP. QSL via H/c, LotW.

9K2AI (5T2AI), A61M and A92AA will be active from Tidra island, AF-050 as 5T5TI between December 1-7, 2017. QSL via NI5DX. Note: UA4WHX was also active as 5T5TI in December 2016.

Fawaz, A92AA and Obaid, A61M will be active from Nouakchott, Mauritania as 5T1A & 5T1R between November 20 to December 20, 2017. QRV on HF bands. QSL via A92AA.

Latest news from J5T — We plan to reach the island on Monday 13th, in the morning. Operations will follow shortly, with the first station on RTTY.

ALBANIA AND KOSOVO in CQWW CW CONTEST   The Kosovar Amateur Radio Association, SHRAK with the National Association Radioamateurs of Albania, NARA are organizing a multi-multi effort from the coastal city of Durres in Albania.  Fehmi, Z62FB and Fatos, ZA1F are leading the team of locals plus their invited guests. Vjollca, Z61VB, the president of SHARK, observes that these exchange programs […]

Ilya, R3XA was active from Sri Lanka between October 23-30, 2017 as 4S7KLG. QSL via EA5GL.

Yasuhiko, JO1GWT/ KJ6ZHM is located near Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago and is again active as VQ9KA . He was previously QRV in September 2013. Activity on 40-10m, CW/SSB. QSL via JO1GWT. Length of stay unknown.

Willy, ON4AVT will be active from Mbour, Senegal as 6W/ON4AVT during February 2018. QRV on 20m CW, SSB & Digi. QSL via H/c.

Erik, LA2US is returning to Bear Island, Svalbard in early December and staying there for the next six months. QRV spare time as JW2US on HF bands, CW/Digi. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, Club Log OQRS.

LU1FM, LU2JCW, LU3FMD, LU6FOV, LU9FHF, KK6EK will be active from San Andres Island as 5K0T between November 12-25, 2017. Full info found here  

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 15 pages. You can download it here.

Hartwig, DL7BC says: I am planning to operate under TO2BC in the BARTG HF RTTY Contest on the weekend March 17th and 18th as well as on the following weekend March 24th and 25th in the CQ WPX SSB contest Before and after the contest I will be on the air as FY/DL7BC/p thanks to […]

Georg DK7LX is active from Bermuda as VP9/DK7LX until 21st November. Logsearch on his qrz.com page. Georg says he will improve antennas tomorrow and will be QRV on 40-15 CW, holiday-style.

Kuni JA8VE, Mat JA1JQY and Kaoru JA3MCA will be active from Nauru as C21VE, C21JY & C21MA between November 8-14, 2017. QRV on 80-10m, CW/SSB/RTTY. QSL via H/cs.

NEWS 2 @ 16:00 UTC: Material blocked until tomorrow morning! NOVEMBER 7 — We have not yet recovered the customs material. After multiple negotiations, it is possible that we have it at the end of the day. If this is the case, we have prepared large projectors to be able to work at night with the installation […]