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NEWS – Team at Gatwick airport soon departing for FP. Follow twitter updates @G7VJR / @M0BLF / @G3ZAY MAY 2, 2017 — Look for members of the Cambridge University Wireless Society to be active from St Pierre and Miquelon between September 18-22, 2017. QRV on HF bands, all modes. QSL via H/cs. Callsigns: FP/M0WUT, FP/M0BLF, […]

During the CQWW SSB DX contest (October 28-29), Dennis N0SMX (also VP2MMX) and George K2DM will be active from Montserrat as VP2MDG. QSL via LoTW.

DX TROPHY AWARDS GROUP announces a new a trophy: “TAYMYR ISLANDS“. Given for QSO/SWL report with 5-bronze / 9-silver / 13-gold various islands (IOTA groups) – by types of modulation: CW, SSB or MIX. Confirmation: scans of QSL cards or screenshots LOTW/Club Log. Plaque cost: $ 45 or 40 EURO. Questions and payment methods can […]

Guest post by Marc, DO4DXA More and more stations and DXpeditions are using the new FT8 mode. It’s a great mode, but operators have to learn how to work in a pileup properly. I don’t want to sound like I know better, but there has to be some improvement in the operating procedure when working DXpeditions […]

DX TROPHY AWARDS GROUP announces a new a trophy: “TAYMYR ISLANDS“. Given for QSO/SWL report with 5-bronze / 9-silver / 13-gold various islands (IOTA groups) – by types of modulation: CW, SSB or MIX. Confirmation: scans of QSL cards or screenshots LOTW/Club Log. Plaque cost: $ 45 or 40 EURO. Questions and payment methods can […]

A group of radio amateurs from India will be active from St Mary Islands, AS-096 as AT7M during September 30 – October 1, 2017. St. Mary’s Islands, also known as Coconut Island, is a small island group in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe in Udupi, Karnataka, India. The isles are known for […]

Henry, W2DZO will be active from Guantanamo Bay as KG4HH during October 6-9, 2017. QRV on 160-10m, SSB/CW, limited op times, SASE QSL direct.

Good day DX-World. I am starting to assemble a 5 band hexbeam in preparation for Oct/Nov CQWW contests. I will be in both SSB & CW this year. I should have it finished and up for testing by the end of this month. QSL Direct to K9AW and LoTW.  73 de Gary – J68GD

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 […]