March 5, 2008
Spratly Island DXpedition
http://www.n1urspratly.com/
The DXpedition will begin approximately
0800Z on March 22, 2008.
Expected shutdown will be 0000Z March 30, 2008.
There will be a station on 160M or 80M CW from 1030Z – 1300Z
and
2100 – 2300Z daily. At other times in darkness we will be
varying bands
and times.
February 9, 2008
Our very good friend Javier, HR2J, has
worked hard to set up a DXpedition to Swan Island under the call
HQ8R. Further information is available at
http://www.hondurasdx.com/
They need sponsors anything is most
welcome one dollar on up whatever you think you can spare to
help our good friend and HQ8R's DXpedition
December 19, 2007
It is a new one (FJ) St. Barthelemy
The ARRL DXCC Desk is pleased to announce the addition of St
Barthelemy (FJ) to the DXCC List, making the island entity
number
338 with an effective date of 14 December, 2007. Cards with
contacts dated December 14, 2007 or after will be accepted for
DXCC credit.
New card submissions for St Barthelemy will not be accepted
until January 1, 2008 in order to allow time for administrative
adjustments.
The "event date" that caused St. Barthelemy to be added to
the DXCC list was December 14, 2007, the date the US State
Department Fact sheet was updated by the Bureau of Intelligence
and Research. This update added St Barthelemy to the List of
Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty with its
Administrative Center in Gustavia, qualifying it under DXCC
rules in Section II -- 1 Political Entities (c).
French St Martin (FS), while also added to the List of
Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty, will remain on
the DXCC List, but it is now considered a Point 1 Political
Entity under the same classification as that of St Barthelemy.
Please direct any questions you may have about St Barthelemy,
St Martin or the DXCC program to the ARRL DXCC Desk at,
dxcc@arrl.org.
December 18, 2007
Possible New One.
DXpeditioners
have been monitoring the status of St. Barthelemy (FJ) for
several months. Immediately after the addition of St.
Bart’s to the United States State Department’s
Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty
list an initial two man seasoned DXpedition team flew to the
Caribbean this past weekend.
The team
instantly discovered a transportation shutdown on St. Bart's as
flights and ferry passage to the new counter were shut down due
to local strikes. The team then hired a local private boat
for transportation to Gustavia, the islands capital city.
 OH2BH,
Martti Laine, and OH0XX/HP1WW, Olli Rissanen, will be the first
two operators of the team and are now in the process of building
up two stations. Depending on conditions, operator’s
schedules and how things go the operation could continue even
into the Christmas
 holidays.
The team wishes to give those who Deserve another DXCC counter a
most welcome Christmas present as they wish to pass their
jubilant greetings far away from their family’s Christmas
preparations and to close another DX year the way we all like it
best.
The team plans
to begin activity today, Tuesday December 18th around
1200 noon local (1600Z) as FJ/OH2AM. They will have two
stations, using an FT-1000MP and FT2000MP along with Fin Fet
amplifier. Initial operations will begin on 20 meters SSB
and 17 meters CW. The goal of this operation will be to
give as many DXers as possible a new country. Additional
bands may be added as the DXpedition goes forward.
Concentration will be to have one station on CW and one on SSB.
QSL cards for this operation should go via OH2BN.
October 22, 2007
TX5C Clipperton Atoll
Clipperton will be active this coming March 2008 please
click on the link below for more information.
http://www.clipperton2008.org/
October 8, 2007
VP6DX - Ducie Island February 2008
The team is still very busy preparing the equipment for a
shipment in November. Click on the link below to see more
information on the upcoming DXpedition.
http://www.vp6dx.com
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