A reminder that the Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS) will be active starting from 01-7 January 2017 from Al-Safliyah Island AS-088 on all bands as A70X.
The operators are A71AM, A71AV, A71BI, A71EM, A71GO, A75GM, A75GT, E76AA, E78AA, EI5GM, EI9FBB & MM0NDX.
IOTA AS-088 has not been activated in 20 years and less than 1% of chasers have claimed this island group since 2008.
A70X Website can be found here https://asia088.com/
Please QSL ONLY via M0OXO OQRS or M0OXO by Direct Post Mail.
Just a reminder for today and the next few days….
Gil F4FET, Antoine F5RAB & others will be active from Cezembre Island EU-157 as between December 26-28, 2016.
They will be QRV as TM1CEZ with 3-4 stations QRO, 80-10m; CW/SSB/RTTY.
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We’re pleased to announce that a team of six English operators will be travelling to Ghana in March 2017 and will operate on all modes as 9G5X using three Elecraft K3 and KPA-500 stations. We already have the 9G5X licence in hand and believe this is the first single letter suffix issued to a 9G DXpedition.
We will have two Spiderbeams up high on the hotel roof for HF, a variety of LF aerials using 18m and 12m Spiderpoles, plus two Beverage RX antennas for 160 and 80m. The operating QTH is approximately 1,000 ft a.s.l., with a clear take off to EU, NA and Asia, all set in 5 acres of sloping grounds. We will be QRV on all bands 160m to 10m and active on CW, SSB and RTTY.
The experienced operating team, which includes three of the recent C5X DXpedition crew members, is as follows:
This is a fly-in, fly-out operation and is entirely self-funded. We will not be asking for donations and our aim is to activate a semi-rare country for the sheer fun of it. There is a reliable 3G Internet connection at the operating site and we hope to upload logs to Clublog at least twice every day.
9G5X will have the Clublog Leaderboard function turned ‘on’, and we encourage everyone to work us on as many bands and modes as possible. We all enjoy pile-ups and we will always work split-frequency, but endeavour to keep the pile-up spread as narrow as possible.
Our QSL Manager, Charles Wilmott, M0OXO will upload logs to LoTW on a daily basis. Charles will offer OQRS facilities for 9G5X cards, either direct or via the Bureau.
QSL via M0OXO OQRS or Direct Post Mail.
Today I received this information from Leo YC9MLL;
“I have also bought tickets already for Flores Island IOTA OC-151. I will be on air there most probably on January 18-19 7 21st 2017 and then again on the 22, 24 & 25th January 2017.
I will also be qrv in July 2017 again on the same days 21-22 & 24th.
I will be running 100W mostly on 21 MHz around the IOTA calling freq. or at any clear freq. near it. I will try to operate split for better results. I have also 14MHz segment in Indonesia so I may also try that band and 7MHz also if I have a long bamboo pole available. It was not previously planned to be there but it is a great surprise to be allowed to be back.”
(I am mailing out a 12m Spiderbeam Pole to Leo so I hope this will be better than his ‘bamboo pole’…73 de Charles)
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I am pleased to welcome Saif Alkhayarin A71AM in to the M0OXO Qsl Service.
Saif is a member of the Qatar Amateur Radio Society based in Doha, Qatar and has several Callsigns including A71SS & and A73A his Contest Call.
All logs have now been loaded into the M0OXO Logsearch & OQRS system and QSL Cards will be available in the next few weeks.
QSL via M0OXO OQRS or Direct Post Mail.
TL8AO
All Direct requests have been sent today along with the GDXF bulk mailing.
They should hit your mailboxes later this week (UK tomorrow).
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Published on the IOTA website today;
Although increases in charges are never welcome, we have come to the conclusion that we have no alternative but to revise some of them upwards to cover increased costs that we are having to meet, following recent significant currency exchange variations in the financial markets.We are faced also with a continuing small shortfall in the Friends of IOTA Appeal funds to meet the cost of the IT project to rewrite the programme software.
This project will revolutionise the way that IOTA credits can be obtained by allowing QSO matches from your log with islanders’ logs on Club Log. This must provide huge financial savings for award chasers. The more than 50% increase in applications since the introduction of a degree of this on the existing IT system has made us confident that by taking on this major development we are meeting the wishes of a large section of the IOTA community. Finally, any newly formed company needs working capital and we have very little of this at the moment.
Participants who have been waiting for the 1000 Islands Trophy will be pleased to know that from January onwards we will be in a position to supply as we have identified a source and placed a major order. The list of charges applying from 1 January 2017 can be seen here.
G3KMA, 13 Dec 2016
Great news from DX World is keeping us guessing 😉
”DX-World has learned that a major IOTA DXpedition to a brand new island group is being planned for mid-2017. Up to six operators will stage this activity with 3-4 days on air from the island.
The group has been listed in every past and current edition of the IOTA Directory but never before activated….Stay tuned for more details in early 2017”
…..I am hoping I need it 😉
