November 2022

XT2AW Burkina Faso

30th November 2022

Harald XT2AW (DF2WO, 9X2AW, D44TWO) will be back in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

from the 4th to the 17th of December 2022.

He will be QRV on all bands including QO-100 Satellite by CW, SSB & FT4/FT8.

Harald says ”however, the main reason for the trip is to play Santa Claus and to bring happiness to the Children he visits.

Qsl via M0OXO

The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October (SSB) and November (CW) with the goal of making as many contacts with as many different DXCC entities and CQ Zones as possible.

The best place to find the participants announced for this Contest is on Bill NG3K’s website.

Please see the link below and enjoy the Contest;

https://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqc2022.html

VK9C – Cocos Keeling

11th November 2022

G0VJG, Nobby, is waiting for a VK9C callsign for an operation between the 17th & 24th February 2023 from the Cocos Keeling islands (IOTA OC-003)

Nobby will be using an FT857 and a Juma PA1000 amplifier on the 40 through 10m Bands on SSB and a little FT8 if required. The antennas will be a Butternut HF6V vertical and dipoles on the beach.

QSL via M0OXO

3YØJ Bouvet 2023 Flexible BandPlan

10th November 2022

We have updated our bandplan https://www.3y0j.no/bandplan

This will be our initial setup.

We will work closely together with our pilots and if we see that something is not working, we will do adjustments. Be rest assured that we will do these changes if needed.

(i) We will always keep lowest 10 kHz on regular bands and lowest 5 kHz on WARC bands clear to allow regular DX traffic. So you will never hear us calling CQ in that portion of the band.

(ii) CW split will be limited to 15 kHz spectrum

(iii) Phone split will be limited to 30 kHz spectrum.

Thus operator will chose a frequency within the spectrum and limit the split to max 15 kHz and 30 kHz respectively.

To note that

– 160m will be CW only.

– 80m will be CW/SSB

So no FT8 on 160/80m.