Harald, DF2WO (also-D44TWO) will again be active as XT2AW from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso between November 17 to December 2, 2014.
QRV on CW & SSB.
QSL via M0OXO OQRS preferred. Please DO NOT send your cards via the bureau, they are not required and may not arrive here.
Please use OQRS for ALL bureau requests where possible.
In recent years there have been authentic reports from the scientific community that Berkner Island is an ice-rise and that no part of the land-mass under it would be above water if there were no ice. This seems to have gathered credence with map-makers as the considered view of the scientific community. Faced with information that confirms that the ice-rise does not meet IOTA’s qualification rules as a valid island IOTA Management have taken the decision to withdraw AN-014 from the IOTA list with immediate effect before any further operation takes place. The few existing credits will be withdrawn no later than 1 January 2015.
Michael G7VJR will be in Australia over the Christmas period.
Whilst there, he has arranged a short stop over on Norfolk Island IOTA OC-005. Michael will use the Callsign VK9/G7VJR.
Qsl will be via M0OXO (OQRS preferred). Your Qsl Cards are NOT required so please do not send them via the bureau.
Each year M0OXO dispatches bureau cards to all World IARU Bureaus every three months, the recent dispatch this week was our third one in 2014 so it is time to give you our report for the year.
In 2014 I have once again worked with Tim M0URX in our bureau posting, this helps us both keep down our outgoing expenses. 31,260 bureau QSL cards have been dispatched this year. All our packages are sent using online business account with Royal Mail, we use several products on the account to best suit the size and weight of the item. All of the packages are sent by Business Mail Priority so that we can be sure that they reach their destination as fast as possible and at a cost that is the most competitve in the industry.
It is very important to remember that bureau cards are NOT free, it actually costs us a considerable amount of money every year which has to be financed by the work that we do here, that is why direct cards cost $2, that is why i do not accept stamps.
The RSGB are in the process of doing a “Bureau Review” in which we have been asked to pay more for the incoming bureau service that we have from the RSGB Bureau. At this stage we are still waiting to hear from the RSGB as to how much this is going to cost. So this is a good time to remind you that for ALL DXpeditions you should NOT send incoming bureau cards to us as they are not required, they cost us money to receive them. You must always use OQRS where possible to request your DXpediton IOTA & DXCC bureau cards. This will save us a considerable amount of money and time, and you will get your bureau cards very quickly.
Thank you to all the bureau staff at the IARU bureaus, we value your work very much. There are some that are giving outstanding service, notably the Venezuealan bureau where members informed us that cards had arrived in just 24 days after we had posted them. Thank you.
Using OQRS for direct QSL cards is the fastest and best way to request your QSL cards and this will help us fund our outgoing bureau for the future. Any donations are most welcome of course… Thank you.
Tonight, around 40 operators and guests crammed into the Shag Valley Station’s historic shearers quarters recreation room, transformed into a three station HF operation shack, to experience the unreal experience of the re-enactment of Frank Bell’s original contact with Cecil Goyder at Mill Hill School in London.
Among the guests were the current land-owners and hosts, Johnny Bell and his family, 5th and 6th generation Bell’s on the station.
As the operating team anxiously watched the Greyline simulator on the computer, initial contact was made on 20m with reception, once a clear frequency was found, excellent. This lead to what was the highlight of the evening – Ian at Mill Hill School put two students on the microphone and at our end, Frank Bells great-grand children, Henry and Lucy (Photo left) took the microphone and very quickly got “the lingo” much to the delight of the assembled audience. Maybe Branch 30 has two more budding members?
Meanwhile, Ken ZL4NR had tuned up the second rig on 80m while Mike ZL4OL operated and as the Grand-children finished their QSO’s, he quietly announced to the gathering – worked them! The headphone plug was then pulled and the gathering was able to listen to 2SZ working many stations.
To see the latest photos and President Dave Mulder, ZL4DK’s report on tonights events go to http://www.zl4aa.org.nz/tonight-at-shag-valley/
With the addition of more antenna to the already extensive aerial farm, ZL4AA is now active on 160m, 80m, 40m, 30m, 20, 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m, 70cm (National System) and 2m IRLP Node 6507 via Dunedin 690 and 6675, local area STSP.
This is the latest message from ZL2CC on site
Hi guys,
for technical reasons we had to run SSB on 80m last night (Wednesday) so we have changed the schedule;
Tonight Thursday we will be CW
Friday we will be SSB and
Saturday for the 90th Anniversary we will be CW
There was some discussion last night about running a split but so far, the team have been running without Tx/Rx splits. They are now running three HF rigs so can be working up to 3 bands at the same time.
Most of the time, up to 7 or 8 operators are available at any one time so expect a range of voices on the air – the log of operators who had been on air up until last evening is, Ken ZL4NR, Mike ZL2CC, Mike ZL4OL, Pete ZL4SA, Alan ZL4FM, Ron ZL4RMF, John ZL4RO, Adam ZL4ASC, Bill ZL2AYB, Lindsey ZL4KS, and Club President, Dave ZL4DK. My apologies if I have missed anyone.
And of course a large group behind the scenes whose main interest has been in helping get the whole event on the air, without them nothing would ever have happened.
73
Martin ZL4JH for the organising committee
MX0LDG IOTA DXpedition to Isles of Scilly EU-011 this week are using the new 7 Band Broadband Hexbeam by MW0JZE Anthony.
The 7 band Hexbeam includes a 40m element. The team will be using this antenna on 40m so please listen for them and work them from wherever you are in the World, Anthony would very much appreciate genuine signal reports on this band.
You can read more about the MW0JZE 7 Band Hexbeam 40m – 6m by clicking on the link.
The team very much look forward to working you all on Isles of Scilly, St Mary’s Island.
The team have no internet so logs will be uploaded after the DXpediton.
QSL Via M0URX Direct & (Bureau OQRS only). Please do not send us any bureau cards for this activity.
Andorra
Algeria 1
Argentina 17
Aruba
Australia 23
Austria 209
Belarus 13
Belgium 189
Bosnia Herzegovenia 33
Brazil 41
Bulgaria 83
Canada 50
Chile 3
China 22
Colombia 3
Costa Rica
Croatia 114
Cuba 7
Cyprus 5
Czech Republic 400
Denmark 70
Estonia 15
Faroe Islands 1
Falkland Islands 1
Finland 141
France 467
Germany 1,543
Georgia
Greece 73
Honk Kong 4
Hungary 102
Iceland 7
India 2
Indonesia 4
Italy 1,022
Ireland 22
Israel 20
Japan 1,948
Jordan
Kazakhstan 23
Kuwait 1
Latvia 39
Liechtenstein 1
Lithuania 36
Luxembourg 4
Macau
Macedonia 2
Malta 3
Malaysia 1
Mexico 6
Moldova 5
Monaco
Netherlands 266
New Caledonia
New Zealand 14
Norway 66
Oman
Panama 1
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland 608
Portugal 33
Qatar 1
Romania 71
Russian Fed 1,333
Serbia 58
Singapore 3
Slovenia 206
Slovakia 122
South Africa 1
South Korea 44
Spain 540
Sri Lanka
Sweden 90
Switzerland 79
Taiwan 32
Thailand 2
Turkey 8
Ukraine 456
United Kingdom 300
Uruguay 3
USA
W0 – 67
W1 – 77
W2 – 86
W3 – 95
W4 – 70
WW4 – 48
W5 – 51
W6 – 51
W7 – 73
W8 – 59
W9 – 75
WP3 – 4
WL7- 3
WH6 – 3
Venezuela 118
On 18th October 1924, the first radio communication contact between the UK and New Zealand took place between (G)”2SZ” at Mill Hill School, the station operated by Cecil Goyder, and (Z)4AA in Shag Valley, South Island, New Zealand, operated by Frank Bell.
Commemorative stations of ”ZM90DX” & ”GB2NZ” have been qrv for quite a while but from 11th to 18th October two other callsigns will be active, ”ZL4AA” from Shag Valley New Zealand and ”2SZ” from Mill Hill School in the UK.
Qsl for all four Callsigns is via M0OXO (OQRS preferred).
Chris VK3FY will be qrv from Phillip Island IOTA OC-136 (Victoria State Centre group) in the coming days.
This will be a short operation for around 24 hours and is expected between Friday evening 10th and Sunday morning 12th October local time.
Phillip Island, Australia is about 140 km (87 mi) south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria. Named after Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, Phillip Island forms a natural breakwater for the shallow waters of Western Port. It is 26 km (16 mi) long and 9 km (5.6 mi) wide, with an area of about 100 km2 (39 sq mi). It has 97 km (60 mi) of coastline and is part of the Bass Coast Shire.
Qsl via M0OXO (OQRS Preferred)
