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CQWW CW 2022

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;

VK9C – Cocos Keeling

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

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.
 

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VP2MEI Montserrat

The EIDX Group who brought you 9N7EI, 5V7EI & 7Q7EI are delighted to formally announce definite plans for their
2023 DXpedition to Montserrat.
 
Operating roughly between 23rd March to the 2nd Of April 2023 , the VP2MEI team plan to run several stations across all bands from
160m through 10m on SSB, CW and Digital modes.
 
Website and more information to follow…
 

Bureau Mailing October 2022

QSL cards have been posted to 82 World Bureaus – Monday 24th October 2022
This mailing is a joint mailing between M0OXO Charles & M0URX Tim. (also thanks K3ZO Fred)
I would very much appreciate feedback from you when the QSL cards start arriving at World Bureaus or received by hams around the world? 

This mailing had been delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions. Also due to issues caused by the World Customs Organisation regulations.

The parcels are sent by Priority Business Mail to get to the Bureaus quickly.

Total amount of QSL cards dispatched: 16,607 
Via M0URX 9,476,  Via M0OXO 7,131. 
,Total Weight: 67.240 kgs
Total Shipping Cost: £355.59 – £5.29 per kg. (gross weight)

Average postage cost 2.14p per QSL card. Dispatch listed below in grams to each destination.

See more detailed information by clicking the link below

https://www.m0oxo.com/category/bureau-posting-news/

VK5TIL Troubridge Island, Australia

Australian operators VK5PAS (Paul), VK5MAZ (Marija), VK5FR (Chris), VK2YK (Adam), VK5LA (Andy) and VK5HS (Ivan) have announced their plans to operate VK5TIL from Troubridge Island, South Australia. (OC-139) on February 7, 8 and 9 2023.

Please visit their website for more information.

https://www.troubridgeisland.com

QSL via M0OXO, LoTW and eQSL.

J28MD Djibouti

With less than 25 days left to the Mediterranean DX Club’s new venture to Djibouti, we have a renewed request to assist in funding. Soon they will be on the air as J28MD and as always will produce some serious noise on the bands fulfilling many of your Band slots.
 
With the huge increases in the cost of Flights, Accommodation and Currency fluctuations they would like to access our community & friends to assist them with costs by way of donations. Any donation however small is welcome!
 
Please check our website for further information www.mdxc.org/j28md
 
Thank you (OBO) MDXC…
 

M0OXO Out of Office

I am away from home on a family vacation until the 8th October 2022. During this period, you will get a brief response to your email, although responses will not be as fast as usual. Please see the advice below relating to my status which may help you during this period;

All Qsl Cards that arrived or were requested before 12.00UTC 17th September have now been mailed apart from some of those listed below (some that haven’t arrived from the Printer yet).

Logs will be updated and Qsl Card requests can be requested as usual during this period but LOTW & QSL mailing will not be possible until I get home.

Busted/Missing Call checks will be processed as normal, please use the ‘Not In Log’ form on OQRS ONLY! Email & Social Media requests are highly discouraged.

7X4CZ, 9K2GR, GB22*, VE3KTB/VY0 (NA-009) & VK0MQ cards have not arrived from the Printer as yet, hopefully they will be here ready to be mailed on my return from vacation.
VP8TAA – No Logs or photo’s received to date and unable to proceed with QSL work at the moment.

Thank you for your attention and I apologise for any inconvenience.

73 de Charles M0OXO

XT2AW Log errors

Harald XT2AW is now QRT from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. His full and final log is now available on M0OXO OQRS where you can search his log and request any QSL Cards you may require.

LOTW is uploading now.

https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/logsearch.php?dxcallsign=xt2aw

**Please be aware of a problem with the online log. Harald in error merged both his XT2AW Log and 9X2AW FT8/FT4 logs in error and this log was uploaded to OQRS. Please don’t send me any more emails saying ”My PC has broken, please send me details of the extra QSO’s in the Log”.

DON’T LIE, BE GENUINE and NOT DISHONEST!

There are no extra QSO’s in his log that you didn’t log, you simply did not work him, the extra QSO’s are from you contacts with 9X2AW.

It is impossible to remove these QSO’s from the log at the moment. There are over 8,000 QSO’s that need to be manually and individually removed which will take a long time and I am currently away from home.