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Bruce, KD6WW & Mike, K9AJ plan to activate this rare IOTA counter.  The last operation from NA-207 was 18 years ago.

We hope to be on Fafarad Island on the evening (local time) of July 19.  We plan to be QRV until the morning of July 23.

We will have two stations QRV on 40m thru 17m.  CW will be our primary mode, but we plan some SSB and FT8 is a possibility.

Calllsigns will be KD6WW/VY0 and K9AJ/VY0.

QSLs are via the home call & we will use OQRS, direct w/ SASE and bureau.

Fafarad Island is grid EO92.

We anticipate support from IREF, otherwise this operation is self-funded. We welcome any additional support from the IOTA community.

Take, JI3DST will be active from Shodo (小豆島) Island, IOTA AS-200, 16 – 18 June 2018, as JI3DST/5.

He will operate on 40 – 6m CW, SSB.

QSL via home call buro preferred, ClubLog OQRS.

It has been very difficult to get mail in and out of Venezuela over the last year due to the politcal and financial climate in the country. Several attempts to get our bureau packages to the YV QSL Bureau failed with mail being returned as “Route suspended” however thanks to the help of the YV Bureau team we were able to route the mail via USA and this was picked up by the YV team.

The photo from YV4BCD, Juan shows that the cards from Tim M0URX and myself, Charles M0OXO finally got through to the Venezuela hams.

Thank you to all who helped!

VI70MI is a Special Callsign issued to Commemorate 70 years of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) for Macquarie Island, which since 1947 have served Australia in the south polar regions.

The first ANARE Expedition to Macquarie Island was in March 1947.

RA/VK3FY Russia

Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY currently qrv from UA4M Contest Station whilst visiting Russia for the World Cup.

Qsl via M0OXO OQRS

The first log for the EI DX Groups operations has now been received and is available on M0OXO OQRS. This particular log refers to EU-115, the Irish Main Island.

OQRS is open for requests but QSL Cards for this event won’t be sent until after the final activation at DX Feile on the Aran Islands (EU-006) in September. .

Harald (DF2WO) will be qrv from  Kigali, Rwanda later today.

He will be using various antennas and he hopes this new location will giove him less noise and a far better take off than he has had in previous visits.

Listen for Harald on CW (slow), SSB and Digital Modes (FT8 etc).

Qsl via M0OXO OQRS

Just a reminder that emails and busted call enquiries will be delayed this week.

I am attending the Ham Radio Fair in Friedrichshafen and will be travelling between 0300 Thursday the 31st May and not returning home until Tuesday the 5th of June.

All Busted Calls and Direct QSL requests have been completed and cards sent up to 0700 today so please be patient if you submit an enquiry during this period as it may not be answered as fast as usual.

Thanks for your patience, 73 de Charles

Hi pals!

Many of you can rememer the RI0B callsign sounding back in 2001 from Ushakova Island. Our team has decided to give this callsign a second breath. Moreover, one of our current team members (Andy Moiseev UA0BA) was the member of the old “Lost Islands” expedition too.