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Just a reminder 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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Qsl Cards for the recent operation from AS-088 are now with the printer. It is unlikely they will be mailed to you before the January update…..but who knows

http://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/logsearch.php

Update 05/01/2017

……OC-202 rescheduled until later this year due to heavy seas..

…They will now activate Lubang Island OC-126, qrv 1300 UTC today but this time as DU1UD/p.

 Chris & Dindo hope to get onto Calagua tomorrow morning. As long as they manage to get the early boat and set-up goes according to plan, they aim to be qrv around 12midday tomorrow (5th). Please bear in mind they have been unable to recce this remote Island so things may change 😉   ………

Chris VK3FY, Nik VK3FNIK & Dindo DU1UD  will be active as DX8DX from Luzon Island IOTA OC-042 between 23rd to 29/12/2016 with the possibility of other IOTA’s in the same region (IOTA OC-130, IOTA OC-235 etc).

On the 6th, 7th & 8th January 2017 DX8DX will be qrv from the Calagua Islands IOTA OC-202, one of the Calagua Islands Group.

They will be qrv on 40-10M with limited activity on 80 & 160M using SSB and CW modes with the help of two small PA and Band Pass Filters.

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**Please DO NOT add cards for other activations (A70X) in the same envelope as this will slow down the processing of these cards for the IOTA January deadline.

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/

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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:

• Alan Ibbetson, G3XAQ
• Steve Wilson, G3VMW
• Fred Handscombe, G4BWP
• Bob Henderson, 5B4AGN
• Iain Kelly, M0PCB
• Neil Clarke, G6MC

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.

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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)

 QSL via M0OXO OQRS or Direct Post Mail.

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.

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