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Spratly Dxpedition getting nearer…..

9th November 2010

With only 60 days to go until DX0DX hits the amateur bands, the DXpedition Team Leader, Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY & DU8/VK3FY has announced it will be extended to allow participation in the CQ World Wide 160m CW Contest.

He says while DX0DX was to go QRT on the 24th January, a couple of individual and keen members have asked if they could stay on air for that contest when ends at 2200 UTC Sunday the 30th of January. This will now extend DX0DX activation to 1st of February, 2011. This limited extension was agreed in light of strong interest from Top Band contesters and the 160m band being the highest sought after in the DX0DX website online survey.

DX0DX will be on air from the 6th of January and now through to the 1st of February, 2011.

EPC Contest – Country Winner 2010

2nd November 2010

This certificate arrived today for this Years EPC DX Contest back in May of this year.

I achieved tenth place overall in my category (SO20-HP single operator, 20M only, High power) which gave me the Country Winner for ‘G’ (673 stations submitted logs for the Contest).

This Year the Contest changed mode and PSK-63 (faster than PSK-31) was the only mode allowed.

XX9 Macau – ‘new one’ on RTTY…

25th October 2010

After 30 minutes in the huge pile-up today i was pleased to log XX9TLX, (Georg DK7LX) in Macau. He was a great signal and gave me a new one on 15M RTTY at 0830UTC.
Macau is a city on the southern coast of China. It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xijiang (West River) on the west.
Macau is situated 60 km west of Hong Kong and 145 km southwest of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. It is immediately adjacent to the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone.
Lets hope for some more new slots on 10 &12m whilst propagation is favourable and in the run up to CQWW SSB this coming weekend.

UK team hits the Seychelles this week….

25th October 2010

Michael G7VJR along with G3NKC, G4XUM and G4BWP are teaming up in the Seychelles as S79K
for the CQWW SSB contest this coming weekend.

They hope to upload the log to Clublog afterward, if the web access from the island is good enough.They plan to do a bit of CW before the big SSB
affair, and have some “interesting antenna arrays” planned too. Michael, `VJR, says,

“Chances are good you’ll hear us, if we’ve got it right!”

Qsl Cards to RSGB Bureau

25th October 2010

Latest batch of Qsl Cards to the RSGB bureau yesterday were:-

GB2WHL – 220 and
G4RCG 180

New WFF Award released…

22nd October 2010

Released this week is the new award from the GFF Team.

The ENA ( Explorer Of Nature Award) (click image) is available to those of you who ‘activate’ the WFF areas rather than ‘chasing’ them.

The Award is offered to anyone who activates 10 WFF Areas anywhere in the World and is free of charge (other than a small cost for postal services).

Qsl Cards are not required just a list of areas is OK.

New WFF areas – Logs uploaded…

22nd October 2010

Sent to the EW4DX Logsearch this morning are logs for my 2008 trip to ‘Les Minquiers’ Islands, IOTA EU-099 WFF GJFF-011 (**new).

GB8LMI log contained just under 5000 unique callsigns and MJ0X (IOTA Contest) there were approximately 2000 logged.

I hope these uploads please a lot of you and give you the valuable new one from GFF!

Please also check out the new WFF ENA Award released this week!

Japan on 10M SSB……surely not?

20th October 2010

sounded even stronger. After clearing with John it was the moment of pleasure (if VK’s weren’t enough ) when I heard Nori (JA4EPE) calling from Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. We had a short exchange of the usual details and there it was, my first ever Qso with Japan on 10m, FB old man! After a few minutes another call this time from Trevor (VK4ZFC) from St. Kewarra Bch, Cairns, Northern Queensland, Australia (photo above). He came across with a nice signal but within seconds Qsb arrived and the band was changing. After clearing with Trevor, my old friend Paul (HS0ZIN) called from Chonburi in Thailand (originates from Leeds) and the strongest I have ever heard him. I exchanged reports with Dave (5B4AHL) and a few other Russian stations before it ended, that was it, ‘qsl card day’ had to re-commence!

Explorer Of Nature Award (ENA )

19th October 2010

”LET’S SAVE THE GREEN PLANET EARTH”

UK & IRELAND FLORA FAUNA

EXPLORER OF NATURE AWARD (ENA)

…..for WFF Activators

You must activate 10 WFF reference numbers,

anywhere in the World

Band / Mode endorsements on request

The Claimant does not have to produce Qsl Cards to claim the Award but all the contacts

must be shown in the log

search at http://www.ew4dx.org/WFFsearch.html .

(If you are not in the LogSearch and think you should be, please contact me by email )

The Award is free of charge but I do ask that the amount below is paid to cover cost

of postage and hard backed envelope :

€6.00 Euro

** If you wish to use IRC’s instead of the above, then the IRC’s

must be the ‘new’ IRC’s with Expiry 2013 (sample below).

IRC’s with ‘Expiry 2009’ will no longer be accepted.

Please send EW4DX GCR List and above fee to Award Manager:-

Charles R. Wilmott

60 Church Hill,

Royston,

Barnsley,

South Yorkshire

ENGLAND S71 4NG

OR

Check out the other Awards available from the GFF Team : Click Name to learn more

GFF World Flora Fauna (GFF III) Award Class III – Bronze

GFF World Flora Fauna (GFF II) Award Class II – Silver

GFF World Flora Fauna (GFF I) Award Class I – Gold

GFF GreenDay (GDWW) Award – 2009

GFF GreenDay (GDWW) Award – 2010

GFF Honour Roll (HRA) Award

”LET’S SAVE THE GREEN PLANET EARTH”

ZD9AH – Gough Island / Tristan Da Cunha

19th October 2010

Well, probably the last in the UK but pleased to say I bagged ZD9AH for all time new DXCC and IOTA.

DL2AH is active as ZD9AH from Gough Island (IOTA AF-029) until the 6 December 2010. 12m has been the band to go for over the last few days with very strong signals here in the UK. Sadly due to strong winds and other things (JARTS Contest) have made it impossible for me to have a bash until today.

Ulli was working split today and I managed to get him in the log after only 3 calls. I was very suprised as Qsb was very fast and heavy and at the appropriate time he was only 3/3 here when he replied. Anyway, a new one in the bag, thanks Ulli! …………also got him on 10M SSB at 1300 local!