Rene Schmidt, DF9GR will be active again from Bolivia until the 20th of August, 2011 with the call CP6/DF9GR.
He will be operating on 80-10m CW , SSB, PSK and RTTY.
9M6XRO e 9M6DXX will be operating from Bali Island (IOTA OC-022) from the 12th to 15th of September, 2011 with calls: YB9/GM3OOK and YB9/G4JVG.
Equipment was set up and the station checked out fully operational on August 1st, with its first QSO of the DXpedition logged at 5PM on Easter Island for CE0Y/I2DMI. Operator Francesco will be operating 40,20,17,15,12 and 10 meters. You may find the station on 80 meters as well, provided enough room is available to accommodate an 80 meter dipole.
Valery UA3DUV, Aleksey RA3AKF and Victor RA3DKG, all members of R3ARS/1 team, will be on the White Sea Islands Group of islands (EU-147) starting August 12. After the the expedition, they will be available from the Reserves of the Murmansk region for the WFF program. They are planning to operate on SSB, CW, PSK and RTTY.
QSL cards will be sent to all correspondents through the bureau.
Carsten Schoof, DF1XC, continues to operate holiday style as 8P9XC from Saint Philip, Barbados in the Southeast Caribbean.
For the recent IOTA Contest, ZD8D finished with over one million points and 1622 QSOs. Now the team can take a deep breath. They are going to be spending more time on bands which have been underrepresented, namely 40 and 80 meters, although we will certainly assume continued daytime activity on 20 through six meters. There’s still several days of good operation left. This all German team will begin tearing down antennas after August 9th.
Jordi Portet, EA3PT will be active August 8th through August 21st as EA6/EA3PT from Menorca Island. Jordi will be operating SSB only on 40 through 10 meters.
It’s hard to believe, especially for avid DXers still trying to make their way through the pileups, that the ST0R DXpedition to the world’s newest country and DX entity, Southern Sudan, is now at its halfway point. The ST0R website reports, as of today, as having reached the 60,000 QSO mark. As of this moment, the group of operators continues to run with five stations.
Good information coming from Stan WB2LQF who, will operate during this period as Special Event Station W2S. Although advertised as “QRP”, CW only, single station, single operator, Stan WB2LQF says the following:
K5ENS will be active from Mujeres Island (IOTA NA – 045) until 14 November 2011, with the call XF1/K5ENS
