There are places that an amateur radio operator feels as “dear” even if he’s never been there. Saint Helena Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of those, for your truly (and I guess my crush on broadcasting also counts on this!). So, whenever a station from ZD7 is on, I try to be there. So far, I didn’t manage to work the Island, but if you try sometimes, you might get what you need. Read more →

Truth is that when you’re writing not only for your blog, the struggle with deadlines gets continuous. So, your personal space, that should be a priority, finds you with very poor update time. All this to say that, if you haven’t stumbled into it somewhere else (for example, on QRZ.com’s forum it scored a nice number of comments), I wrote a story for DXCoffee.com on the 7O6T (Yemen) and 6O0CW (Somalia) Read more →

Yemen authorities maintained that, in the last twenty years, no hamradio licence was granted in their Country, for security reasons. One could argue that, in such time span, an operation from that entity has been approved by DXCC. However, such criticisms are now left behind by the fact a DXpedition went on the air, with an official licence (and with the three key Ministries of Yemen supporting Read more →