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  Amateur Radio Roundtable



      Subject: Heard Island DXpedition


It's time for Amateur Radio Roundtable, a live weekly amateur radio 
webcast and simulcasted shortwave program every Tuesday night at 8 PM 
CDT (0100 UTC Wednesday).  The show can viewed at W5KUB.com 
<http://w5kub.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d5cdae05233f79e11025a75d&id=c09e2a0635&e=ad7cb25d3b> or 
heard on shortwave radio station, WTWW on 5085 KHz. *Tom Medlin, 
W5KUB,* is joined by co-host *Ted Randall, WB8PUM*, from the *QSO Radio 
Show*.

The show covers a wide range of topics for ham radio operators, 
shortwave listeners, and electronic hobbyists; including balloon 
launches, Satellite, go-kits, emergency communications, SDR, digital 
modes, DXing, home brewing, and more.

This week’s guest will be *Richard M Holoch, KY6R*, a member of the US 
support team for the *VK0EK Heard Island DXpedition*.  Rich will provide 
an update on the planning of this expedition.  To subscribe to Rich’s 
Heard Island Expedition newsletter, go to 
http://www.heardisland.org/HD_pages/HD_newsletter.php 
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The Heard Island DXpedition is a major scientific/communications 
expedition to Heard Island, an Australian sub Antarctic island lying at 
53°S 73°E.  The island is extremely isolated and subject to extreme 
conditions.  The theme of the expedition is “Discovering Life in the 
Extremes,” which includes:

  * Make radio contacts with amateur radio operators worldwide to log as
    many All-Time-New-Ones (ATNOs) as possible.
  * Develop and deploy new technology for real-time communication with
    extremely isolated sites under extreme conditions.
  * Discover new species to complete the known biodiversity as a tool
    for testing model predictions of climate and climate change

This voyage is scheduled for March 6 – April 20, 2016, with the amateur 
radio operation about March 16 – April 8.

Heard Island presents perhaps the ultimate in difficulty for amateur 
radio operation.  Its remoteness, the harsh climate, and the absence of 
permanent facilities are reasons for the very infrequent amateur radio 
activity, and therefore for its great demand for contacts in the amateur 
radio community. *VKØEK* will be used for this xpedition.

W5KUB is proud to be a sponsor of the Heard Island DXpedition.  Be sure 
to tune in to our live Tuesday night shows during the expedition for 
live reports from Heard Island.

To watch Amateur Radio Roundtable go to W5KUB.com 
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It only take a couple of minutes.  If you are listening on 5085 KHz, we 
would like to hear from you. Please send an email to tom at w5kub.com 
<mailto:tom at w5kub.com> and tell us your location and signal report.

Be sure to check out Ted Randall's show, the *QSO Radio Show*. You can 
find information about Ted's Saturday shortwave show at 
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Tom Medlin, W5KUB