[ETS/PARC List] DX NEWS

[Don WILSON]

 >DX News
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>VK0MH from Macquarie Island will be available on the air October, 2014
>until April, 2015, the summer season in the far south, when
>VK6MH/GM4AWB, Rod Macduff, is there.  DX World reports the six-month
>tour of duty will start when the L'Astrolabe ship departs from Hobart,
>Tasmania October 21.  Arrival on Macquarie should be in early
>November.  Rod is applying for a LoTW certificate for VK0MH.  He hopes
>to upload the log as soon as possible, to both LoTW and Club Log.  Rod
>will be visiting GM3WOJ, Chris, in Scotland within a week or so before
>he goes back to Australia.  Chris will be giving him some pileup
>practice and coaching using the GA2MP callsign.  Chris will also help
>with the LoTW upload, at least showing him how to do it.  Rod has been
>off the air for some years, so he will be ramping back up.  Rod has
>been Technical Director of Q-Mac Radio in Perth, Western Australia.
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>YV8AD, Rei, is in the planning stage for a DXpedition to Aves Island,
>YV0AD.  Two radio clubs are collaborating.  The formal announcement of
>the plans should come next March.
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>The Chesterfield Islands, OC-176, are a DXpedition destination planned
>for 2015.  The "Perseverance DX Group," pdxg.net, is planning this one
>for 12 days late in 2015.  The expedition yacht "Evohe" has been
>booked.  Licensing and landing formalities are being worked out.
>There will be as many as 12 operators.  They sail from Noumea, New
>Caledonia.  Among the possible operators are HA5AO, W2LK, DJ9RR,
>DJ7JC, WA6O and K5GS.  A website is being created.
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>E30FB by JH1AJT, Zorro, is currently operating in Eritrea, the only
>operator on from there at present, says JA1TRC.  And, Zorro has made
>no RTTY contacts so far, though he did make a few CW QSOs.  Having
>problems with his interface to the computer, he went back to SSB.
>Operating in his spare time, Zorro is trying to maximize the number of
>SSB contacts.  He does not have Internet access.  He will put the log
>on Club Log when he gets home.  As of 0330Z this morning, Zorro had
>made 3,936 QSOs since his start on September 17.  Today is the final
>day of the trip.  He was at a meeting this morning but should then be
>operational until around 18Z.  The 40 and 30M ground planes will be
>the first antennas taken down this afternoon local time, followed by
>the Small-IR.
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>It is a month until the FT4TA Tromelin 2014 team leaves Europe to
>begin their adventure.  They want to point out their goal is to
>maximize the number of contacts to give everyone chance, whatever
>their geographical location in the world.    They will concentrate on
>the higher-volume bands.  The operators are studying propagation
>predictions to be on the right bands at the right times to work the
>world.  The second priority will be low bands.  The log will be
>uploaded daily to Club Log on a satellite data connection.  There will
>be no leader board so there will be no "unrestrained race."  The
>pilots and QSL manager will not have access to the logs during the
>operation, "so don't deluge them with inquiries."  There will be a
>special postage stamp put on all direct, OQRS or donor requested
>cards.
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