[ETS/PARC List] DX NEWS - MAY 16 - 15

[Don WILSON]

SV/A - MOUNT ATHOS
> >Late yesterday DXCoffee broke the news of an upcoming DXpedition by
> >four Latvians to Mount Athos, which ranks number 19 world wide and
> >ninth in North America on Club Log's Most Wanted list.  The team
> >includes YL2GM/YL7A, Yuris; YL3CW, Valery; YL2KA, Jack; and YL2GD,
> >Gunar; who plan to sign SV2/YL7A from May 19-28.  DX World says the YL
> >team will have a Website up and running in a few days and that there
> >will be Topband activity from Mount Athos.
> >
> >VK0 - HEARD ISLAND and FT/X - KERGUELEN ISLAND
> >After the new dates and new ship announcement by the VK0EK Heard
> >Island earlier this week many DXers were asking "is FT5X off the
> >table"?  KK6EK, Bob Schmieder, the Heard Island Project
> >organizer/expedition leader, says he doesn't "know yet" and probably
> >won't until closer to the expedition.  As a reminder on May 13th
> >Cordell Expeditions agreed on a new contract for transportation to
> >Heard Island aboard the Braveheart, after Heritage Expeditions was
> >unable to "deliver on its promise of providing a safe and supported
> >operation at Heard Island using the Russian vessel Akad".  The new
> >contract has the VK0EK team departing Cape Town, South Africa on March
> >6th arriving on Heard Island around March 16th for a 21-day stay until
> >April 8th.  After the DXpedition the Braveheart heads for Fremantle,
> >Australia, where they expect to arrive by April 20th.
> >
> >9N - NEPAL, 7O - YEMEN and A6 - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
> >Originally, before the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal on April 25th,
> >ZL3CW/F2CW, Jacky Calvo, was scheduled to be deployed in Yemen (7O)
> >but was held up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the
> >devastation in 9N.  He is working the United Nations World Food
> >Programme's Fast IT and Telecommunications Emergency and Support Team
> >(FITTEST).  While in the UAE he operated from the station of A61K
> >making some 250 Qs as A6/F2CW on 30 meters.  The logs have been
> >uploaded to Club Log and available for OQRS at
> >https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/A6/F2CW.  On Monday May 18th Jacky
> >departs for Nepal, where he will stay for 3 months.  He has already
> >been in contact with 9N1AA, Satish.  Jacky will be carrying an IC-7000
> >and plans to upload logs to LoTW, once he gets back home in New
> >Zealand in "September or so".