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> E4 - Palestine -
> Three Polish DXpeditioners are heading to Bethlehem, probably during
> the second half of April.  The team has received their E44WE license,
> allowing them to operate with 100 watts.  SP9FIH, Janusz; SQ9CNN,
> Rafal; and SQ9D, Piotr; are the "Three Wise Men".  QSL via SP9FIH,
> preferably using Club Log's OQRS.
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> 9N - Nepal -
> SP6AXW, Kazik, is heading to Nepal for a vacation with the family
> during the second half of March.  He'll be taking a rig and plans a
> "holiday style operation" again as 9N7XW from March 15 to 31.
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> PJ2 - Curacao -
> "16 Members of the Southeastern DX Club including K1ZN will be
> operating from PJ2T for next weekend's ARRL International SSB
> Contest", says Jeff, who plans to be QRV before and after as PJ2/K1ZN
> starting tomorrow.
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> V4 - St. Kitts and Nevis Islands -
> Nevis Island (NA-104) is the destination of W2APF, Thaire, who will be
> operating as V47JR from March 19 to April 1.  He'll have wire antennas
> and using a KX3 and KPA100 for his "holiday style" operations on 3.5
> through 50 MHz on CW and SSB.  QSL via W2APF.  He will not be using
> LoTW.
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> MM/ - Maritime Mobile -
> K0DAS, Rod; KA0YSQ, Bryan; and NY0V, Tom; are in the central pacific
> now and in operational mode for the Eustace Earhart Discovery
> Expedition.  They are conducting a deep water SONAR search in the
> vicinity of KH1.  Tom has been on 7027 +/- around 0600z+.  He will
> also try the US greyline sweep once their schedules are locked down.
> You can follow the expedition on the nauticos.com website from the
> expedition portal.
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> TG - Guatemala -
> VE7BV, Dwight, is heading to Guatemala from April 21 to May 15.  He
> has requested the call TG9BBV, and if not approved he will use
> TG9/VE7BV.  He'll be on 20, 17, 15, 12 and possibly 6 Meters using
> wire antennas.  Plans are to make at least 2K QSOs.  QSL via the
> bureau, direct or LoTW and eQSL.
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> 9N - Nepal -
> The 9N7EI team are putting the "finishing touches" together for their
> March 8-20 DXpedition.  The airline tickets have been issued, the
> license arrived and requested 9N7EI call has been confirmed, they have
> tested the WARC Spiderbeam 3 element 30 Meter antenna and have their
> pre-packing complete.  https://9n7ei.com/latest-news/

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> VQ9 - Chagos Islands -
> Today ND9M/VQ96JC, Jim, is flying out heading to the Indian Ocean.  He
> expects to be QRV while on Diego Garcia.
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> FY - French Guiana -
> During the ARRL DX SSB Contest FY5FY "should be" single band 80
> Meters, while FY5KE is expected to be single band 15 Meters.
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> Mediterraneo DX Club - 20th anniversary
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> During the month of April members of the Mediterraneo DX Club will be
> celebrating their 20th anniversary.  Some of the calls include 4Z20MDC,
> 5K3MDC, 7Y20MDC, 9A8MDC, 9N1MD, CR20MDC, DL20MDC, EG8MDC, GB0MDC,
> HB20MDC, KM1DX, II0MDC, II1MDC, II2MDC, II3MDC, II5MDC, II7MDC,
> II8MDC, IO0MDC, IQ8MD, IR1MDC, IR9MDC, OR20MDC, PD05MDC, R20MDC,
> SX20MDC, TM20MDC, XR20MDC, YO20MDC, YP20MDC, YQ20MDC and YR20MDC.
> http://www.mdxc.org/20years/english/
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> On The WWW
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> Polish DXpeditioner SP9FIH, Janusz, is "gathering votes for Most
> Wanted DXCC" as he has an online survey to help "influence" their
> future DXpeditions.  http://www.dxpeditions.org/most-wanted-dxcc/
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> N6PSE's, Paul's, latest Blog is "TL8TT era splendida!"
> https://n6pse.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/fun-with-tl8tt/

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> The Winners of the 2017 Dayton Hamvention Awards have been posted at
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> IOTA
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> The following IOTA stations were active yesterday.
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> IOTA   Call         Freq. GMT        IOTA   Call         Freq.  GMT
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> AF-016 FR4PV        24940 1513       EU-130 IV3YER       14255 1645
> AF-022 ZD7FT         7180 0422       NA-008 VY0ERC       14260 2058
> EU-001 SX5R          3794 0557       NA-096 HI8JSG       18146 1220
> EU-015 SV9IOI       18154 0708       NA-103 VP2MMF       14200 0039
> EU-018 OY1OF        21250 1334       OC-044 VP6EU         7020 1415
> EU-023 9H1TT         7163 2116       OC-114 TX5T         21288 2135
> EU-048 F5OWK        14260 1032       OC-150 YB9ZK        21255 0511
> EU-049 SV8GXQ       14194 0756       SA-099 PJ2ND        21014 1907
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> IOTA frequencies -
> CW  28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530
> SSB 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3765
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> Today's Propagation Forecast
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> Solar activity will be very low with a chance for C-class flares today
> through Thursday.
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> The geomagnetic field will be at quiet to active levels today,
> unsettled to minor storm levels on Wednesday and quiet to minor storm
> levels on Thursday.
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> Perhaps the most useful propagation pages for Amateur Radio Operators
> can be found at http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/ and

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> The February 27 SFI was 82 and the SESC Sunspot Number was 40.
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