[GCARC] Tristan Da Cunha & Gough Island? Wow!

Sat Sep 30 12:04:52 EDT 2023

Hi Jim,
Thanks for that info....ZD9 certainly a rare one!
YL2GM is a greats op. If you worked the VU7W Lakshadweep dxpedition back in June, that was also Yuris YL2GM, a one man (iron-man) dxpedition. 

By the way, Oct 4 the big team of Germans will land on Swain's Island to operate as W8S (the DXCC code is KH8). This is an extremely rare entity and has not been activated for a number of years, so grab them if you can!
Here's some background of the dxpedition.
https://dxnews.com/w8s/ 

73
Darrell AB2E

> On 09/30/2023 11:28 AM EDT Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> This HF radio stuff offers quite the geography lesson!
> Another place I'd never heard of until callsign ZD9W showed up on the HF
> spotting networks!
> 
> It might be hard to make a contact, though.  I saw something today I'd
> never seen before.
> I went to 12M, 24.915 Mhz with WSJT set to FT8, as this is where ZD9W had
> been spotted.
> To my amazement, the number of stations I was decoding from all over the
> world calling just this one station, ZD9W, was so many that my screen kept
> scrolling well into the next cycle. Wondering how many decodes WSJT had
> just presented me with, I halted the monitor and manually scrolled back to
> count how many I had just decoded in that one interval.  To my amazement,
> it was 57!  57 decodes of different stations, all in the same 2.8 Khz
> bandwidth, trying to call just this one station.  And that's just how many
> I could decode here in NJ. There were probably more!  Amazing!  But it gets
> better.....
> 
> The qrz page (https://www.qrz.com/db/zd9w) led me to the expedition web
> page (https://www.lral.lv/zd9w/index.html) where I read that this is a one
> man operation.  One guy, Yuris YL2GM, can you imagine?  Just getting there
> reads like it has been quite the adventure. Airplanes, ships, storms, and
> carrying 93 Kg worth of radio equipment? (I didn't know how much that was
> either - google says that is over 200 Lbs).
> 
> Crazy ham! Amazing what he is trying to do for the sake of a DX expedition!
> 
> Hope he holds up, and we get a chance to get through when things calm down
> after a few days.
> Have fun, and congratulations in advance to anyone who can get through
> with a confirmed contact!
> 
> 73,
> Jim
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