[OKDXA] ZD7X

[Charette, Douglas]

I got this from QRZ.com

 

"Hello all,


I will be departing St. Helena island in late June & travel to my next
DX location of Tristan da Cunha island. My callsign on Tristan will be
ZD9X. The Tristan will last 4 - 6 months, maybe longer. A home has been
secured for myself with a backyard measuring one acre. Plenty of room
for antennas as ZD7X.

Operating from St. Helena has been rather fun. I will be excited for a
new DX location after all is said & done though. Full story to come out
someday!!!

With almost 35,000 QSO's now, the radio & vertical antenna have been
doing a good job. I DO NOT want to have to break out the spare radios of
a Kenwood TS-2000 & a Yaesu 100D if something should go wrong with my
main "good" radio. 

Once on Tristan, my plan is to explore a way of getting to Bouvet island
& to operate from there before a TENATIVE operation to the three islands
of South Sanswich, South Orkney & South Georgia via the Falkland
islands. 

According to the 100 Most Needed List, (2006) Bouvet is ranked at 8th in
the world. It would be a crying shame to be less than 1400 miles from
Bouvet and not to give a 100% effort to try to put Bouvet on the air.
Bouvet is located nearest to Tristan than any other island. 

Still no plans of any RTTY/PSK activity as either ZD7X or ZD9X. My
MicroHam unit that should allow Digi operation has not worked since I
got here. Personal interest the Digi modes is also not that great.



Good DX,



Tom ZD7X"

 

 

 

73, Doug W5GA