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3A - Look for 3A8AB to be active from Monaco on 1-30 April. QSL via LoTW. The special callsign commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first transatlantic amateur two-way contact between Leon Deloy, F8AB and Fred Schnell, 1MO (28 November 1923). Leon Deloy (1894-1969) died in Monaco and bequeathed his fortune to a number of local charities and philanthropic foundations.
3D2 - Dom, 3Z9DX will be active again as 3D2AJT from Nadi, Fiji Islands on 23-31 March. The callsign is in memory of the late Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa, JH1AJT, who passed away on 23 March 2022. QSL via Club Log's OQRS.
D4 - Timo, OH1NOA will be active holiday style as D4NA from Sal Island (AF-086), Cape Verde between 30 March and 6 April. He will operate mainly CW and SSB on 40-10m, with plans to be QRV from a couple of World Wide Flora & Fauna sites. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or direct to OH1NOA.
DL - Celebrating World Amateur Radio Day, DARC special event callsign DA23WARD will be active from 21 March to 18 April. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau; direct cards via DL2VFR.
FH - Dom, F4IFF will be active as FH/F4IFF from Mayotte (AF-027) on 1-8 April. He will operate SSB and FT8 on 80-10 metres ("I will run simultaneously FT8 and SSB to maximize the number of contacts", he says). QSL via EB7DX and logsearch on Club Log.
FO - FO/AA7JV went QRT from the Marquesas Islands on 20 March at 16.10 UTC. Mike, KN4EEI and George operated from Anaho Bay, on the north side of Nuku Hiva. They put on the beach two RIB (Radio In a Box) stations and two antennas; due to software issues they worked CW and SSB, and only made a handful of FT8 QSOs. "Low band conditions were poor, made worse by the difficult geography of the bay", George says, but "we seemed to have very good signals on 30 and 10 metres, and good on 40 and 20". This was the first operation where the RIBs were used in an actual DXpedition.
The "Magnet" is now going to the Tuamotu Archipelago (OC-066), French Polynesia, where Mike and George expect to be QRV again as FO/AA7JV starting around 27 March until around 5 April. QSL via HA7RY and LoTW.
FO0/C - The Perseverance DX Group is organizing a DXpedition to Clipperton Island (NA-011). The current schedule is for a team of experienced operators (namely DJ9RR, HA0NAR, K3EL, K5GS, KE4KY, N6WM, N6XG, N7QT, PY2PT, W1SRD, W7XU and ZL3CW) to be QRV as TX5S from 18 January to 2 February 2024. They will operate SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8 on 160-6 metres with up to eight stations. QSL via M0URX's OQRS. Bookmark https://clip.pdxg.net/ for more information and updates. Now designated a protected environmental reserve, visits to Clipperton require a lengthy and detailed application process. The latest major DXpeditions took place in 2013 (TX5K), 2008 (TX5C) and 2000 (FO0AAA).
The Perseverance DX Group (https://wp.pdxg.net/) has conducted five DXpeditions and logged over 340,000 QSOs since its formation ten years ago: VK9MT (Mellish Reef 2014), TX3X (Chesterfield Islands 2015), VP6D (Ducie Island 2018), VP8PJ (South Orkney Islands 2020) and TX5N (Austral Islands 2022).
ON - Celebrating World Amateur Radio Day, UBA special event station OT23WARD will be active from various locations on 1-30 April. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, eQSL. A certificate will be available, the details will be published on https://www.qrz.com/db/OT23WARD.
OZ - EDR special callsign 5P0WARD will be active on 11-25 April in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW and eQSL, or via OZ1ACB. See https://www.qrz.com/db/5p0ward for the award.
T30 - The T30UN operation from West Kiribati (OC-017) [425DXN 1663] is now set to start during the first week of April, in order to avoid clashing with concurrent DXpeditions, especially on FT8. Plans are to be QRV for about five weeks on 160-6 metres with one CW station, one SSB station and seven FT8 stations. It will possible to see two FT8 stations on the same band at the same time (one operating on the standard frequency, and the other operating F/H on a different frequency). See https://www.facebook.com/rebeldxgroup for updates. QSL via Club Log's OQRS.
VK - VI10VKFF is the special callsign celebrating the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Flora & Fauna (WWFF) programme in Australia (https://www.wwffaustralia.com/). It will be used from Australian Parks until the end of 2023. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or via VK5PAS (direct or bureau).
VU - Look for AU40NRO to be active from 1 April to 30 June to celebrate The 40th anniversary of the National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR). QSL via VU2NRO.
Z8 - Dia, YI1DZ has been back to Juba, South Sudan since 13 March, and expects to remain there until 22 April. He operates SSB and FT8 as Z81D in his spare time. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and LoTW, or via OM3JW. [TNX The Daily DX] |