Tom, KC0W

will be active from

Cheung Chau Island, AS-006

as

VR2/KC0W

between November 1-15, 2017.

QRV on CW & FT8

antennas over salt water!!!

QSL via KC0W (direct).

 ON4ANN – ON4CCV – ON5PDV – ON2BDJ 

ON4ACP – ON6MI -ON8CW– ON4AAQ.

QRV between 18 and 24 September

Special attention 160 -80 – 40 & 30M, SSB, CW, DIGI.

Equipment : Spiderbeams, Verticals, Inverted-L for 160 M, RX antenna’s.

QSL via M0URX

Jeremy EI5GM, Dave EI9FBB and Col MM0NDX

have been issued with the Liberian callsigns

EL2GM, EL2BB and EL2EL.

It’s their plan to use these calls after the 5L3BI activity

from the LRAA (Liberia Radio Amateur Association) in Monrovia,

probably on November 3rd.

However, if due to bad weather / sea conditions we cannot land on the island,

then we will revert to using these calls

during late October / early November from mainland Liberia.

Anton, ON6NL

will again be active from Entebbe, Uganda

as

5X8C

at the end of October 2017.

QRV on HF bands

including participation in the CQWW DX SSB Contest (October 28-29).

Will try FT8 mode too.

QSL via HomeCall

Final update before the team departs for Robben Island tomorrow,

Friday 18 August 2017: 

as previously announced, the team ran into some unexpected complications with the expedition. 

As a result the operation has been scaled down to two SSB-only stations. 

The operators will be Jan ZS1VDV, Paul ZS1V, Andre ZS1AN and Grant ZS1REX. 

The team leaves for Robben Island late Friday afternoon and expects to have both stations operational during the course of the evening – hopefully by 1800Z. 

One station will primarily operate on the 20/15/10 meter bands

and the other primarily on 80/40 meters.

Operations will continue until Sunday morning around 1000Z, weather permitting.

Intended frequencies of operation are:

80m 3780kHz 40m 7180kHz 20m 14260kHz  15m 21260kHz 10m 28460kHz +- QRM.