Saint Barthélemy
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- Category: reports 2011
- Published on Monday, 28 November 2011 19:38
- Written by Hans Blondeel Timmerman
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DX expedition Saint Barthélemy FJ/OS1T 14-22 May 2011
Short after I came home from the 9Q50ON expedition, I was thinking of my own one-man dx-expedition to a DXCC country in the top 100. After a few weeks thinking, searching, and planning, I decided to go to FJ (Saint Barthélemy).
I had many reasons to choose Saint Barthélemy. The Last expedition in FJ was done by Lothar and Babs, but at that time conditions were not so good on the higher bands 6/10/12/15 meter band for them. There was one other future expedition planned before I could go, by Anna, OH2YL, but she planned a “CW only” dxpedition. So I should go for RTTY and SSB operation only! An other reason to choose Saint Barthélemy is that it was number 5 DXCC wanted in Japan! and RTTY was also very high wanted in the rankings. Also, many operators over the whole World needed FJ in SSB, RTTY, especially on 10/12/15 meter since it became a new dxcc a few years ago, and since then there have been no good high band conditions
VK9HR Lord Howe
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- Category: reports 2011
- Published on Sunday, 13 November 2011 15:09
- Written by PB2T
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Planning by the Hellenic Amateur Radio Association of Australia for the DXpedition to Lord Howe Island (OC-004) between July 23rd and August 2nd 2011 began in February 2011. The VK9HR (Hellenic Radio) callsign was issued on April 6th 2011 by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). Team Leader Tommy Horozakis VK2IR (HARAOA President) and Co-Leader John Chalkiarakis VK3YP (HARAOA Treasurer) began the long process of organising all the equipment, antennas and logistics. The aim was to put together an international team including VK’s and thus we were delighted to have David EB7DX as the QSL Manager and webmaster for VK9HR. David EB7DX was most recently the QSL Manager for the very successful 4A4A Revillagigedo Archipelago DXpedition in March 2011.
