IOTA News from OPDX8 October, 2018Island activities:AN-010. Sang, DS4NMJ, will be active as DT8A from the Korean Antarctic Scientific Base King Se-Jong on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (VP8/SH), until end of December 2018. Activity will be on various HF bands using mainly CW and some SSB. QSL via HL2FDW. AS-080. Operators Han/DS2GOO, Rew/DS4NYE, Rocky/HL1VAU and a few others from the Korea Contest Club will be active from Hwang Island (KDN F26, WW Loc. PM36eo). The team will use their homecall/3 as primary, and D70LW/3 from time to time. The operation is scheduled to start on 0900 UTC, October 12th, and the team will stay on the island until 2400 UTC, October 14th. Activity will be on 80-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. A Hexbeam and vertical antennas will be used on the HF and WARC bands. QSL via their home callsigns, and D70LW/3 should send to DS4NYE. They hope to get as many QSOs as possible with their friends from around the world. AS-189. NEW!! Operators Vasily/R7AL, Al/RZ3K, Vasily/RA1ZZ, Vlad/RK8A, Sergey/RW5D, Igor/UA3EDQ, Avinir/UA1ZZ and Mohammad/EP2LMA will be active as EP6RRC from Shif Island, Iran, between November 17-23rd. Activity will be on 160/80/40/30/20/17/15/10 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. Pilot stations are Victor/UA3AKO (EU/RU), Cezar/VE3LYC (East Coast NA) and Taka/JA8COE (Far East/OC). QSL Manager is R7AL. For more details, see: https://dxpedition.wixsite.com/ep6rrc EU-057. Volker, DL1WH, is now active as DL1WH/p from Rugen Island until October 20th. Activity will be holiday style on various HF bands using mainly CW with some SSB. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the Bureau. EU-075. Nicolas, F1RAF, will once again be active as SV8/F1RAF from Poros Island between October 28th and November 3rd. Activity will be on 40-10 meters using SSN. QSL via his home callsign. NA-008. (Zone 2) VY0ERC will once again be active from the Eureka Weather station and the Eureka Amateur Radio Club [probably the most northerly located amateur radio club in the world] from Eureka, Nunavut, between October 17th and November 10th. A list of the operating team was not provided. The suggested bands are 40 and 20 meters, as well as FM satellites (from ER60, EQ79) using SSB, the Digital modes and very slow CW. Activity will be limited to his spare time. QSL via M0OXO, OQRS or direct. OC-133. Saty, 9M6NA, will once again be active as 9M6NA from Mohammed's, 9M6MO, QTH on Labuan Island, East Malaysia, during the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 24-25th) as a Single-Op/All-Band/High- Power entry. QSL via ClubLog's OQRS only for Bureau and direct QSLs. All the logs are promptly uploaded to LoTW. Visit Saty's home page at: https://jsfc.org/je1jkl/9m6na.html PLEASE NOTE: Since the Webmasters of the new Check-out the latest IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club |