DXpedition to Tokelau Islands
An international team led by operators Hrane/YT1AD, Roman/UR0MC and Alex/UT5UY are planning a DXpedition to the Tokelau Islands as ZK3X between October 1-15th, 2019.ZK3 is currently #42 on the DXCC Most Wanted List. Alex informs OPDX that ZK3 is very highly rated on the low bands and EME.
Activity will be on 160-6 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes (RTTY, PSK31 and FT8). QSL via UR3HR.
Operators mentioned are Hrane/YT1AD, Alex/UT5UY, Roman/UR0MC, Alex/US0KW, Yaroslav/UW7LL, Nickolay/UT8IO, Alexander/UX0LL, Igor/UA2FZ, Andrey/RW7K, Serge/R7KW, Chris/VK3FY, Dusko/ZL3WW and one more operator. Look for more details to be forthcoming.
ADDED NOTES: Checkout Hrane's, YT1AD, Web page
at: http://www.yt1ad.info/dxped.html
Also, Hrane states to look for more information after February 10th, 2019, about his visits to Tokelau (ZK3), Fiji (3D2) and Apia, Samoa (5W).
OPDX
Brunei DXpedition
Operators John/9M6JC, Kom/9M6KOM, Nur/9M6ZAE, Faiq/ 9M6ZIM, Choigonjav/JT1CO, Krassimir/K1LZ (team leader), Jeffrey/K1ZM, Patrick/KK1ZM, Adrian/KO8SCA, Nikolay/LZ1NK, Andrey/LZ2HM, Atilano/PY5EG, Dmitri/RA9USU, Roman/RN5M, Adi/S55M, Chris/VK3FY, Hrane/YT1AD and the honorary Brunei members (Tamat/V85TL and Azril/V85AN) will be active as V84SAA from Sera Kanangan Beach in the Tutong District, Brunei, between February 7-18th, 2019.From their new Web page http://v84saa.ko8sca.com/:
"The team will be operating with the special call V84SAA, thanks to the support of V85T, Tamat Lampoh, and the Brunei Darussalam Amateur Radio Association.
"Team members will begin to arrive February 4th, meet on February 5th, begin setting up the antennas and stations on February 6th, to be ready to begin operations at 0001 local time on February 7th (1601Z February 6th).
The license is good through 2359 local time on February 18th (1559Z February 18th).
"The team will focus on the low bands, but will also have a presence on the WARC-79 bands and higher bands. For antennas the team will use verticals on 160 and 80 meters and a four square on 40 meters located on the beach. Plans call for two Beverages: one on Europe and another towards North America.
"Topband Guru K1ZM, Jeff, a member of the V84SAA team, noted that the greyline at V8 sunset will match up great with the sunrise in North America starting in NorthEast Canada. So, all of North America will have some portion of common darkness with the V84SAA team."
QSL Manager is Tony Stefanov, LZ1JZ, direct or by the Bureau.
During the DXpedition, they will upload their log DAILY to ClubLog.
OPDX
Upcoming DXpedition to MacaoSo far so good: We are collecting and distributing the equipment we want to use in Macau, always having in mind that we have to minimize the freight-costs. By the way, most of the equipment is private property of the team-members.Thanks to our generous sponsors, foundations and individuals, we were able to complete our equipment with a new 2-element full-size wire beam for 10 to 20 meters. This antenna has been modified by LZ Antenna for our special expedition-purposes. That means low weight and easy to handle. We are looking forward using this antenna and are sure that it will perform well together with our new Pentaplexer from LBS. We also were able to add a VA5 antenna analyzer from FUNKAMATEUR to our equipment list. Tuning and pruning our antennas will be much easier with that. As announced earlier we will show up more frequently on all low-bands. We will have therefore separate antennas for every single band this time. So we can work 160-80-40 m the same time. Please have a look on our homepage https://xx9d.mydx.de/ news from time to time to be informed about the newest developments. As in 2017 we will have a daily update of our ClubLog online log. To avoid dupes we ask you to have a look on ClubLog before you give us a call. It's just a question of fairness. Sorry that we have to inform you, we got the official information, that 60 m-activities are not allowed in Macau. FT8 seems to be a more and more popular mode for DXpeditions. We will use this mode on the usual frequencies as well as the dxpedition mode on the announced frequencies. Please consider, that we will use the newest version WSJT-X 2.0, which is the regular one from January 1st, 2019. Don't call us on our audio frequency and make sure that you follow the hints given on the WSJT-homepage. Hopefully the conditions will be fair or better. All 4 to 5 stations will be manned around the clock. Having the antennas relative close to- gether, we can only have one active station per band the same time. We will have no pilot-stations worldwide, but reports about band openings are welcome via internet. Please accept that we will not arrange skeds. LoTW uploads will made for our supporters first, all others 6 months after the last day of our expedition. For now we wish you and your families a Happy New Year. See you in 2019 on all bands and modes. 73 Rolf, DL7VEE OPDX |
