The RSGB Convention will, once more be held at Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Milton Keynes on 13-15 October 2017
I will be attending for the whole weekend and look forward to meeting up with you during the event.
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While the NB DX Team were in Guernsey as MU/ON4ANN, they were also QRV as MU/ON8CW/P from the World Wide Flora & Fauna sites as listed below.
I have now received the logs for these WWFF activities and these are now on the OQRS. Each WWFF is logged as MU/ON8CW/P suffixed with the GUFF reference.
There will be two QSL cards printed, MU/ON4ANN & MU/ON8CW/P. QSL cards will be printed very soon.
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GUFF001 |
Bridget Ozanne Orchid Fields |
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GUFF004 |
La Garenne d’Anneville |
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GUFF006 |
Le Grand Pré |
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GUFF008 |
Ozanne |
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GUFF009 |
Pleinmont |
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GUFF011 |
Rue Rocheuse |
New IREF Board Member
The Island Radio Expedition Foundation, Inc. (IREF) is pleased to announce that Charles Wilmott, M0OXO, is now a member of the IREF Board of Directors. Charles fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Neville Cheadle, G3NUG, who has been on the IREF Board since it’s inception. IREF would like to thank Neville for his work on the Board and wise counsel over the years.
The IREF Board ultimately decides on IREF sponsorship of an IOTA Expedition and is an Internationally diverse group. In addition to Charles, M0OXO, the Board consists of Jim (JA9IFF), Buzz (N5UR), Don (W9DC), Jose (CT1EEB), Mike (K9AJ) and Buzz (NI5DX).
IREF is funded solely through donations and is a 501(c)(3) organization which allows for contributions by US hams to be tax deductible. The website is www.islandradio.org and contributions can me made by clicking on the “Join” tab.
MU/ON4ANN will be QRV between 19th and 24th September from Guernsey.
ON4ANN – ON4CCV – ON5PDV – ON2BDJ – ON4ACP – ON6MI – ON4CAU – ON8CW ON4AAQ – Etienne,
Special attention for 160 -80 – 40 & 30 M, SSB, CW, DIGI
Equipment : Spiderbeams, Verticals, Inverted-L for 160 M, RX antenna’s
4th to the 10th of September is National Week in Gibraltar, to commemorate this, the Gibraltar Amateur Radio Stations can use the prefix ZG. Robert Morgan (ZB2TT) will be QRV as ZG2TT during the week in the hours he is not working.
Although we will not have a special QSL card for this activity we will overprint the QSO report labels with ZG2TT and the log will be uploaded to the OQRS after the 10th September so that you can claim the QSL card.
For the prefix hunters we will also upload the log to LoTW.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS preferred. OQRS NOW LIVE
Start date: 4 July 2017 End date: Ongoing
The local situation in YV has disrupted mail flows into Venezuela and our supplier has had to stop delivering mail in to Venezuela. As a result, we can no longer accept any mail for Venezuela, any mail on hand will be returned to sender.
We don’t know when the situation will change, but we will look for alternative ways of getting mail in to Venezuela.
Our mail to the YV QSL Bureau will also be suspended until we can get the mail to Venezuela.
Start date: 4 July 2017 End date: Ongoing
The local situation has disrupted mail flows into Venezuela and our supplier has had to stop delivering mail in to Venezuela. As a result, we can no longer accept any mail for Venezuela, any mail on hand will be returned to sender.
We don’t know when the situation will change, but we will look for alternative ways of getting mail in to Venezuela.
6W1SU will be operated by VE9CB during the CQ WW DX Contest CW, November 25th & 26th 2017.
6W1SU will be a single op all band high power.
QSL via M0URX OQRS
Terry 5B/G4MKP will be on air as a holiday station between 20th – 27th September 2017, operating mostly on 40m.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS Please do not send any Bureau cards, use OQRS. Thank you.
I received a short statement from LoTW about FT8 Mode contacts in regard to the uploading to LoTW:
“We have been inundated with emails about FT8. We were told that it will be a few weeks before the developers can get LoTW set up to accept FT8.”
So please stand by, LoTW are aware that this work needs to be done before FT8 QSOs can be uploaded to the LoTW databse. Thank you for your patience.
UPDATE 14/08/2017 – All FT8 QSOs have now been uploaded to LoTW