4600 QSL cards have now been posted on Friday 5th November in 581 items of post. Direct and to World Bureaus.

I am particularly interested in those of you working at World Bureaus to report to me when these packages arrive.

44 letters posted 09/11/2010.
45 letters posted 12/11/2010.
45 letters posted 17/11/2010.
70 letters posted 30/11/2010.
85 letters posted 16/12/2010.

09 November – HA5FA Jenci reports that my package arrived at the MRASZ Hungary QSL Bureau. Thanks Jenci for your excellent service once again.

This week the United Radio DX Team have been very busy setting up various CQWW Contest Stations.

9M6DXX Steve will be operating as 9M8Z from Sarawak, East Malaysia.

HS0ZJD Vinny is QRV from near Surin in Thailand.

M9X is as i write being constructed field day style. I will be QRV as M9X along with the rest of the UK Scout Contest Team

MC0SHL will also be QRV from Pembrokeshire, Wales. Operated by G1VDP.

VK8NSB Stuie will be QRV from Darwin. Northern Territory.

Alll above as usual QSL Via M0URX – if you require a QSL Via Bureau use the QSL Request Form ONLY.

Designs for the Sebatik Island IOTA OC-295 DX’Pedition are now being finalised and the card will soon be at the printshop and be ready for distrubution end of October.
QSL cards are Via M0URX.

OY4TN Trygvi reports……….. “On October 10th & 11th we had a great tropo opening from the Faroe Islands. It was great fun for me working a lot of ON, PA and DL – also worked a few G stations and a single LA QSO. All together close to 200 QSO on 2M and 70cm.

Other stations active were OY1OF on 2M/P and he did work a lot of PA/ON/DL on 2M FM with a small mobile antenna and 50W.

OY9JD did work some 23cm and 70cm /P
And OY3JE managed to do a few QSO on 23cm from home QTH.Today (16-10) we had JOTA activety from our club station, activating the OY6JAM callsign. It was great fun to work the JOTA together with the scouts, all QSO were made on SSB, but we did demonstrate a bit of digital & SSTV.

Hopfully there will be some new HAM in the near future, because they seems to be quite interested in ham radio.

Vy 73’s Trygvi de OY4TN”

Photo by OY1OF Ólavur                                                        Photo by OY4TN Trygvi                                                 

The new QSL card for VK8NSB Stuie has now been designed and has arrived from the printer.
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In an email tonight from OY1OF Ólavur Frederiksen explains that the air waves over the Faroe Islands have been quieter than normal this summer due to the shack renovation of the FRA HQ. Floors, ceilings and roof have all been replaced. Thanks to Ólavur for the following photographic images of the work being done. It is great to hear the Islanders “On Air” from the new refurbished shack. You can view more of Ólavur’s gallery here.