Can you do a ham radio DXpedition in one 50-pound suitcase? These enterprising hams did exactly that. DXing on the beach, on bikes and from mountaintops.
h/t to N9PUZ and the SMC reflector
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Category Archives: DXpeditions
Online QSL Requests for VP6DX
Does every ham in the world now have online access? Let’s hope so as the major way this DXpedition wants their QSL requests is via an online request form.
From the Ducie Island site:
A special service for the VP6DX DXpedition is the Online QSL Request System (OQRS) for bureau and DIRECT QSL cards, based on [...]
Marion Island ZS8T Web Site Up
The Marion Island DXpedition web site is up. The DXpedition is scheduled for May of this year and the web site will be a great place to follow the progress. You can subscribe to changes on the site through their RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed (http://zs8t.net/feed/) and participate in their forum.
I don’t need Marion [...]
DXpedition Search
I’ve spent a lot of time the last 3-4 days looking for places to go on a personal DXpedition. I’m not positive I’m going to do it, but I have the time and the dollars to do something that isn’t too extravagant.
Here’s the criteria:
The antenna’s need to be in place. I don’t want to [...]
Bermuda Flags
Bermuda flag on top, with Canada and United States flags below. From the VP9/K9JY contest DXpedition.
Scot, K9JY
9V1YC has ZL8R and BS7H DVD’s
Most of us contesters are also more than a little interested in DXpeditions. Maybe not in chasing them, necessarily, but we all know what a tremendous effort goes into putting stations — especially rare ones — on the air for the deserving.
Steve, K9ZW, notes:
ZL8R Kermadec Island is an awesome nature preserve so remote that few [...]
E51 on the air
A little reminder from one of the reflectors I belong to: E51 is up and working stations and will be in the CQ WW CW contest working the deserving.
While you’re at it, check out the preparations at the South Cook Island blog — George, K5KG, and Ron, KK9K, are great operators and I hope they [...]
VP2M DXpedition video
Scott over on the 100 Pound DXpedition blog (a great blog that talks about all things planning and executing on a DXpedition) offers up two videos on the Montserrat DXpedition.
I’m pretty late in posting this — it was in my notes to post that I lost and then found — but check it out.
Scot, K9JY
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YW5AS DXpedition pictures now online
Pictures are up of the YW5AS Aves de Sotavento DXpedition – and they are pretty cool. There’s a bit of narrative that goes along with the web site as well.
It was a pleasure to see the use of all of the verticals right there on the salt water beach as well. As you know, the [...]
June VHF QSO Party DXpedition
For those who have not done a trip for a DXpedition — even a portable operation not far from home — you will be surprised at how much planning and effort it takes to simply get all the stuff together and haul it to said destination.
So it was an interesting read about the KL7FF Contest [...]
Update on TI5 QSL Cards
Just a quick update today to let you all know that all of the direct TI5/K9JY QSL cards are in the mail. I have very few bureau cards so far for TI5, but still have quite a few VP9/K9JY cards with the new batch just in from the W9 Bureau.
I’ll be working on those next.
Scot, [...]
Update on VP9 QSL Cards
Finally, after way too long, I’ve gotten caught up on the direct cards and those from the WF5E DX-QSL service for VP9. All of the stamped envelopes are in the mail and the ones needing air mail stamps will be in the mail tomorrow. I’m stopping at the Post Office during my lunch hour to [...]
