Anton, ON6NL and Henk, ON4AHF are currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo working with the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) organisation. They have been there for approx two weeks and expect to stay a further 10 days. 9Q0AR/6 is located in the South Kivu region of DRC. Their workload includes setting up repeaters within the [...]

Daniel, DL5YWM informs he will be based in Lima, Peru between March 20 – May 15, 2010. During his freetime he will be active as OA4/DL5YWM. It’s possible Daniel will take his radio to different OA-call areas. Additionally, he will check the possibility of putting a Peruvian island on the air, but this depends on [...]

8P55AW – Amateur Radio Society of Barbados 55th Anniversary Year (2010) QSL via PO Box 814E Bridgetown Barbados

8P55AW – Amateur Radio Society of Barbados 55th Anniversary Year (2010) QSL via PO Box 814E Bridgetown Barbados

Coming soon. The YI9PSE DXpedition team plans to visit Kurdistan-Iraq in early April, 2010. They will be active from 10 to 160 meters (including WARC bands) in CW, SSB and RTTY with at least 3 stations at the same time in different bands and modes. UPDATE: Completed YI9PSE Team now comprises the following operators: N6PSE N6OX JH4RHF AH6HY N2WB YI1UNH K3VN K3LP W0UCE W5KDJ FM5CD K1LZ YT1AD QSL via N6NKT Full details [...]

Remember this news?  Updated info below from John, VE8EV: — IOTA NA-182  Greens Island Expedition  April 15-20, 2010. On-line logs will be uploaded as soon as possible after the operation. Full information to be found here. VE8EV

Recently on 20m CW from the new Collins Refuge (WAP CHL-16)

Alexander, UX4UL is now active from Colombo, Sri Lanka (AS-003) until 7 April, 2010 as 4S7ULG. He has been QRV mainly on 20-10m BPSK / RTTY. QSL via UY5ZZ.

Three members of the SEDXC and K5D-Desecheo team…Bob, K4UEE, Gregg, W6IZT and George, N4GRN will be on the Island of Saba (NA-145) from March 11-15 operating PJ6/home call. The purpose is to finalize plans and begin building a station for the anticipated political realignment in the Netherlands Antilles later this year. QSL via H/C’s. Bob-K4UEE

Following info is displayed on the MM0RAI website: While we were obtaining our Rockall expedition in May last year, time stood still and we did nothing. We had put a lot of energy in the previous expedition and we all had a busy life, so the expedition was losing intrest. If you thought that we had [...]

A pair of sunspots are currently visible on the earth facing side of the sun. Sunspot 1054 which was numbered on Wednesday is located in the northern hemisphere. This region continues to show some growth. There is a chance for B-Class flares and perhaps a slight chance of a C-Class event. Another new sunspot also formed in the southern hemisphere and was officially numbered 1055 on Thursday.

A pair of sunspot groups have formed on the visible solar disk. A new region which is located in the northern hemisphere towards the eastern limb was numbered 1054 on Wednesday. Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, a new region quickly formed during the later part of Wednesday and should be numbered 1055 on Thursday. There will be a chance for B-Class flares and perhaps a small chance for a C-Class flare.