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.

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: YI9PSE Team is now composed of the following operators: N6PSE N6OX JH4RHF AH6HY N2WB YI1UNH K3VN K3LP W0UCE W5KDJ FM5CD K1LZ YT1AD QSL via N6NKT Full details [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE March 10 Callsign of DX0DX pending for Pagasa Island, Spratly Islands Dxpedition 2011. March 9 Permissions have been granted to operate for three weeks in January 2011. Operators with good CW / SSB skills who would like to participate in Spratly 2011 are now being sought. Email Chris, VK3FY. Feb 5, 2010 Chris, VK3FY is currently in the planning stages of [...]

Reid, N0RC informs he’s planning on operating from Thule, Greenland (NA-018) from March 22 to April 8th as work permits. At best he will be on every other day. Reid will try to get on the air for contest weekends but cannot guarantee this. He will be using the call OX3RC. Logs uploaded to LoTW and EQSL. QSL direct to N0RC or Buro.

Luc, F5RAV will again be in Somone, Senegal from Oct 25 to Nov 1, 2010 transmiting from the 6W7RV radio shack . QSL via H/C. Luc, F5RAV

Quite often operators / readers mistakenly use the Send News page as a query / question to something they have heard, worked or are trying to find out more info on. <<—-New category now added. Feel free to add your query. Helpful replies are usually always forthcoming :)

Gav, GM0GAV and Rob, GM3YTS will be QRV as S79GM from approx 21st March until 1st April. They will be QRV all bands with a focus on LF, mainly CW with some RTTY. See S79GM blog for more details. They can only tx on 40m on 7050 or above so will be on 7050 QSX 7025 or thereabouts. [...]

Ukrainian DXpeditioners Team (UDXT) is very glad to present our new project – PACIFIC ODYSSEY 2010. UDXT members, namely: Sergey /UX0HX, Team Leader/, Oleg /RK3FA/, Alex /UT5UY/, Yuriy /UT1HF/, Oleg /US7UX/, Leo /UR3HR/ and Yuriy Grushevskiy /SWL/ will be active on all bands , all modes as: 5W0OX, Samoa (CQ – 32; ITU – 62; IOTA OC [...]

Solar activity remains low. Sunspot 1046 and 1048 are both small and do not pose a chance for strong solar flares. The new region I reported on Tuesday evening has formed some sunspots as you can see in the image below. This region should be numbered 1049 on Wednesday.

Out of nowhere Sunspot 1046 produced a strong M8.3 Solar flare Friday morning which is now the largest flare of Cycle 24. An R2 Radio Blackout did take place. The image is below and more updates to follow.