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ZL8X Kermadec Island dxpedition

by k4sac @ Sunday, July 11th, 2010. Tags:
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November 19, 2010. That is the magic date for the 2010 Kermadec Island dxpedition. The team  (DJ5IW, DJ7EO,DK1II,DL1MGB,DL3DXX,DL5CW,DL5LYM,DL5XL, DL6FBL, DL8LAS, DL8O, and SP5XVY) are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand on November 14, 2010 and be on the air by November 19th. They plan to have 7 stations online, and will be operating CW, SSB, and [...]

ZL7T RECAP

by k4sac @ Monday, January 18th, 2010. Tags:
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Back in March 2009 I made a blog post about the use of CW skimmer software during dxpeditions. My original blog post is here Today, I was contacted by several members of the ZL7T dxpedition about this blog post. My only intent of this blog post was to get discussion going about the use CW [...]

From the VK9GMW website……

by k4sac @ Friday, March 27th, 2009. Tags: ,
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They have made it! Team on Mellish (03-27-2009 from AA7JV) March 27, 0800 UTC, Mellish Reef. At 0600 UTC we have dropped anchor in the lagoon at Mellish Reef (well, OK, we lowered it gently, given our make-shift gear). We have ferried some gear ashore this evening and will complete the station and camp set-up [...]

Mellish Reef Update

by k4sac @ Wednesday, March 18th, 2009. Tags: , ,
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I had talked previously about the Mellish Reef Dxpedition VK9GMW slated to take place 22 March 2009. This is a casual dxpedition put on by AA7JV and HA7RY. They plan to focus on low band activity from Mellish, although they say they will operate all ham bands. The Mellish Reef dxpedition webpage www.vk9gmw.com From the [...]

Computer-aided dxpeditions

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under cw, dx, dxpedition, skimmer, software, space

EDIT 2010/Jan/18 I was contacted by several members of the ZL7T dxpedition about this blog post. My only intent of this blog post was to get discussion going about the use CW skimmer type software at a time when this software was relativly new. The post was NOT a attack on the ZL7T dxpedition who [...]

K5D QRT

by k4sac @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx, dxpedition

Well the K5D dxpedition is over now. They racked up a total of 115,728 Qso’s. Of course it is always said how well a dxpedition does depends on if you are in the logbook or not, but I think these guys did a pretty good job. (Disclaimer: I do have 8 contacts with them) There [...]

Chatham Island Dxpedition

by k4sac @ Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

On the heels of the K5D gang is a team of nine ZL dxpeditioners are headed to activate Chatham Island in the South Pacific during March 2009. Starting March 5th, 2009 and ending March 10th, 2009 According to their web site here they will operate from the Chatham Fishing Lodge in the fishing village of [...]

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