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The radiosport has become a very specialised branch of Amateur Radio. A contest radio operator is most often gifted in rather narrow capabilities.

I’m gonna try to tell you the marvelous adventure of 3B7A on the island "île du Sud" on the archipelago of St Brandon through my memories and my feelings.

He is of the same age group as myself. In 1961 when he was 14 years old, Jurgis discovered a radio club in the school he attended in Kursenai, a small town near Siaulai in the northern part of Lithuania

J8NY Team will be active from Saint Vincent Island, IOTA NA - 109, 21 - 28 November 2018.

Clive, GM3POI will be active as V47X and V4/GM3POI from Saint Kitts Island, IOTA NA - 104, 23 - 30 October 2018.

Rolandas, LY4A, was introduced to Amateur Radio in 1983 when he was 11 years old by a teacher at his school. There was a radio club at the local factory, the call sign was UP1BYK.

Jose Vicens, NP4G will be active as CE0Y/NP4G from Easter Island, IOTA SA - 001, 26 - 29 August 2018.

Victor, WB0TEV will be again active as V31VP from Belize, 16 - 22 August 2018.

Stan, LZ1GC will be active as YJ0GC, from Efate Island, IOTA OC - 035, Vanuatu, 15 October - 4 November 2018.

In the past twenty years, a new, informal club of Amateur Radio operators has emerged and grown into an international ring of devotees of the WRTC games.

Chris, 9Y4D will be active from Trinidad Island, IOTA SA-011, Trinidad and Tobago in CQ WW DX SSB Contest, 27 - 28 October 2018 as 9Y4D.

Charles, NK8O will be active as PJ2/NK8O from Curacao Island, IOTA SA - 099, 27 August - 2 September 2018.

Brandon, W0GPR will be active as OX/W0GPR from Greenland, 9 - 27 August 2018.

Members of Radio Club Argentino will be active from Martin Garcia Island, IOTA SA-055, 16 - 20 August 2018, as LR5D.

The tradition of summer radio amateur meetings in Lithuania goes back to 1989. This was at the end of the Soviet occupation, when the country was a republic in the Soviet Union.