DX News Ham Radio Amateur Radio News Page 259

It's official, we received the license and call sign: TX3X from the licensing authority in Noumea, New Caledonia.

Dom 3Z9DX, Jorge TI2HMJ, Przemek SP8SIW, Dimitri RA9USU will be active from Cocos Island (IOTA NA-012) 16-23 February 2015 as TI9/3Z9DX not TI9A as announced earlier.

Are you as excited as I am, being able to work K1N Navassa, the #2 Most Wanted Entity? What a thrill, and what a fine job the operators are doing under such difficult conditions!

After analyzing all the Dxpeditions that were conducted in 2014, our preference for the Dxpedition that stood out the most, regarding communication with the ham community, goes to FT5ZM, the Dxpedition to Amsterdam I., that operated in January-February 2014.

F5JTV, F8ATS, F1ULQ, DJ7JC, DJ9RR, EI6JK, EI9FBB, EI9KC, F2DX, F4DLM, F5EOT, F5MFV, F5NTZ, F5RAB, F5UOW, F5VHQ, F6IRA, M0PLX, OE3GCU, OE3JAG, ON4LO, ON7RN, OZ1IKY will be active from Robinson Crusoe Island, Archipelago Juan Fernandez 24 February - 4 March 2015 as 3G0ZC.

Kazu, JH8PHT will be active from Saipan Island 11 - 15 March 2015 as AH0KT.

After a quite long time of inactivity a brand new call-sign will be on air from the Republic of San Marino during the major contests of the year.

SM6CPY will be active again from Rwanda 10 February - 2 March 2015 as 9X0PY.

Nando IT9YRE, Claudio I1SNW, Mike K9AJ will be active from Tobi Island (IOTA OC-296) 11 - 13 March 2015 as T88TI, T88GI, T88XX.

Christian, EA3NT will be active from Russell Islands (IOTA OC-168) or Florida Islands (IOTA OC-158) 11 - 14 March 2015 and from Bellona Island (IOTA OC-127) , Solomon Islands 15 - 16 March 2015 as H44NT.

Hannes, OE3SGU will be active from Luzon Island (IOTA OC-042) 25 March - 20 April 2015 as DU1/OE3SGU.

JA2ZS will be active from Niue Island (IOTA OC-040) 15 - 25 May 2015 as E6ZS.

AA7JV, K0IR, K4UEE, K6MM, K9CT, KT4TTT (HA7RY), N2TU, N4GRN, N6MZ, NA5U, NM1Y, W0GJ, W2GD, W6IZT, WB9Z from Navassa Island in February 2015 as K1N.

Ethan, K8GU will be active from Tutuila Island (IOTA OC-045), American Samoa 25 - 29 April 2016 as KH8/K8GU.

Radio Amateurs from Colon DX Group will be active from Taboga Island (IOTA NA-072) 27 February - 1 March 2015 as H91T.