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EA1CJ, EA1KY, EA2RY, EA3EXV, EA5RM, EA7AJR, F9IE, IN3ZNR, UT7CR and UY7CW will be on the air from Western Sahara from April 12 to April 17 using S04R callsign.

New QSO/hour record was set up in the last CQ WW SSB Contest 2010 by Vladislav Sitnikov, UU5MAF, operated at RC0F.

Nick, RW6ACM is active as R1ANB from the Russian Antarctic station Mirny.

I didn’t stand it, and I decided to write a note to this subject.

Paolo, F8ENY will be active as TU/F8ENY from Ivory Coast from 16 February to 2 March 2009.

Ruby, K4UPS will be acitive from Grenada as J37RO from 18 february till 4 of march 2009.

Bill, K4LTA will be acitive from Grenada as J37BO from 18 february till 4 of march 2009.

I was surprised Americans decided to consider SOSB scores for WRTC 2014 selection.

Kevin, K4PG will be active from Bahamas as C6APG from 18 till 22 february 2009.

Sea Water HF VHF Antenna Designers claiming 2-400 Mhz Difficult to believe :-)

Peter, G3TKK will be active from Antigua Island (IOTA NA-100) as V25TK from 27 february till 12 of march 2009

Trond,LA9VDA will be active Svalbard Island as JW9VDA from 12 till 24 february 2009

As I noted in my previous interviews and articles, WRTC selection criteria are a bit far from perfection. In my opinion, corrections I’m going to tell you about might make the criteria more perfect.

ZL2AL ZL2AAA ZL2LE ZL1BYZ ZL2CC ZL2RVW ZL3AB ZL2WG ZL1ALZ will be active from Chatham Island as ZL7T from 6 till 11 of march 2009.

I’m doing contesting long enough. My first ham radio Teacher and contesting Mentor is Gennady Shkumat, UA9AB (ex UA9AAP).