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KC4VG, N7UN, KB9AVO, WW5L, N0TU, W3FF and W6HFP will be active from St.Martin Island (PJ7) from 4 to 11 of February 2009.

To me SO1R and SO2R are essentially the same - both are true single op - SO2R is just a single op station that is more complicated and sophisticated and harder to BUILD.

KI1G, Rick, will be active from Diego Garcia as VQ9RD from February 10-18 2009

I think the assisted category should not been introduced in first place. I think that it is good idea to merge the assisted and not-assisted back into one category.

K0IR K0JGH K0MD K1KD K4RT K4UEE K9SG N4GRN N6MZ NA5U W0GJ W0NB W0RUN W6IZT W8OI will be active from Desecheo Island

CU8AS HB9CQL HB9CRV will be active from Sao Jorge Island (IOTA EU-175) on 160-10m CW SSB RTTY from 28 january till 2 february 2009.

Well, guys from the CQ WW Contest Committee grew sad and retracted into their Diogenes’s reflector. They do not know that it also has ears for a very long time already. In fact, they are curious where 4L5A gets information from.

Janusz, SP9YI will be active from South Shetland Islands (IOTA AN-010) Antarctica till november 2009 using call sign HF0APAS.

QUESTION: Will the CQ CONTEST COMMITTEE open its closed discussions of the fate of Single Operator categories to the public or will we first learn of them when the rules are changed?

Masa, JA6GXK (JD1BMM) and Kingo, JK1PCN (JD1BND) will be active from Minami-Torishima Island (OC-073) from 24 January to 9 February.

Lars, MM0DWF (DL9LB) will be active from South Georgia Island (AN-007) in February, he will use his VP8DIF callsign

DL9HCU is active from Nauru Island with callsign C21HC

Emil, E71A will be active in CQ WW 160m Contest 23 - 25 january 2009 in SO category.

A71BX will be active in coming CQ WW 160m CW contest 23-25 january 2009

Ozer, TA2RC will be active in coming CQ 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Single Operator Low Power category.