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Ray WQ7R will be active in CQ WW 160m 2009 CW contest from Honduras with call sign HQ9R

CX2ABC, CX5BE, CX5BW, CX6ACY, CX6DAP, CX7AT, CX7BZ, CX9AU will be active from Flores Island, (Uruguay) with call sign CV5A Jan 22 - 26.

There are only 2 more qualifying tests left in the selection race to the WRTC 2010. These are - RDXC 2009 and “On site championship of Russian Federation” (I am talking here about Russians). I would like to share some thoughts about selection Formula or “Selection criteria for participation in”World Radiosport Team Championship 2010” (“WRTC 2010”)

HK3CW, K5UO, WF5W will be active from San Andres and Providencia Islands from 24 to 30 of january 2009

Aleksey Turkeev will be active from Russian Antarctic base Vostok with call sign R1ANC during 2009

Frank, I2DMI, has ended his A52RY operation from Thimphu, Bhutan, on December 30th.

Bert, CX3AN,will be active as A35HA from Tonga, Tongatapu (OC-049) for one week starting February 14th.

Niels, OZ8KR will be active as C56KR from Bakuto, The Gambia, between January 9-14th.

Chris (ex-5U5U) expects to start activity from the Central African Republic (requested call TL0A) around 15 January.

Simone, IZ5JNQ will be active as HI7/IZ5JNQ from the Dominican Republic (NA-096) between 5 January and 5 February 2009.

TS7C multi-national team (DL1BDF, F1HRE, F2VX, F4AJQ, F4EGD, F4EVR, F5EOT,F5PED, F5UFX, F6AXX, F6BIV, F6CTT, F6ENO, F8BJI, F8IJV, F9IE, FM5CD, G0OPB, I2VGW, N2WB, N6OX, OE8KDK, OE8SKQ, OE9AMJ and ON7RN).

EA5GVH Peter will be QRV from Aruba (IOTA SA-036) between January 12th and 28th. He will also count for WLOTA LH-0033 Callsing P40PZ

Nicolas TN5SN announce that he will be on 04Z 1st of january on 160m looking for North America

I have noticed quite a few different postings about me and quite a few of them have been wrong...

A license has been granted to an Italian team and the period of their first activity will be from January 1 to January 11, 2009. The callsign released is E44M and it covers from 160 meters to 2 meters SSB, CW, RTTY and all digital modes with a maximum power of 1KW. They will have 3 stations active with beams, verticals and wire antennas.