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I wanted to publish this summary later, but finally decided to do it now. Although ARRL DX CW 2009 will take place in more than a month, many contesters are already concerned about "where to go?". I believe that this information will help them to make a final decision.

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

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

Peter NO2R will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest from Cambodia.

Champ E21EIC will be active in CQ WW 160m Contest 23 - 25 january from Laos as XW1B.

Al CE1/K7CA will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest 24 - 25 January and in ARRL DX International Contest 21 - 22 February 2009.

As a good teaching aid I used the recording of K9PG operating ZF2MM in ARRL SSB. Very much usefull listening. Of course I do not appeal to copy somebody's style exactly.

S21RC S21AM S21DM S21S S21RO S21SA will be active from St Martin's Island (AS-127), 16 -22 January 2009 as S21DX.

OM3BH and OM3GI with some local CT3 operators will be active from Madeira Island in CQ WW 160M 2009 CW Contest as CT9M.

SM0XBI will be active as J79XBI from Dominica (IOTA NA-101) from 17 January until around 1 April.

Richard, K2WR will be active in CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23-25 January 2009

Juan, CO8TW will be active in coming CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23 - 25 January 2009.

XE1RCS team will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Multi Operator category

John, K3TEJ, will be active from the Dominica (IOTA NA-101) as J7N from February 11 - 27 2009

Guido, ON4BAG will be active from Senegal as 6V7O from 22 - 28th February 2009.

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

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

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

Hrane, YT1AD will be active from American Samoa, from 22 till 24 april 2009 as KH8/N9YU.

Hrane, YT1AD will be active from Fiji Island from 25 of april till 4 of may 2009 as 3D2AD.

Val, RD3AF and Alex, RZ3AZ will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 2009 as EF8M from Canary Islands in Multi Single Category.

Girts, YL2KL will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest as D4C from Cabo Verde.

Ashraf, 3V4-002 will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 2009 from club station 3V8SS Tunisia.

The Council of Europe Radio Amateur Club (TP2CE) will be active as TP60CE from 27 February to 1 March to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe.

Tom, N1GN will be active from Bahamas from 23 of february till 9 of march 2009 as C6ANM.

John,KK9A will be active in CQ WW 160m SSB Contest 27 february-1 march 2009 from his contest station in Aruba as P40A.

Eric, KV1J will be active from Miquelon Island (IOTA NA-032) from 4 till 9 of march 2009 as FP/KV1J.

HI3CCP, VE9DX and HI3K will be active in ARRL International DX SSB Contest 7 - 8 march 2009 as HI3K.

William, W8EB will be active from Sint Maarten Island from 22 february till 19 of march 2009 as PJ7B.

K1DG, K1QX and W1MD will be active in ARRL International DX SSB Contest 7 - 8 March 2009 from Antigua as V26F.

G3TBK will be active in ARRL International DX SSB Contest from St.Vincent Island 7-8 marh 2009 as J88DR

XE1RCS will be active from Mexico in CQ WW 160m SSB DX Contest on 27 march - 1 april 2009.

Axel, DL6KVA will be active from Azerbaijan from 4K9W station from 19 till 25 of March 2009 as 4K0CW.

David, W5CW will be active from Turks & Caicos 24 march till 8 of april 2009.

W9VA, K9PPY and PY0FF will be active from Fernando de Noronha Island in ARRL DX International SSB Contest 7-8 march 2009 as PS0F in Multi Single category.

Kuniyoshi, 7L1FPU,Yoshiki, KH0UA and Satoshi, N2QP will be active from Mariana Islands as AH0BT during the CQWW WPX SSB Contest March 28 - 29 2009.

Boris, N3SY will be active from Dominican republic from 27 of march till 8 of april 2009 as HI3/N3SY.

Jim, W7EJ will be active in CQ WW WPX SSB Contest 28-29 march 2009 from Morocco as CN2R in SOAB Category.

Rag, LA5HE will be active from Svalbard Island from 4 - 10 of march 2009 as JW5HE.

What an incredible experience from one of the world’s premier stations and locations! Great contest with a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating moments and more than few “others” in the downside column.

The ZL7T DXpedition Team will leave for Chatham Island Tomorrow around 0130 UTC and expect to be on the ground in ZL7 around 0400 UTC.

PJ2T will be active from Curacao Island in ARRL Internation DX Contest 7 - 8 march 2009.

Richard, PA0RRS will be moving permanently to Malaysia on 1 May 2009.

Gildas, TU5KG expects to be active from Kerguelen Island between 8 - 10 of March 2009 as FT5XS.

Makoto, JI5RPT will be active from Chichijima Island, (IOTA AS-031), Ogasawara from 29 april till 5 of may 2009 as JD1BLY.

CQ WW 160m CW was a very promising event this year as we stuck an the bottom of the solar cycle so the low bands were good and the DX-activity in the contest was very high.

ZL1CT will be active from Niue Island (IOTA OC-040) from 16 of may till 20 june 2009 as ZK2V.

SV1GRM and group will be active from Levitha Rocky Island (Dodecanese) from 8 to 14 of june 2009 as SX5LA.

Bernd, VK9AA will be active from Cocos Keeling Islands in Russian DX Contest 21 - 22 march 2009.

Jim, CN2R will be active from Morocco in Russian DX Contest 21-22 march 2009.