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Recording of a QSO between Petrus,ZS8T and Igor, RA3CQ on 20m.

Petrus ZS6GCM is QRT from Marion Island (IOTA AF 021) and is on the way back to ZS.

Pierre Tromp, ZS1HF will be operational from Marion Island (IOTA AF-021) from the end of April 2010 as ZS8M.

Marion Island was first discovered in 1663 by the Dutch ship Maerseveen. The discovery was accidental, and they made no landing on the island. After about five years Captain Cook also saw the islands, but he couldn’t make a landing due to bad weather. The first recorded landing on the island was in 1803 by a group of sealers, but they found signs of earlier occupation.

By the end of March 2011 Arie PA3A, Bas PD0CAV, Ad PA8AD and Arie PA3AN will leave for Africa to meet up with Dickson EL2DT to kick off a DXpedition to Sierra Leone.

HK1R, HK1T, HK1X with DXARC, DX Columbia Amateur Radio Club planning to be active in 2012 from Malpelo Island as HK0NA.

We are pleased to announce that the next DXpedition by Italian Dxpedition Team will be in Cot D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), date to be confirmed in October and November 2011.

The Araucaria DX Group, in conjunction with the TX3A Team, is pleased to announce a DXpedition to St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks, PY0S, under the call sign PT0S.

First of all, Tnx very much to each of you who have responded thus far via the P5 Interest webform. I am extremely encouraged by the level of generosity already expressed for the Humanitarian part of this Project in such a short time.

David, ZS1BCE will be active again from Marion Island, IOTA AF - 021, December 2016 - May 2018 as ZS8Z.

ZS1KX will be active from Marion Island starting May 2014 as ZS8KX.

ZL3PAH, ZL4PW, ZL3GA, G3USR will be active from Vanuatu 3 - 15 October 2014 as YJ0X.

We are pleased to announce that the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands has issued our Dxpedition call signs. We will use VP8STI from South Thule Island (South Sandwich). We will use VP8SGI from South Georgia Island.

Before sending out a press release, I wanted to share the following with those fellow hams who generously pledged to financially support the Bouvet Island "one-man three-month concept".

I will leave France at mid-November to Réunion Island, and there get on board of "Marion Dufresne", the supply ship of the french austral territories. It will take approximately 10-15 day to reach the Kerguelen archipelago with a stopover at Crozet archipelago.

Derek G3KHZ, Hans SM6CVX, Nils SM6CAS, Ulrika SM7WYN and Eddy K5WQG will activate 3 NEW IOTA groups in Myanmar,namely AS-182 , AS-183 and AS-184.

At this time, we would like to announce several new aspects of the VP8STI/VP8SGI Dxpeditions:

We are pleased to report that the R/V Braveheart has arrived in Stanley, the Falkland Islands and is making preparations for the arrival of the VP8STI/VP8SGI team.

Three proven and experienced DXpedition leaders and a large team of operators will activate the DXCC number #2 most wanted DXCC entity in late 2017 or early 2018.

YB16T Panjang Island Special Event Amateur Radio Station Video announcement.

This year CQ is releasing three separate announcements for its Halls of Fame, with release time embargoes. The CQ DX Hall of Fame and CQ Contest Hall of Fame announcements will be released early Saturday and Sunday UTC.

The Dateline DX Association (most recently the K4M team) is very pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Pacific Islands Refuges & Monuments Office of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to pursue an Amateur Radio expedition to Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge (KH1)

Following our DXpedition to Kanton Island (Central Kiribati) in 2016, we decided to come back to this extraordinary place this year - with a new plan and resources.