Amateur Radio Ham Radio Announcements Page 6

After analyzing all the Dxpeditions that were conducted in 2014, our preference for the Dxpedition that stood out the most, regarding communication with the ham community, goes to FT5ZM, the Dxpedition to Amsterdam I., that operated in January-February 2014.

Damn, another visit by Murphy last night ! You may have noticed that we were not on air after 22U3O . The whole citycentre had a power failure for seven hours!

Today (Saturday) 8 officials from the CRA visited our location. These guy's where the CRA managers of different districts in Iran.

We know that receiving is our main problem at this time, the noise level on most of the bands is very high. The first 2 days we had very high QRM level of humm and buzz on all bands.

We are happy to announce these new members of the team. We have one open position, were awaiting an answer from a well known DX-peditioner who is trying to fit the project into his work schedule. Stay tuned.

Welcome to the fourth edition "The Insider" a regular publication for supporters and partners of the Chesterfield Islands, 2015 DX-pedition.

The Yasme Excellence Award is presented to individuals who, through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication, have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement, as all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper.

For the second year in a row, DxCoffee will present the “Best Communication Award”. Just like we did last year, the idea is to acknowledge the Dxpedition that showed the best communication skills towards the ham community, by using dedicated websites, newletters, bullettins and press releases.

2015 / 2016 are shaping up to be one of the best ever DX-pedition seasons. Along with the skipper of Evohe we developed our tentative sailing schedule. We will ship equipment to Auckland, New Zealand where the boat will be loaded and sail for Noumea, New Caledonia.

The Intrepid-DX Group, led by Paul Ewing-N6PSE and David Collingham-K3LP, is pleased to announce our next Dxpedition. In January 2016, a multi-national team of fourteen operators will converge in Stanley, the Falkland Islands and start a 34 day voyage aboard the R/V Braveheart to the #4 most wanted DXCC, South Sandwich Island and the #9 most wanted DXCC, South Georgia Island.

After Tromelin, the Provins ARC, F6KOP will be on Robinson Crusoë Island SA-005 (Juan Fernandez Archipelago) from 24th February to 4th march 2015

On 26 October 2014 an announcement was made through various channels that I had obtained permission to land and reside on Bouvet Island (3Y/B) for the mid-January 2016 until mid-April 2016 time frame.

With South Georgia behind us now (in terms of radio operation, currently the ship is at anchor about a mile off the island) I am turning my attention to operating from Rothera base, Adelaide Island.

Mike, GM0HCQ/VP8CMH will be active from Bird Island, South Georgia Islands (IOTA AN-007) 27-29 November 2014 as VP8SGK.

The idea came up during a conversation with Marco HB9OCR. After returning from Lampedusa Island for the CQWW SSB 2014 (IO9Y) We decided to organize small Dxpedition to the Palestine E4 .