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    IREF - Island Radio Expedition Foundation - News

    IREF is pleased to announce the following:

    A new website has been developed to make it easier to navigate and get information on IREF activities and also to support the organization.
    As most IOTA participants know, the mission of IREF is to encourage and support IOTA focused expeditions. To this point we’ve only encouraged expeditions through financial support and in pursuit of that objective IREF has disbursed more than $80,000 to IOTA expeditioners since our founding in 1999. The IREF funding criteria has evolved over the years, but now focuses on IOTA islands that are confirmed by less than 15% of chasers. IREF has often been asked to sponsor expeditions to islands that aren’t as rare, however, because we don’t have unlimited funds, the budget can’t take much of that. On the recent VK9AR expedition the expedition team discussed potential ways to motivate and encourage expeditioners to get out more and activate the less rare islands that many new chasers still need. The IREF Board has taken these suggestions under consideration and believe that the time has come for IREF to find other, non-financial ways, to encourage IOTA expeditions to less rare destinations as well as to continue our current focus on financial support for rare IOTAs. IREF believes it is within the mission of IREF to encourage island expeditioning and if we can’t always do it with money, we should use other means.

    Therefore IREF is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a new award, the IOTA Expeditioner of the Yearaward. For information and rules please visit the new website at the link above.

    IREF will be looking for sponsors for the awards and will give away as many plaques as we can get sponsored. The sponsor will have their name or organization on the plaque along with IREF Logo.

    Please visit the IREF Facebook page to keep up with current activities.

    Island Radio Expedition Foundation IREF Logo

    73 Al 4L5A
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    For Immediate Release
    Island Radio Expedition Foundation
    www.irefradio.com
    March 26, 2019

    IREF IOTA Expeditioner of the Year 2018

    The inaugural IREF IOTA Expeditioner of the Year competition is over and the points have been tabulated. Who will be the first IOTA Expeditioner of the Year? We’ll know at the Dayton DX Dinner, Friday, May 17th, 2019 at the Marriott Hotel in Dayton, Ohio where the award will be announced and the winner awarded the trophy. Tickets for the DX Dinner can be purchased on line at https://swodxaevents.org/purchase-tickets/ . The DX Dinner is held in conjunction with the Dayton Hamvention and is sponsored by the Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA).

    IREF would like to thank our plaque sponsors for 2018:

    1st Place IOTA Ltd.
    2nd Place Central Texas DX and Contest Club
    3rd Place Daily DX Bulletin

    IREF would also like to thank SWODXA allow us to present the award at the DX Dinner.

    The race is already heating up for the 2019 award. Sponsorship for 2019 Plaques are available and IREF will award as many plaques as we have sponsors. Proceeds from the sponsorships go to funding IOTA Expeditions. See the rules on our website, www.irefradio.com .
    73 Al 4L5A

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      If you are a procrastinator, now is your time to commit to the IOTA Bash in Canyon Lake Texas starting the Friday, March 29th.

      This is the speaker line-up

      • Igor UA9KDF and Andy UA9LDD about the RI0B odyssey
      • Cezar VE3LYC will talk about his H44/H40 IOTA expeditions
      • Probably some talk about NA-150 as well
      • Ed K5WQG will talk about his P29 adventures
      • Mike K9AJ will talk about his trip to VY0 NA-207

      The RI0B guys will have some QSL cards as well, I think.

      Confirmed attendees (partial):

      W5PF, W5BOS, K0AP, K9AJ, N6VR, WB2YQH, W9BF, WK5S, W5MJ, K6RV, K5WQG, VE3LYC, W4DKS, N7TY, AD6D, AD5A, N5ET, N5UR, N3QQ, W5GAI, N9BX, UA9KDF, UA9LDD and AB5EB.

      For details and Registration info, go to https://irefradio.com/iota-bash/
      73 Al 4L5A

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