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    Video VP6D DX Pedition Ducie Island Author Vadim Ivliev, UT6UD.

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    VP6D Ducie Island 2018 receives the German DX Foundation's award for: Best DXpedition 2018.



    VP6D Ducie Island DX Pedition of the Year 2018 German DX Foundation


    VP6D Ducie Island GDXF DX Pedition 2018

    The award was presented on Saturday, June 22nd at Ham Radio, Friedrichshafen, during the DX Forum.

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  • 4L5A
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    As announced at the International DX Convention, Visalia on Sunday April 14, the entire VP6D log was uploaded to LoTW.

    Please direct any questions about your QSOs to Tim M0URX after April 18th.

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    VP6D - Ducie Island QSL card’s were mailed on Monday, Feb 4, 2019 from the United Kingdom.

    The mailing included all OQRS and Direct Mail confirmation requests received by this mailing. Also included were cards shipped to foundations / clubs for distribution. Subsequent mailings will occur on a regular basis.

    Buro cards will be shipped to the worldwide buros at a later date.

    Please allow sufficient mail time before inquiring about missing cards.

    73,
    VP6D QSL Team

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    VP6D Ducie Island DX Pedition QSL. VP6D/MM QSL.


    VP6D Ducie Island QSL Front

    VP6D Ducie Island QSL Center


    VP6D Ducie Island QSL Back


    VP6D/MM Ducie Island QSL

    VP6D/MM Ducie Island QSL Back

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  • 4L5A
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    The VP6D QSL card designs were completed, proofs were submitted and approved for printing.

    Gennady UX5UO printed the cards during the week of Jan 7th, they will be shipped to Tim M0URX in the UK during the week of Jan 14th. A separate /MM card was also designed.

    Tim has already prepared the mailing labels, the envelopes are waiting to receive your cards. All confirmation requests received up to the mailing date will be included in the mailing. Confirmation requests after the first mailing will be processed on a regular basis.

    We expect to place the cards in the mail system by early February. The cards will be mailed from the United Kingdom, so please allow for mail system delays before asking for the status of your card(s). Buro cards will be mailed to the world buros quarterly, expect 6 - 12 months, or more, to receive buro cards.

    If you already requested confirmation via OQRS or by direct mail, our system will not allow duplicate requests. For example requesting a buro card more than once, or requesting a buro card if a card was sent via Direct Mail.

    We will send another update when the cards are placed into the mail system.

    73,
    VP6D QSL Team

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  • 4L5A
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    Having returned home in time for the US Thanksgiving holiday, and now with Christmas already here, we are busily working on the year end project close activities.
    The Braveheart returned to New Zealand on Dec 18th, our equipment was moved to the warehouse on Dec. 19th. The customs broker will collect the shipment after the holidays for return to San Francisco.
    We are designing the QSL card and expect to have it to the printer in the next few weeks. The cards will be printed in, and mailed from, Europe. You can expect to see them sometime in February. Of course, buro cards will take longer to arrive. We will notify the DX bulletins when the Direct Mail cards are posted.
    Happy Holidays from the VP6D team

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    VP6D Ducie Island 2018 DX Pedition article

    Introduction to Ducie Island

    Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Island group located in the center of the southern Pacific Ocean approximately equidistant from Chile and New Zealand, both several thousand kilometers away. It lies 535 kilometers (332 mi) east of Pitcairn Island, and over 1,000 km west of Easter Island. The atoll is 2.4 km (1.5 miles) long, measured northeast to southwest, and about 1.6 km (1 mile) wide. We landed on the main island, Acadia, on the north and east side of the atoll. Acadia is crescent-shaped, several hundred meters long and mostly covered in low trees. There are also three small islets, Pandora, Westward and Edwards, on the southern side of the atoll. Due to its inaccessibility and landing permit requirements, Ducie is rarely visited today.
    Amongst the Pitcairn group, Henderson Island is most famous for its birds, but Ducie is also a significant breeding ground for a number of species. More than 90% of the world population of Murphy’s petrel nests on Ducie (an estimated 250,000 birds), while pairs of red-tailed tropicbirds and fairy terns make around 1% of the world population for each species.

    Ducie was first discovered in 1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, who named it Luna Puesta, and rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of HMS Pandora, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of HMS Bounty (although they did not find the mutineers on nearby Pitcairn). Edwards named the island Ducie in honor of Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie, under whom he had previously served. In 1867 it was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act, but the United Kingdom annexed it on 19 December 1902 as part of the Pitcairn Islands.

    Ducie became a DXCC entity on November 16, 2001, after the Pitcairn Island Amateur Radio Association (PIARA) was accepted as an International Amateur Radio Union member-society. The first expedition was led by Kan, JA1BK in March 2002 using the VP6DI call sign. One year later, Ducie was again on the air with VP6DIA. Ducie was last activated in Feb 2008 as VP6DX by an international team of 13 operators, who made over 180,000 contacts in 16 days of operation. However, after 10 years of no amateur radio activity, Ducie had been climbing up the most-wanted lists and was ranked as ClubLog’s #19 before VP6D’s activation.

    http://wp.cdxc.org/infos/cr/vp6d-com...-a-lile-ducie/

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  • 4L5A
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    Team photo before leaving Ducie Island — at Ducie Island.


    VP6D Ducie Island DX Pedition Ducie Island Team before leaving Ducie Island

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    VP6D Ducie Island News 7 November 2018
    WOW, what an experience.

    We arrived Papeete late Tuesday after an uneventful (but long) 4 hour flight from Mangareva, French Polynesia.

    The team is in good spirits, we've been receiving hundreds of e-mails sent by the DX community, thank you for the positive comments.

    Of course, we were disappointed to leave Ducie early, but when you see the video of our island departure we think you'll agree it was the right decision. There is no harbor at Ducie, Braveheart used different landing and extraction points based on the winds, tide and the seas. Safety is always the primary concern, and while it was not raining, changing sea conditions presented the crew with challenges to remove the team and equipment without incident.

    Our log management team in Europe have all but one log that contains 523 QSOs, we will send that file in the next day or so. Internet at our hotel is not robust enough to work the logs. Many of you have sent e-mail to our personal e-mail accounts and to the VP6D.com mailbox regarding busted calls and other log problems.. Those will be read and addressed beginning this weekend, it can not be done from Tahiti.

    We will spend the next 2 days relaxing and repacking our bags before the long flights home.

    Thanks for the the wonderful pileups, and thanks to the Braveheart crew that made this a safe and exciting DX-pedition for the team and the DX community.

    73,
    Team Ducie 2018


    VP6D Mangreva Island, Gambier Islands

    VP6D team back safely to Mangareva (French Polynesia) — at Gambier Islands.

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