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6V7W - Senegal
This is an operation by EA1AP EA1CJ EA1SA EA5KA. They will operate
160-6m using SSB, CW & RTTY. They will be operational until the end of
July.
My computer shows the beam heading as 83° / 263° from Dallas.
QSL via Home call.
Senegal lies at the most western point in Africa.
Interestingly, The Gambia lies almost completely within Senegal. The
capitol city is Dakar, with almost 2 million inhabitants.
Senegal is a democratic country. 95% of the population is Muslim. The main
industries include food processing, mining, cement, artificial fertilizer,
chemicals, textiles, refining imported oil and tourism. Exports include
fish, chemicals, cotton, fabrics, groundnuts and calcium phosphate.
ZS8M - Marion Island
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Pierre, ZS1HF is on Marion Island (AF-021) is active
as ZS8M now. He is the base radio/electronics technician for a year.
He is using SSB
and Digital modes only. No CW. Doing a cluster search on his call
does not show and particular favorite frequency, although he is pretty
active. Maybe you can find an
operating pattern. QSL direct to ZS1X.Online QSL address is: ZS8M, PO BOX
151, Worcester, 6850, South Africa.
Pierre is using dipole antennas. This is mainly due
to the severe winds which often occur on Marion, and to prevent birds from
flying into a bigger antenna structure.
A ZS8M website is
available.
Online log is now available at: http://dx.qsl.net/logs
Marion Island is #3 most wanted DXCC in 2009
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LSDXA Meetings & Activities
 Next LSDXA
quarterly meeting is scheduled for September 18th. Location TBA. Mark your
calendars.
Hamcom is now history.
The full Hamcom story from the LSDXA point of view, is HERE.
Pictures are HERE.
We also had elections for the board of directors at Hamcom.
Here are the results.
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LSDXA Board of
Directors (Elected) |
| Position |
Name |
Callsign |
| Chief
Director and President |
Dan
White |
W5DNT |
| Information
Director |
Paul
Godwin |
N5PG |
| Activities
Director |
Rick
Barnett |
N0RB |
| Secretary/Treasurer |
Jerry
Karlovich |
KD5OM |
Don't forget 2010 Dues are now due if you have not paid yet. We can't
support the wonderful DXpeditions we enjoy if you don't help us. Send a check to the Treasurer
/ Secretary with your callsign on it.
Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur
New hams, new DXers and even us "Old Hands" could use a lesson /
reminder of good operating procedures sometimes. So, the great gentlemen
from Belgium, John ON4UN, and Mark ON4WW, have written an excellent
"Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur" guide.
It can be downloaded as a .pdf file from several websites, including the IARU
and the RSGB.
Excel Spreadsheet by Jari, OH2BU - The "Mega DX Peditions Honor Roll".
26 Jan 09. MEGA DXPEDITIONS HONOR ROLL. Jari, OH2BU,
has put together and maintained an interesting Excel spreadsheet over the
last 12 years called - The "Mega DXpeditions Honor Roll". This
Honor Roll listing includes data of DXpeditions that have
worked 30,000 or more QSOs since 1979. This unique listing includes data
on:
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A summary on the DXpedition (dates,
length, QSOs, stations..etc.)
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Information on Logs, Web site, QSL
routes and if it is in LoTW
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List of operators of the DXpedition
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QSO statistics per continents, modes
and bands
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Also continental, band and mode records
The whole purpose of this listing is to
help future DXpeditions in planning their next operation, and to
understand the possibilities in making QSOs to different continents and to
optimize their efforts.
The LSDXA would like to thank Jari for permission to reproduce his amazing
spreadsheet on this site. Please Click on the "Files" link in
our menu to access it.
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Current DX Cluster Spots - updated every 30 secs.
Possible DXCC changes...
TWO NEW COUNTRIES? It
was reported this past week that St. Maarten (PJ7) and Curacao (PJ2) will
become separate countries within the Dutch Kingdom on October 10, 2010, and
this date is irrevocable. However, the two new countries are subjected to
meet certain conditions before that date. If the two countries can meet
these conditions, then the Netherlands Antilles will officially cease to
exist.
I'm sure the following will never count for DXCC, but it's interesting to see
who can declare independence......
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