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18 August, 2008

Island activities:

AS-083. Vasily, RA9LI/9, is now active from meteorological station in the Arctic Ocean on Belyy Island (RRA RR-06-04, RDA YN-14) for an unknown length of time. He was heard on 14166 kHz this past week between 1530-1830z. This is valid for the Arctic Challenge Award. QSL via UA9LP.

EU-016. Tom, 9A2AA, is now active as 9A73AA/p from Korcula Island for about the next two weeks. Activity has been on 20 meters SSB and 40 meters CW. He is also expected to activate other nearby islands as 9A2AA/p. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the bureau.

EU-017. Marco, IZ3GNG, will be active as ID9/IZ3GNG from Lipari Island (IIA ME-001, MIA MI-053, WLOTA LH-1144), August 20-22nd. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the bureau.

EU-088. Bernd, DL8AAV, will be active as OZ/DL8AAV/p from Laeso Island (NK-003 for the Danish Islands Award), September 16-27th. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the bureau.

EU-090. Operators Simon/IZ7ATN and Alessio/IZ0CKJ are now active as 9A/homecall/p from the Vela Palagruza on Palagruza Islands between now and August 23rd. Activity will be from the lighthouse there. Operations over the past weekend were on 20 meters SSB. They are expected to activate nearby islands (such as Galijula and Mala Palagruza). QSL via their home callsigns.

EU-127. Operators Karl/DJ5KK, Thorsten/DG7TG and Wolf/DK3KD will be active as DA0HEL from Helgoland Island (N-14 for the German Islands Award, WLOTA LH-0518), September 6-8th. They will be taking part in the IARU VHF Contest on 2 meters CW/SSB. Look for them outside of the contest on the HF bands. QSL via the DARC Bureau.

EU-170. Lada, OK1LO (aka 9A5LO), will be active as 9A5LO from the following Croatian islands (all count as EU-170) between August 18-27th: Pasman (IOCA CI-085), Ugljan (CI-134), Galovac (CI-604) and Osljak (CI-081). Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, PSK31 and RTTY. Equipment: Rigs: IC-706MKIIG (100w), FT-817ND (5w); Tuners: AT-180, AH-4, MFJ 941E; ANTs: dipole 2x 15m (160-10m); FD-4 (80-10m); GP-3 WiMo (10-15-20m) and LW 38m.

NA-234. Gianni, I1HYW, reports that a 10 minute video on the Web on the recent Chuginadak Island DXpedition by the Russian Robinson Club is available on YouTube at:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=026fW4rYcwg&eurl=
http://www.na-234.com/

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