Tom heads for Tristan Da Cunha

Tom, ZD7X (KC0W), reports that he will be departing
St. Helena Island in late June and will be traveling to his next DX location of Tristan da Cunha Island.

His callsign on Tristan will be ZD9X, and he will be there for at lease 4-6 months, maybe longer. A home has been secured for him with a backyard measuring one acre with plenty of room for antennas.

Tom states, "Operating from St. Helena has been rather fun. I will be excited for a new DX location after all is said and done though. Full story to come out someday!!!

With almost 35,000 QSOs now, the radio and vertical antenna have been doing a good job. I DO NOT want to have to break out the spare radios of a Kenwood TS-2000 and a Yaesu 100D if something should go wrong with my main 'good' radio.

Once on Tristan, my plan is to explore a way of getting to Bouvet Island and to operate from there before a TENATIVE operation to the three islands of South Sanswich, South Orkney and South Georgia via the Falkland Islands.

According to the '100 Most Needed List', (2006) Bouvet is ranked at 8th in the world. It would be a crying shame to be less than 1400 miles from Bouvet and not to give a 100% effort to try to put Bouvet on the air. Bouvet is located nearest to Tristan than any other island.

Still no plans of any RTTY/PSK activity as either ZD7X or ZD9X. My MicroHam unit that should allow Digi operation has not worked since I got here. Personal interest in the Digi modes is also not that great..... Good DX

Tom ZD7X

Source: OPDX