IRTS Swazi DXpedition team meeting

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society's AFRI75 team had a final meeting, before they head to South Africa in March, at the City North Hotel near Julianstown, Co. Meath on Sunday the 18th of February.

Those present were EI2CA, EI7CC, EI3GV, EI4DJ (GI4FUM),
EI4DJB and GI4VIV. The meeting was very constructive and quite a few problem areas were highlighted. Hopefully the team also found solutions.

Pete GI4VIV gave a demo of the Logger 32 logging program and CW control software. The team are now all keen to be off to South Africa.

As there is only a small team of operators and we will only be in Swaziland for 10 days, the main activity will centre around the SARL VHF contest on the 17th of March and the CQ WPX SSB contest the following weekend. It is hoped to have assistance from our ZS6 friends for these two contests.

As the VHF contest on St Patrick's Day will depend on making contacts on 6m and 2m by EME and MS they will be active during the hours of Moonrise and Moonset on the 16th, 17th and 18th of March. Therefore expect to hear activity on 2m and 6m EME and/or Meteor Scatter between Midnight and early afternoon.

As far as activity on HF is concerned the team will concentrate on the WARC bands during the week after the St. Patrick's activity.

AFRI75 - IRTS 75th Jubilee DXpedition 2007

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