 VU7RG
Lakshadweep Islands DXpedition is on
The VU7RG DXpedition to Lakshadweep Islands
in the Indian Ocean, sponsored by the National Institute of Amateur Radio
(NIAR) in India and scheduled for January 14 through 31, has now been
on-air for almost a week, with plenty of activity heard from the VU7RG
teams on all four islands.
Lakshadweep Islands are 2nd most wanted entity on the DXCC List!
The activity is taking place from four islands – Agatti, Bangaram,
and Kadmat, using the call sign VU7RG, while
a separate all-Indian team is operating as VU7MY
from Minicoy Island.
This is the first ever large scale DXpedition operation including foreign
operators - and probably the biggest real expedition of all time - and
includes 50 Indian and foreign operators. As usual, operation is being
conducted on all bands and modes.
Plans called for having up to 14 stations on the air from the four islands.Yaesu
has provided tvelve FT2000 transceivers and six 1 kW amplifiers.
The RG suffix of VU7RG is in memory of the assassinated Prime Minister
of India, Rajiv Gandhi, who was a licensed amateur radio operator himself
as VU2RG.
QSL information
Depending on what IARU Region you are in, there are three different QSL
routes for this operation. They are:
IARU Region 1: (Europe, Africa, Middle East and Northern
Asia)- QSL to the German DX Foundation: GDXF, Blumenstr. 25, 50126 Bergheim,
Germany
IARU Region 2: (The Americas) - QSL to Bob Schenck, N2OO:
Bob Schenck, REGION 2 QSL MANAGER FOR VU7RG, P.O. Box 345, Tuckerton,
NJ 08087-0345 USA
IARU Region 3: (Asia-Pacific) - QSL to I-House Radio
Club/JA3UB: I-House Radio Club/JA3UB, P.O.BOX 73, Amagasaki, 660-8799
JAPAN
It is recommend that you visit the VU7RG
Web page for more details on how to QSL to each different route, especially
for Bureau QSLs.
Online logs are available (most, but not all) at the following Web site:
http://www.dx-pedition.de/lakshadweep2007/logs/
logsearch.php
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