Falkland Islands YL operation

An international group of YLs will activate the Falkland Islands (SA-002) between January 17-31st.

Each operator will be signing with the callsign VP8YL*, where the third letter of the suffix will be assigned to each
YL operator at beginning of the operation.

There will be 8 YLs from the following countries active from Falkland Islands:

YL operators mentioned at present include:
Janet VP8AIB, Chantal PA3GQG, Unni LA6RHA, Jeanie WA6UVF, Mio JR3MVF, Liz M0ACL, Victoria SV2KBS*, Nicky M5YLO and Ruth IT9ESZ.

The YL team will fly into the Falklands on January 17th. Together with Janet, VP8AIB, and other YLs from Falkland
will all activate VP8YL* for 14 days. All the YLs coming from around the world will be getting their VP8 callsign on Monday, January 19th.

During the first weekend they will operate as VP8YLC which is the YL club's callsign on Falkland.

The YLs will be operating from QTHs in Stanley (one from the home of Bob VP8LP and Janet VP8AIB and the other from a hut not far from Bob/Janet's home).

Some of the YLs will bring along their own HF rigs. Some will stay for a week and the others for two weeks. The activity will be mainly on SSB, on all bands (80-10m), but only 20 hours every day. There will be 4 stations with the following
antennas: two SteppIR 3 element beam and two vertical SteppIR.

QSL via operator's home callsign. Look for more information to become available at: http://www.radioclubs.net/aa_vp8yl_/

OPDX

* Victoria Panagiotu, SV2KBS appears on Radio Bulgaria's DX Programme this week. You can listen to the interview with Victoria by clicking here