Swains Island DXpedition

It is a little over a week to go before members of the N8S Swains Island DXpedition will hit the air between April 4th - 15th.

Then the team will move their operations to the Independent State of Samoa (5W - formerly known as Western Samoa from 1914-1997) as 5W5AA (and possibly other callsigns) between April 17-24th.

Acim, YZ1EW, announced this past week that both the N8S and 5W5AA teams will be active on 60 meters (on 5403.5 kHz), 2m EME and 6 EME with WSJT65 A,B,C (on frequencies 50.375 MHz and 144.375 MHz).

He also announced that the following pilot stations for the operation are:
Toma/YU1AB for Western Europe,
Lee/KH6BZF for the Americas and the Pacific, and Antic/YU1AA for the YU and Eastern Europe areas.

Lastly, he stated that the DXpedition team is ready to go. All donations are welcome according to the data on their Web site at: http://www.yt1ad.info/n8s/

Acim also adds (edited): "The most wanted DXCC country needs HAMSPIRIT on the frequency, and please listen carefully to the operator on the current frequency."

Source: OPDX

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