VU4RG - DXpedition from Andaman Island

The Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Radio Club (NIAR) at Hyderabad will be during 18-20 October, 2008.

There is now the good news about the amateur radio activity after the event from the 24th of October to November 3, 2008. NIAR had informed us today about the successful licenses and operation permits for VU4 or VU7 activations.

There are two callsigns for the VU4-DXpedition:
VU4MY will be the call for the Indian Team.
VU4RG will be the call for the two German HAMs operating with two stations from Port Blair/Andaman Island (IOTA: AS-001; WLOTA: L-0562; ITU: 49 ; WAZ: 26

The two German operators are:
Helmut, DL5DSM (VU3NLG)
Norbert, DJ7JC (VU3NLF)

Equipment:
DL5DSM : FT857 + KL500 or FL7000
DJ7JC: Elecraft K3 + FL7000

Antennas:
160/80m G5RV
40m Phased Array (2GP's)
30m GP
20-10m 5-Band-Spiderbeam
15m-GP von DX-Wire

Modes:
All modes: CW, SSB, BPSK, RTTY

Allowed Bands:
160M 1820~1860,
80M 3500~3700, 3890~3900,
40M 7000~7100,
30M 10100~10150,
20M 14000~14350,
17M 18.068~18168,
15M 21000~21450,
12M 24890~24990,
10M 28000~29700

Pay attention to the specific permission for 30 m!
We'll publish our working frequencies on QRZ.com under VU4RG

CQWW SSB Contest:
We'll take part in this Contest from the October 25-26th, as VU4RG.

Operating from GOA:
DL5DSM with the Indian callsign VU3NLG and DJ7JC with the Indian callsign VU3NLF will be on the air from GOA between the 6th up to the 14th of November.

Further information:
QRZ.com :
VU4RG
QSL-MANAGER FOR VU4RG:
Norbert Meyer
DJ7JCatdarc.de
Huenninghausenweg 33
D-45276 Essen
Germany

How to help:
Sponsoring is welcome via Paypal to
norbert.meyeratversanet-online.de after the DXpedition

Source: OPDX