Midway Island DXpedition

A multi-national team of 18 operators will activate Midway Island (OC-030) between October 9-19th.

The team will sign K4M and will operate from Sand Island (Reference numbers: USI OI-011S and Grid AL18).

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has authorized this amateur radio operation from this rare U.S. entity for only a 10 day period - the first amateur radio activity in almost 10 years.

Midway Island ranks number 24 world-wide and number 13 in Europe on the DX Magazine’s “Most Wanted List”.

The updated team member list consists of operators:
Joe AA4NN, Franz DJ9ZB, Max I8NHJ, Kevin K6TD, Kimo KH7U, Craig K9CT, Don N1DG, Tom ND2T, Paul N4PN, Tom N4XP, Arnold N6HC, John N7CQQ, Dave WB4JTT, Charlie W6KK, Bruce W6OSP, Art WA7NB, Joe W8GEX and James 9V1YC.

In addition to the on the air team members, K4M is ably assisted by the following off-island support team:
Don AA1V (Web support/online logs), Markus DL9RCF (European Fund Raising), Dan W5DNT (Logistics), Paul W6XA (Radio Setup and Testing) and Margarett (XYL AA4NN - Finance), Janet W8CAA (Fundraising) and Vrata OK1KT (QSL Card Procurement).

Activity will be on 160-6 meters with 5 to 6 stations.

Suggested frequencies are:
CW - 1826.5, 3504, 7004, 10104, 14024, 18074, 21024, 24894 and 28024 kHz
SSB - 3799, 7078, 14200, 18145, 21295, 24945 and 28475 kHz
RTTY - 7040, 10140, 14080, 18100, 21080 and 28080 kHz
6m - 50115/CW and 50118/SSB

For more details, updates, online log, frequencies and bios, go to: http://www.midway2009.com

QSL via online QSL Service, direct (Midway 2009, Box 333, Bethlehem, GA 30620-9989 USA) or LoTW.

Source: OPDX