Details: Category: reports 2010; Published on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:38; Written by Frosty K5LBU; Hits: 1355

October 21st through November 3rd were the official dates for five Texans and 3 Italians to join together for a DXpedition to Botswana. The group was led by Frosty, K5LBU (A25CF) and Lor, IK5MDB (A25DF) and joined by the other principal operators Gianfranco, I0ZY (A25ZY), Pier, IZ5MMB (A25MB), Bob, K5ZOL (A25BI), Matt, KD5TAN (A25AN), Jay, W5SL (A25SL), and Bob, W5UQ (A25UQ). Jay’s wife Dee and Bob’s (W5UQ) wife Elva also joined us for the trip. Frosty, Jay, and Dee travelled from Texas about a week early to begin gathering equipment. Meeting at the Washington Dulles Airport we endured the nearly 18-hour South African Airways flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, including a one-hour refueling stop in Dakar, Senegal. We stopped in Pretoria for a couple of days and stayed in a nice lodge (Ndlovu Lodge...Zulu word meaning Elephant) while we visited with Hal, ZS6WB with whom we did some sightseeing and shopping for last minute needs for the DXpedition. Also, while we shipped ahead what we could, Hal had been collecting and borrowing rotators and some aluminum poles, coax cables, and antenna parts and supports for us so we didn't have to ship everything to Botswana, thus saving some expensive shipping fees.

Island of Annobón 2010

Details: Category: reports 2010; Published on Sunday, 17 October 2010 14:49; Written by Elmo EA5BYP; Hits: 1028

Javier EA5KM and Elmo EA5BYP We started preparing for the expedition to the island of Annobón in early October 2009. It was during that month we started our with the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

Our goal was to reach the island during the month of April, and knowing the interest that 3C0C had, and has, on the low bands and CW mode, the our focus was on these modalities.

For some reason beyond our control, we could not post these modalities on the internet, so we worked every day in the project. We contacted EC4DX Javi and asked him if he would be our webmaster. Also, we talked to EA7FTR as we needed a manager. I remember our conversation and answer his answer clearly, “ Yes, of course! I´ll be the manager of Annobón 2010.

Our pilot would be EA5YN Vic, later Paul VK4MA joined the group.

PJ4/PB2T and PJ2/PB2T

Details: Category: reports 2010; Published on Saturday, 16 October 2010 20:31; Written by Hans Blondeel Timmerman; Hits: 1152

PJ2

On 11 and 12 October 2010 I attended the Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference on Curaçao. This just happened to take place after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10-10-10. The political change resulted in four new DXCC entities (Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire and Saba/Sint Eustatius) and I was able to be active from two of the new entities.

PJ4