5 November, 2018

Island activities:

AF-037. (Update) Members of the F6KOP Team will be active as 9LY1JM from Banana Islands, Sierra Leone, between January 9-21st, 2019. Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK and FT8. There will be 12 operators and 4 stations on air: 4X Kenwood TRX -590s into VDA antenna 10 to 20m & Spiderbeam mast for low band 30 to 160m. Look for more details to be forthcoming. Also watch: http://www.f6kop.com

AF-111. (Reminder/New IOTA). Operators Eric/EL2EF, Col/MM0NDX and
Jonathan/MM0OKG will be active from Telengbe Island (southern Liberia) as EL2EL/4 between November 5-9th. This activity is dependent on weather and sea conditions. Operations will be on 40/30/20/17/15 meters using mostly SSB but with some CW and possibly FT8. QSL via M0SDV, LoTW or ClubLog. Also read OPDX.1387 or visit: https://af111newiota.com

AS-189. (Update) NEW!! Operators Vasily/R7AL, Al/RZ3K, Vasily/RA1ZZ,
Vlad/RK8A, Sergey/RW5D, Igor/UA3EDQ, Avinir/UA1ZZ and Mohammad/
EP2LMA will be active as EP6RRC from Shif Island, Iran, between November 17-23rd. Activity will be on 160/80/40/30/20/17/15/10 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. Pilot stations are Victor/UA3AKO (EU/RU), Cezar/VE3LYC (East Coast NA) and Taka/JA8COE (Far East/OC). QSL Manager is R7AL. For more details, see: https://dxpedition.wixsite.com/ep6rrc
PLEASE NOTE: During the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 24-25th),
operators will be on for only 2-3 hours in the beginning of the contest before leaving the island.

SA-019. Operators Antoni/PY1AX, Nilzo/PY6AWU, Bruno/PY6BA, Jose/PY6HD, Roberto/PY6RT, and Nelson/PS8NF will be active as ZY6V from
Abrolhos Island (DIB BA-01, DFB BA 014, WLOTA LH-0463, ARLHS
BRA-001, PYFF (Brazilian Flora & Fauna ) PYFF-0001) between November 14-19th. Activity will be on 160-6 meters (frq. listed on QRZ.com) using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via PY6HD, direct, LoTW or ClubLog. PLEASE NO eQSL or Bureau QSLs.

PLEASE NOTE: Since the Webmasters of the new <www.iota-world.org> have decided NOT to post or dedicate a Web page to announce upcoming IOTA operations, PLEASE send your IOTA operations information the OPDX and we will post it here in an upcoming bulletin……

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