13 August, 2018

Island activities:

AS-120. Members of DX World team (Emil/DL8JJ, Paul/G4PVM, Col/MM0NDX) will be teaming up again, this time with Norman/5B4AIF to activate the island Ayios Yeoryios in the Cyprus’s Coastal Islands Group between August 25-27th. Their callsign will be
C4II. Activity will be on 80-10 meters, possibly 6m, using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via LoTW. QSL Manager will be announced later.

EU-016. The “425 DX News” reports that Duby, 9A6DR, is once again
active as 9A6DR/p from Kolocep Island until around October 20th. Activity will be limited to his spare time on 40/20/10/6 meters. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the Bureau.

EU-067. Jacques, F6HMJ, will be active as SV8/F6HMJ from Ios island
between August 27th and September 6th. Activity will be on 40-10 meters using mainly CW with some SSB. Equipment is an IC706MKIIG into a dipole. QSL via F6HMJ.

EU-171. Operators Maarten/PD2R (OV2T), Jan/PA7JWC (5Q7DX), Wino/PA0ABM and Sven/PA1SVM (OZ/PA1SVM) will be active from a summerhouse on North Jutland Islands in the Jylland North IOTA Group between September 14-21st. Two of the callsigns have been issued (OV2T and 5Q7DX). They will be active on all HF bands on SSB and CW.
The main antenna will be a 5-band Spiderbeam @ 62ft and a 40m
vertical with elevated radials. QSL OV2T via LoTW (preferred) or PA0ABM, direct or by the Bureau. QSL 5Q7DX via PA7JWC or LoTW.

OC-213. Operators Adhi/YB3MM, Yudin/YB8OUN, Budi/YC8OBM, Zulkarnain/YD8MGN and possibly others will activate Waleakodi Island
between August 18-21st. Callsigns to be used are YB3MM/8,
YB8OUN/P, YC8OBM/P, YD8MGN/P and possibly others. Activity will be on CW, SSB and FT8. QSL each operators via the QSL information on QRZ.com.

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