6 July, 2020

Island activities:

Since no or few new IOTA announcements have been made during the past several weeks (probably because of many COVID-19 travel restrictions), OPDX decided to list the following IOTA operations that were active this past week between June 28th-July 4th (as per the DXCluster):

IOTA Callsign Island/GROUP Bands/Modes
—— ———- ————- ————
AF-004 EA8W Canary 17m; FT8
AF-004 EA8DEG Tenerife 20m; SSB
AF-014 FR4PV Reunion 20m; CW
AF-022 ZD7FT St. Helena 17m; SSB
AF-057 5R8UI Madagascar 20m; RTTY
AS-002 A91FTDMC Bahrain 20m; Digi
AS-007 JH3NGD Honshu 40m; SSB
AS-007 JI1UGH Honshu 20m; Digi
AS-019 9V1YC Singapore 20m; Digi
AS-020 BX5AA Taiwan 20m; SSB
AS-021 A61EK Trucial Coast 30m; Digi
AS-031 JD1BHA Ogasawara 40m; Digi
EU-003 CQ8F Formigas 20/17m; SSB
EU-004 EA6AM Balearic 40m; SSB
EU-005 G0TSM Great Britain 15m; Digi
EU-005 G4UJS Great Britain 15m; Digi
EU-005 G6XX Great Britain 40/20m; SSB
EU-005 GB13COL Great Britain 40/20m; SSB
EU-005 GB8AFD Great Britain 40m; SSB
EU-005 GM3YEH Great Britain 20m; Digi
EU-005 M3FON Great Britain 20m; Digi
EU-015 SV9ANK Crete 17m; SSB
EU-015 SV9BMG Crete 17m; Digi
EU-023 9H1VC Malta 10m; SSB
EU-023 9H5BZ Malta 17m; SSB
EU-023 9H5JO Malta 20m; SSB
EU-024 IS0DCR Sardinia 10m; SSB
EU-024 IS0HYW Sardinia 20m; Digi
EU-024 IS0MVE Sardinia 12m; Digi
EU-029 5Q0X Sjaelland 20m; Digi
EU-029 OZ0MJ Sjaelland 20m; SSB
EU-088 OZ7AEI/P Kattegat 80m; Digi
EU-115 2I0DYA Ireland 12m; Digi
EU-115 MI0ITS Ireland 17m; SSB
EU-115 MI0SAI Ireland 15m; Digi
EU-143 EA7KDM Cadiz/Huelva 20m; Digi
EU-032 F1HOM/P Poitou-Charentes 40m; SSB
EU-174 SV2AEL/8 Ammouliani 20m; SSB/FT4
EU-175 CU3HN Azores 17m; Digi
EU-181 LZ2CW Bulgaria 40m; CW
NA-015 CO3VT Cuba 30m; FT8
NA-015 CO5WE Cuba 30m; FT8
NA-026 K2L NY State 40/20m; SSB/CW/Digi
NA-026 KB2ZPB NY State 20m; Digi
NA-065 WU8U WA State N 30m; Digi
NA-107 FM4SA Martinique 20m; SSB
NA-108 J68HZ St. Lucia 20m; SSB
NA-139 K2I MD State E 80m; SSB
NA-143 W8NEO TX State E 15m; SSB
OC-001 VK1TX Australia 40m; SSB
OC-019 K2GT Hawaiian 20m; Digi
OC-021 YB0AZ Java 20m; SSB
OC-021 YB1NWE Java 20m; Digi
OC-021 YB2BOB Java 30m; Digi
OC-022 YB9AY Bali 20m; Digi
OC-032 FK8HM New Caledonia 20m; Digi
OC-147 YG9WKB West Papua’s Coastal 40m; Digi
SA-002 VP8LP Falkland 20m; SSB
SA-006 PJ4GR Bonaire 20m; FT8
SA-029 PY1SAD Rio De Janeiro State W 40m; Digi

** Thanks to the individuals who put the island/group and mode
on their QSNs on the PacketCluster reports….

EU-031. Salvadore, IC8SDL, is active from Capri Island. Activity is
on various HF Bands including 6 meters. QSL via IC8SDL:
Salvatore Lembo, Porciello 4/a, Capri, 80073, Italy.

EU-047. Markus, DJ4EL, will be active as DJ4EL/p from Juist Island between July 10-13th. Activity will be on 40-10 meters using SSB with mono-band and multi-vertical antennas. QSL via LoTW or his home callsign. ADDED NOTE: Markus plans to activate more German islands (which have never been activated) at the end of August. Look for more details to be forthcoming.

EU-081. Operators Jean/ON5DX, Kürt/ON5DZ, Tim/ON5HC, Pat/ON7PQ and Francis/ON8AZ will be active as TM2U from Saint Marcouf Island between August 23-28th. Activity will be on 80-6 meters (also 60m) using CW, SSB and the Digital modes. QSL via ON8AZ. For more details, see: https://www.eu081.be

EU-113. Markus, DJ4EL, will be active as SV8/DJ4EL from Kythira Island between July 26-30th. Activity will be on 40-10 meters using SSB with quads and vertical antennas. QSL via LoTW or his home callsign.

NA-134. Bo, OZ1DJJ, will be active as OX3LX from Asiaat Island (WW Loc. GP38NQ), Greenland, between July 7-30th (possibly longer due to the COVIN-19). Activity will be on 40-4 meters. When not active, he will run a WSPR beacon on 160 to 6 meters. He states this is NOT a DXpedition, and the best chance to work him will be around lunchtime and after dinner (his local time UTC-2), also during the weekend, possibly at night/morning. QSL via OZ0J direct (see QRZ.com). Logs get uploaded to LoTW, ClubLog and sometimes eQSL. He may also go to other islands in the NA-134 group. For more details and updates, watch QRZ.com or his Web page at: http://geronne.dk/index.php/ox3lx/ox3lx-dxped

OC-139. Grant, VK5GR, on July 5th, updated the following on his VK5KI Expedition to Kangaroo Island between July 13-18th [edited]: “Preparations are almost complete for the VK5KI mini DXpedition to Kangaroo Island. We are on track to depart Monday week (July 13th) on the Sealink Ferry to the island, part of the South Australia State East Centre IOTA group. Andrew, VK5AKH, and I are preparing to take two stations, the first comprising an Elecraft K3S+KPA500, with the second consisting of an Icom IC7600 and SPE 1.5K-LFA (the amplifier that didnt make it to Tonga). We will have a HexBeam on 20-10m, a dedicated 40m vertical and a multi-band vertical for 160-10m. We will be operating SSB, CW and multiple digital modes, including FT8. We do not expect to run Fox/Hound mode this trip but stay tuned on the clusters as we could switch over if we are receiving excessive calls.” For more updates/details, see Grant’s Web page at: https://vk5gr-iota.net

OC-228. Andy, VK5MAV, will be active as VK5MAV/P from West Island or Granite Island, Australia, during the RSGB IOTA Contest (July 25-26th). Activity will be CW only. QSL via ClubLog’s OQRS.

SA-052. Markus, DJ4EL, will activate two islands in the Suriname SA-092 IOTA group in October: Houttuyn Island – as PZ5GE; between October 11-25th; on 40-10m using SSB; WW Loc. GJ25kr Pagegaaien Island – as PZ5G; between October 16-19th; on 80-10m using CW and SSB; WW Loc. GJ15kv QSL both operations via LoTW or his home callsign.

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 to the OPDX, and we will post it here in an upcoming bulletin……

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