Author: Ken McCormick

27 May, 2020 Island activities: Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz NA-015; CO/KG4, Cuba: Kelly/NM7H remains active on 40-6m (CW, Read more…

The following Indian special event stations will be on-the-air until August 18th. AT0, INDIA (Special Event). Dinesh “Pandir”, VU2DCT, will use the special callsign AT0II (II=Improve Immunity) from Lucknow, India, to spread the awareness of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Activity will be Read more…

25 May, 2020 Island activities: IOTA NEWS. Since no or few new IOTA announcements have been made during the past several weeks (probably because of many COVID-19 travel restric- tions), OPDX decided to list the following IOTA operations that were Read more…

There are two local special event stations you can look out for. ZS95SARL celebrates the 95th birthday of the SARL and ZS1820S celebrates the 200th anniversary of the landing of the 1820 Settlers. Both call signs are active on HF and ZS95SARL has Read more…

May 22, 2020 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. ZAMBIA, Read more…

The special event station ZS1820S celebrates the arrival of the first British settlers at the South African Cape 200 years ago. QRV throughout 2020. QSL via ZS2EC (d/B), LoTW, ClubLog. http://zs2pe.co.za/ https://www.1820settlers.com/

20 May, 2020 Island activities: Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AS-007; JA1 etc, Honshu Island: The callsign 8J17CALL will Read more…

Members of the Emirates Amateur Radio Society (EARS) will activate twelve stations with suffix NMT (National Medical Taskforce) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This is recognition of the efforts of all medical teams and cadres, and all health workers in the country, including doctors, Read more…

18 May, 2020 Island activities: IOTA NEWS. Since no or few new IOTA announcements have been made during the past several weeks (probably because of many COVIN-19 travel restrictions), OPDX decided to list the following IOTA operations that were active Read more…

Radio Society of Kenya special event…. Members of the Radio Society of Kenya (RSK) are proud to share in the activity with their special event callsign 5Z4STAYHOME in recognition of the extraordinary circumstances the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has wrought globally! Length of activity Read more…