Author Archives: Alex van Hengel

Matthias, DH5CW, and Felix, DL5XL, will be active from Neumayer Emergency Base (also known as SANAP Summer Base, WAP ZAF-11), Grid Locator IB59UJ, from January 8 to 9, 2019 (weather permitting). The call sign used will be DP0GVN/p, QSL via DL5EBE. Main modes of operation are expected to be CW and FT8. They will be running 100 watts to a multi-band dipole antenna. To make it a little easier to find this rare base on the bands, the following CW skeds have been arranged: 08-Jan at 2200 UTC on 10,122 kHz, 08-Jan at 2330 UTC on 7,033 kHz, 09-Jan at… Continue reading →

E6ET Niue Island DXpedition 2019 In few months E6ET will be active from NIUE (IOTA OC-040), the plans are almost completed and only the general test of the stations is missing. Almost 80kg of material was packaged in the explorer-cases cases and this involved a much higher expense than expected in terms of additional baggage on the six 2-way flights !! For this reason I hope in your kind help in order to cover the last shipping costs of the equipment that amount (only the extra baggage) to over $ 4000. You can find all the information on the DXpedition… Continue reading →