DX News – 12 May 2013

HD2A and HC2AQ will be active from Galapagos Islands, IOTA reference SA-004, from 15 to 20 May as HD8A. Operations will be on all of the HF bands. QSL via HD2A.

OY1CT will be active from the Faroe Islands, IOTA reference EU-018, during May with special call OW75FOC. He will be operating on the HF bands only. QSL via Carsten Thomsen, OW75FOC, Kvivik, Faroe Islands or as directed on the air.

UA4WHX is currently operational portable CP1 from Bolivia. QSL via UA4WHX.

ZL2AGY will be active from Rarotonga Island, IOTA reference OC-013, until 29 May as E51FOC and E51AGY. QSL via his home callsign.

Between 18 and 30 May, five members of the Sands Contest Group from Morecambe will be visiting the island of Samos for a holiday and DXpedition. This is IOTA reference EU-049 or locator KM37JK. Using the callsign SZ8S, operation will be from the Radio House at Zervou Point above Samos town, kindly loaned to the group by the Aegean Radio Association. QSL information is on QRZ.com.

Camb-Hams will be operating GS3PYE/P from the Isle of Mull, which is IOTA reference EU-008, until 16 May. Thirteen operators will be active on all bands and many modes from 2m to 160m. They will also be active on 472kHz for the first time. The HF bands will be covered by five simultaneous stations, while the 6m, 4m and 2m stations will have a great take-off towards the UK and Europe from the island’s south-east coast in IO76 square.

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