DX News – 15 April 2018

Bodo, DF8DX will be active as DU1WQY/1 from Palawan Island in the Philippines which counts as OC-128 for Islands on the Air from the 15 to 18 April.

Oleh, KD7WPJ will be active as E51BCP from Rarotonga in the South Cook Islands from 15 to 20 April. Apparently, he also plans some SOTA activity on the island. This one counts for OC-013 for IOTA.

Ken, KH6QJ will be active again as T32AZ from Kiritimati (pronounced Christmas) Island in East Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) from 17 to 24 April. This is OC-024 for IOTA.

Grant, VK5GR will be active as YJ0AG from Efate (OC-035 for IOTA) in Vanuatu from 17 to 29 April.

The St Brandon Island 3B7A DXpedition has a few more days to run and will probably go QRT on Tuesday,  17 April so there is only one day left to catch Andy, VK5MAV/9 from Cato Reef (OC-265).

VE7ACN/VE2 will go QRT from Harrington Island in Quebec – NA-084 for IOTA – on Tuesday, 17 April.

Arthur/4X4DZ, Alex/4Z4AK, Hilik/4X6YA and Jan/4X1VF will be active with the special call sign 4X0BG between 1000 UTC, April 20th and 2200 UTC, April 21st 2018. Activity is during Israel’s 70th anniversary celebration from “Ben Gurion’s Hut” (Holyland Square E27BS, WFF 4XFF-058) in the desert. The group will also participate in the Holy Land Contest.

And finally a challenge as Sho, JA7HMZ will be active again as V63DX from Pohnpei (OC-010) in Micronesia from 18 to 24 April. He will focus on working Europe on 160 metres FT8.

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