{"id":12218,"date":"2015-03-27T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:23:24","slug":"dx-news-29-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/dx-news\/2015\/03\/27\/dx-news-29-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"DX News &#8211; 29 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc, DU9\/ON5SM will visit the Philippines until 25 April operating from Mindanao, IOTA reference OC-130. Using a Kenwood TS480SAT and 300W PA, Signalink DIGImodem into a GB5RV, 6 band Hexbeam and a 10m vertical with CG3000 antenna tuner he plans to be as active as possible. A special QSL card for these contacts can be sent via the bureau to those who wish.<\/p>\n<p>A short operation from the Brazilian island of Trindade, SA-010, will take place from 2 to 4 April. Trindade is a separate DXCC entity and is normally inhabited by a small detachment of Brazilian naval personnel. The callsign will be PQ0T and they hope to be active on the 6 to 160m bands. QSL manager is PP5BZ.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific island of Nauru, OC-031, will be on the air until 4 April. A team of 4 operators will sign C21EU and be on 40-10m bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSLs go via DL2AWG.<\/p>\n<p>A holiday-style activation will be on the air until 2 April from the Maldive Islands, AS-013, by Ben, DL1RNT, who will sign 8Q7NT. Operation will be mainly CW on 40-10m. QSLs go via the home call.<\/p>\n<p>Keith, GM4YXI\/GM5X and Chris, GM3WOJ\/GM2V will be on the air from Weno Island, OC-011, as V6Z until 9 April. A part time entry in the CQ WW WPX SSB contest in the M\/2 category is planned. QSL via N3SL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc, DU9\/ON5SM will visit the Philippines until 25 April operating from Mindanao, IOTA reference OC-130. Using a Kenwood TS480SAT and 300W PA, Signalink DIGImodem into a GB5RV, 6 band Hexbeam and a 10m vertical with CG3000 antenna tuner he plans to be as active as possible. A special QSL card for these contacts can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}