{"id":15021,"date":"2016-04-29T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:03:45","slug":"dx-news-1-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/dx-news\/2016\/04\/29\/dx-news-1-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DX News &#8211; 1 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Koji, JI1LET, is operating as JD1BOI from Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara Archipelago, IOTA reference AS-031, until 6 May. Ogasawara is about 1,000km south of Tokyo and counts as a separate entity for the DXCC Award. Koji is working all bands from 80 to 6m using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home call sign.<\/p>\n<p>A DXpedition to Lundy Island, EU-120, will take place from 2 to 7 May by three members of the Virtual Amateur Radio Club from Kent. Mark, G0GQT, Keith, M0KJA and Nigel, G0GDA will be using MX0VRC\/P. The island has no grid electricity and uses locally generated power between 6am and midnight, the generators being switched off during the night. Three stations will be using a variety of aerials and running SSB, data and CW on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL is by eQSL. See QRZ.com for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Chris, HB9LCA will be active as YJ0CS from Vanuatu, OC-035, from 1 to 27 May. He will be mainly on CW and will be working holiday style. QSL to his home call sign.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, LU9EFO will be QRV as CE0Y\/LU9EFO from 6 to 16 May from Easter Island, SA-001. Activity will be on the HF bands. QSL direct via F4BHW.<\/p>\n<p>A group of operators will be QRV as MJ\/ON4RSX from St Brelade, Jersey from 5 to 8 May. Jersey is IOTA reference EU-013. Activity will be on the 40 to 6m bands using CW, SSB and various digital modes. QSL direct via ON8VP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koji, JI1LET, is operating as JD1BOI from Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara Archipelago, IOTA reference AS-031, until 6 May. Ogasawara is about 1,000km south of Tokyo and counts as a separate entity for the DXCC Award. Koji is working all bands from 80 to 6m using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home call [&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-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","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=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}