{"id":20115,"date":"2018-07-20T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:00:12","slug":"dx-news-22-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/dx-news\/2018\/07\/20\/dx-news-22-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DX News &#8211; 22 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many DXpeditions will be on the air leading up to and during next weekend\u2019s RSGB IOTA Contest. One list of announced operations is at <a href=\"http:\/\/ng3k.com\/Misc\/iota2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ng3k.com\/Misc\/iota2018.html<\/strong><\/a>. It contains details of some 80 DXpeditions around the world. A lot of infrequently activated locations will be on the air, so even if you\u2019re not taking part in the contest it\u2019s a great chance to log some rare ones. Here are just a few examples of what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>YV7MAY will be on the air from Margarita, IOTA reference SA-012, running low power to Yagis on 40 to 10m.<\/p>\n<p>SV9\/I3MDU will be on Crete, EU-015.<\/p>\n<p>MM0JTV\/1 will be on Barra, EU-010, running low power.<\/p>\n<p>A high power multi-op station will be on Malta, EU-023, calling 9H6YB. Operators will be G3XSV, G3TXF and G4AXX, who will start operating from the 25th as 9H3XSV, 9H3TKF and 9H3AXX.<\/p>\n<p>EJ6KP is another multi-op DXpedition, this time by G3SHF, G0SYP, M0DCG, M1PTR and EI6KP, operating form Aranmore, EU-121.<\/p>\n<p>Operating from the 21st to the 29th, WB8YJF\/4 will be on the air from Ocracoke, NA-067.<\/p>\n<p>Karel, OK2ZI will be active as 3B8\/OK2ZI from Pointe aux Sables, Mauritius Island, IOTA AF-041, from 26 July to 4 August. He will operate on 160 to 10m, CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via home call, ClubLog OQRS or LOTW.<\/p>\n<p>Christian, M0UPL will be active as D44EK from Sal Island, AF-086, from 23 July to 7 August. He will be using SSB on all the HF bands. QSL via his home call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many DXpeditions will be on the air leading up to and during next weekend\u2019s RSGB IOTA Contest. One list of announced operations is at ng3k.com\/Misc\/iota2018.html. It contains details of some 80 DXpeditions around the world. A lot of infrequently activated locations will be on the air, so even if you\u2019re not taking part in the [&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-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","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=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}