VK9

VK9, WILLIS ISLAND (Update). Excerpts from the VK9DWX Web site state that
the DX team has been busy last week testing all antennas and getting nearly
everything ready to ship. Dale, VK4DMC, got all their tents and also tested
them. So they are ready to be built on Willis Island City. All the heavy
items and Peli Cases were brought together in Goch at the location of DR1A
where a workshop was set up. On a 5-day-weekend, Markus/DJ7EO, Jorg/DL8WPX,
Dieter/DL8OH and Chris/DL1MGB put all the material into boxes, cases and
tubes, labeled them and prepared the shipping documents. The week after
the material was transported to the harbor of Hamburg where it is now
waiting for being shipped to Australia. In total they packed 29 cases,
boxes and tubes with a total weight of over 1,300kg. This included the
following main items: 5 ACOM1000 amplifiers
Over 1000m of coax cable
Nearly 300m of power cable
All antennas
Power distributions
Tools
Most parts of the station equipment...
Transceivers, notebooks and MK2s will be carried on the flight baggage
as they have to be tested in advance in Germany for proper interaction.
The VK9DWX team now offers a "Newsletter" via E-mail. It will inform you
about the latest news available about their DXpedition. The only thing
you have to do is subscribe via their Web page (in the News section) at:
http://vk9dwx.de/news/index.php

9L

from OPDX news

9L, SIERRA LEONE. Dr. Karl-Heinz Ilg, DK2WV, will once again be active
from here this time with a team of operators. Karl informs OPDX that in
June this year, during his stay in Sierra Leone, he not only operated as
9L0W, but had the honor of speaking to the President of the University
of Freetown. He was asked if he (and others) could conduct a course in
Amateur Radio. In October and November this year Karl and his team will
volunteer to help in the planning of the technical promotion and conduct
training courses for those who are interested in Amateur Radio. Further-
more, Karl will also present the university with materials and radio
equipment. All training and activity is plannned to take place in the
time frame of October 21st to November 11th, 2008. They expect to operate
during this time under the same callsign, 9L0W. The German participants
mentioned are Roland/DJ4LK, Franz/DJ9ZB, Karl/DK2WV, Hans/DL1YFF and
one 9L1 national. All participants have a solid background of several
successful DXpeditions. Activity will be on 160-6 meters. They are
planning to operate with up to 3 stations, with amplifiers and different
antennas. The antennas are Spiderbeams and for the low-bands phased
arrays, K9AY loops and/or beverages are planned as low-band receiving
antennas. QSL via DK2WV, direct (SASE w/sufficient funds to cover the
postage) or by the bureau. E-mail requests will be sent via bureau,
including those arrived without adequate funds. The 9L0W team is looking
for sponsors to help cover the high costs of nearly 14,000 USDs for this
operation in addition to the air fares of the participants. They are
depending on donations from DX organizations. If you have any questions,
please send them via E-mail to: k.ilg@arcor.de

IOTA EU-127

A0HEL is the Helgoland Island callsign for DJ5KK, DG7TG and DK3KD,
September 6-8. This is EU-127. They will be in the IARU VHF contest
on 2M CW and SSB, and on HF the rest of the tie. QSL via the bureau.