K5D

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

K5D Desecheo Postlogue Press Release 3/3/09

All team members have safely returned home. The K5D DXpedition, 12-26th,
February 2009, netted 115,783 QSO's, including one QSO with the Inter-
national Space Station. The DXpedition ranks #7th for all-time number
of QSO's, and the #1 DXpedition with the most 30M contacts. More
importantly, we are confident that thousands of radio amateurs worldwide
now have a QSO with Desecheo for an all-time new one--our overall #1 goal !

Desecheo was #2 Most Wanted in Asia and #3 Most Wanted in Europe. We are
happy to report that 40% of our contacts were with Asia and Europe!!!
Another important goal achieved !

The QSL card is in the final stages of design and will be available in
the next few weeks. You may QSL directly to N2OO, but online QSL requests
are available and highly recommended. For details see our website:
http://www.kp5.us/qsls.htm
Logs will be uploaded to LoTW and posted early next year.

The Desecheo 2009 team wants to thank everyone for working us and helping
to make this DXpedition such a success!

73 and good DX!

Bob Allphin, K4UEE, co-leader
Glenn Johnson, W0GJ, co-leader

J6 by W5JON

Hello Xavier,

The dates have changed:

I will be active as J6/W5JON from hilltop, overlooking Marigot Bay, St Lucia, NA-108, Grid: FK93, from MARCH 24 - APRIL 2, 2009.
Activity will be on 160-6 meters, 400 Watts, SSB, using dipoles and 3el 6m yagi.
Also will be active for in the CQ WPX SSB Contest, SOAB (March 28- 29th, 2009).
QSL via W5JON

73,

John Abbruscato W5JON

3DA in Aug

DXpedition to Swaziland August 2009
QTH of 3DA0SS

QTH of 3DA0SS

At the moment the team comprises David, GI4FUM/ EI4DJ/ 3DA0DJ & Tony, G4LDL

The object of the exercise is to provide a ham radio station at an International scout camp near to Manzini with the callsign 3DA0SS.

This callsign was first activated from Hawane Resort (near Mbabane) in October 2008 for Jamboree on the Air. A report on this operation was published in the January 2009 edition of Radcom magazine and also reported in the world JOTA report.

The scout campsite is on a south facing hillside and is not likely to provide a good takeoff to Europe or the USA. However we plan that the team should stay at Hawane Resort (http://www.hawane.co.sz) where there are permanent antennas including a four square for 40m and a 60ft tower with beam antennas for 20/17/15/12/ 10m. Hawane Resort is an established DXing location serviced by Daniel ZS6JR of African DX Safaris.

I have operated there in March 2007 (CQWPX SSB) and October 2008 (JOTA and CQWW SSB) as 3DA0DJ and have DXCC confirmed with that callsign from that location.

We will operate from Hawane in the evenings and early mornings and drive over to the scout campsite during the day (about an hour away). There is a DXpedition to Lesotho at the same time as our visit to Swaziland.

John 9M6XRO is a member of the Lesotho DXpedition team (also serviced by African DX Safaris) but he will be joining us at Hawane between 6th and 13th August.

We plan to fly out to Johannesburg with South African Airways from Heathrow arriving on Wednesday 29th July.
We will hire a car from Johannesburg airport and drive up to Swaziland. We hope to collect equipment for the operation in the Johannesburg / Pretoria area on the way up.

Our visit to Swaziland will include a trip to the Kruger National Park which is 2 hours drive from Hawane Resort. We also hope to visit the Trans World Radio transmitter site near to Manzini.

We are looking for more members for the team.

Anyone interested should email David at gi4fum@arrl.net

S21KD by HL's

QRV March 7 to 14

QSL via HL5FUA

Our main purpose of Bangladesh DXpediton is to give enough chance to contact with S21 country for all DXers who need it.

We hope it will be a good chance for Asia & Europe stations in all band. Also we will do our best to serve for North & South American station within permissible band condition.

We would like to convey our thanks with deep respect and gratitude to the hams in Bangladesh who exerted utmost help for our DXpedition.

Bangladesh is ranked 44th worldwide in the list of The 2007 DX MAGAZINE 100 MOST NEEDED COUNTRIES.

S21KD Team