from OPDX news
OC-295. (Update) Operators John/9M6XRO, Steve/9M6DXX, 9W6AMC, Lee/
9W6LEE and Gordon/G3USR plan to activate the rare IOTA island
of Pulau Sebatik
between September 24-27th. Activity will be
on 80-10 meters, but with an emphasis on 40-15 meters. They
will have two stations on the air with amplifiers using a
HexBeam and verticals located directly above the sea water.
Callsigns will be 9M6XRO/P on CW and 9M6DXX/P on SSB, and
they hope to have both stations on the air during all the
major openings to Europe and North America. OC-295 has only
been claimed by 14.2% of IOTA participants having been
activated just once before in July 2006. QSL both callsigns
via M0URX, direct, by the Bureau, or LoTW. For more details
and for a link to M0URX's online QSL request form for both
direct and Bureau cards, go to:
http://www.m0urx.com/sebatik.html
OC-133. (Update) Operators John/9M6XRO, Steve/9M6DXX and Gordon/G3USR,
will be active as 9M6XRO/p, 9M6DXX/p and 9M6/G3USR, respec-
tively, from Labuan Island
between October 5-8th, and possibly
between 0000-0200z October 9th. Activity will be on all bands
160-10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. They will have two
stations with amplifiers on the air using a Hexbeam, verticals
and a 160m Inverted-L very close to the ocean. QSL 9M6XRO/p and
9M6DXX/p via M0URX, and 9M6/G3USR via his home callsign.
