Category Archives: DX

Articles and information about DX or distant stations outside the North American continent. Topics include working DX, DXpeditions, DX Stations, DX related antennas, software, and equipment and more.

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A 6m Es Season to Remember

2018 has been a summer 6m E-Skip (Es) season to remember. The Es openings have been strong this year and they are continuing into the second half of July. We are enjoying almost daily openings to E…

Source: A 6m Es Season to Remember

If you are interested in trying the 6m Band, plan on attending our August Tech Night. We’ve changed our plans and will be talking about getting started with the FT8 mode and how it can be used on the 6m and HF bands. The preceding link is an excellent source of information on how to get started with FT8.

Fred, AB1OC

Digital, DX, Featured, General, Newsletter

FT8 DXpedition mode

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You have probably heard something about recent efforts to develop a special “FT8 DXpedition Mode” in WSJT-X. This message aims to bring you up-to-date on our  progress, and generally to make our plans more widely known.

Source: FT8 – DX Pedition mode

It looks like some of the major DXpeditions are beginning to embrace FT8. This will certainly create a need to handle “pileups” in FT8 mode and to make it possible to make many contacts in the shortest period of time possible. It appears that Joe Taylor, K1JT is working on an update to WSJT-X to create a variation of FT8 tailored for DXpedition use. Also, we will also need to update our copies of WXJT-X to take advantage of the new FT8 DXpedition mode. The link above is an article by Joe which gives more information about his new FT8 DXpedition mode and the software which will support it.

Fred, AB1OC

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Bouvet Island: Coming Soon to an HF Frequency Near You

Bouvet Island is one of the most remote uninhabited islands in the world.    It is 2700 miles east of South America, 1000 miles North of Antarctica and 1800 miles west  of Africa.   It is also the 2nd most wanted DX Entity just below P5, North Korea.

Map of Bouvet Island
Map of Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island DXpedition

A team of 20 Ham Radio Operators from all over the world is currently on a boat headed to Bouvet.   They are headed there to operate for 2 weeks as 3Y0Z, so that the rest of us can get Bouvet Island in our logs.  Their ship sailed for Punta Arenas, Chile on January 19th for the 10-12 day trip to Bouvet.  You can watch their progress here,  

Visit their website at http://www.bouvetdx.org/to see the latest news of their voyage and operation and learn more about Bouvet, where they plan to operate, who the team is, how to work them, check if you are in their log, and get a QSL.  You can also follow them on Facebook by joining this group.

Good luck – hope you get them in the log!

Anita, AB1QB

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