Опубликована информация об активности радиолюбителей с островов по дипломной программе «Islands On The Air» (IOTA), предоставленная Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster, по состоянию на 16 сентября 2019 года. Составлена Tedd’ом Mirgliotta KB8NW по сообщениям, полученным от друзей программы IOTA — «Острова в эфире». Изображения добавлены из других различных источников.

IOTA News from OPDX

16 September, 2019

Island activities:

IOTA QRGs
CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz
SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz

AS-015. Rich, PA0RRS, will once again be active as 9M2MRS from Penang Island, West Malaysia, between December 2nd (2019) and February 28th (2020). Activity will probably be on 40-10 meters using CW, RTTY, PSK, FT8, FT4 and possibly SSB (he will have a microphone in the luggage, but normally no SSB [possible on request]). Rich will have a Yaesu FT450D with 100 watt into a G5RV dipole with bents on the balcony of the house and a MFJ automatic intellituner for all bands. QSL via his home callsign, ClubLog’s OQRS, LoTW or eQSL.

AS-025. Andrey, R1FW, is now active as R1FW/0 from Kunashir Island until September 18th (possibly until the 25th). Activity will be on 40/30/20 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via his home callsign, direct, by the Bureau or bird/bottle mail.

AS-122. Operators Tae-su/DS3EXX and Lee/DS3FGN will be active as homecall/2 from Daecheongdo Island between October 3-9th. Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and FT8.
Suggested frequencies are:
CW — 1821/1825, 3522, 7022, 10115, 14022, 18080, 21022, 24901 and 28022 kHz
SSB — 3790, 7090, 14192, 18122, 21250, 24940 and 28450 kHz
FT8 — 1810, 3540, 7070, 10122, 14080, 18095, 21090, 24910 and 28090 kHz
Frequencies can change due to QRM or local noise. Split operations will always be used. They will listen on CW starting 1 up and SSB up 5. FT8 will be on the F/H mode. QSL via LoTW or direct to their home callsign.

AS-200. (Reminder) Operators Take/JI3DST and Masa/JR8YLY will be active as JI3DST/5 and JR8YLY/5 from Shodo Island between September 20-25th. Activity will be on 80-6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL via their home callsigns.

EU-138. Operators Gaby/DF9TM and Frank/DL2SWW will once again be active as SD7M and SD7W, respectively, from Sturko Island between now and September 19th. QSL via their home callsigns by the Bureau.

NA-057. Operators Dennis/W1UE, Radoslav/N2WQ, Ivailo/LZ5VV, Wieslaw/SP4Z and Ian/VE3JI will be active as HQ9X from Chillax Roatan Island during the CQWW DX RTTY Contest (September 28-29th) as a Multi-2 entry. QSL via KQ1F. Outside of the contest (between September 20th and October 7th), they will be active for any bands/modes that they can operate on, including 60m operations (limited to 50 watts USB). Sked requests can be sent to W1UE.

NA-220. Bo, OZ1DJJ, will be active as OX3LX from Simiutaq Island between September 26-30th. Activity will be on various HF bands (Focus on 160/80/60m), but limited to his spare time when not working (He states, «Best chance is in the morning around lunch and after dinner [local time utc+2], on the weekend also during night/morning»). QSL via OZ0J direct (see QRZ.com). Logs get uploaded to LoTW, ClubLog and sometimes eQSL. For more details and updates, see: http://geronne.dk/index.php/ox3lx/ox3lx-dxped

OC-059. Haru, JA1XGI, will once again be active as V6K from Kosrae Island between December 2-9th. Activity will be on 160/80/40/30/20 meters using mainly CW with some RTTY and FT8. Focus will be on EU/NA/SA/Middle East of Asia. He will also be in the ARRL 160m CW Contest (December 6-8th). Suggested frequencies are:
CW — 1815/1822.5, 3525, 7025, 10115 and 14040 kHz
RTTY — 7035, 10140 and 14080 kHz
FT8(N) — 1840*, 3573, 7074, 10136 and 14074 kHz
FT8(F/H) — 7051, 10131 and 14085 kHz
* QSX 1908 (JA)
** Frequency on the above will change by band condition. His equipment will be an Icom IC7300 with a DXV600L (Tiny PA) into two vertical antennas. QSL via his home callsign, direct, by the Bureau, ClubLog’s OQRS or LoTW (available after 3 month). For more details and updates, watch: http://v6k.client.jp

PLEASE NOTE: Since the Webmasters of the new have decided NOT to post or dedicate a Web page to announce upcoming IOTA operations, PLEASE send your IOTA operations information to the OPDX, and we will post it here in an upcoming bulletin.