IOTA News from OPDX

7 January, 2013

Island activities:

OC-261. Craig, VK5CE, will be active as VK5CE/p from Flinders Island later in the new year between August 15-21st. Activity will be on 80-10 meters, with most of the operations being on
40/20/15m, using SSB and PSK. QSL via his home callsign.
For more details and updates, watch Craig's Blog page at:
http://oc261.blogspot.co.uk

SA-022. (Update) Members of the Bahia Blanca DX Group (GDXBB) will be active as L22D from Gama Island between January 24-27th, after being off the air for 10 years. Operators mentioned are Osmar/LU8DWR (Team Leader), Carlos/LU7DSY, Eduardo/LU5DEM, Carlos/LU4ETN, Hugo/ LW9EVA, Carlos/LW2EHD, Willy/LU4DBT, Marcos/LU7DKO, Edgar/LU5VAT, Daniel/LU9VS, Federico/LU1WJF and Pedro/LU7WW. The Camp Manager is Damian, LU5VDG.

Activity will be on 160-10 meters, including the 17/12 meter, and using CW, SSB and PSK31. They will have 4 stations on the air with various mono-banders and dipoles.

QSL via Carlos Almirón, LU7DSY: P.O.Box 709, 8000 BAHIA BLANCA, ARGENTINA. Direct with SASE + 3 dollars or 2 IRCs. Sorry not Paypal. Also, watch the following Web page for updates at: http://lu6evd.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/activacion-isla-gama-iota-sa-022

IOTA TOUR. Operators Vincent/F4BKV and Col/MM0NDX plan to activate nine islands starting January 10th for three days. Look for the following
callsigns from the following Danish, German and Polish IOTAs:
EU-029 – operating from Sjaelland, Elleore, Gavno, Masnedo, Fallster,
Lolland, Sprogo and Amager (OZ/F4BKV & OZ/MM0NDX)
EU-128 - operating from Fehmarn (DL/F4BKV and DL/MM0NDX)
EU-057 - operating from Ruden (DL/F4BKV and DL/MM0NDX)
EU-129 – operating from Usedom (DL/F4BKV and DL/MM0NDX)
EU-132 – operating from Wolin (SP/F4BKV and SP/MM0NDX)
EU-042 – operating from Sylt (DL/F4BKV and DL/MM0NDX)
EU-125 – operating from Romo (OZ/F4BKV and OZ/MM0NDX)
EU-172 – operating from Fyn (OZ/F4BKV and OZ/MM0NDX)
EU-171 – operating from Jegindo (OZ/F4BKV and OZ/MM0NDX)

Their full itinerary can be found at: http://t.co/nLV0UopH
Activity will be on 40/20/17/15 meters SSB. Operators will be using
Twitter to follow their progress https://twitter.com/IOTA_Trip.

For Bureau cards, QSL via their home callsigns. For direct cards, QSL both
via F4BKV, preferably via the OQRS Web Page at: http://www.f4bkv.net/oqrs