ARRL Seeks Vintage DXpedition Logs for Archive

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ARRL is seeking donations from prominent DXpeditions that took place predominantly in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, for inclusion in The DX Log Archive Endowed by KAN MIZOGUCHI (JA1BK)
 
The DX Log Archive program was created, thanks to an endowment established by Kan Mizoguchi, JA1BK, to obtain, preserve, and utilise paper logs from rare and significant DXpeditions.
 
The archive can include pre-1950 paper logs as well as those from rare operations, and logs kept by longtime residents of very rare entities. All logbooks received to date have been inventoried and are housed at ARRL Headquarters.
 
ARRL Field Services Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, said the archive contains logs "from 3D2 through HZ3 -- nothing after the Hs. That's just the way it has worked out."
 
Contact the program administrator with information about any logs that are available or known to be available, and ARRL will make a determination on their suitability for the
archive.

DXpedition Logs for Archive - http://www.arrl.org/dx-log-archive

Ivory Coast DXpedition

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Members of the Radio Club of Provins (F6KOP) will be active as TU7C from the Ivory Coast between 9-19 March 2017.

Activity will be on 160-10 meters and 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY.

The international team consists of experienced operators. Some of them were part of various important DXpeditions during the past years, like FT5TA, FT5JA, J5C, 3G0ZC, 7P8C and so on.

Operators mentioned are Frank/F4AJQ (Team Leader), Patrick/F2DX (Co-Leader) Jean-Luc/F1ULQ (Co- Leader), Andreas/DL3GA, Henri/F1HRE, Damien/F4AZF, Jimi/F4DLM, Philippe/ F4DSE, Raymond/F5MFV, Frank/F5TVG, John/F5VHQ, John/OE5TGL, Herman/ON4QX, Kurt/ON8KW and Kenneth/OZ1IKY.


The pilot for English speaking people is Col/MM0NDX, and Jean-Paul/F8BJI for the French stations.

QSL via F1ULQ, direct (sorry no IRC), the French REF Bureau (only this one), LoTW, and ClubLog's OQRS. 

Ivory Coast DXpedition Web Page - https://tu2017dx.wordpress.com

Central African Republic DXPedition

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Members of the Italian DXPedition Team will be active as TL8TT (not TL8T) from Central African Republic between 1 - 14th February 2017.

Confirmed operators include Alfeo/I1HJT, Silvano/ I2YSB, Vinicio/IK2CIO, Angelo/IK2CKR, Marcello/IK2DIA, Stefano/IK2HKT and Mac/JA3USA. The pilot stations are Art/IK7JWY (HF) and Sergio/IK0FTA (6m).

Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes (The RTTY activity will be restricted to 20m). QSL via I2YSB, direct or the OQRS on their Web page - http://www.i2ysb.com/idt

A TL8TT needs/wants survey is available on the Web page also.

Logs will be posted on LoTW about 6 months after the conclusion of the DXpedition.