Footsteps of the Maya

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Robert, DL7VOA, and his XYL will be following the tracks of the Maya in Central America with their final recreational stay in Belize.

Robert plans to be active as V34AO from Hopkins in Belize between 18th to 30th November 2017. The QTH will be directly on the beach of Hopkins with every QSO made viewing over the Caribbean Sea.

Operating will take place in "holiday style" mainly on CW during the local evening and night hours (maybe some SSB, no digital operation).

Robert will have his little Elecraft K2 with him running 100 watts into a 10m fiberglass pole with vertical dipoles on 10/12/15/17/20m, ground-planes for 30m/40m or an Inverted L for 80m.

He will join the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 25-26th) as a Single-Op/All- Band/Low-Power, with the only focus on having fun in pile-ups. 

Robert has already secured the callsign V31EO and has also applied for the short term special callsign V34AO, which is inteaded for use during the CQWW CW Contest.

Roberts QRZ Page - http://www.qrz.com/db/dl7voa

DXCC's Most Wanted (ClubLog)

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The 'DXCC Most Wanted' entities list has been updated on ClubLog.

The top 10 entities (July 2017)

  1. P5 DPRK (North Korea)
  2. 3Y/B Bouvet Island
  3. FT5/W Crozet Island
  4. KH1 Baker Howland Islands
  5. BS7H Scarborough Reef
  6. CE0X San Felix Islands
  7. BV9P Pratas Island
  8. KH3 Johnston Island
  9. VK0M Macquarie Island
  10. KH7K Kure Island

The complete "DXCC Most Wanted" entities list - https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php

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