Islands on the Air Announces Another Six New Island Groups

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Islands on the Air Announces Another Six New Island Groups

The Islands on the Air (IOTA) Amateur Radio awards program announced six new island entities at its HAM RADIO forum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, this past weekend. The new groups have provisional numbers and will need to be confirmed by an operation after 22nd June 2019 that meets the 1,000-contact requirement, in addition to other validations. Credit for prior operations will be considered only after a group number has been confirmed. Addition of the six new groups takes the total of confirmed or provisional IOTA numbers to 1,172, of which 1,131 have seen activity. IOTA policy caps the program at 1,200 groups. The new groups are:

AS-206: JAØ, 1, 2, 7 — Honshu’s Coastal Islands East, Japan, created by splitting the current AS-117 Honshu’s Coastal Islands in accordance with the “large island” criterion that allows more than one coastal island group. Considerable activity has taken place from both groups. The entry/title of AS-117 Honshu’s Coastal Islands has been changed to JA3, 4, and 9 Honshu’s Coastal Islands West.

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Gibraltar Special Event

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Members of the Gibraltar Amateur Radio Society (GARS) will activate ZB2IG19 between 1-31st July 2019.

Activation is to celebrate the XVIII International Island Games which is being held in Gibraltar between 6-12th July 2019.

Activity will be on various HF bands, 6 meters, and using CW, SSB, FT8, and FM on the satellites.