From TEAM # 1 With great anticipation, DXers the world over are looking forward to the 9th of July this year as the predicted day of South Sudan’s declaration of independence. Indeed, that declaration is set to happen, but it will not yet guarantee the birth of a new DXCC entity, at least at that…
4S7VK wrote to DXWorld.net: Ministry of Defense is conducting an investigation into the operations and conduct of Ivan Borazanko 4S7DXG/UR9IDX after the Radio Society of Sri Lanka made representations to the authorities. It is established by the authorities that he smuggled in transmitting equipment into the country which is a criminal offense, and was never…
MR. RADIO, W4BPD, and GUS M. BROWNING; three names, one person! Anyone associated with Ham Radio during the years mentioned in the marquee would have known of Mr. Browning. He sailed the seas around the Globe several times setting up Ham Radio stations in remote lands from which few, or no radio transmissions had ever…
Jan Mayen island is not placed at the top of the 100 Most Wanted DXCC list, but it’s still very wanted in some areas and modes – especially West Coast of the USA, Japan, Oceania, Africa. JX7VPA – Jan Mayen 2011 DXpedition is being organized by: SQ8X – Stan (team leader, ex XR0Y, VK9LA)…
James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was one of several killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 27. News sources say that eight American troops and a US contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps at the Kabul airport — the deadliest…