Olivier EI/ON4EI will be again active from Ireland near FETHARD (IO62DL) on top of Benneshill (170 m ASL) from October 21st to 26th. He will enter the CQ WW SSB CONTEST as SOAB Low Power Non Assisted (October 24/25th). Reference frequency before CQ WW contest is 7.150 MHz +/- QRM to follow his SINGLE EXPEDITION! Equipment: 18m vertical top loaded monopole and inverted V for 160/80/40. Spiderbeam on 20/15/10. Rig is Elecraft K3 100 W.

Members of the UBA section TRA and BMARS association will be activating this special event callsign to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the oceanographic and research vessel Belgica. This callsign is valid until end December 2009.

Look up in real time where the BELGICA is operating by checking the AIS data (a kind of APRS, but for marine use) or by checking data from the ODAS (Ocean Data Acquisition System

QSL via bureau to ON7TR only.

The Strange Radio Team are running a survey to see which Dxpedition of the Year (June 1, 2008 to June 1, 2009) will be awarded the World Wide DXpedition Trophy. The survey, which can be found here, closes on January 31, 2010.

Log submission and result processing for the 51^st SAC (CW 19-20 Sept. , SSB 26-27 Sept.) will be a lot easier than before. SM3CER, Jan and SM7LQV, Lars created a Log Processing Robot, that not only will be able to automatically receive all logs, but also to present a continuously updated Claimed Scores List, that will grow upon the receipt of all logs. The speed of checking logs will be highly increased and final results will be ready much earlier. Subsequently, the deliveries of Awards and Plaques will go much faster. Please find the UPLOAD CONTEST LOG button in the upper right corner of the new official Scandinavian Activity Contest site, when you feel ready to submit your Cabrillo log.