Hello and Welcome to this Week in DX for your weekly Dose of DX. I’m Bill, AJ8B. The following DX information comes from Bernie, W3UR, editor of the DailyDX, the WeeklyDX, and the How’s DX column in QST. If you would like a free 2-week trial of the DailyDX, your only source of real-time DX information, just drop me a note at thedxmentor@gmail.com GM – Scotland For those looking for Shetlands, a separate country for the DX Marathon and the CQ World Wide DX Contest, make sure you add GM7AFE to your logging software and HamAlert. For DXCC this counts as Scotland and for IOTA it counts for EU-012. KH8WW, American Samoa - The KH8WW DXpedition is QRV from Aunu`u Island, the same location as K8K, until September 24th with operators YL2GM, Yuris and EA5EL, Eugene. Antennas will include a Spiderbeam, verticals for 160/80M and 40M, a DX Commander, and an inverted vee for 60M, covering bands from 160-10 meters on CW, SSB, FT8, and RTTY. KH0 – Mariana Islands - JA6CNL, Tony, is QRV as KH0N from Saipan until September 15. He’ll use FT8, FT4, and FT2 with a vertical antenna and IC7300 radio. There is a second DXpedition to Franz Jozef Land - The RI1FJZ expedition team has departed Murmansk aboard the yacht “Apostle Andrew” and is now sailing toward Franz Josef Land as part of the continuing “Legends of the Arctic” project. The vessel has already left Murmansk, with reports of early aurora activity and radio operation from the ship and RW6MD/MM has been reported QRV on 21 MHz FT8.Yesterday they worked out an internet issue on FJL, so they will be ableto upload logs from there daily, to Club Log and LoTW, prioritizing donors, sponsors and OQRS requests. S7 – Seychelles - S79/DL2SBY, Kasimir, is QRV from Mahe, until September 21.He is using CW, SSB and FT8 MSHV on HF with verticals and an inverted V, plus a 5-element Yagi on 6. QSL direct to his home QTH or use LoTW and Club Log OQRS. A9 – Bahrain - G3VCQ, Colin, plans to be active as A9/G3VCQ from the outskirts of Bahrain, between September 19 and 26. Operation will be holiday- style, single operator, while travelling with his XYL and family. Bands planned include 160m and 6m, depending on time of day, night-time conditions, and propagation. Colin expects 160m to be mainly FT or CW only. He hopes to be QRV using CW, SSB, FT8, FT4, and FT2. 5W – Samoa - All systems are go for a 5W0AF operation with two ops leaving Poland September 16. A 2-1/2 day buffer in New Zealand is part of the plan, toconfirm gear has made it through. On-air from Samoa is set for September21, on the bands until October 12. It is SSB only. KH0 – Mariana Islands - JR1FKR, Chusuke, will operate as KH0/JR1FKR from Saipan Island in the Northern Mariana Islands from September 25–28. The operation will be holiday-style and is planned for the 6m through 40m bands, using SSB, FT8, and RTTY modes. If you have questions or need information, just drop me a note at thedxmentor@gmail.com Until next week, this is Bill, AJ8B saying 73 and thanks to my XYL Karen for her love and support. I Hope to hear you in the pileups! Have a great DX week!
