Archive - September 2017

MU/ON8CW/P Now online

While the NB DX Team were in Guernsey as MU/ON4ANN, they were also QRV as MU/ON8CW/P from the World Wide Flora & Fauna sites as listed below.
I have now received the logs for these WWFF activities and these are now on the OQRS. Each WWFF is logged as MU/ON8CW/P suffixed with the GUFF reference.
 
There will be two QSL cards printed, MU/ON4ANN & MU/ON8CW/P. QSL cards will be printed very soon.

GUFF001

Bridget Ozanne Orchid Fields

GUFF004

La Garenne d’Anneville

GUFF006

Le Grand Pré

GUFF008

Ozanne

GUFF009

Pleinmont

GUFF011

Rue Rocheuse

Bureau Posting September 2017

QSL cards have been posted 75 World Bureaus  – Saturday 23rd September 2017

This mailing is a joint mailing between M0OXO Charles, M0URX Tim & M0SDV Jamie

I would very much appreciate feedback from you when the QSL cards start arriving at World Bureaus or received by hams around the world? This feedback will be added to our data below.

This mailing features cards from the recent expeditions. The parcels are sent by Priority Business Mail to get to the Bureaus quickly. 

Total amount of QSL cards 12,067
Via M0URX 2,948
Via M0OXO 7,406
Via M0SDV 1,300
Via MD0CCE 313
Via G4IRN 100

Total Weight  45,225 g (gross weight includes packaging)

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New IREF Board Member

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New IREF Board Member

The Island Radio Expedition Foundation, Inc. (IREF) is pleased to announce that Charles Wilmott, M0OXO, is now a member of the IREF Board of Directors. Charles fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Neville Cheadle, G3NUG, who has been on the IREF Board since it’s inception. IREF would like to thank Neville for his work on the Board and wise counsel over the years.

The IREF Board ultimately decides on IREF sponsorship of an IOTA Expedition and is an Internationally diverse group. In addition to Charles, M0OXO, the Board consists of Jim (JA9IFF), Buzz (N5UR), Don (W9DC), Jose (CT1EEB), Mike (K9AJ) and Buzz (NI5DX).

IREF is funded solely through donations and is a 501(c)(3) organization which allows for contributions by US hams to be tax deductible. The website is www.islandradio.org and contributions can me made by clicking on the “Join” tab.

MU/ON4ANN Guernsey

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MU/ON4ANN will be QRV between 19th and 24th September from Guernsey.

ON4ANN – ON4CCV – ON5PDV – ON2BDJ – ON4ACP – ON6MI – ON4CAU –  ON8CW ON4AAQ – Etienne, 

Special attention for 160 -80 – 40 & 30 M, SSB, CW, DIGI
Equipment : Spiderbeams, Verticals, Inverted-L for 160 M, RX antenna’s

QSL Via OQRS Via M0URX

PDXG QSL Management Platform Update

Perseverance DX Group (PDXG.net)  September, 2017
PDXG QSL Management Platform Update

Earlier this year we released a report on the status of our PDXG QSL Management Platform that was developed to automate the QSL manager’s backend processes. Developed over the past 3 years it’s now at Version 4.3 and installed on servers in the United Kingdom and the USA. Exclusive users are Tim M0URX, Charles M0OXO, Pista HA5AO and Gene K5GS.

The development goal was to eliminate, or greatly reduce, the manager’s manual tasks. The first large implementation was the 2015 TX3X Chesterfield Island DX-pedition, we learned a lot about what QSL managers and users expect from an OQRS platform. We’re happy to report the following 2017 year to date metrics:
– QSOs loaded: 5,018,167

– Total number of DX logs: 800 (DX-pedition, contest, active DX stations handled by M0URX, M0OXO and HA5AO)
The application eliminated much of the manual drudgery of processing confirmations for a single DX operator to the largest DX-pedition.

A QSL manager with one helper can process OQRS requests for the largest DX-pedition in one day, an amazing 75% reduction in time. Compare this to the old process that took multiple people many days to handle a large DX-pedition.

Today the only time consuming OQRS confirmation tasks are stuffing envelopes and affixing labels, a bulk mail franking machine eliminated postage stamps. Other automated tasks include matching donors to the log for special attention and busted call handling, no more busted/missing call e-mails.

One recently added feature prevents sending duplicate QSL cards to the same DXer. Many DXers request a card through OQRS or Direct and then send a card via the buro, the software will not respond to the buro request if a card was previously sent.

With all this extra time on their hands M0URX and M0OXO are available to handle additional DX call signs and DX-peditions.

ZG2TT National week in Gibraltar

K800 QSL-ZB2TT

4th to the 10th of September is National Week in Gibraltar, to commemorate this, the Gibraltar Amateur Radio Stations can use the prefix ZG. Robert Morgan (ZB2TT) will be QRV as ZG2TT during the week in the hours he is not working.

Although we will not have a special QSL card for this activity we will overprint the QSO report labels with ZG2TT and the log will be uploaded to the OQRS after the 10th September so that you can claim the QSL card.

For the prefix hunters we will also upload the log to LoTW.
QSL Via M0URX OQRS preferred.  OQRS NOW LIVE