| 75 Years Commemorative Dxpedition of JARL | ||
| [ from Ogasawara Islands(JD1) ] | ||
| We are pleased to announce that several Japanese groups will operate 8N1OGA from Ogasawara islands, where locate about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo and can travel by only a boat taking 25 hours from Tokyo, between September 15th and the end of January 2003 which is special station to commemorate 75 years since Japan Amateur radio League (JARL) founded. Preliminary license has been already issued by Japanese Telecommunication authority, which permits all modes including satellite and one kilo watts out put on normal bands and 500watts on 6 meter band. | ||
| They will operate two complete stations with yagi beams on self supporting towers and dipoles and GP antennas for low bands. | ||
| They will aggressively participate coming major DX contest such as WW Phone, WW CW and JIDX Phone and will enhance to hook up particularly the Europe and the East Coast of North America on low bands. Enable to do that, they will put up antennas where can be looked over the Pacific Ocean !!! | ||
| Current detail Operation schedule as follows | ||||
| [ Sep 15th - 18th ] | ||||
| JE1CKA, JF1PJK, JM1RFT, JR1AIB | ||||
| (A constraction team, limited operation) | ||||
| [ Sep 27th - Oct 5th ] | ||||
| JQ2EHG, JO1LVZ, JR0BAQ | ||||
| [ Oct 2nd - 5th ] | ||||
| JI2UNR | ||||
| [ Oct 8th - 16th ] | ||||
| 7K3EOP, WA1S | ||||
| [ Oct 20th - Oct 23rd ] | ||||
| Unknown | ||||
| [ Oct 26th - 29th ] | ||||
| JA1WSX, JS1DLC, W6TBS | ||||
| [ Oct 26th - Nov 4th ] | ||||
| JA1MRM, JA1LZR | ||||
| [ Nov 8th - 11th ] | ||||
| JO1RUR, JP1JFG | ||||
| [ Nov 14th - 17th ] | ||||
| JA0EOK, JK1NAF, JL1BFC, | ||||
| JL1OXH, JL1SAM, JR1EFG | ||||
| [ Nov 20th - 23rd ] | ||||
| Unknown | ||||
| [ Nov 27th - 30th ] | ||||
| JA1ELY, JA1IDY | ||||
| [ Dec 4th - 24th ] | ||||
| Unknown | ||||
| [ Dec 27th - Jan 1st ] | ||||
| JA7AYE, JA7AGL, JA7NLW | ||||
| [ Dec 31st - Jan 4th ] | ||||
| JA1WSX | ||||
| [ Jan 4th - 31th ] | ||||
| Unknown | ||||
| INFO | ||
| [ QSL INFO ] | ||
| We will issue our QSL for all contacts (QSOs) via the Bureau without your QSL automatically, except direct request. | ||
| You may send your QSL to the QSL Manager (JA1MRM, on QRZ.COM) directly in case of SASE. | ||
| [ Other INFO ] | ||
| Log search will be available as soon as the operation starts. | ||
| Please note that no operations prior to September 15th. | ||
| By Toshi, JA1ELY: a project planner | ||
| 8N1OGA DXpedition | ||
| yNotesz | ||
| If you are in a different call area than your callsign indicates, try adding a portable identifier | ||
| ie: W6XXX and W6XXX/2, JA1AAA and JA1AAA/7, etc.) | ||
| If you were operating portable, to doing the country identifier at both the front and end of your call | ||
| (ie: W1XXX/KH6 and KH6/W1XXX) | ||
| If you were operating QRP, try adding /QRP | ||
| (ie: W6XXX and W6XXX/QRP) | ||
| If you were operating mobile, try adding /M | ||
| (ie: W6XXX and W6XXX/M) | ||