The on-the-air portion of the FT5ZM DXpedition has come to an end, although the trip home remains. That news may be welcome to non-DXers who have been contending with the huge and chaotic pileups that, on occasion, occupied substantial segments of spectrum, but depressing for operators who were unsuccessful in snagging this rare one. The Amsterdam Island DXpedition team logged on the order of 1…
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The Amsterdam Island FT5ZM DXpedition team is on the island, and word is that they be on the air January 25.
“It only took 50 trips to the island, but pretty much everything is ashore,” reported DXpedition pilot Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L. “The first tower is up with a 12 meter Yagi.”
Team member Michel Brunelle, FM5CD, reported that at 2230 local time, the team finally was able to get a little sl…
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The Amsterdam Island DXpedition team has made “significant progress” in the past couple of months in preparation for its January 2014 DXpedition, the team reported in a news release July 27. Located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Amsterdam and St Paul Islands is the seventh most-wanted DXCC entity, according to Clublog. The news release says the team has begun receiving supplies and equipme…
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