04 May 2010
Anyone fancy a trip to Mozambique in October 2010?
I am running a DXpedition to Bilene which is a costal
resort on the Indian Ocean 150 km north of Maputu. We fly
out from Heathrow on 13th October to Johannesburg and drive
up to Mozambique. We plan to run a station for Jamboree
on the Air with local scouts on the weekend of 16th/17th
October and we will enter a station for CQWW SSB over the
weekend of 30th/31st October. There will be plenty of opportunity
for individuals to operate under their own C91 callsigns
and if you fancy sun bathing on an Indian Ocean beach in
late African spring there will be plenty of opportunity
for that too. There are a few places on the team still available.
If you want further details check out our Events page at
CQ~DX
African Safaris - Events
73
David GI4FUM/3DA0DJ
10 March 2010
We are currently planning a DXpedition to Mozambique in
October 2010 with the intention of running a station for
Jamboree on the Air with Mozambique Scouts and a contest
station for CQWW SSB. We have made contact with the chief
scout of Mozambique and he is very pleased to hear that
a JOTA station might be possible and will give it his full
support. We are currently researching sites to operate from
in Mozambique.
73
David
23 November 2009
CQ-DX African Safaris is pleased to announce that we are
able to offer 2 Elecraft K3 radios to the multi-operator
dxpeditions. The older Yaesu FT1000MP’s have offered
fine service over the last 4 years….however, apart
from the better dynamic range the Elecraft K3’s offer
lower phase noise characteristics, relay switched front-end
filters resulting in better receive immunity to intermod
especially in the closer station proximity found in dxpeditions
and better DSP functionality. They are also smaller and
lighter than the older radios. With the improvement in the
solar conditions the radio will also permit operation on
the 6m band, a feature the Yaesu’s did not have.
The K3’s are fitted with 8 pole 2.8 kHz 8 ssb and
400hz cw filters. I am particularly pleased with the announcement
and look forward to the next big group to put the radios
to the test……..73 Daniel ZS6JR
2 November 2009
David has just received a certificate from
CQ magazine for the 3DA0DJ operation in the CQWW SSB contest
in October 2008. The station was 7th in Africa in the Multi-Single
category with a score of 4013316. The operator team was
GI4FUM, ZS6JR and ZS6GF. The usual power brownouts were
a challenge but fortunately the team had planned ahead and
had a generator on hand for when the power went down. Anyone
interested in joining the team for the 2010 CQWW SSB contest
weekend at Hawane should queue up now.
24 August 2009
The following item (written by Paul Martin EI2CA) appeared
in this week's IRTS News script - 3DA0SS Swaziland
David, GI4FUM, has returned from Swaziland and reports
that the 3DA0SS expedition was a big success. Around 20,000
QSOs were made, many of them on the data modes.
The International Scout Camp was also a great success with
the scouts learning many new development skills.
The IRTS committee, with the agreement of the CQIR Contest
sponsor, Dargle Builders Limited, agreed that the excess
in the contest fund which amounted to more than 1,000 Euro,
should be donated to the Swazi scouts towards the cost of
providing clean water at their campsite.
While David was there, the new pump was installed and commissioned
and clean water is now available for all the camp needs.
Following the AFRI75 expedition to Swaziland and the resultant
publicity for the Scout Project there, many individual Society
members donated monies for projects at the campsite. We
are happy to act as a conduit for any such funding and if
you are interested in helping you should contact Paul EI2CA
or David GI4FUM.
