VK9QO in Christmas Island QRT at 20 UTC in October 31 with 174 QSO logged, though there are dupes and broken callsigns.
Due to flight problem, VK9QO needed to skip QRV in Cocos Keeling. Due to power amp problem, VK9QO had only to QRV CW mode with only 1W power and frequent rain and thick cloud decreased X band wave. Under this circumstance with a lot of issues, JA3GEP Mikio had excellent operation to give QO-100 lovers NEW entity. Please join me to give Mikio a big round of applause!!
Thank you for your patience. I know all of you expected stronger signal and smoother operations.
After Mikio comes back to Japan, we will release more detail report.
New DXCC Entity VK9QO will be on the Air between 25-31, October 2022. Operation schedule and QSL Information are as follows:
Location 1: 25 -27 Oct 2022 Cocos (Keeling) Island (VK9C) Local Time=UTC + 6.5hr 12°05’S 96°53’E GL: NH87JT (Az: 274.1 deg Elv: 10.1 deg)
Location 2: 28 – 31 Oct 2022 Christmas Island (VK9X) Local Time=UTC + 7.0hr 10°29’S 105°39’E GL: OH29UN (Az: 271.9 deg Elv: 1.7 deg)
The operator, Mikio JA3GEP, will try to QRV mainly late afternoon and early morning UTC. He operate split. He will listen 5 kHz or more higher frequencies only.
LoTW and eQSL, as well as paper-QSL, will be handled. We upload log to LoTW and eQSL to all QSOs as soon as possible.
If you would like to have paper QSL card, please donate to this DX pedition to cover paper QSL card and postage. Do not send QSL to BURO. Other QSL method will not be accepted.
Please e-mail your QSO data and postal mail address information after you donate to Mikio_Mouri as following format.
QSO Data: Your callsign Entity Cocos or Christmas Date / Time(UTC)
Postal name and postal mail address
Your email address when you donate
Donate to account same email address (JBH02173 at nifty.com) via Paypal with “Your Callsign and full name”
This activity is supported by ICOM Inc. and JAMSAT(Japan AMSAT). QSO with VK9QO is valid for “JAMSAT 50th Anniversary Award 5 points bonus”. See https://www.jamsat.or.jp/?p=1854
Thank you for your interest. JA3GEP, Mikio Mouri PM75XA
