You may have worked 4U1ITU recently or you may have seen some 4U1ITU cluster spots. The operation is real and the station will be on the air until 3 June. After a two year lockdown, the ITU building in Geneva is back in business. Currently a series of meetings of Study Group 4 (satellites) and 5 (terrestrial and amateur) Working Parties takes place.
The two year lockdown has not been good for equipment and antennas. Lots of technical issues had/have to be solved. As it looks now (but we have to wait and see) 4U1ITU can operate on WARC bands with dipole fixed NW/SE and use the STEPP-IR on 40/20/15/10. A second radio is now being set up for 6 meters including FT8.
This activity will most likely be the last one before the reconstruction of the ITU building starting by the end of the year. The shack will be closed soon for several years. It is recommended to fill empty band-slots now. [SOURCE]
Have acitvated 4U1ITU twice some time ago and if regulations hasn’t been changed, every operator who has worked at 4U1ITU is responsible to confirm his contacts. So if you know the operator contact him directly and ask for a QSL.
Good luck!
Hello, are you also calling ssb???? I would like to work you. When I was young I rember to visit your shack many time, as I live in geneva. Tnx 73 qro from Chêne-Bougeries HB9GUR
I think that it’s really nice that they have such a wonderful sounding station but what’s the point, ultimately, when they absolutely positively WILL NOT confirm the contact?
A QSL would be nice but so would a confirmation in LoTW so that you could count it as another country worked. The same is true of a contact with the World Bank station.