[NEWS UPDATE] — Denby Dale amateur radio club (based in West Yorkshire, England) are delighted to invite radio amateurs everywhere to attend their club online meeting on Wednesday, March 22nd at 1930UTC (7:30pm UK) – but channel opening at 1900UTC (7pm) where we welcome Emil Bergmann DL8JJ who will give a presentation about the June 2023 DXpedition to Rockall island location over 200 miles from Scotland in the Atlantic. Come along to meet Emil – hear about the expedition- and ask questions. The online meeting is live on Zoom here. Or the club’s You Tube channel here.
[MARCH 9]
The MM0UKI DXpedition to the Isle of Rockall is soon approaching. In just over 2.5 months from now, several intrepid souls, including radio hams Nobby G0VJG and Emil DL8JJ, will attempt to land and stay on the islet. While the main intention is to break the current world record for time spent on Rockall, and to raise as much as possible for military / navy charities, the focus of this post is more to do with the radio side of the expedition:
Nobby will be the SSB & FT8 op while Emil will run CW & FT8. Bands to be used: 40-10m (2m possibly). Radios: 2 x FT-857D (100w), back-up KX2 (10w), 2 x Spiderbeam poles (10m), generator / solar panels, MFJ-902 tuner + logging software (N1MM+ / WinTest).
Emil DL8JJ (at OJ0Y)
Nobby at DX Feile 2022
This will be only the third activation of Rockall – MS0IRC/P (2005), MM0RAI/P (2011) previously. Still under 11% of all IOTA chasers have Rockall confirmed, so demand will again be huge.
As the DXpedition gets underway, DX-World will update often on team progress, including pictures and video footage. On May 26th, Col MM0NDX (of DX-World) is picking up both radio ops from Glasgow International airport where they will then drive to the departure point later that day.
The yacht the team will sail in is called “Taeping” – find out more about her on this page.
VISIT THE 2023 ROCKALL EXPEDITION WEBSITE
Isle of Rockall, EU-189
Hope we Far East island chasers have more luck than with last expedition.
GL
HS0ZIV
All the best friends ! Athens SV1COK !! Good DX and “73”
To my understanding, only ONE contact is needed for the IOTA award per island.
IOTA, that was for me in the late 70’s/early 80’s mostly old wise men sitting on 14.260 MHz waiting for the new one to show up, make their QSO, three by three, good contact. So, apparently, not my first choice.
Since then, I worked the one or other when it showed up, but that’s it for me and IOTA, at least for the time being. Never say never.
But with the upcoming activation from Rockall, I really wonder how this operation will work out.
According to the above information, they plan to be QRV on all bands between 40 and 10m, in SSB, CW and FT8. So that makes a total of eighteen band/mode slots. When the first cluster spot shows up, the click & shoot DX- (not community, or society) mob will start to fill their log up and down.
Especially with the close proximity to the mainland, it’s an easy task. I can somewhat understand that someone works for example S21DX on several bands and modes, because in this case, that’s are rare DXCC counter too. But come on guys, MM0UKI/p, that’s Scotland!
So, Michael, I suggest you open Clublog Leaderboard for this activation, so we can follow our heroes on the way to the top 😉
And let’s see if we see their names as donors for the different charities …
73 de Gary, DF2RG
Is it possibleto book a place on the boat to go with you to ROCKALL island? There is a geocache not been found since years.
Can you provide me with information? Price,etc? Please?
Best regards, Peter Lack, Germany.
Good luck this time !
73’s
ON6ZK
Good luck and success to the team on this most inhospitable place! I hope that I manage to work Nobby but their venture is more important! I hope that they raise lots of money!
EU189 CQ IOTA.,
Dxpedition Successful.,
Wish I can QSL.,
GL & 73 Farid VR2UNG AS006
Hope for SSB/CW …. not FT8!
This will be very popular, wish the team luck and hope for a fair-weather landing!
WOW ! What a place ! I do hope they will succeed