ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores utilizam as antenas da RNW em Bonaire.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

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Amateur radio DXpedition to Bonaire Oct 10-24

As you may have read on the RNW website, on October 10, 2010 the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the status of the individual islands will change as follows:

 *   St. Maarten and Curacão will become independent countries within the Kingdom and will be granted the same status that Aruba attained in 1986.
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 *   Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius will be given the status of a public body (a kind of special municipality) in the Netherlands and will therefore fall directly under Dutch rule.

To mark the occasion, a group of 15-20 radio amateurs from several countries have joined forces to activate special transmissions from Bonaire between October 10-24, 2010. The primary focus will be all HF bands from 160 to 10 meters including the WARC bands. The team will focus on all modes including SSB, CW and various digital modes. Further information about the callsigns to be used will be published on the special website www.bonaire2010.com<http://www.bonaire2010.com/>.

<http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/files/2010/10/bonaire-antennas.jpg>Various locations on the island will be used, but the primary location is the RNW shortwave transmitter site. Its impressive antenna park provides up to 21 dBd gain. The radio amateurs have been granted use of the antennas during their “dead hours” on the HF bands, between 1230 and 1830 UTC. It’s planned to operate from the RNW facility on 30, 20, 15 and 17 metres.

Between 11 and 15 October, the RNW facility will also serve another purpose. A group of schoolchildren from Bonaire will be contacting another group of children in the Netherlands who will be the guest of Dutch ham PD1DX. This will provide an opportunity for the group of new Dutch country citizens to ask each other questions in order to get to know one other a little bit better.

All QSOs will be QSL’d through the services of Global QSL who will be responsible for printing and distributing cards to all QSL bureaus worldwide. If you do not use a QSL bureau or would like to send for a direct confirmation, all QSL information will be published on the website www.bonaire2010.com<http://www.bonaire2010.com/>.
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