ARLA/CLUSTER: Noticias internacionais dos Açores e Madeira.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Azores Nine Islands Hunt
It is often said that DXers only work DX. More recently, we have seen
a healthy shift toward assisting the society they visit by helping locals
become stronger in Amateur Radio.

Something totally new is now happening in the CU-land – the Azores.

In recent years, the Azores Islands have balanced their agriculture and
livestock sectors through increased awareness of their great location
and unique landscape facilitated by the development of the local
infrastructure to receive more visitors from industrialized countries.

Significant progress has been made in expanding tourist facilities,
convention hotels and holiday resorts. The Azores is now capable of
accommodating 10,500 visitors per day. Additionally, the Azorean
airline (SATA) is set to serve many European destinations in addition
to the US and Canada.

Radio amateurs are now stepping forward to help the Azoreans increase
the awareness of all of their nine islands, all within reach of SATA
airline service.

Forming nine country teams with the locals, a total of twenty DXers
will fly in from SATA destinations to be on the air from the nine
islands as part of the 'Azores Nine Islands Hunt' - a unique concept
to bring everyone on board globally to share what the Azores can
offer.

Those participating are:
United States: K2DO (YL), KI1U, KE3Q, N2GA
Canada: VE3DZ, VE3FWA
Germany: DJ9ZB, DF9TF
United Kingdom: G3TXF, G7VJR
Finland: OH2BH, OH8NC, OH9MDV
Norway: LB3HC
Belgium: ON7LX (YL), ON7TK, ON5NT
Denmark: OZ7AM, OZ1IKY
Together with local hams from each island: CU1AAD, CU2BV, CU2CE,
CU2DX, CU3CS, CU4AB, CU5AM, CU6AB, CU7CA, CU8AAE and CU9AC

The Amateur Radio group is also set to streamline emergency
communications procedures throughout the archipelago. Together with
the local amateur population and administrators, they will be using
this activity to test the island-to-island amateur radio network. The
ARRL is sending their best resources, lending their expertise in this
field.

The project website was recently launched at
http://azores-islands-hunt.com for your review while you can also
study the Azores at: http://www.visitazores.com/en

Fonte: OPDX

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Madeira ops gear-up for contest season
The CR3L contest station in Santana on Madeira Island (AF-014) will be
busy over the next few months during the upcoming contest season.

Look for the following operators to be active possibly as CT9/homecall
and CR3L during the upcoming dates and contests:

Sept. 20th-Oct. 4th:
Operators Walter/DJ6QT, Goetz/DJ3IW, Kalle/DM3BJ, Stefan/DK1MM,
Horst/DK1QH, Dieter/DK4QT, Han-J./ DL1YFF, Boris/E73Y and
Marijan/S56A.
Activity during the CQWW DX RTTY Contest (September 29-30th)
as a Multi-Multi entry.

Oct. 21st- Nov. 2nd:
Operators Karlfried/DL1EK, Peter/DH4JQ, Marion/DF4UM, Marco/DJ5KW and
Leo/DK8VC.
Activity during the CQWW DX SSB Contest (October 27-28th) as a
Multi-Op entry.

November 20-27th :
Operators Arno/DL1CW, Ulf/DL5AXX, Frank/DL8WAA, Ulrich/DJ2YA,
Falk/DK7YY, Gennady/UA9MA, Mikhail/UA9PM and Ruslan/UA9ONJ. Activity
during the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 24-25th) as a Multi-2 entry.