ARLA/CLUSTER: DXpedition IOTA na Republica Islamica do Irão

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Islamic Republic of Iran IOTA DXpedition

A multi-national team of amateur radio operators from Belgium,
The Netherlands and Greece will be active as EP6T from Kish Island
(AS-166), Islamic Republic of Iran, during the last 2 weeks of January
2015.

This will be a 'Rockall DX Group' DXpedition. Reportedly, it took nearly 3
years of negotiations and a reconnaissance trip by Patrick, ON4HIL, to
Tehran which finally resulted in obtaining a legal license to operate
with a team of ten people for fourteens days.

The 10 operators mentioned are Marc/ON4AMX (Finance), Henk/ON4AFH
(Travel and Logistics, Carlo/ON4BR (Logistics), Patrick/ON4HIL (Team
Leader), Luc/ON4IA (Low Band Specialist), Marc/ON6CC (Webmaster),
Wim/ON6DX (Propagation), Frank/ON7RU (Multi-Media), Ronald/PA3EWP
(Sponsors/PR) and Kostas/SV1DPI (Shack Manager).
Pilot stations are Theo/ON4ATW (E-mail: ep6t  rockall.be) and Bjorn/ON9CFG.

The group plans to have 4 (possibly 5) operating stations on the air
around the clock for at least 10 days. Specific dates will be announced
at a later date. Activity will be on all HF bands, 160-10 meters using
CW, SSB and RTTY. Some stations during the night time hours will be
focusing on the low bands using separate receive antennas and quarter
wave verticals near the beach. They expect to make around 85,000 QSOs.

They will use ClubLog for online logging (if Internet is available) and
OQRS (QSL requests). A few days after the DXpedition the logs will be
uploaded by their QSL Manager to LOTW. QSL Manager is Tim Beaumont,
M0URX: P.O. Box 17, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1SF, ENGLAND. All
QSLs via the OQRS, by the Bureau and direct, will be answered as
usual.

The EP6T Website is now available with more information, as well as a
EP"need" survey at: http://www.rockall.be
They have also have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@RockallDX

>From now on they will update their Web site and Twitter pages on a daily
basis if there is some information to share.

OPDX