ARLA/CLUSTER: Noticias da DXpedition XX9D a Macau

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Macao DXpedition news

The XX9D team is once again active from Grand Coloane Resort, Macao
(AS-075), until February 26th.

Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL via
DL4SVA, LoTW or Club-Log's OQRS. For more details and updates, see:
http://xx9d.mydx.de

The following Press Release was posted on February 13th [edited]:
XX9D is QRV! -- This DXpedition was possible by the great help of the
management and staff of Grand Coloane Resort, the CTT authorities and Bom,
XX9LT.

All team members including the baggage arrived well in Macau on Sunday
afternoon, February 10th. The team has fixed the complete station setup and
all antennas within 24 hours. The successful inspection of CTT was on
February 11th. So we were able to be on the air around 10 UTC the same day.

After 48 hours of operation we have around 6500 QSOs in the log. So, this
is a good starting point. A first log update to club log was made today.
Still a few FT8-QSOs from F/H-mode are missing in the log.

Sorry about the confusion with the pile-ups of V84SAA sometimes.
Remember it is difficult to find a good place for ham radio in Macau.
We had to follow the restrictions of the hotel and the nearby golf-range.
That means limited space for antennas. All antennas were installed above
the 8th storey of the hotel-building. We are able to use only 30m length of
the railing there. (see picture on our homepage)
For 160 and 80 m we are using wire verticals on 18 m high Spiderbeam poles
with elevated radials. On 40 m we have a vertical as well, on 30m we are
using a delta-loop. Unfortunately there are no receiving antennas possible.

Noise level is high on all low bands. Our new wire beam from LZ-Antennas
works fine on all five higher bands 20 – 10 m.

We have made a detailed propagation tool for the difficult parts of the
world via SP and LP from here. On FT8 we are also using the F/H-mode.

Please check our new actual frequencies. (7070, 14079, 18105, 21079,
24920 …)
In CW we recommend for outside US stations 1-3 kHz up and for US stations
2-3 kHz up splitting. Please don’t call only 1 up. North America has by the
way our highest priority. On 160m the highest allowed transmit - frequency
for us is 1825 kHz.

Macau has an interesting Portuguese history and also the status as an world
culture heritage. As You know we have 6 wives of operators with us. They
take the opportunity to visit the places of interest of this tourist
crowded city. Next days they plan to visit HongKong and probably China-
mainland.

Fonte: OPDX
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