<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Coronavirus outbreak postpones DXpedition</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The ARRL report the <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">W8S DXpedition</strong> to Swains Island in the Pacific, set to take place in mid-March, has been postponed until Fall due to coronavirus travel restrictions<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The ARRL story says:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Travel restrictions have been imposed on individuals entering American Samoa, stemming from the recent coronavirus outbreak. The Department of Health allows non-residents to enter American Samoa only via Hawaii after a 14-day mandatory quarantine in Hawaii, and the DXpedition was unable to accommodate that requirement.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">“Everything is prepared for our DXpedition, and we are eager to go, but unfortunately the coronavirus outbreak is out of our control,” the DXpedition team said in announcing the delay. “Although this is a disappointment for everyone, the W8S DXpedition is not cancelled, but just postponed for later this year.”<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The DXpedition said it would alert the DX community as soon as it has new firm dates for the trip.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">W8S Swains 2020 <a href="https://swains2020.lldxt.eu/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://swains2020.lldxt.eu/</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Source ARRL<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/coronavirus-outbreak-postpones-swains-island-w8s-dxpedition" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.arrl.org/news/coronavirus-outbreak-postpones-swains-island-w8s-dxpedition</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>