Look for special event station ZS1ØWCS to be aired from June 1st to July 12th to celebrate the 2010 World Cup Soccer championships, in South Africa. Various clubs will be using the special call during this period. Participating clubs will be supplied with commemorative QSL cards which will be dispatched via the Bureau.

UDXT members will be active on all bands, all modes as:

The main mission of this DXpedition is activating T31 Central Kiribati, Kanton Island, Phoenix Islands Group. This DXCC entity is ranked #7 in EU and #19 in Worlds Most Wanted List. The next goal is activating ZK3 Tokelau Islands, which is ranked #29 in EU and #35 in World’s Most Wanted List.

QSL via the buro or direct.

HI7/OT4R zal opnieuw QRV zijn in 2010 vanuit Punta Cana, van 01/05/2010 tot 22/05/2010 op 20, 15 en 10m.

The Amateur Radio Section of the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) and the Documentary Archives Radio Communications/QSL Collection will operate, for only 72 hours, a special event station with the callsign OE1ØM during the weekend of April 23-25th. OE1ØM is an official "International Marconi Day" station. Contacts made on Saturday, April 24th, are valid for the IMD Award.

QSL via OE QSL Bureau or direct to OE1WHC.

Anneke, PB7XYL, will be QRV from Heinenoord, using the special callsign PB88XYL from 3-30th April 2010. This is the first activity by the Women On The Air (WOTA) association.

QSL via PB7XYL, direct or via bureau.

Scheduling their activities for April 2010, an international group of amateur radio operators plan to conduct a DXpedition to a remote island off the coast of Vietnam. During their 2-week stay, they will make radio contacts with as many ham radio operators as possible around the globe. Running four stations 24 hours a day, they hope to reach 60,000 hams in that period. In addition, the Vietnam telecom authorities have issued an official amateur radio license as required for any such activity; in this case, the call sign under which all radio communications will take place is 3W6C.

The multinational project, being coordinated by Swiss ham-radio operators, consists of roughly 20 individuals including one woman with members not only from Switzerland but also from Vietnam, Germany, USA and Japan.

Côn Có Island, with a land surface of just 2 square kilometers, is 32 km off the central coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The island has a population of approximately 400 people. For many years it was a restricted military zone, but today the Vietnamese government is working to turn this idyllic location into a tourist and vacation destination. What is of special interest to ham operators is that this island has rarely seen any radio activity. And because it belongs to the popular Islands of the Air program (designation: AS-185), and the fact that Vietnam itself is high in the list of most-wanted countries for radio contacts, the DXpedition expects very high interest from the amateur radio community around the world. The goal is to make contacts on as many different frequencies as possible, even in the 80 meter and 160 meter bands, which makes this DXpedition very special. But this goal also means that the group must transfer considerable amounts of equipment – including radios, antennas, power generators, computers, and various ancillary supplies – with them to the island.

Go to the 3W6C website

Olivier ON4EI will be activating BERE ISLAND EU-121 as EJ8GQB, his new Irish callsign. This solo expedition is planned from March 21st-29th 2010. Activity will be 160-10m SSB/RTTY. He will also take part in the CQ WPX SSB CONTEST March 27th-28th 2010.

Alain F6BFH and his XYL will be active from the island of St. Martin as TO5SM, between 13th and 23rd March. QRV HF SSB and CW.

QSL via F6BFH either direct or bureau.

On March 12, HA3HK will be QRV as HB9/HA3HK/P in Geneva at the International Motorshow. After that, he will travel to Seborga where he will be QRV as IK1/HA3HK from 2200 h. On Saturday 13 March, Zoli will activate two SOTA summits in France. He will also be QRV in Monaco as 3A/HA3HK/P. More activity is planned from Seborga till Sunday noon. Finally, on his trip back home, I/HA3HK/M and S5/HA3HK/M will be aired.

Activity on 7 MHz in CW and SSB (maybe also 14 MHz). QSL direct or via bureau.

Michele, IK5ZUI will be active as 5R8UI from Nosy Be Island,Madagascar, starting early March 2010 and he will stay there probably for one year.

QSL via home call.

Special event station ON3ØON (Oscar November Thirty Oscar November) will be active during the months of March, April, September and October of 2010. Activity is to commemorate the 30th edition of the Belgian 'ON Contest'. The contest was first organized in 1980 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Kingdom of Belgium. Since then, the yearly event - lasting just four hours on a local Sunday morning - has become increasingly popular. QSLs for ON3ØON go via the UBA bureau or direct to ON4CAS. A special certificate which can be achieved for free has been created in PDF format. Full details are available here.

Sang, DS4NMJ, will once again be active as DT8A from South Korea’s Antarctic King Sejong Station which is located in the Barton Peninsula, South Shetland Islands. He will be there between December 5th (2009) to January 31st (2011).

Activity on 160-10m CW, SSB and RTTY.

QSL via HL2FDW.