Ramsey Island - IOTA EU-124 MC0SHL & MW9W 2010

GW/IOTA EU-124 - The Strumblehead DX and Contest Group once again have the necessary permission to activate Ramsey Island (EU-124), off the West Wales coast, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds who own the island.

The team will be active using the club call MC0SHL for the whole duration of the activation, and MW9W in the contest. All bands from 80M through to 10M SSB will be used and again some RTTY is planned by G1VDP if the other guys allow him using MC0SHL.

Once more the operation will be using generators as power, although there may be mains power if the project is complete by the RSPB. Again radios used will consist of 2 Elekraft K3's and a Yaesu FT2000 with Acom 1000 amplifiers. Antennas will consist of 2 x G3TXQ Hexbeams by ANT MW0JZE, a windom and dipoles.

Most of the activation is for the IOTA award, but we will also be activating a semi rare square for the WAB awards. The team will be on from the farm for a few days before and after using  MC0SHL for the World Flora and Fauna award (see http://www.wff44.com for award details). The island will not only count for the IOTA and WAB award but will also count for the WFF award. We have a special QSL card printed for both club calls for the island - QSL via M0URX - and will be uploading the logs to ARRL Logbook of the World when we get back on the mainland.

World Flora and Fauna Reference for Ramsey Island is GWFF-072 and for the Club house on the Pembrokeshire Coast (Farm) is GFF-015.

You can read about our preparation by clicking here
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QSL Via M0URX.

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