For 9 months the table below - which can be found in the Top DXCC page - has remained at 50% completed. To attempt to complete the missing entities, your assistance in providing short clips (CW/SSB) is much appreciated. Contributors given full credit. Drop a file to dxworld.news@gmail.com – Thanks! 2009     # PREFIX COUNTRY 1 P5 NORTH KOREA 2 KP1 NAVASSA 3 ZS8 MARION ISLAND 4 3Y-B BOUVET 5 7O YEMEN 6 VKØ-H HEARD ISLAND 7 FT5W CROZET 8 FR-G GLORIOSO 9 FT5Z AMSTERDAM 10 VP8-S SOUTH SANDWICH 11 BS7 SCARBOROUGH 12 VP8-O SOUTH ORKNEY 13 SV-A MT ATHOS 14 HKØ-M MALPELO 15 VKØ-M 16 FR-T TROMELIN 17 ZL9 AUCKLAND [...]

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Jamie, WW3S and Ray, ND8L will be in Bermuda for the CQWW RTTY Contest end of September. Contest call to be used is VP9I. Before/after contest activity as VP9/WW3S and VP9/ND8L. QSL via LOTW or to home call with SASE. ADXO

Message from Tommy VK2IR: 3D2R – Rotuma will be activated by 10 operators in July 2011 with the help of 3D2AA. Team leader Tommy, VK2IR will send more news as plans progress. DX World.net

UPDATE: September 2 – Plans for Heard Island VK0-H underway. The DX fraternity is eagerly looking forward to the day that Heard Island VK0-H, in the top ten of the world’s most wanted DX entities, is activated again. Preliminary, but serious plans have begun to put this uninhabited sub-Antarctic island, in the Southern Indian Ocean, home [...]

UPDATE September 1st - Craig D2SG is now QRV: [August 30] Craig, MM0SSG is heading to Luanda, Angola beginning September for 6 months. Using an FT897, he plans to be active on 80-10m SSB, PSK31 & CW as D2SG using a small vertical and dipole for 20m. Craig is new to CW – please be patient. [...]

David, AH6HY will be operating from the following anticipated new entities: October 6 to 15 – Sint Eustatius (PJ5/AH6DX) October 15 to 22 – St Maarten (PJ7/AH6DX) QSL both via H/c

Sergey, US0IW is now active (20/40m CW) from the rare Beringa Island, Komandorskiye Islands (AS-039) as R0/US0IW. QSL via H/c.

On August 31, 2010 the Refuge Manager at US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) notified the Radio Expeditions Inc team that it will receive a permit to conduct the next DXpedition to Jarvis Island (KH5). The selection of a team to visit Jarvis is the most recent step in a long procedure that began in 2009 June [...]

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UPDATE. August 31 by Alan, VK3PA: Mal XV2LC (VK6LC) has had a leg injured (now infected) while setting up his 160m antenna on Hoc Coc Beach. He is having medical treatment in Vung Tau for the next week so operations from XV4LC  will not now occur until next time. Mal, VK6LC will be on a DX-Vocation, returning to [...]

Janusz, SP6IXF and Wlodek, SP6EQZ plan activity from St.Eustatius (NA-145) between 18 November to 3 December.  They will operate 160 – 10m, CW, SSB & RTTY. Their location on the island has an “open” direction to Europe. QSL via H/c’s. A website for the expedition will be launched soon.

Hurricane Watch Net A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR… ANGUILLA SAINT MARTIN AND SAINT BARTHELEMY ST. MAARTEN…SABA…AND ST. EUSTATIUS BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS PUERTO RICAN ISLANDS OF CULEBRA AND VIEQUES A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR… PUERTO RICO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR… ANTIGUA…BARBUDA…MONTSERRAT…ST. KITTS…AND NEVIS PUERTO RICO A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR… TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS   Hurricane Watch Net

Wonderful footage shot by Mehdi, F5PFP during his Antarctic adventure in 2009. VP8DLM: Base O-Danco island FT5YJ/p: Port Charcot-Wandel island LU/FT5YJ: Almirante Brown-Antarctic mainland

August 30 – Now QRV from NA-198: By Len VE9MY On August 30th Linda, VE9GLF and Len, VE9MY expect to operate from Cottel Island, IOTA NA-198 , with a new Canadian Island number after we make +25 contacts. Operation will likely start at about 1330Z and go for approx 4-5 hours. August 31st we will attempt to do two [...]