Saturday, March 19, 2011

Bangladesh DXpedition

The 'Foundation with Global Children (FGC) DX Group' is pleased to announce their next multi-national DXpedition to Bangladesh using the callsign S21YZ between March 17-30th.
Bangladesh is the 14th most wanted country in North America. Activity will be on 160-10 meters, including the 30/17/12 meter bands, and using the modes CW, SSB and RTTY.
The team plans to erect high gain antennas, use filtering and receive antennas, and run 4 stations with amplifiers 24 hours a day.
They state, "We have a new and improved QTH and will focus on the low bands to maximize this time of year.

Also, we intend to listen carefully to the needs of the DX community during the operation by monitoring the activity on our Web site, and other social media outlets for band openings, and dialogue with the radio community."

Operators mentioned are: Zorro/JH1AJT/A51A (Team Leader), Jay/JA1TRC/KH2J, Hiroyuki/JP1TRJ, Nao/JA1HGY, Eun-Gwang/DS4EOI, Jon/KL2A, and 3 other operators TBA.
QSL via JH1AJT, direct, by the Bureau or LoTW. For more details, visit their pages at:

http://www.s21yx.com/index.php

http://www.facebook.com/S21YX

http://twitter.com/#%21/search/s21yz

At this time the team is seeking contributions from sponsors and the DX community at large to help defray the significant logistics costs of this DXpedition. All team members will be covering their own travel costs. Donations are being requested to cover shipping, licensing, and the other necessary fees. Details of how to donate appear on the S21YX web page at:
http://www.s21yx.com/sponsors.php

PayPal and Secure credit card donations may be made directly via the Web site. Thank you for your consideration in whatever you can offer.

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2011/bangladesh_dxpedition.htm

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