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ZL9HR – Campbell Island DxpeditionThursday Sep 20, 2012
UPDATE
September 20, 2012 - The ZL9HR “Logistics team” are very pleased to announce that the packed equipment crates have left the DX’Pedition’s Sydney base heading south to New Zealand, on schedule and in plenty of time to progress through the required quarantine formalities with the authorities on the ZL mainland before the final leg of the trip by sea with the operations team down to Campbell Island in the great southern ocean for the activation between November 28th and December 9th.
Please refer to the web site ZL9HR.COM for the full, up to date, information about this major DX’Pedition to the Great Southern Ocean.
September 6, 2012 – The ZL9HR DXpedition to Campbell island is coming together with all equipment due to be packed into four containers and ready for shipping to New Zealand by the end of this month. ZL9HR is also assembling an off island team which includes following pilots: VK2NN (VK/ZL), KY6R (NA), KH6CG (Pacific), V51B (Africa) MM0NDX (Europe) and VK2ARE Australian Publicity officer.
August 22, 2012 – At this writing we are on schedule and the project planning is well underway. The team is busily working on all aspects of the DX-pedition. As you may know, we have the landing permit in-hand and also the radio license / call sign.
Some examples of what’s happening behind the curtain at the moment include:
- Station location (as defined by the permit)
- Antenna placement planning (as defined by the permit)
- Discussions on propagation behavior and how we will adjust for conditions
- Operator mode preference
- Equipment testing and preparation for sea shipment
- Contract finalization with the boat that will take us to Campbell Island [read more]
July 10, 2012 – Revised dates: November 28th to December 9th 2012 plus new design ZL9HR website.
July 6, 2012 – Tommy VK2IR and John VK3YP of the Hellenic Amateur Radio Association of Australia are pleased to announce that the landing permit has been approved by NZ Dept. of Conservation for ZL9HR Campbell Island DXpedition in November 2012.
May 19, 2012 – John, 9M6XRO, has joined the Australian Hellenic group planning to go to Campbell Island in November.
April 15, 2012 – We have received tentative/verbal ok for landing permit on Campbell Island. Working on finalising when the official permit will be issued.
April 13, 2012 — Our ZL9HR callsign was only issued today; LINK - Enter “digit 9″ after “followed by” and press search button. Co-leader VK2IR also updates in comments.
April 12, 2012 – The ZL9HR Campbell Island NZ DXpedition operator team is as follows: Tommy VK2IR, John VK3YP, Les W2LK, Gene K5GS, Dave K3EL, Glenn KE4KY, Jacques ZL3CW, Pista HA5AO and Don VE7DS.
April 3, 2012 — Our permit application is progressing and hope to announce our official landing/operating permit and callsign shortly on the ZL9HR website
For the operators who have already emailed us with their expressions of interest to join the DXpedition team, we will shortly provide them with the individual contribution fee amount required.
We have all of the required equipment from our previous VK9HR DXpedition including Kenwood TS590S radios, Spiderbeam masts, beam & vertical antennas, bandpass filters, four SPE linear amplifiers and Honda generators.
We will also have Inmarsat BGAN satellite terminal for Internet and voice comms. This will allow us to upload our logs daily and provide photos and other updates to our website.
March 29, 2012 — The Hellenic Amateur Radio of Association of Australia (HARAOA) is organising a DXpedition to ZL9 Campbell Island (OC-037) New Zealand between November 17th and November 30th 2012. ZL9 Campbell Island NZ is number 15 on the current DXCC most wanted list.
The ZL9HR DXpedition team will consist of a total of nine (9) team members including Tommy VK2IR (Team Leader) and John VK3YP (Co-Leader).
We are inviting any experienced operators who would like to attend the ZL9HR DXpedition to email Tommy vk2ir@vk2ir.com for more information.
ZL9HR website: www.zl9hr.com
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I missed zl9ci so I almost gave up on ever working this dxcc. This news certainly makes my day!
WOW – am I stoked for this all time new one. Thanks Tommy and crew – and I will be donating to the cause for sure. Thanks DX-World for breaking such great news over my first cup of coffee!
73,
Rich
Thanks John, VK3YP for the great news!
FB INFO ! ZL9 – MY NEW ONE.
What great news!
Need this one for an all-time New One!
Please plan to come up into the US General band segments occasionally to meet their great need for you.
Thanks!
Hello Tommy:
I’am looking forward to working Campbell Island from the West Coast. Good luck to all the team. It will be a new DXCC Island for me too.
All have a safe trip there. We ill see you on all the bands.
73′s Gary (K6RNK)
Thanks guys its very early stages at the moment and we are hoping to get a feel of the numbers of operators wishing to join us and the most important is getting the funds to pay for the very high cost,I will keep you updated .
Regards Tommy vk2ir
When 160m RTTY?
:-)
GL getting permission for access, especially to stay on the island overnight …
No ZL9HR callsign as been issued according to NZ Radio Spectrum Mangement Data Base at http://www.rsm.govt.nz and understand no license will be issued unless a NZ Department of Conservation Permit has been “Approved”.
I presume that you have already gained that permit and authority to stay on the island overnight?
GL in the Dxpedition
Just to provide a further update. Our permit application is progressing and we will hope to announce our official landing / operating permit and callsign shortly on our official zl9hr.com website.
For the operators who have already emailed us with their expressions of interest to join the DXpedition team we will shortly provide them with the individual contribution fee amount required.
For the equipment – we have all of the required equipment from our previous vk9hr DXpedition including Kenwood TS590S radios, spuderbeam masts, beam & vertical antennas, Bandpass filters, four SPE linear amplifiers and Honda generators.
We will also have Inmarsat BGAN satellite terminal for Internet and voice comms. This will allow us to upload our logs daily and provide photos and other updates to our website.
John VK3YP
Great News…! Will be a new one on 160m – #324
Thanks and look forward to November
73, Paul, N4PN
Sounds great! bu is that equal to a landing permit? What about that?
Callsign is one thing but some say that that hasn´t a lot to do with getting an OK to set foot on ZL9? PSE info, tks!
… and getting permission to stay overnight!
73 and good luck with that
Chris G3SJH
Hi Jim,
I will be working them on all bands while you worry about them staying overnight.
Just to provide a further update.
Our permit application is “progressing” and we will hope to announce our official landing /operating permit .I dont think anyone has said that we will stay over night and we all need to sleep. We want the dx community to have the chance of working ZL9HR on most bands for 18/19 or so hours a day.
The callsign was issued today which is a step in the right direction and we hope to keep updating good news as we get closer.
Best Regards Tommy Horozakis VK2IR Team Leader Campbell Island 2012
Thanks for the updates – and thanks for working hard to make ZL9 a reality! I need 6 more to get to Honor Roll – and this will be one of them. Very exciting.
Thanks for your teams efforts, Tommy.
I hope it all “progresses”well, and ZL9HR can get on the air.
I’m not picky. I’ll be happy for a chance to work ZL9 on any band. :-)
73, Tom
Congratulations on the callsign Tommy. I look forward to working you guys on as many band/slots as possible. Regards to all the team members and safe travels my friend. Aloha, Stan KH6CG
Great news – thanks for the update.
Thanks for good news!
Wait for your activity on Low Bands (80 and 160m).
73! Victor UA4HBW.
A large “Thank You” to the team leaders on this one! Can’t wait to meet them and shake their hand!
Looking forward to working you folks. Best wishes on your travel to and from the site. 73, Delwyn KH6DC
Congrats on the Colvin Award!
I worked ZL9CI on 80 ssb on 24th Jan at 0807 gmt, this was with a vertical, horizontal, folded, sloping dipole!!,as the antenna and less than 300 watts. It was one of my best true gray line contacts, they went from s0 to s7 and then disappeared, the opening with me was about 7 or 8 minutes and I nearly fell off the chair as they came back to me on the first call. The op was Murray ZL1CN, I wrote to him after the expedition thanking him for the qso and got a nice letter back from him with some details of their trip
Comment from a station in Scotland ! It proves the importance of timing ! ZL9 oprs please note !