ST0R Press Release South Sudan DX Friends Intrepid DX Group

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Press Release #7 — DXpedition to Southern Sudan

Juba, Southern Sudan.
The ST0R team continues to work through the pile ups, now passing the 60,000 QSO mark. We are continuing to run five stations and and are trying to get QSOs into the hands of all who need them.
As is the custom and practice of the Intrepid-DX Group, we have invited local youth to visit our operation. Today, we arranged a visit of 25 boys from the Juba Secondary Boy’s Academy. We gave the boys a tour of the ST0R shack and explained to them the various aspects of amateur radio. We allowed them to listen as we made QSOs across the world. We have recorded this visit on the ST0R photos page.
We are just at the half-way mark of the DXpedition and will continue to be active until August 10th, 2011.
Thank you
The ST0R Team

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Juba, Southern Sudan.

Today, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Communications and his staff visited the ST0R team and observed our operations.

The Undersecretary has been very supportive of our plans to conduct this DXpedition to the new country of the Republic of South Sudan.

Following the visit to the radio shack, we enjoyed a cordial lunch and exchanged documents to commemorate the first DXpedition to the Republic of South Sudan.

The ST0R team is also assisting the Ministry of Communications with the ITU application for their own prefix. We are also providing them guidence to establish their own Amateur Radio activities.

Thank you,

The ST0R team.

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Press Release #9 — DXpedition to Southern Sudan

This afternoon, the DX Friends and the Intrepid-DX Group departed Juba and are now resting in Cairo before our long trips home to our respective countries.

We are very excited about how well the ST0R DXpedition went. The DX Friends and the Intrepid-DX Groups worked well together and really enjoyed our three weeks together. We are already talking about our next DXpedition/Adventure!

We are quiet happy that we met our goal of 120,000 QSOs and set a record for RTTY contacts during a new country activation.

We wish to thank all of our donors and supporters. Ordinarily we thank our donors with an individual message, however the Internet in Juba was very unreliable and we were often without any connection to the outside world other than Amateur Radio.

This week, we held another meeting with the Engineering staff of the Ministry of Communications to guide them in their ITU prefix application. We are also providing them with guidance to develop and improve their Amateur Radio program and policies.

Team Co-Leader, Tony-EA5RM is also our QSL Manager. He will also investigate your “busted call” requests, if you email Tony directly.

Here are our final statistics, watch for updates to the ST0R web-page:

121.286 QSO in STØR Database.
27.994 Unique Call signs. 176 DXCC. 40 CQ Zones.
First QSO at 22/07/2011 @ 15:36 | Last QSO at 10/08/2011 @ 07:01

CW: 55.458
SSB: 47.696
RTTY: 18.132 (New world Record)

Thank you,

The ST0R Team.

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During the ST0R DXpedition to Juba, South Sudan, Team Co-Leader Paul Ewing N6PSE gave an on-air interview to WNYC Radio in New York City about ST0R and the team’s experience in South Sudan. You can hear a recording of that interview here: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/sep/16/hams-travel-south-sudan/

In addition, our QSL cards are currently being printed and we anticipate having the first batch in the mail by mid-October. We will upload to LoTW later in 2012.

Official website: http://www.dxfriends.com/SouthernSudan2011/

Thank you,

The Intrepid-DX Group and The DX Friends.