XR0ZR Juan Fernandez Island

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As Spring empowers , more and more DXpeditions are being announced XR0ZR Juan Fernandez Island will be on the air later this year. The official website is under development now and it will be available at http://www.juanfernandez2013.com/. More news coming soon.

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A group will be QRV as XR0ZR from Juan Fernandez Island later this year. [The team say sometime between October 1 to November 30].

The official website is under development now and will be available here http://www.juanfernandez2013.com/

More news coming soon.

*XR0ZR Twitter https://twitter.com/XR0ZR

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IW3SQY , IZ8GCE , EA3AKY , WA7NB , SP3DOI , IV3DSH , CE3PG will be active from Juan Fernandez Islands
8-20 November 2013 as XR0ZR
They will be active on 160-6m
QSL via IV3DSH , LOTW

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June 21, 2013

Update #1:

The XR0ZR team continues to work toward the activation of Juan Fernandez Island, XR0ZR during the period of November 8-20, 2013. The travel logestics for the team have been secured and to date we are on course to begin operations as scheduled on November 8, 2013.

There has been a change to the team. Unfortunately, our friend and teamate Dino, CE3PG is unable to go. In his place, Ron PA3EWP has been selected. Ron is a seasoned veteran of many dxpeditions throughout the world and is a terrific addition to our team. The XR0ZR team would like to welcome Ron on board and extend our thanks to Dino for the valuable contribution he has made to the organization dxpedition

Fundraising has begun to pay for some of our expenses. For those Associations, Clubs, and individuals who have been so generous in donating funds for our DXpedition, we want to express our deepest gratitude.

To get on and off XR0ZR, it was necessary to secure a private aircraft which you can imagine is very costly. This is one of many reasons we continue to ask you to consider donating to our dxpedition. This can be done easily by using PayPal on our website.

We want to thank in advance those who will help us realize this adventure

73

XR0ZR Team

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News Update #2

Finally, the team was completed! We are pleased to to share our experience with Hans, DL6JGN.

The flights and locations have already been fixed and confirmed. Now the team will focus on technical aspect of the DXpedition, such as antennas, radios and rx systems.

Unfortunately, the island is surrounded by high mountains, and certainly does not allow us to be open to 360 degrees. Despite this, we will place our setup of antennas in order to satisfy the largest number of amateur radio operators as possible.

Surely, a major focus will be given to the RTTY, which we think is highly requested by the hamradio community.

We would like to remind you again, how important for us, is your financial support. At the time we were able to cover only part of the huge costs that this expedition required.

To give you an idea of costs, the total budget of the whole operation JUANFERNANDEZ2013 is approximately $ 56,000 (42,000 €).

That said, we would be eternally grateful if you decide to support and help us accomplish this our adventure.

On our website, http://www.juanfernandez2013.com, you can do it very simply.

73
XR0ZR Team

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NEWS UPDATE

There are now less than 30 days to our departure. The Team will start from Italy, on 6 November, and we plan to be active on the late evening of 8 November (GMT).

We will leave from Santiago, aboard two twin-engine Cessna and after about two hours, of adventurous flight, we land at Juan Fernandez airport. Arrived on island, we reach our location, in about two hours, aboard two boats, as there are no road links. Weather conditions are a factor too.

Compatibly to the location, we believe to be able to install 3 beams looking on the sea, two loops, one for 30 and one for 40 meters, other than the usual vertical for 80 and inverted L for 160. Will also be installed a beverage of about 200 meters on the beach facing the sea.

We should have sporadic access to the Internet, and then try to send the logs to clublog, once a day. If for any reason this is not possible, do not panic, know that we will do so as soon as possible, and in any case the logs will be saved in 3 backup copies.

As always, we ask you not to make dupes QSOs, in order to give the opportunity for everyone to contact us in various bands and modes.

You can follow us like usually on: Website http://www.juanfernandez2013.com/ and Twitter : @XR0ZR

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Announced frequencies for the 8-20 November XR0ZR DXpedition to Juan Fernandez (SA-005) are:
CW 1826 3526 7026 10106 14026 18076 21026 24896 28026
SSB 1840 3780 7060/7150 14150 18140 21270 24940 28470
RTTY 3590 7035 10142 14080 18100 21080 24920 28080
Plans are to operate also on 6 metres (50103 kHz CW/SSB and 50193 kHz EME) and 60 metres CW and SSB (5371.5).
The team (DL6JGN, EA3AKY, IV3DSH, IW3SQY, IZ8GCE, PA3EWP, SP3DOI and WA7NB) will operate four stations.
QSL via IV3DSH, direct or bureau, and LoTW after 6 months.
Logsearch and OQRS on Club Log.
Further information can be found at http://www.juanfernandez2013.com