Some pictures are now available

Some pictures of this DXpedition are now available here. Further more will be uploaded soon.

Radio Renascença reports de Dxpedition

CT1BOL, Qsl manager and member of the team, interviewed by Radio Renascença (number one radio group in Portugal) says that they expect to be win the contest, so they will try to make as many QSOs as posible.

The sound can be downloaded here.

DX references

This DXpedition to Desertas Island is valid for the following references:

DXCC - CT3
IOTA - AF-046
WLOTA - 1366
ARLHS - MAD-001
DFP - MAD003
DIP - MAD003
DPRN - FF104

The location is IM12rn

CT1 and CT3 Dxers involved in this Dxpedition

A team of a dozen of operators is involved in this Dxpedition, so part of the team will be mainly focused on the IOTA Contest (CR3R) and others will operate mostly WARC and VHF bands (CR3D).

CT3BD - Barros Teixeira
CT3DL - Luis Gomes
CT3EE - Luis Camanho
CT3EN - Duarte Gomes
CT3KY - Duarte Goncalves
CT3MD - Jose Vasconcelos
CT3NY - Joao Lima
CT1BOL - Jorge Lopes
CT1CJJ - Jose Lopes
CT1EFS - Paulo Campos
CT1ILT - Filipe Lopes
CT1IZW - Firmino Matos

We expect to be "on air" from Friday 24 July untill Sunday afternoon 26 July using 1 VHF and 3 HF stations.

2009 IOTA DXpedition to Desertas Islands (AF-046)

Following the success of 2008 IOTA DXpedition to Selvagens Islands CQ9U (AF-047) and based on an excellent cooperation at that time between our team (GIRA) and the Madeira Contest Team, we are now glad to announce for this year the IOTA 2009 DXpedition - Desertas Islands AF-046.

We'd like to thank the PNM - Parque Natural da Madeira (as result of Selvagens Project) for the kind invitation, the challenge to perform this operation and for granting us permission to land on the Islands.

Also we'd like to thank the Portuguese Navy for the transportation to/from the Islands and the permission to use the lighthouse facilities for stations setup.