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Clipperton DX Club in Bhutan

Clipperton DX Club in Bhutan

Members of the Clipperton DX Club - Gerard F2VX, Alain F5LMJ, Jean-Louis F9DK and Vincent G0LMX, will be active from Thimphu using the special callsign A5100A between November 7-17th.

Activity is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Kingdom of Bhutan.


The team will be met by Pradan, A51PN, in the southern part of Bhutan after this operation and plan to be active from three different regions within Bhutan signing /p.

They will be using an IC-756Pro, IC-746, FT-857D, with two 1Kw amps, a Spiderbeam for 5 bands and a wire 11 element log periodic.

 

 


Newsflash

A tsunami watch was cancelled for South and Southeast Asia after an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck in the Indian Ocean, while a second earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.6, struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan Tuesday.

The earthquake in the Indian Ocean was centred about 262 km north of the Andaman Islands and took place at 1956 GMT, the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado, reported. It struck in the early Tuesday (local time) and was 30 km below the earth's surface.