XU7MDC (Also XU7AMD) - DX news and calendar

Added/updated

November 14, 2016

Callsign(s)

XU7MDC (Also XU7AMD)

Start-end dates

November 4, 2016 - November 14, 2016

Utilities

Tracking & stats

Recent spots

DX Atlas

Propagation calculator

DXCC

XU - Cambodia

CQ zone

WEB page

http://www.mdxc.org/xu7mdc/

Planned modes

CW, SSB, Digital

Planned bands

160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 30 m, 20 m, 17 m, 15 m, 12 m, 10 m

Source

DX-World & 425DXN

Information

Update Nov,13 from their blog: "As a wonderful and unforgettable adventure, from the coast of Cambodia, the final act is upon us. Today, in early afternoon, local time, the team are gathering to begin the take down of the antennas. At this moment as we are writing this post, we decided to leave working only a vertical antennas for RTTY on 30 meters and 20 meters, the Spiderbeam, five bands, and the 40 meters vertical, for the only SSB station remaining, and the Quad and vertical 80 meters for the guys of CW.

In any case all the antennas will be put down tomorrow at the local Sunrise. We’ll leave our QTH in Ream – Shinahoukville District in late morning to reach, after a long way by bus the Phon Phen Airport and starting our come back route to Milano where we’ll arrive at 7 AM on Tuesday. We reached a target of 35.000 Qsos, with proudly a number of 6500 Qsos on RTTY. Thanks one again to the dxers of all over the world for calling and calling us in any band/mode. And thanks for your incredible support!!! The great big international family of the Mediterraneo Dx Club will come back on air with our unvualable members of the team .

So thinking about our next one! Lee Hai from Cambodia!!!

Antonio, IZ8CCW,leader
Gabriele, I2VGW co-leader
And ALL THE ENTIRE FANTASTIC INTERNATIONAL TEAM !

Update Nov,11 from their blog: "Hallo DXers, here is Cambodia speaking! However fluctuating propagation, violent thunderstorm, power black-outs and radar and QRM jamming, we are in good shape towards the target of 30K qsos. Just a couple of hours ago, local time, to give you an idea, we reached 5000 qso only in RTTY (So making a good job and giving Cambodia to many digi fans chasers!). Incredible efforts has been made also by the CW team and SSB team overall in the low bands to cover the world with our CQ from the bay of Ream, Sihanoukville.

Yesterday we finished the 4 days dxped also in the island of Ta Kiev (AS 133) with about 1000 qsos in the log under the call sign of XU7AMD. By the way Wednesday we had with all the team a briefing of middle road map and a great barbecue with a wonderful chocolate cake to congatulate ourselves for the six International DXpeditions organized by Mediterranneo Dx Club, starting since 2011 and to say goodbye to our friends and members of the team joined who us from Indonesia.

We’ll keep you updated soon, guys. Call and call us – we are here to do everything you need!

73, Antonio and Gab and the entire team of XU7MDC"

Update Nov,7 from their blog: "What a real surprise we have prepared for the IOTA chasers from all over the world. Starting today 4 pm local time we’ll be on air from Ta Kiev , AS 133 with the call sign XU7AMD, special issued from this special occasion.So surprise after surprise some members of the team will be active fron the island at least for 3 days from 4 pm to 11 pm. So do not miss this wonderful occasion to put in your log maybe a new one, on IOTA"

Update Nov,6 from their blog: "A nice mate decided yesterday to leave the team : ” The electricity power”..hi !. As a matter of fact yesterday about 7 p.m. local time the energy power went done in the entire village of Ream and in its the outskirts. Of course it happened during a lot pile-up in different bands/modes and all the amplifiers had to be swicth off because we had not power enough. Team had to proceed calls only with a generator. So it was not so easy for us try to work the world with only 100 watt.. !! We worked all night to find more power support and alternative solutions but only at the moment we are writing this post the energy power has come back to the village and also in our stations. We are very sorry about this “normal” black-out and, crossing fingers,we are going to do our best to fill more and more our log. In the meantime we are putting on, under the rain, the 160 meters antenna for the cw guys!"

Update Nov,5: The team have been busy on their first afternoon in XU7. cwbw2c0weaqiwxmThey have been on air for several hours now and have already installed Antenna systems for 160, 80, 40 and 30M and one Spiderbeam for the 10, 12, 15, 17 & 20 m bands.

Early tomorrow morning they will be installing more antennas.

Updates throughout the day on the XU7MDC website, Twitter & Facebook pages as well as Team members also uploading news and images to their own Social Media Sites.

erecting-spiderbeam

We will be listening hard for you again tomorrow, please keep calling, we want you in our logbook!

Update Nov,4: So here we are! Just 3 hours after our arrival to Ream Beach Location, Sihanoukville , Cambodia, the International Team by Mediterraneo Dx Club has been able to be on air. We are now operating with five stations and all the nine antennas put on. All the members of the team,coming from six Countries, are in the good shape and they are very motivated to give new one or new mode/band to as much people as possible.Once again we remind you that all the qsos will be on line at real time (the team leaders Antonio,IZ8CCW and Gabriele,I2VGW thanks so much Martin A65DC for his great job!) except the qsos made on rtty that will be uploaded every day in late evening, local time.Our efforts are as usual to focus our target to the low bands,digital modes and to all the friends of States side.

See you soon on our log, guys!

Update Nov,4:The MDC guys are on the air and putting excellent signals on 30-80 m in Europe. They real-time log is at http://www.mdxc.org/xu7mdc/log-search/

Update Oct,28: Suggested frequencies are:
1826.5, 3505, 7005, 10105, 14025, 18075, 21025, 24895 and 28025 kHz (CW);
1840, 3799, 7080, 14200, 18145, 21295, 24950 and 28470 kHz (SSB);
3600, 7040, 10140, 14085, 18100, 21080, 24930 and 28085 kHz (RTTY).
Logsearch (provided by QSO Director) and OQRS on their website.

UPDATE – The XU7MDC international team is working hard to build a very professional Dxped. They are testing many new items and tools to be able to reduce weight on the plane and maximize the results at their location; Sihanoukville beach, Cambodia.

A little change in their local accommodation means it’s now possible for another CW operator and SSB operator to join. So if anybody would like to join, they can suggest to contact, as soon as possible, the leader Antonio, IZ8CCW (iz8ccw@mdxc.org) and/or the co-leader Gabriele, I2VGW (i2vgw@arrl.net).

They will be on air from 4th to 14th November 2016. Operating 24/7 with 5 stations from the beach with a particular focus to low bands and digimodes. Antonio, IZ8CCW and Gabriele, I2VGW, will share this new adventure with 18 members from five countries. More details and info can be found on their site

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