and quite a few more........ Need a web page for your visit? Contact
my webmaster and we'll give you an area for FREE*!
Send us your details (and picture) a fortnight in advance and we'll put
your DXpedition on hamcall.net, QRZ.com and DX425 too. When
you leave the arrivals area at the airport, turn
right** [still inside], walk past the greeting area [SMILE] and exit the side
automatic door to
meet Ed. KEEP
SMILING! Ed can no longer sit and wait for you at the airport. Look to
your left for a payphone (public telephone box). It takes cash only and
a call to Ed is 50c (2 quarters). It takes US and local coins but not
Canadian.
When Ed arrives (normally a few minutes) you'll be looking for a WHITE
Mitsubishi minivan (Licence No. VP9GE(!)). If
you do not see the minivan telephone 293-2525 for transport
(146.82MHz sometimes works also). **[If you
go straight on, you will walk up to the line of waiting
taxi drivers and miss
Ed. Some
taxi drivers do not know where Tarrafal Drive is].
*For radio
amateurs only. Your area will be on vp9ge.com/<your home
callsign>. Maximum 10MB. Access to your own area by FTP is
available. Recent Operating Achievements at
VP9GE QTH: W6PH/VP9
(World 4th, ARRL World,
Low Power, CW and
SSB). 2006
W4OV/VP9 4.2m points, CQWWSSB, LP, MS. 2004
G3PJT/VP9 - 5th, Commonwealth Contest. 2005
WA4PGM/VP9 - 1st NA SOLP WAE SSB 2005
WA4PGM/VP9 - 1st World CQ160 World Low
Power CW
2006 WA4PGM/VP9 - 1st World CQWW Single Band
160 Low Power CW
2006 - NA record
OH1VR/VP9 - 3rd World CQ
WW CW SOSB 20m LP 2007
VP9I (op. OH1VR) - 2nd World CQ WW
CW SOSB 20m LP 2008
WA4PGM/VP9 - 3rd World CQWW 160 Low Power 2008
K9ZO/VP9 - 1st NA IARU Contest Low Power, mixed
mode 2008
W6PH/VP9 - ARRL DX CW Contest
2010 John Patterson Trophy for 1st North
America Single Operator Low Power
W6PH/VP9 (3,090,924
points). Jim Stevens Trophy for 1st World Single
Operator Low Power W6PH/VP9
(Next best was J88DR 2,590,000 points)
VP9GE2010 June VHF 1st DX 97,133 points (2000 -
2010 Record SOLP) WW3S & ND8L - 2010 CQWW RTTY 4th World & 1st
NA Multi Single Low Power (1,953,904 points). WA4PGM - 2010 CQWW CW 1st World Single
Op Low Power Assisted WW3S
& ND8L - 2011
CQWW RTTY 1st World & 1st NA (NA Record)Multi Single Low Power
(3,438,541 points).
G3PJT/VP9 - 2012 Commonwealth Contest. 8th. WW3S
& ND8L - 2012
CQWW RTTY Multi Single
Low Power Log submitted
(3,635,184 points). WA1Z & W6PH - 2013 ARRL DX Phone Contest 1st WorldMulti Single Low Power (4,147,266 points). The
World from VP9GE Visiting Bermuda
Your licence will have <homecall>/VP9
on it. Please obey DXCC rule 7 or your contacts will not count: 7. Any Amateur Radio operation
should take
place only with the complete approval and understanding of appropriate
administration officials. In countries where amateurs are licensed in
the normal manner, credit may be claimed only for stations using regular
government-assigned call signs or portable call signs,
where reciprocal agreements exist or the host government has so
authorized portable
operation.
