[Today’s run: 3.5 miles]
There is a “dx-pediation” taking place on Comoro Island. A dx-pedition is a group of ham radio guys who go in an expedition to a far-away place and set up ham radio stations and talk to the rest of the world. Talking to far-away places is called “dx” which is shorthand for “distance”.
Some hams like to collect at least one confirmed contact with each country and political entity in the world. A lot of these are small islands all alone in far away locations.
Comoros is located between Africa and Madegascar. It is an independent nation made up of several small islands.
I was able to hear the dx-pedition on the air a bit yesterday. Their callsign is D66D. There was a big pile-up of people trying to get through to them. I was not able to do so.
Because of where they are, my signals have to go to the northeast, over parts of Europe and across a lot of Africa to reach them. And they only really are reachable for a couple of hours during the day, around 1800 GMT.
I’m going to keep trying, see if maybe the pile-up of people thins out over the next few days.
2 replies on “D66D on Comoro Island”
I remember the ham postcards Dad used to get from far away places when we were kids. Do you still use those? I always thought they were interesting and kind of like baseball cards.
I still get and send a few of those. But a lot of that has shifted to an on-line thing where you upload your contact log and the other guy uploads his and they get matched up. It is easier, and much cheaper, but no interesting post cards.