Our preparation work goes well straight foreward. The rented Camping Car was taken yesterday afternoon and we directly started to pack most of the things together in the car. So only ea few things needet to be packed today and than we are ready to rumble!
The preparation work for the start is ongoing and everything looks good. The generators are tested, Cables are made for HF and Computer connection. GPS Recivers for PC-Clock syncronisation are checked, Image-CDs for Notebooks are burned, puuh. So we start now to pack the boxes.
The E-Mail Address for the DXPedition is:
dxpedition at df1vb dot de
Under that E-Mail Address we will be reachable and will make skeds. But please we will only start making skeds when we arrived and are qrv. We will announce this on that WebSite here and also on the famous on4kst chat (www.on4kst.com). Also we will announce a GSM-Phonenumber under that we are reachable to make skeds (voice or sms).
Hpe to see u in jp31 log, vy df1vb
Today i recieved several Infos that we could use 6m in LA with our CEPT Licence. Great! So 6m will also be with us on Tour, Antenna here will be at minimum a 4 Ele. Yagi.
The Z03 VHF DXPedition Crew:

Joachim, DO1EJK
Michael, DB1MV

Hayo, DG9BEW

Jochen, DF1VB
Well, yes….we know it is very dificult to have a good qth in JP31 with a good take-off to SE-SW with almost less than 2 degree of elevation. But we think that we have now 3 possible qth’s and it depends on the weather situation oan on the situation on the roads which one we could use.
We plan to be in the well known ON4KST-Chat and also on the N0UK JT65 Chat as soon as we are qrv. From that point on we will take sked’s and also via SMS over the Cell-Phone if we do have proper Cellular Coverage, otherwise we will use a Sat-Phone.
The Number will be given out here and also on the Chats.
The hot phase has startet yesterday during our monthly Club-Meeting in Dortmund.
The Team-Members met to discuss the last Things which have to be done, like buying a second generator etc. Also one of the most important things: What to eat ![]()
The situation with the Antennas is also clear, we will operate with 2x 3wl Yagi hrizontally stacked for 2m and we will also have 1 Longyagi for 70cm. Power for 2m will be QRO and on 70cm 100 Watts. Untill now we did not recieved an answer from the Norwegan NRRL to some E-Mails we’ve send to get some Info’s about 6m operation. We have no clear picture of if it is allowed for foreign HAMs to operate on 6m. So if we do not recieve a clear statement we will NOT be qrv on 6m.
(Still wondering why NRRL does not wat’s to talk to us…..)
