Macau DX-perience

Welcome to XX9 Macau - DX-perience 2012 DXpedition web site, where we'll give you more information about our DXpedition.
The operation will be on the air from 17th to 23th May 2012. We will transmit from IOTA AS-075 (Coloane Island OL62SC).

The Team

XX9 Macau Team is made up 10 operators:

EA5BZ - Ruben Navarro (Team Leader)
EA5CEE - Pasqua Navarro
EA5HPX - Eugene Mosiychuk
EA7FTR - Francisco Liañez
EB7DX - David Liañez

EA1ACP - Jose M. Delgado
EA5FX - J. Fernando Conde
EA6DD - Biel Maimó
EB5BBM - Jose M. Molero
F5VLY - Adrian Green

The Assistants

EA1DVY - Carlos Almazan
EA3HCJ - Gerardo Otero
EA5IK - Miguel Espinosa

The Pilot

EA2RY - Roberto Filloy - if you need to contact us during the expedition you can contact me at this email address

Macau

Macau, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. It lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south.

The territory's economy is heavily dependent on gambling and tourism but also includes manufacturing.

Macau was a Portuguese colony and both the first and last European colony in China. Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in the 16th century and subsequently administered the region until the handover on 20 December 1999. The Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Macau stipulate that Macau operates with a high degree of autonomy until at least 2049, fifty years after the transfer.

Macau is situated 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Hong Kong and 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Guangzhou. It also has 41 kilometres (25 mi) of coastline, yet only 0.31 kilometres (0.19 mi) of land border with Guangdong. It consists of the Macau Peninsula itself and the islands of Taipa and Coloane, which are now connected by landfill forming the Cotai Strip. The peninsula is formed by the Zhu Jiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xi Jiang (West River) on the west. It borders the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone in mainland China. The main border crossing between Macau and China is known as the Portas do Cerco (Barrier Gate) on the Macau side, and the Gongbei Port of Entry on the Zhuhai side.

The history of Macau is traced back to the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC), when the region now called Macau came under the jurisdiction of Panyu county, in Nanhai prefecture (present day Guangdong). The first recorded inhabitants of the area were people seeking refuge in Macau from invading Mongols during the Southern Song Dynasty. Under the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD), fishermen migrated to Macau from Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Extracted from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau

Macau 2012 - Plans

We'll be active from 6 to 160 meters (include WARC bands) in CW, SSB and RTTY with at least 3 stations at the same time in different bands and modes.

Equipment

TX / RX	Amplifiers	Antennas	Others
ICOM IC-7000	Expert 1K-FA	MW0JZE Hexbeam link	Laptops with Wintest
KENWOOD TS-480	Expert 1K-FA	MW0JZE Hexbeam link	Heil headset
ICOM IC-756proIII	ACOM 1010	SteppIR BigIR MK3	CW keys
		Yagi 6M	RTTY interface
		Wire vertical antennas

Band Plans

BAND	CW	SSB	RTTY
*6M	50.103	50.115
10M	28.023	28.495	28.080
12M	24.893	24.945	24.921
15M	21.023	21.295	21.080
17M	18.073	18.145	18.100
20M	14.023	14.145	14.080
30M	10.103		10.140
40M	7.023	7.065 / 7.160	7.035
80M	3.523	3.780
160M	1.823	1.825

* The locator for 6 meters is OL62SC.

QSL info

The QSL Manager for XX9 Macau DX-perience 2012 is EB7DX:

David Liañez Fernández
PO Box 163
21080 Huelva
(SPAIN)

Direct QSL

For all direct request, please send a self addressed envelope with:

1 IRC or 2 US$ or 1 € for European Union

1 IRC or 2 US$ for other destinations

Not in Log?

If you cannot find your callsign in the LOG but are sure to have a valid contact, please send your request to EB7DX after carefully checking the QSO details (date, time, band and mode) with our operators.

Every request will be considered in order to debug any possible log entry error.

Thank you for your understanding.