[Moon] Gibraltar DXpedition by DH7FB/DF2ZC called off

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After 33 years operating 2m eme, I have yet to hear or work a station from  
GI. Am I alone here?
 
73,
Gerald K5GW
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/4/2008 7:52:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  df2zc at gmx.de 
writes:

Hello  All,

Sadly Frank and I have to inform you that our planned ZB  dxpedition end of
this month is now cancelled.

Why? There are  changes in reciprocal licensing in ZB land effective as of
July 2007 (oh  how we were lucky that we went there in April 2007). The main
changes are  that there is NO HF reciprocal license granted any more and that
on 2m and  6m the maximum radiated power is limited to 100 watts ERP (!). Use
of  linear amps is forbidden altogether.

When applying for a "high power  permit" with the Gibraltar Regulatory
Authority GRA, they wrote us that  they can't do so for the reasons quoted
above but since the new rules "were  decided in close consultation with the
Gibraltar Radio Amateur Society  GRAS" we were advised to appeal to them
(GRAS) and they (GRA) would then  wait on their decision taken.

So we did appeal to them by letter, by  email and by fax and we did not
receive any response from them.

As  we already incurred costs for our hotels during the the transfer to ZB,
we  now had to cancel this activity to comply with our Gibraltar  hotel's
cancellation policy.

We are very sorry for this because we  have been looking very much forward to
this dxpedition (in fact, also  hoping for some sporadic E openings) but
there was no choice. Should the  GARS position change we will be the first to
conduct a dxpedition to ZB  land.

Now we plan for activating GJ (1st priority) or GU (2nd priority)  via 2m EME
in October 2008, most probably around the 19th.

vy 73  Frank DH7FB & Bernd  DF2ZC

www.df2zc.de

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Kenwood TS 2000
2 x GU74b by LZ2US
4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd  full  elevation


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