[Moon] Gibraltar DXpedition by DH7FB/DF2ZC called off

[Peter Sundberg]

First of all, very sorry to hear that all the expedition planning done by
Bernd
and Frank could not materialize, and that the expedition is cancelled. 
I really hope the losses are minimal as far as costs are concerned, and that
the determination to make another fine VHF DX-expedition is still there. 

Gerald, there were a couple of GI stations active in the late 80's early 90's
so I am surprised you missed them (GI4KIS/GI4OPH). Maybe you were between EME
arrays at the time they were on.. 

:-) 

But you are right, there was never a pileup from GI on 2mtr EME (or any other
EME band for that matter) at any time.. and I suppose this has not changed. 

73 de Peter SM2CEW


At 14:14 2008-05-05 , TexasRF at aol.com wrote: 
>
> 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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