Far East DX

The author of RadCom's HF section seems to have put me on his mailing list of late, after I sent him some long-term data about 12m propagation, published this month in the RSGB's magazine (even though I am not a member!)

He tells me about a new DXpedition that is, mercifully, not a holiday outing of ageing, white, rich Americans this time.

R205NEW is to be active from today (14/6) only until 18/6., from Ioanna Bogoslova island, just off the NE coast of Russia's highly volcanic Kamchatka peninsula.


Propagation predictions from the major web site facilities are woefully out of touch with reality at present.  R205NEW is likely to be a short and long path proposition from Europe, with a distinct possibility of propagation even at the higher HF bands.