Dear friends, here you can find some news from The Gambia 2007 DXpedition. We will try to update it daily also from Gambia, dependent on our internet connetion. See you in pileups...de OM0C Contest Team.

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• November 6th 2007 - New sound page added to our web site.
• November 6th 2007 - Logbook from Bijol island is rewriten. All three logs are updated on the web.
• October 31st 2007 - Gambia team is back home.
• October 30th 2007 - C52C QRT at 07:10! Last QSO has been made with LU7DSY on 80m. We made in 12 days around 49.000 QSO (35.224 QSOs as C52C from mainland, 12.226 QSOs as C50C in CQWW SSB and more than 1.400 QSOs from Bijol island - IOTA AF-060). Thank you guys for all calls and see you from another location...
• October 30th 2007 - Last nght we ad a problems with 160m...tide was very high a vertical to close to the see. Worked only 30m and 80m.
• October 29th 2007 - Starting to dismantle the antennas. We stay only on 160m and 30m. Maybe we leave one beam until tmw.
• October 29th 2007 - Just relaxing after CQWW SSB. We made more than 29 mil. points. The full report is here.
• October 26th 2007 - During the weekend we will participate in CQ WW SSB 2007 and we will operate with callsign C50C in M/2 category. Cul8r in the contest.
• October 26th 2007 - We QRT for the whole day. We need some relax before the CQWW contest, because we are a bit tired.
• October 26th 2007 - more than 36.000 QSOs in 8 days including C50C from Bijol island AF-060. More than 1.700 QSOs on 160m and 1.800 on RTTY).
• October 24th 2007 - One small amplifier from Ameritron burned out. Supresors and some capacitors in fire. After 5 hours is back and still alive...we hope so.
• October 21th 2007 - Bijol island activated. Because of very limited time, we where active for abt 8 hours only and Joe OM5AW and Rich OM2TW made more than 1400 QSOs with 50W and vertical dipoles on 20m, 17m and 15m. Log will be updated later, because must be rewriten from paperlog.

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• October 21th 2007 - We have permision for landing on the Bijol island - IOTA AF-060. Today we will be QRV as C50C on 20m (14.260) and 15m (21.260), maybe also CW. We will use two 100Ah batteries, but we don't know how long we will stay there, because we are limited by tide (island is very flat). Keep fingers...
• October 20th 2007 - We received some question regarding our QTH. We are at former Radio SYD, the QTH of C5Z in CQWW 2003. If you want to look on Google Earth, simply download .kmz file -> here.
• October 20th 2007 - After one hour back on air...
• October 20th 2007 - 08:00Z total blackout in Banjul. Time to go sleep?
• October 20th 2007 - 10.000 QSOs.
• October 20th 2007 - First night on 160m and 80m. QRN level is relatively high. But after first night we have 371 QSOs on 160m and 622 QSOs on 80m.
• October 19th 2007 - Another global blackout in Banjul at at 16:00Z, we are off for more than hour.
• October 19th 2007 - 160m and 80m is ready. We will start operation on low bands...full time!
• October 19th 2007 - After first 40 hours of operation are 6.500 QSOs in the log. Pileups are tremendous. Still very hot,more than 45 degrees inside...
• October 18th 2007 - We have a problem with electricity, one fase fails. Sorry for some unexpected QRT.
• October 17th 2007 - Start of operation...first QSO at 16:30 with OM3JW.
• October 17th 2007 - Cargo is at Radio SYD. We start to build antennas. It's a hard work in more than 36 degrees.
• October 17th 2007 - Team arrived at Gambia. Thanks to Benny, we have a great stay at Radio SYD.
• October 16th 2007 - Team is on the way Vienna-Frankfurt-Banjul.
• October 15th 2007 - just one day to go...team is really nervous :-)
• October 10th 2007 - just one week to go...team started to be nervous :-)
• October 9th 2007 - cargo arrived at Yundum airport in Banjul
• September 26th 2007 - cargo to Gambia already packed and transported to Ruzyn Airport in Prag (Czech rep.) waiting for transport to Banjul (via Frankfurt). It's about 500kg of material !!!
• May 2007 - we obtained the visa issued by Gambian embassy in Budapest
• April 12th 2007 - new team member Jan OM2XW, one of the most experienced TOP BAND operator from Slovakia
• April 4th 2007 - another licence C50C received. This callsign will be used in CQWW SSB only.

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• February 13th 2007 - licence C52C received
  

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• February 9th 2007 - licence issued
• February 3th 2007 - web site registred
• January 2007 - application form for the licence sent to the Banjul, Gambia
• December 2006 - I contacted Noz C5DXC with question "it's possible?"