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Gough Island   Last Visitors Worldwide Visitors U.S.A. Visitors Canada Visitors Large Visitor Map QSO Policy : I enjoy doing DX and the occasional Pileup. I have great pleasure in working other DX and sometimes even be a first or a new Country / Band for you. If you spoil my fun by bad operating skills, by calling while I am in QSO, or tuning up up or whisteling to check your power or try to take over the frequency, or any form of bad operating skills, then I will remove you from my log, and blacklist you as a bad operator with other DX's (ZS8M, ZS1A) So, please demonstate your expert DX skills and lets all have fun together. I WILL LISTEN, AND LISTEN, AND THEN LISTEN SOME MORE. I WILL ONLY CALL IF I CAN COPY THE DX STATION PROPERLY. I WILL NOT TRUST THE CLUSTER AND WILL BE SURE OF THE DX STATION’S CALL SIGN BEFORE CALLING. I WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE DX STATION NOR ANYONE CALLING HIM AND WILL NEVER TUNE UP ON THE DX FREQUENCY OR IN THE QSX SLOT. I WILL WAIT FOR THE DX STATION TO END A CONTACT BEFORE CALLING HIM. I WILL ALWAYS SEND MY FULL CALL SIGN. I WILL CALL AND THEN LISTEN FOR A REASONABLE INTERVAL. I WILL NOT CALL CONTINUOUSLY. I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX OPERATOR CALLS ANOTHER CALL SIGN, NOT MINE. I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX OPERATOR QUERIES A CALL SIGN NOT LIKE MINE. I WILL NOT TRANSMIT WHEN THE DX STATION CALLS OTHER GEOGRAPHIC AREAS THAN MINE. WHEN THE DX OPERATOR CALLS ME, I WILL NOT REPEAT MY CALL SIGN UNLESS I THINK HE HAS COPIED IT INCORRECTLY. I WILL BE THANKFUL IF AND WHEN I DO MAKE A CONTACT. I WILL RESPECT MY FELLOW HAMS AND CONDUCT MYSELF SO AS TO EARN THEIR RESPECT.

I depart for Gough Island in September 2010 as the new radio technician and team leader. This is my second tour to Gough Island.

The call sign ZD9GI will be QRV in October 2010

The team consists of a medic, diesel mechanic, radio technician, three weather observers and two research assistants.

We want to thanks the following companies and persons for donations, equipment and time:

Cerilog, Radiant Antennae,

I take up the position of radio / electronics technician from September 2010 and will return to South Africa in September 2011.

Operating frequencies:160m to 10m. Operating will be done mostly after official working hours and weekends.

Operating conditions:

Dxpedition equipment: TS-480 and Inverted-V. No Yagi's due to bird life.

Modes: I do SSB and Digital modes and also JT65. I DO NOT DO CW.

The islands IOTA number is AF- 030 Gough Island

I am now also registered for ARRL DXCC

I am QRT from the 15 September 2011

Any new contacts will be a pirate operating and QSL cards will not be honoured.

Note: ZD9GI is no longer Operational , Gough Island

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