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| After a year of preparations by the
organization committee, a group of 11 international amateur radio
operators aired JW0PK from one of Europe’s most wanted islands of the IOTA
program, Prins Karls Forland. This document is intended to give you an
impression of how we got there, how we spend our time on the island and
how we got back.
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The location | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For the operation that should count for
“Spitsbergen’s Coastal Islands” EU063, a location was chosen on the East
coast of Prins Karls Forland island, the most western island of Svalbard.
The exact location to be 78° 26’ 39”N and 11° 53’ 37” E. To mount a
DXpedition to that area was quite a challenge. Apart from arranging
operators, logistics, sponsors, etc. also special permits needed to be
arranged from the Governor of Svalbard.
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IOTA Most Wanted List (EU) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The following information is collected from
the IOTA web site (http://www.rsgbiota.org/) The listings are provided for the benefit of intending DXpeditioners. They list the most wanted IOTA Groups for each continent (In this case Europe) and show for each group the proportion of members who have submitted valid cards. Note that "rare" groups, defined as those which less than 10% of members have credited, have been marked with "*". For an operation from any of these groups, validation data is required and will need to be sent to the IOTA Committee as soon as possible (Refer to Section F. 3 of the Rules). The information here reflects the position as of 28/04/2001. It will change as cards are received and submitted for credit. At any time there will be operations that have just taken place, for which cards will not yet be in circulation. This explains the reason why some groups are shown as having been worked by no members or by far fewer members than expected - given the scale of the activity.
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