Had a couple of cards updated and printed by GrafiQSL27.com, fantastic quality as usual, but Ive asked a friend of mine to design me one of these Ai cards, so looking forward to some of his ideas

304TE/DX Estonia & 310TE/DX Latvia

 304TE/DX Estonia & 310TE/DX Latvia

27th Sept to 4th Oct 2025

We would love your help, the Tango Echo (Thames Estuary) DX Group are local based Club and are 'minnows' in the DX world, but are just as enthusiastic about radio. We are hoping for a little help, to cover of the expenses of the DX-pedition to Estonia, Latvia and possibly Lithuania. Your assistance would be gratefully received. 

Supporters/Sponsors will receive electronic Supporters Certificate, special QSL card package, access to WhatsApp chat room, with all the latest updates, photos, operating Frequencies etc.

If you would like to help sponsor our DX-Pedition, please make a donation via PayPal (Friends & Family) - Whisky26te11@msn.com - Or scan the QR code ►

PayPal - Whisky26te11@msn.com 

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45th Anniversary DX-Pedition to 310 and 311 Div

 Please check out our trip to Lithuania and Latvia

Updated 12/10/2024

Off on my first 11m radio DX-Pedition in September with my good friend Adam, to Lithuania and Latvia.

It would be fantastic, to get a little support/sponsors for our trip, to cover a few of the costs involved. Paper QSL cards will be available after our activation. A massive thanks to our great friend Tom 310AT101 for all is help too, with kind permission.

73' to you all

Please click HERE the 310 & 311TE/DX DX-Pedition Tab

Finally touched 200 DXCCs

 

 My most recent card, which I will sending out with my Tower bridge cards

printed by QSLgrafi27

My First DX Certificate

Many of you are aware, Groupo Alfa Tango ran a worldwide DX contest open to non-members during August to celebrate their 42nd anniversary, there was a possible 43 stations around the world to contact. I didn't manage to get my first AT/42Y QSO until 8 days after the contest opened, starting with Paulo 205AT/42Y in the Islands of Cape Verde.

Being such a slow start, I didn't really put too much effort in chasing down more,  thinking I was way too far behind to catch up with other operators. By the time the last 24 hours had come around, I had only contacted 8 stations, propagation hadn't been too great, but suddenly Europe opened up to 8 more 42Y stations with a few others I just couldn't get back to due to pile ups. I was quite pleased with my day and I submitted my QSO's to the AT groups website. 

A couple of months later, I had an email from the AT group with 16 gold eQSL's attached, I was quite pleased with my efforts, I then thought that was the end of it until, I was looking through another operators website, when I spotted a list of entrants to the contest, so I scrolled down to the only person to make 16 QSO's and there was a link... to my first ever DX certificate. Chuffed!

New QSL card

I have to thank 26TE007 Chris for his help in designing this amazing QSL card for me, from a rough sketch, earlier this year. I had EuroQSL in Spain do the printing, which the quality is absolutely stunning, I'll definitely be returning to them for future projects and the price with tracked postage was cheaper than I could find locally. 

I sent a few repeat cards out to some really good radio friends around the world, who had sent me some really good QSL packages over the last six months.

Front of my card with a view of Tower Bridge, early one morning and the rear of my card, with a early morning shot of the longest pleasure pier in the World, located on the River Thames, Southend on Sea, Essex.