NEW PARAGRAPH FOR MUSEUM & RADIO SCOUTING COLUMNS.
The problem with writing for RADIO-ZS is that sometimes the exciting bits of news happen after the dead line!!! Anyway thanks to Dennis this paragraph was included just in time.
ZS6AAW is not really famous for DX but Saturday 19-05-2007 was the occasion! Normally I operate on 40m but when ZS0AWA closes I like to scan 20m quickly for a likely station and fire up the old FT-101B to check the 80-40-20 trap dipole. This time I heard ZS1FAD/p7 Anton from SANAE busy with om Frank ZS1QRM in Parrow and decided to break-in when they ghad finished. Anton produced a 5/6 signal but gave me a 4/6 (may be a 4/7). Any way it was an enjoyable QSO.
Anton was standing-by for ZS1OAR who were manning a station at Hermanus Magnetic Observatory for a Science week/day. I understand that there were students visiting and Anton was there to chat to them about the work being done at SANAE.
There was another station ZS5HAM operated by Gary ZS5NK and I did try to contact them to let me know about ZS1FAD/p7 and ZS1OAR.
The only comment I dare make is how can we (especially myself) keep on top of all the special event stations involved with occasions such as Science weeks etc.??? This also applies to overseas special events. A central “point” is required to “advise” all special event station. Vee at SARL HQ has enough to do trying to get you wayward hams to fill in the forms correctly. Think about it and lets hear from you chaps.