Here are a Few Sponsored by DX Engineering
With DX Engineering’s 25th anniversary on the way in 2025, the company is celebrating this milestone by renewing its commitment to lifting up the ham radio community by Giving Back.
One way DX Engineering contributes to the best hobby in the world is by providing critical equipment to rare DXpeditions around the globe.
There will be much more on OnAllBands about the 25th anniversary in the days ahead. For now, let’s look at some of the DXpeditions DX Engineering is supporting in the coming year.
- Marquesas, TX7N, January 12-27: A 14-operator team is scheduled to be operating from Hiva Oa, the second largest island of the Marquesas Islands—a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia. The team will be using the TX7WW call for the CQWW CW 160M event and TX7MAS for EME and satellite activity.
Marquesas is ranked as the 61st Most Wanted DXCC Entity per Clublog as of October 2024. Get up-to-date details on this 160-6M CW/SSB/Digital/RTTY activation at the TX7N website.
DX Engineering is providing a range of equipment to help make 7X7N a success, including DX Engineering RG-8X 50-ohm Bulk Coaxial Cables, DX Engineering Next Generation Crimp/Solder 8U PL-259 Connectors, and microHAM DXP Portable Digital Mode and Radio Control Interfaces (below):
- Christmas Island, VK9XU, February 18-March 4: This multi-operator HF activation of this Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean will be on CW/SSB/FT8 and 4/RTTY. Christmas Island (26.9 square miles, population 1,600) is ranked as the 69th Most Wanted DXCC Entity per Clublog as of October. Read more about VK9XU here.
In addition to other items, they will be using an LDG AT-1000Proll Automatic Antenna Tuner and Samlex Desktop Switching Power Supplies SEC-1235M provided by DX Engineering (below):
- Andaman Islands, VU4X, March 10-25: DX Engineering is proud to sponsor this activation of South Andaman Island, one of about 200 islands of the Andaman Islands group in the Indian Ocean. It is the southernmost island of the Great Andaman (the Andaman Islands’ main archipelago) and home to the majority of the Andaman Islands’ population.
You can read much more about this 12-operator, six-station CW/SSB/Digital DXpedition to the 53rd Most Wanted DXCC Entity (a combined entity with Nicobar Islands) at the VU4X website. The VU4X team will be relying on the following provided by DX Engineering: six microHAM Portable Digital Mode and Radio Control Interfaces (above) and Radio Interface Connector Cables for Electraft K3 transceivers (below):
Look for much more about these and other DX Engineering-sponsored DXpeditions on OnAllBands in the months ahead!