– Markku OH8UV will active as OH8UV/p on the 26^th of March from 14 to 15:30 UTC from Oulu Castle, WCA: OH-00015 located in Oulujoen suisto, WWFF: OHFF-0969. He plans to work CW and SSB on all HF bands (80 – 20 meters). Rig FT950 with 50 watts, antennas – 80m and 40m dipoles, End Fed. Please spot him in DX cluster if you hear. QSL via bureau. 73 & 44 & 11!  [tnx info OH8UV].

Photoreport about pedition of RA1L/m to to Vyborg Castle and Annenskoye Fortification (Annenkron)

– Giovanni IZ8XJJ will active as IZ8XJJ/p on the 15^th of March from Castello Belvedere di Monteleone a Marano di Napoli, WCA: I-06395, DCI: DCI-NA171, Chapel of Santa Maria di Campo d’Isola in Mugnano di Napoli, DAI: NA022. He plans to work  on 80, 40 and 20 meters SSB and PSK31. Please spot him in DX cluster if you hear. QSL via bureau or direct. 73 & 11! [tnx info IZ8XJJ].

– IP1A Team (Simone IU4HRJ, Alessandro IU3EDK, Luca IU4JIC) will active on the 14^th and 15^thof March from several castles on islands of Gulf of La Spezia:

– Forte Cavour o Palmaria dell’Isola di Palmaria a Portovenere, WCA: I-09212, DCI: DCI-SP078,
Forte Umberto I dell’Isola di Palmaria a Portovenere, WCA: I-09213, DCI: DCI-SP079,
Batteria Semaforo o Alta dell’Isola di Palmaria a Portovenere, WCA: I-09214, DCI: DCI-SP080, Island Palmaria, IIA: L-027, WHSA: WH-IT235.

Please spot them in the DX cluster if you hear. QSL via bureau or direct. 73 & 44 & 11! [tnx info IU4HRJ].

– Luc ON2LVC will active as ON2LVC/p on the 14^th of March beginning from 10:30 UTC from Kasteel Cleydael, WCA/BCA: ON-01064 and Kasteel Buerstede, WCA/BCA: ON-01065 located in Cleydael, WWFF: ONFF-0772. Please spot him in DX cluster if you hear. QSL via bureau. 73 & 44 & 11!  [tnx info ON2LVC].

– Kostya RA1L will active as RA1L/m on the 14^th of March from Vyborg Castle, WCA: UA-00004, COTA-RU: C-104, RLHA: RLE-124, ARLHS: ERU-231, RDA: LO-24, QTHLoc: KP40ir and Annenskoye Fortification (Annenkron), WCA: UA-00024, COTA-RU: C-124, RDA: LO-24, QTHLoc: KP40ir. He plans to work on 40 and 20 meters CW, SSB and FT8 beginning from 10-12 UTC. Please spot him in the DX cluster if you hear. QSL via bureau or direct. 73 & 11! [tnx info RA1L ]

New members of WCAG:

# 221, DK3ME Rainer Krebs;

# 222, LY2KM Petras Repcys;

# 223, G7SQW Andy Woods;

# 224, YT5FD Slavko Rankovic;

# 225, DJ2OS Peter Kummerloewe.

Our congratulations!

New Award Program “Architectura Militaris XX” has started from the 1^rd of January 2020. More info here.

– special station EM1754V will active from the 1^st of February to the 31^st of December from Fortress St. Elisabeth (in 1754 the construction of the fortress began), WCA: UR-00035, UCFA: KI-001 on all bands and in all mode. For 3 (three) QSO with EM1754V station, duplicated QSO on different bands or different modes will be issued “Fortress St. Elisabeth” Award. No paper QSL, E-QSL and LoTW only. 73 & 11! [tnx info UR7UT].