IOTA EU-189 Rockall – May14/15th Activation? 6 - May - 2008
Posted by k9zw in Amateur Radio, DX Interests.Tags: EU-189, IOTA, K9ZW, Rockall
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Possible activations of Rockall have been in the DX news – with a May 14/15 +/- possible activation by Mike McGirr K9AJ as MM/K9AJ/P announced at DX World of Ham Radio Blog
Mike K9AJ has activated quite a number of Islands, and has announced he will work CW on IOTA frequencies if he can get on Rockall during this attempt.
Here is some background on Rockall – including an explaination of the Guard Shack & British Royal Marines that very temporarily were on the Island in 1974:
“When will Rockall be Activated” by Wolfgang Schippke DC3MF
“Rockall: Bastion of Empire” by Alan Goudman in “Rose and Crown” 2006 Volume II
“I will be king of Rockall” by Ben Fogle
Best of luck to Mike K9AJ and all the rest of Island Man’s (aka Andy Strangeways) Team!
73
Steve
Steve, do you still have access to the Goudman article on Rose & Crown? The link is broken and I can’t find it online. Thanks, Nick
Hi Nick
I couldn’t find it directly either, but do have these additional Rockall Links to share – and a bit of “Gold at the end:”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/country-diary/5177173/Country-Diary-Ben-Fogle.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3641123/I-will-be-king-of-Rockall.html
http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/cannot-live-on-rockall
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5033465.Adventurer_to_make_another_attempt_to_sleep_on_Rockall/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8677045.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1277998/Britain-strengthens-claim-remote-Rockall.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15136783
http://www.dokufunk.org/upload/rockall_en.pdf?PHPSESSID=fa8adb6759ff65ecb51f7769659db441
Of course the link http://www.geocities.com/alan_gdmn/Rose_and_Crown_2.html is dead – but here is the real gold:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090619232833/http://www.geocities.com/alan_gdmn/Rose_and_Crown_2.html
Starts on Page 17
73
Steve
K9ZW