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News June 20, 2025

How to Get in the VK0EK Log (Pt. 10): Working Split and LISTENING

Top Band Award Winner Vadym, UT6UD The seasoned DXer has been in so many pileups that she knows the “usual patterns” that the DXpedition station uses to try to “thin out the herd” or spread out the callers so they can be heard (on Heard). This seasoned DXer gets in the log the first day […]

News June 15, 2025

VKOEK Wins DX-pedition​ of the Year Award!

Photo by Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD SWODXA, the Southwest Ohio DX Association held their annual DX Dinner, which is an associated event, coinciding with Dayton Hamvention. At the dinner, NC1L, Bill Moore (SK) was inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame as was Jerry, WB9Z. Then the big announcement was made and the VK0EK […]

News June 11, 2025

Fabulous Australian Heard Island Stamps Commemorative

Our very good friend and world class DX-er, Graham, VK6RO, alerted us to a beautiful Australian Heard Island commemorative: I’m not a stamp collector – but I do want to order this first day cover set. Thanks very much Graham – these are beautiful!

News June 2, 2025

Virtual Geology Field Trip to Heard Island

Over at The Inquisitive Rockhopper blog, Bill (AE0EE) has put together a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) showcasing interesting geologic features and outcrops at Heard Island, including Windy City (seen above). These are meant as a virtual field trip, providing access to Heard Island for all those who are unable to go themselves. The last post in the […]

News May 19, 2025

Log Reconciliation Nets New QSO’s

As promised, once we received the laptops back from Heard Island, we would reconcile all laptops with the master N1MM+ log, and more than 100 QSO’s have been recovered. We hope you were the lucky one – and if you have any questions – please contact our QSL Manager, Tim, M0URX. We would like to […]

News May 3, 2025

VK0EK at Visalia 2017

Bob, KK6EK will present the Sunday breakfast Keynote at Visalia this weekend, and his talk is “The Future of DXpeditioning and DXing”. A must see. Radio Team Leader, Dave, K3EL will also attend – so please look him up.

News March 11, 2025

VK0EK on the Cover of the DXCC 2016 Yearbook

I’m so surprised – almost shocked – that VK0EK is on the cover of the 2016 DXCC Yearbook. We were the cover award winners for the ARRL Yearly DX Issue of QST (my childhood dream magazine), and took over DX Magazine’s January / February issue – including the cover of Carl’s fabulous magazine – I […]