Krish, W4VKU will be active from Andaman Islands in Late November – Mid December 2024.
Information from his QRZ page:
Recent DX Spots VU4A
Krish will be back in VU4 in late November to mid December 2024.
Since many of you were unable to work VU4, due to the noise levels encountered during the previous VU4N trip, the needed permission was sought back in January 2024 to return back and finish the effort.
Plans are for SSB and FT8.
Equipment is about the same as the last trip. May change the antennae plans slightly.
More updates to come. Please stay tuned.
Donations – Not expecting any upfront support, since unlike in the past, where i used to be able to constantly update the list of donors, send them QSLs first and also thank them on the air. But given the insane work hours, i am not able to dedicate much time to curate the information and do justice for the generosity. If you still feel like, you wish to donate, you could send them at a later date, after the operation. Here is the paypal address VU4A_DX@yahoo.com. Please make sure, your callsign is available with any donation.
Log update requests – VU4A_Log@yahoo.com
If you are looking for the 2015 VU4A operation, the QSL’s are available via VU4I.
Some notes on the 2024 VU4A QSL:
1) Please no paper cards via Bureau. I will open up clublog Oqrs for Bureau requests later on, once the direct OQRS requests are done with.
2) Ideally, even direct paper qsl reqeusts take a lot of time to process, so the preference is clublog OQRS. But, i understand that we have a subset of hams, who refrain from using paypal. So, for those, it is alright to mail the requests, but i work 12 hour days over the weekdays and on weekends, i am busy with my business. So please bear with me.
3) If multiple operation QSL cards are requested in a single envelope, then it will be the last to process, since i will need to generate the QSL records for multiple operations and then print the labels. I usually finish it for one operation and switch to the other. So you will need to have patience.
4) FT8 log corrections are difficult. Please take screenshots. Will need to see valid QSO’s before and after your QSO in the FT8 software, for me to locate the timeperiod to reconcile. Best is to try to work again.
VU4A Log search
Previous activity:
Special callsign issued for HAMTECH 2015, International Conference on Amateur Radio Communications organised by National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR), Hyderabad, India.
VU4A : Operated by Foreign Radio Amateurs
VU4I : Operated by Indian Radio Amateurs
Location: Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar
Dates: 6 to 18 March 2015
QSL via DL4KQ