Introduction

Due to the great success that we had at international level with our last operation "Comoros 2001: D68BT & D68WL", with more than 24.000 QSO carried out by two operators, this year it pleases us to present you our new project: "CONGO 2002."

Why TN?

As already all you will know, the Republic of Congo is a country located in the African continent, in zone 36 of the WAZ. At first sight it cannot seem an attractive destination in order to organize an expedition of DX like it could be a distant country of Oceania or a lost island, can it?

But nothing else far from the reality. At the moment this entity of the DXCC is situated in place núm. 38 according to the list of the ARRL for the 2000 Most Needed Countries List (no other list has been published with new data). And probably at the moment, due to the last operations that have taken place to the entities that were in the first places, be sure that the Congo will have climbed positions in the list.

In the last years the activity from this entity has been rather null, due, with all security, to the unstable political situation that the country has suffered. At the moment, the situation seems to have begun to be normalized, for what we believe that this is a very interesting moment to organize the operation.

TARGETS OF THE OPERATION:

Due to the situation of this country in the Most Needed DXCC Countries List of the ARRL (núm. 38), the demand will be very important. And in order to satisfy it, we will install 2 complete stations, each one with an equipment and a beam that will be simultaneously in the air the maximum numbers of hours. Also, to try to put the best signals in all the places of the planet, we have a lineal amplifier.

Our goal is to be active the maximum possible number of hours and give the QSO to all those who need this DXCC country, just being a total "new one" or just needing it in an specific band o mode.

As in Comoros, we will have the collaboration of our pilots, and you'll be able to get in touch if you have any doubt of comment while we are in TN.

And we also will try to put the logs on-line and update them daily.