Update October 17, 2022: "This morning, a D60AE delegation made up of F2DX and HB9GWJ was received by the managing director and the technical director of the ANRTIC (National Authority for the Regulation of Telecommunications) in order to advise them with a view to the development of amateur radio in the Comoros which currently has no resident ham radio.
All the equipment is now packed and ready to go to the airport. We will take off at 5:20 p.m. heading for Tanzania and then Ethiopia. We finally end with 73,092 QSOs. Note however that all the QSOs made yesterday on 6m FT8 are the work of a frustrated pirate (59+20 in Portugal)."

Update October 16, 2022: Video available

Update October 13, 2022: "Lots more power outages since last night. By the way we were a little worried because the hotel was almost out of gasoline for the generator. The other time, it was an electrical wall socket, this night it was downright the power line that melted. Fortunately, we have an electrician on the team.
Apart from these few local details, our equipment is working well and we have now exceeded 50,000 QSOs. Part of the FT8 log is missing because we had a time problem on a PC. This will be rectified soon.
Good news: Our two Irish friends have finally had their suitcases. Moreover, it should be noted that they will leave on Saturday because they had no other option with their flights."

Update October 11, 2022: "Except on 10m, propagation conditions were less good today. On the other hand, it can’t be perfect every day. We had several power outages. The generator takes over but not instantly, and it’s the same when the mains returns. We also avoided the start of a fire because of a wall socket which was overheating and whose strong smell of burning fortunately alerted us.

160m is still just as horrible and it’s not much better over 80m. Failing that, we left a 160m station in FT8 running. We worked on the Beverages again today. As the ground is made of lava rock, the earth is of very poor quality. But at least we won’t be able to tell ourselves that we haven’t tried.

Concerning FT8, some people ask us because their QSO is not validated. You should know that our stations operate automatically and are managed by a single operator (who also works RTTY). After CW, we also did FT8 on QO-100 today. We were hacked on 6m: Be careful because our signal shouldn’t be thick given our 50w in only the 2 elements of the Hexbeam antenna.
A word about the weather to finish. Since we arrived, it has been raining every day (often all afternoon). We weren’t used to seeing this during our previous expeditions to Africa. Our Irish friends have still not had their luggage and incidentally we are therefore still missing an amplifier."

Update October 9, 2022: "Last night, of course, we tried to be on the low bands, but the conditions were deplorable on 160 and 80m with a lot of noise. On the other hand, the highest bands are particularly open and the QSOs are linked on 12 and 10m in particular. The 30m also works very well with sometimes all continents at the same time. Satellite traffic is also progressing with more than 250 QSOs on QO-100 including the first CW QSOs today. On the first 3 full days, the daily average is 7500 QSOs."

Update October 7, 2022: As planned and announced yesterday, the assembly of antennas began at 6:00 this morning and all are now installed, including two BOG (Beverage on ground) for low band reception, which we will test tonight. For satellite, we had to buy a larger dish locally because the one we brought was not enough. Work is in progress, and QO-100 traffic will therefore probably start in the afternoon. Stay tuned !

Update October 5, 2022: The 13 operators meet at Roissy airport (Paris) this afternoon for a takeoff at 09:55 p.m local. Team will arrive Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) the next day at 06:00 a.m for a 4 hour stopover where they will meet EI5GM & EI9FBB. Departure from Ethiopia at 10:00 a.m to arrive in Tanzania at 12:40 p.m where they will take off again at 01:30 p.m. The arrival in Moroni (Comoros) is scheduled tomorrow at 2:50 p.m where it will still take between 1 and 2 hours by road to reach our QTH. Stay tuned !

Update October 1, 2022: So far everything is going as planned and they expect to put the first signals on the air on the 5th.

Update September 26, 2022: Everything is going according to the schedule. Equipment is packed and ready to be carried.

Update September 8, 2022: They have published their band plan.

• * On 160m, we will listen down for JA and up for others.
• When working FT8, we wil use Fox mode only, you’ll have to setup hound to be able to work us.

CW : up 1-5
SSB : up 5-15
RTTY : up 1-10
FT8 : F/H mode

Update August 27, 2022: Jeremy, EI5GM, and Dave, EI9FBB, are joining the D60AE team.

Update July 23, 2022: Trailer of the expedition is available

Update May 7, 2022: Announced operators are: F4AJQ, F1ULQ, F2DX, F4AZF, F4ESV, F5AGB, F5NTZ, F8AVK, F8EFU, F8GGV, DL3GA, HB9GWJ and ON7RN. New dates set to October 5-17, 2022.
They will operate on 160 - 10m, CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8, FT4 and also QO-100 Satellite.
DX Pedicition dedicated to memory of F5NQL, F1HRE.
Pilots: F4TTR, F8FKI.

Update January 31, 2022: A Web page (under construction) is available.

Update January 26, 2022: Call will be D60AE. New dates for the operation are still to be determined.

Update December 8: DXexpedition is on hold due to COVID.

A large group of operators of the F6KOP Radioclub will be QRV in the last half of January 2022 from Comoro Islands (AF-007). They plan to be active with five stations in CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8/FT4 modes on 160-10m and the QO-100 satellite. Callsign is still not known.