Update September 25, 2025: Operation postponed.

We sadly announce to Amateur Radio community that 3C2MD, our long awaited expedition to Equatorial Guinea, will be postponed to unknown future date because a sudden stop to all the Amateur Radio licenses declared by the local Government.

The reason of that decision has been due to "problems with license granted to two foreigner citizens" that, according to the local news, tried to operate from "sensitive part of the Country" without all the necessary permissions in the early part of September.

Because their behaviour, the two foreigners have been obliged to stop their radio operations, so they decided to back home before they planned.

Understandably, the local Governement suspended all the licenses with the aim to revise the procedures of requesting the permission of operating from the country, so, few days ago, we received from ORTEL (the local agengy of Telecom) the official communication that the license to our expedition, even if we fulfilled all the administrative requests, was suspended till new Government’s decision (anyway our license will expire in the end of next month of November).

We regret for the situation but we are sure that all the people who was waiting for us on air will understand that there is not any responsability on our side of this unespected outcome.

We are contacting all our supporters (Corporate, Associations and Individuals) to refund them.

We will back very soon with more details.

Thank you,

Ant, I8KHC, 3C2MD Team leader

Update August 22, 2025: Update on frequencies and operators. See below.

Update August 11, 2025:  "Here is the survey of the most popular modes and bands for Equatorial Guinea. Please fill it out so we can focus our efforts on the most popular modes and bands. 73’s "

Update May 6, 2025:  Web page available.

Operators mentioned are Stephen/AG4W, Axel/DL6KVA, Peter/DL6LZM, Emil/DL8JJ, Gilles/F6IRA, Richard/GI4DOH, Fulvio/HB9DHG, Daniel/HB9TOC, Ant/I8KHC, Giampaolo/IU2EFB, Francisco/IU3PMA, Simone/IU4HRJ, Marco/ IZ2GNQ, Dario/IZ4UEZ, James/KB2FMH, Vlad/OK2WX and Sorin/YO8PS

Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. Here are the suggested frequencies:

CW   - 1828, 3515, 7005, 10115, 14016, 18076, 21009, 24898 and 28019
SSB  - 3795, 7125, 14215, 18140, 21290, 24940 and 28450
RTTY - 3595, 7049, 10140, 14080, 18103, 21080, 24910 and 28081
FT8  - 1838, 3567, 7059, 10131, 14095, 18090, 21095, 24918 and 28095

60m Notice : They will be active on frequency 5.357. Operations will begin after prioritizing the bands accepted for DXCC and announcing them on the website.

6m: They will have one station on 50313 FT8, possible activity also on CW and SSB.

They will listen for U.S. Generals on 14280 kHz and UP.
Please, if you don’t receive 73 in FT8, call back, thanks!
Digital modes FT8 and FT4 they will be using MSHV in multistream mode.

QSL as always via IK2VUC.

FEES:
 * LoTW only (no QSL card): 2 € via PayPal (OQRS). The QSO will be    loaded in December 2025.

   How to save time and money: request Paper QSL + LoTW through OQRS    system. Please send the fee via PayPal as donation as follows:

   3 € – Europe
   4 € – outside Europe except VK, ZL, Pacific Area
   5 € – VK, ZL, Pacific Area

   The QSL cards will be sent starting on February 2026

   All HAMs supporting the DXpedition with at least 20 € will have their    QSO uploaded to LoTW within 48 hrs from the QSO....

Update May 1, 2025:  Plans are going nicely for the Mediterraneo DX Club and their  announced trip to Equatorial Guinea in 2025.
 
They intend to have up to 9 stations QRV from 3C2, 1 EME-1 in QO-100-1, on 50mhz plus 2 FT8, 2 SSB and 2 CW !!
 
If you can support the team with donations of any amount, please use this link – Thank you!

Mediterraneo DX Club (MDXC) posted the following:

We are pleased to announce to the DX Community the next Mediterraneo DX Club expedition.

From October 30th till November 10th, 2025 a multinational team of 14 operators will be on-air with call-sign 3C2MD from Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

Activity from 6m to 160m, all modes. MDXC's specialists will activate for the first time ever this DXCC Entity trough EME (DL8JJ) and QO-100 (GI4DOH).

QSL as always via IK2VUC.

Although Equatorial Guinea is ranked #127 on ClubLog's MOSTWANTED LIST,
it is still a very demanded Entity for so called "human modes": #66 for CW and #43 (!) for SSB.

We are sure that we will have chance to give "human operators" a lot of fun, including our beloved RTTY, so we decided to stay more days than usual (13 instead of 11).

We will back very soon with more details, stay tuned!