The South island exceeds so little of the horizon that it is necessary to wait for the last moment to discover how beautiful it is when the boat approaches it finally. It was mid-afternoon yesterday, so we finally reached Flo F5CWU and Pasal F5PTM arrived earlier with the first boat trip. After a 26 hours

After some difficulties related to our plane, the entire team finaly arrived yesterday in Mauritius. We immediatly took a taxi to the port were our boat was waiting for us. We were happy to recover our equipement sent a few weeks earlier. Every part has been checked one more time before beeing  loaded into the

We are now only a few hours from the beginning of the journey to Saint Brandon. We will stay a few days in Mauritius, just the time to collect the remaining equipment’s like tables, guying anchors, etc. Let’s remind we will only have a limited (and expensive!) satellite internet connection. It will be used once

In about a month we will be joining Saint Brandon. After a year of intense working, we are quite satisfied and impatient to finally concretize. Our 700Kg of equipment are actually on the way to Mauritius. They will then be loaded on the boat with the generators before sailing to Saint Brandon with two 3B7A

We have provided several tools to help you to estimate the propagation during our 3B7A DXpedition. We have also calculated with VOACAP a series of “ready-to-use” forecasts that take the antennas and power which will be used from 3B7A into account. These calculations have been done for a 3 el. Yagi at 10m above the

An updated most wanted list has been published on Clublog. It now shows Saint Brandon as the 27th most wanted entity worldwide (#19 NA, #17 SA, #33 AS, #28 OC, #34 AF, #48 EU). This statistics clearly confirms the relevance of our dxpedition, we knew the demand to be high more than 10 years after 3B7C.

For several weeks, we have noted a strong mobilization of the Japanese community around our project. We would like to especially thank Hiro JA4DND, Joe JJ3PRT, Kuwa JA4BUA, Oku JK1KSB, behind this initiative. Several actions have been launched, in particular the setting up of a page for our Japanese friends, intended for the people wishing