• [REFRESH] – 

In a few days from now, an international team of experienced operators will be leaving for their 20-day DXpedition to Burundi as 9U1RU. The team will arrive there on October 30th and tentative plans call for stations being QRV on October 31 until November 20.

Coordinated by the Russian DX Team (RUDXT) and led by Vasily R7AL, this DXpedition holds promise to be as successful as many previous RUDXT DXpeditions to Africa and the Pacific.

Burundi is currently #60 on Club Log’s Most Wanted List. Vasily says the team’s goal is to work as many stations as possible while paying special attention to those DX regions of the world and bands where 9U poses the biggest challenges while also providing 9U to “little pistol” operators as well.

Presently, the team is busy finalizing operating plans and equipment inventory required to maintain operation of 7 simultaneous QRO stations located at two separate operating sites. Logistically, this approach presents several challenges with planned operations on all bands, 6m to 160m forthcoming.

At this time the 9U1RU team wishes to acknowledge and express its sincerest, “‘Thank you” to DX Engineering for graciously providing an ICOM IC-7610 that will serve as the primary SSB station and perhaps see use on 6m EME (TBD) as well. We appreciate Tim, K3LR and the folks at DXE for their generosity and support of this DXpedition and are proud to have DX Engineering onboard with us as a major sponsor!

We also wish to express our gratitude to Expert Electronics for donating a SunSDR2 DX XCVR and welcome them as a corporate sponsor of 9U1RU project.

Obviously the 9U1RU DXpedition is a costly endeavor and the 9U1RU team welcomes and appreciates any support of this project at any level. Please check our 9U1RU website for more details and how you can help with this DXpedition.

https://www.rudxt.org/9u1ru

  • [MAY 8, INITIAL NEWS] –

An international team of 9 operators consisting of R7AL, OK8AU, RW9JZ, W8HC, SP6EQZ, RU3UR, UA3QLC, R2BW, RA1ZZ and R5EC will run a DXpedition from the Republic of Burundi as 9U1RU during October 31 to November 17, 2025.

QRV with at least 7 high-power stations 24/7 on all HF bands during 20 days. Their goal is to work as many stations as possible, paying attention to distant regions and low-pistols. They have found a good location with a clear take-off to all most common directions.

Full details including plans, set-up and Log/QSL info can be found here.