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   Madagascar. He will be on the air starting in October and will operate   
   through to late December or early January, using CW, SSB and some FT8   
   in fox-hound mode. He will be on 40-10 metres. SOTA Croatia is marking   
   10 years. Listen for the special callsign 9A10SOTA  starting on the 1st   
   of October. The callsign will be on the air through to the 30th of   
   September 2026. A certificate will be available for contacts made   
   between  the 1st of October and the 31st of December. QSL via LoTW.   
      
   (425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
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   KICKER: NEXT-GENERATION DXPEDITIONER JOINS ANDAMAN ISLAND TEAM   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we celebrate the next generation of   
   DXpeditioners. Members of the VU4 Andaman Island DXpedition are still   
   awaiting news of their callsign from the Indian regulator but the wait   
   is at least over for their addition of a new team member. Graham Kemp   
   VK4BB tells us about him, a promising youth from southeastern Africa.   
      
   GRAHAM: A 17-year-old radio amateur from rural Malawi has joined the   
   DXpedition team that is headed to Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the   
   Bay of Bengal in October of 2026. Urgent Jere, 7Q6UJ, is not just along   
   for the ride. Barely a year after passing his US Technician exam, he   
   has already confirmed 168 DXCC countries as a chaser. Soon he will be   
   on the other end of that envious pileup. He is studying to upgrade his   
   license and sharpening his proficiency in CW.   
      
   Urgent was mentored by Don Jones, 7Q6M/K6ZO, as part of a project   
   created by the HacDC Amateur Radio Club of Washington, D.C. and   
   supported by the Jeffrey Dahn Memorial Foundation. Urgent hopes his   
   efforts will inspire other young people in Africa to embrace amateur   
   radio too.   
      
   One of Urgent's next trips after India will not be to a DXpedition but   
   to an even longer journey that will shape the rest of his life. He   
   plans to go to the US, where he hopes to combine academic studies with   
   radio science at Virginia Tech University.   
      
   This is Graham Kemp VK4BB.   
      
   (WILLIAM SAVACOOL, K2SAV)   
      
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