DL7DF
Sigi Presch - DL7DF and Crew DXpeditions
DXpeditioning since 1993
Our next DXpedition goes to Vietnam, XV. We will be on the air between Nov 04, 2009 and Nov 17, 2009.
Our callsign is XV4D. We will be active with several stations on 160m through 10m on CW, SSB. One station will be exclusively dedicated to RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. Please check our News Page
Our equipment consists of 3 transceivers (2 x K2, 1 x IC7000), 3 x kW linears , 2 x 18 m Lowband Vertical, a 2 elem vertical for 40, a 2 elem vertical for 30, 2 Spiderbeam for 20/17/15/12/10, some Beverage antennas as well as some laptop computers.
Our experienced crew includes:
DK1BT, Manfred
DL4WK, Wolf
DL5CW, Andy
DL7DF, Sigi
DL7UFR, Frank
Sigi Preschor via the German QSL bureau DARC to DL7DF.
DL7DF
Wilhelmsmuehlenweg 123
D-12621 Berlin
Germany
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Vietnam
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| Country name: | Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| National capital: | Hanoi |
| Location: | Southeast Asia, bordering to the countries China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Combodia to the southwest and the South China Sea to the east. |
| Area: | total: 329,560 sq km land: 325,360 sq km water: 4,200 sq km |
| Land boundaries: | total: 4,639 km border countries: Cambodia 1,228 km, China 1,281 km, Laos 2,130 km |
| Coastline: | 3,444 km (excludes islands) |
| Climate: | tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March) |
| Terrain: | low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest |
| Natural resources: | phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower |
| Population: | 84,402,966 (July 2006 est.) |
| Ethnic groups: | Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census) |
| Religions: | Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census) |
| Languages: | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Independence: | 2 September 1945 (from France) |
| Economy: | Vietnam is a densely-populated, developing country that in the last 30 years has had to recover from the ravages of war, the loss of financial support from the old Soviet Bloc, and the rigidities of a centrally-planned economy. Substantial progress was achieved from 1986 to 1997 in moving forward from an extremely low level of development and significantly reducing poverty. Since 2001, however, Vietnamese authorities have reaffirmed their commitment to economic liberalization and international integration. They have moved to implement the structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive, export-driven industries. |
| Reference: | Travel.com - The World Factbook -- Vietnam and From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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