DXpeditions This Month | September 2026 DX Calendar | Greyline
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DXpeditions This Month: September 2026
The month's rare ones, in one place, updated as the teams post -- because a DXpedition is a reason to walk out to the antenna, and every one of these is workable from a backyard vertical. One of our owners put Franz Josef Land in his log on 15-meter FT8 with a 24-foot flagpole this month; the rest of the list is the same physics.
On The Air This Month
RI1FJL and RI1FJZ -- Franz Josef Land (EU-019), the northernmost DXCC entity. RI1FJL has extended its stay; RI1FJZ goes QRV from Alexandra Island September 9 through 25 with seven radios. A double-header on the rarest Arctic entity in the book -- watch the auroral oval before you call.
9T0MD -- Democratic Republic of the Congo. September 30 through October 11, a never-before-used prefix, 160 through 6 meters with a stated focus on the low bands. If you have been waiting for a reason to see what 80 and 160 do from your vertical, this is it.
KH8WW -- American Samoa. September 10 through 24 from Aunu'u Island, YL2GM and EA5EL, various bands and modes.
HF0PAS -- South Shetland Islands (AN-010), Antarctica. September; dates per the timeline. Antarctica from a flagpole has been done -- see the Signal Report.
V47YA and V47RCX -- St. Kitts. September 9 through 30, K0YA and W5RCX.
J38DX and J38LD -- Grenada. September 1 through 12, 80 through 6 meters.
8R1TM -- Guyana. September 2 into October, PY1SAD.
V5/HB9BFM -- Namibia. Through September 20, mostly 16-19 UTC on 20 meters, Olivia and VARA.
Also on the timeline this month: H44GJ Solomon Islands, P29YY Papua New Guinea, T88PB Palau, KH0N Mariana Islands, Z68PX Kosovo -- dates as the teams post them.
Compiled from the DX-World September timeline, the NG3K Announced DX Operations list, and the DXZone calendar -- the people who do the real work of tracking this. Dates change; check the source before you plan a weekend around one.
Working Them From A Backyard Vertical
The physics is on your side more than the pileup suggests. A vertical dipole puts its energy at the low angles the long paths use, and it does not care what your yard is made of -- both halves are in the air. The Arctic entities reward patience over power: polar-path absorption comes and goes with the K index, so the operator who watches the oval and calls in the quiet windows beats the operator who calls all night. The low-band operations reward aperture: every foot at the top of the pole pays its largest dividend on 80 and 160 (John Kraus, W8JK: radiation resistance falls with the square of length in wavelengths), which is why the 9' DX Whip exists and why the tilt is how you get it up there.
Proof from the field: K1LDO worked Franz Josef Land the week he walked his antenna up alone. TF1CB works the world from under the auroral oval. The field reports live on The Signal Report.
The Antenna For The List
160 through 6 meters, no radials, a flagpole to the neighbors. The Greyline line, hand-built in Sun Valley, Idaho -- and the tilt and whip that get the most out of the low-band ones.
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73,
Jon KL2A
Greyline Performance -- Sun Valley, Idaho
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