Welcome to XX9 Macau – DX-perience 2012 DXpedition web site, where we’ll give you more information about our DXpedition.
The operation will be on the air from 17th to 23th May 2012. We will transmit from IOTA AS-075 (Coloane Island OL62SC).

XX9 Macau Team is made up 10 operators:

EA5BZ – Ruben Navarro (Team Leader)  EA5CEE – Pasqua Navarro  EA5HPX – Eugene Mosiychuk  EA7FTR – Francisco Liañez  EB7DX – David Liañez

EA1ACP – Jose M. Delgado  EA5FX – J. Fernando Conde  EA6DD – Biel Maimó  EB5BBM – Jose M. Molero  F5VLY – Adrian Green

Macau, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People’s Republic of China. It lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south.

The territory’s economy is heavily dependent on gambling and tourism but also includes manufacturing.

Macau was a Portuguese colony and both the first and last European colony in China. Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in the 16th century and subsequently administered the region until the handover on 20 December 1999. The Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Macau stipulate that Macau operates with a high degree of autonomy until at least 2049, fifty years after the transfer.

Macau is situated 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Hong Kong and 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Guangzhou. It also has 41 kilometres (25 mi) of coastline, yet only 0.31 kilometres (0.19 mi) of land border with Guangdong. It consists of the Macau Peninsula itself and the islands of Taipa and Coloane, which are now connected by landfill forming the Cotai Strip. The peninsula is formed by the Zhu Jiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xi Jiang (West River) on the west. It borders the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone in mainland China. The main border crossing between Macau and China is known as the Portas do Cerco (Barrier Gate) on the Macau side, and the Gongbei Port of Entry on the Zhuhai side.

The history of Macau is traced back to the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC), when the region now called Macau came under the jurisdiction of Panyu county, in Nanhai prefecture (present day Guangdong). The first recorded inhabitants of the area were people seeking refuge in Macau from invading Mongols during the Southern Song Dynasty. Under the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD), fishermen migrated to Macau from Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Extracted from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau

The QSL Manager for XX9 Macau DX-perience 2012 is EB7DX:

David Liañez Fernández PO Box 163 21080 Huelva (SPAIN)

For all direct request, please send a self addressed envelope with:

1 IRC or 2 US$ or 1 € for European Union

1 IRC or 2 US$ for other destinations

If you cannot find your callsign in the LOG but are sure to have a valid contact, please send your request to EB7DX after carefully checking the QSO details (date, time, band and mode) with our operators.

Every request will be considered in order to debug any possible log entry error.

Thank you for your understanding.

All QSOs will be confirmed via LOTW.

Spanish Bureau, we dont need your Bureau QSL card.