03/30/2016
The ARRL DXCC Department has approved for DXCC credit the unexpected P5/3Z9DX
"demonstration" operation from North Korea last December. Well-traveled Polish
DXer Dom Grzyb, 3Z9DX, has said he expects to be back in North Korea -
officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - for his
"official" activation by late summer. P5/3Z9DX showed up on the air from the
most-wanted DXCC entity on December 20 and 21 to demonstrate Amateur Radio for
North Korean officials. During that activation - the first in more than a
decade - P5/3Z9DX made nearly 785 SSB contacts, most of them on 15 meters.
Nearly 600 of the contacts were with stations in Asia; P5/3Z9DX worked just 26
stations in North America. He posted[1] his log on ClubLog.
Some unsubstantiated claims were floated following the pre-Christmas P5/3Z9DX
operation that Grzyb was not really operating from North Korea.
In January Grzyb contacted The Daily DX[2] Editor Bernie McClenny, W3UR. During
his visit to North Korea, Grzyb told McClenny, authorities were friendly and
polite, and that he was surprised that they allowed him to operate. P5/3Z9DX
reported being severely hampered by extremely high noise levels on all HF
bands, not to mention a geomagnetic storm. Noise, he said, made it "almost
impossible" to copy weaker signals in Pyongyang. When he goes back to the DPRK
this summer, he expects to operate from a far quieter location in a rural area,
Grzyb told The Daily DX.
His equipment was left behind in Pyongyang, as agreed to before his December
visit. The P5/3Z9DX preview was the first from North Korea since the 2001-2002
operation by Ed Giorgadze, 4L4FN. - Thanks to ARRL DXCC Department and The
Daily DX
[1] https://secure.clublog.org/charts/?c=P5/3Z9DX
[2] http://www.dailydx.com/
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