Welcome to 14DA161 Dorota
July 17, 2009 by Darren
The Dx Adventure Radio Club (DA-RC) is proud to introduce to you 14DA161 Dorota whom is the Club’s most recent darling of the airways in Europe. One of the most well thought-of and active YL radio operators in the Freeband DX Community, Dorota’s resume as a DXpeditioner on any stage is equally remarkable with a substantial number of stirring IOTA, MILL, DXCC, LOTA and SES activities in the past 5 year to her name.
Some of the most distinguished of these activities occurred in Andorra (51 Division), Gibraltar (55 Division) and Hoedic Island (DIFM AT-017) (EU-048) respectively.
A former member of the Fox Radio club and a current member of the Free DXers group respectively, 14DA161 Dorota’s location is Toulouse City (JN03RN) in South Western France which is the capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region, the largest region in metropolitan France and the capital of the Haute-Garonne department too. Toulouse City is also situated on the banks of the River Garonne, 730 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
In addition to being the home QTH for Dorota and husband 14DA058 John, Toulouse City is also the home base of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, Galileo positioning system, the SPOT satellite system, and CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the largest space centre in Europe.
When DXing in the field, Dorota uses an Icom IC-7000 transceiver, a G4-ZU antenna (spider beam 11 home made) or a ½ wave vertical antenna on a 10 metre high mast, with an electrical generator as her power source.
One of 14DA161 Dorota’s main aims upon securing DA-RC membership is to form a committed DXpedition Team to undertake dx adventure to some of Europe’s most wanted DX entities. “I’m very keen on field radio activities,” says DA-RC’s newest affiliate from 14 Division. “And with John, I am planning a few new activities soon as SOTA…”
Away from the demands of the hobby, Dorota enjoys long trips in the car and the adrenalin rush of mountain hiking. Like many YL’s, she also loves hunting for inexpensive or second-hand goods such as antiques, clothes, furniture, music, used household goods and food at open aired flea markets and is always on the lookout for a bargain!
As well as being guaranteed to be one of her new Club’s most popular members, 14DA161 Dorota is sure to feature prominently in the logs of participants in DA-RC’s 2009 YL Contest later this year.
On behalf of everyone associated with DA-RC welcome to the Club Dorota. We look forward to working your and John’s next major DX activity — whenever and wherever that may be on the globe — and trust that you will be valuable source of breathtaking DX tales in the future!
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Welcome Dorota ! HI !
88 John 058
Welcome to the DA-RC Dorota and hope to hear you on the air soon.
73s Simon
Welcome aboard Dorota, looking forward to working you later in the year during the Aussie Summer.
73’s & 88’s
Derek 43DA011
Hi Dorota…welcome to DA-RC! Nice that we have you and John together on board!
Best 73’sss
Marco
15DA015
Hello Dorota, WELCOME among us ! Enjoy your callsign
88’s de Muriel
Hi Dorota,
A warm welcome to the DA-RC …enjoy the new callsign. Happy days are here to last!
Nige 26DA019
Welcome among us Dorota, hope to catch you and John on my very first contact to Europe when the beam gets back in the air! Good Luck with your new callsign and with all your plans.
Peace and Love from sunny Jamaica