XV4SP
Vietnam - November/December 2010
Operation
From November 26th to December 6th I was on holiday with my XYL Sabine on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam. My callsign was XV4SP and I was active from 160m to 10m in CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. Please check my News Page.
My equipment was a K2 transceiver, a XV600, lowband verticals and dipoles, a HF9V and beverage antennas.
Sponsors
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all our sponsors for this DXpedition:
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| www.funkamateur.de | www.QSL-Shop.com |
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| German DX Foundation | European DX Foundation |
Individual sponsors: Jan, DL7UFN - Andy, DL5CW, Frank, DL7UFR
About 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 Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |