The Pantelleria Multi/Multi Contest team was first founded by K7FL Dennis, WA7EQW (now W7ZB) Mark and IT9WPO Marco.
Soon joined the group the technical champs ZS6NW Jan and IT9BLB Joe. The group grow up with the other fine operators
from 4 countries and, after one year of preparation, the first effort (1998 CQWWDX SSB) was a success.
IH9P'98

On 1999, with the addition of other world class operators and with few added gear and antennas, we tried to achieve a bigger score with our field-day style setup. Mr.Murphy was very active: the 1998's nice QTH was sold, without any forewarning, just a week before the QSY on the island and we had to setup the station in a very bad backup site.
Anyway we are happy for our final result:  20% more than in 1998 .
IH9P'99

The 2000 operation will pay the lack of K7FL, ZS6EZ and ZS6NW because personal commitments but will have a new important contribution: the core of the italian M/S team IO2A joining IH9P Team Pantelleria.
Some upgrades to the antenna sistems and a new and better (Mr. Murphy...??) QTH, will help us to have a new fantastic experience of Contesting, HAMming and real Friendship !






IH9 Pantelleria Island counts: "African Italy - Zone 33" for CQ Magazine's
contests and awards,  I.T.U. Zone 37,  I.O.T.A. refence AF-018,  I.I.A. reference TP-01,  W.A.I.P. province TP (Trapani).  The island is splitted into two different WW-Locators:  JM56 and JM66 and its coordinates are: lon. 11°56'35" E   lat. 36°49'46"N
Pantelleria  is located in the Sicily's Channel, between Sicily IT9 and Tunisia 3V8. The overall surface area is 83 Km sq with 51.5 Km of perimeter and about 7,500 inhabitants.Pantelleria is 102 km away from Trapani's harbor (Sicily) and 84 Km away from 3V8-land's coast.
The assigned HAM-prefix is "IH9" and, together with Lampedusa's islands group "IG9", it's a separate multiplier for the CQ's contests.

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