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I hope everybody is getting ready for the upcoming 3YØJ DXpedition to Bouvet! This is gonna be fun! We wish the team a safe and successful DXpedition to one of the most remote islands in the world! This month, we turn over the keyboard to my friend Adrian, KO8SCA (Photo A), who will take us along for a look inside the recent J28MD DXpedition to Djibouti. I hope that you enjoy it!

– 73 and see ya’ in the pileups! Bob, N2OO

As I write these lines in early November, the 2022 Mediterraneo DX Club DXpedition to Djibouti with the callsign J28MD is coming to an end. The team effort and the good propagation produced a good number of QSOs (over 90k) and so everyone in the team is in good spirits and preparing for the long way home. Before getting into the details of the DXpedition, let me tell you a little bit about the location.

Djibouti

Djibouti is a country in Africa about the size of the state of New Jersey and has a

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