9M8J - Kenyalang DX & Contest Team

17/09/2025

Congratulations to 9M8A and the entire team for achieving 31st place in the Multi Operator Two Transmitters Section of the IOTA Contest 2025! Your hard work, teamwork, and dedication to the spirit of amateur radio truly shine. Well done

9M2MAD JW Hisham Marmin Iruan Jaafar Zulkefli Mohd Amaji Pian Supian Mohamad Zaheer Zakaria Alex Alex Winston Lim WT Marhazk Spica Shafarizal Rahman Suhaimi Azri Robin

18/08/2025

good info

SSB (Single-Sideband) modulation can sometimes sound like a "duck voice" to new listeners because of a specific technical aspect of how it works.

​A standard AM (Amplitude Modulation) signal is made up of three components: a central carrier wave, and two sidebands that carry the audio information. When you tune a regular AM radio, you're tuning to the carrier wave, and the radio uses that carrier to demodulate the signal and produce the sound.

​SSB is designed to be much more efficient. To do this, it removes the carrier wave and one of the sidebands, transmitting only the single sideband that contains the audio information.

​The receiving radio needs that carrier wave to be able to "unscramble" the audio. It does this by generating its own carrier wave, called the Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO), and mixing it with the incoming SSB signal. If the BFO is not perfectly tuned to the exact frequency where the original carrier would have been, the pitch of the recovered audio will be shifted.

This pitch shift is what creates that distorted, "duck-like" sound. It's a hallmark of a new operator or listener who hasn't yet fine-tuned their receiver.

18/08/2025

9M8A NEWS UPDATE: QSO logs have been finalized. Proceeding with QSL Card, last order for first batch is August 23, 2025. Same goes to first batch of 9M4WWA, second batch of 9M1Z (Borneo and Semporna)

For OQRS, visit www.qrz.com/db/9M8A

Here's the the 9M8A QSO count:-
- Initial QSO uploads: 27,165 total
- 1st Phase QSO uploads: 31,765 total
- 2nd Phase QSO uploads: 34,264 total
- 3rd Phase QSO uploads: 34,667 total
- 4th Phase QSO uploads: 34,856 total
- 5th Phase QSO uploads: 34,856 total
- Final Phase QSO uploads: 34,462 total

15/08/2025

9M8A NEWS UPDATE: Final QSOs Statistics have been released, with 34,461 total of contacts. Refer to https://qsl.marhazk.com/analyzer/?result=aaf4f29810803e7f2c128c0747ac16cd for full details.

14/08/2025

9M8A NEWS UPDATES: Total of 34,865 QSOs have been made

14/08/2025

9M8A NEWS UPDATE: Missing logs or invalid callsign, kindly fill in this form: https://forms.gle/wYCSJRrvmuLFq3mz9

Last submissions/Due date is August 17, 2025 23:59 UTC

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14/08/2025

9M8A Satang Besar DXPedition has officially ended/ stand-down/ QRT. Will be compile all the logs, fix missing logs/invalid callsigns, etc. atleast takes about 1-3 days and 5 phases of uploads.

After the first phase of QSO uploads, 31,765 total qsos has been uploaded. 4 phases left, we expect the final QSOs should be around 33k+.

C U AGN, especially 9M8T Talang-Talang Besar DXPedition and any other DXpeditions.

Special thanks to these key persons who have worked with me regarding the 9M8A DXpedition
MM0NDX Col, Owner, DX-World
VE3LYC Cezar, Deputy GM, Islands on the Air (IOTA) Ltd.
G3VYI Mike, Manager, Islands on the Air (IOTA) Ltd.
F5PYI Laurent, Admin, Parks on the Air (POTA)
IK6PTH Ezzelin, Admin, HRDLog & Ham365
W3UR Bernie, Editor, The Daily DX, The Weekly DX
NG3K Bill, Editor, RGSB IOTA
G7VJR Michael, Owner, Clublog
4L5A Alexander, Owner, DXNews
Letty, Manager, Satang Isl.
Safar, Owner, Boat
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The Collective Teams, Ops and Supporters of 9M8A
9M8WIN Winston, 9M8J Owner
9W8ZZK Mohd Zaheer, 9M8J Leader
9M2DOC Dr. Hisham, 9M2J Owner
9M2MAD Muhd Noor, 9M2J Leader
9M8LJW Jun Wei, Pilot
9W8VYY Alex Voon, Pilot
9M2SPN Suffian, Pilot
9M2RSI Zulkefli, Pilot
9M2WAZ Iruan, Pilot
9M2COD Norshafarizal, Pilot
9W8BAT Robin, Pilot
SWL Mariana, Supporter
SWL Voon Wulim, Supporter
9W8MIQ Suhaimi, Runner

Best regards,
9M8HAZ Marhazli, 9M8A DXPedition Leader

13/08/2025

9M8A News Update: Last Night & Last Day at Big Satang Island before the QRT. Local time is 12:21am 14-August.

13/08/2025

Good News, our collective teams are commencing the new Talang-Talang Besar DXPedition, OC-165, the first ever island to be activated in, QRV is proposed within the April/May year 2026.

The island also view like the Turtle from the top.

News Update:
New 9M8-callsign has already decided, proposed 9M8T callsign. Also another great news is, 9M8HAZ just had confirmed and had agreement with Lundu District Office (district state government, where they governing the Talang-Talang Besar island) although just through phone, and next week will finalize the stays, permits, documentations and so on.

QRZ: https://www.qrz.com/db/9M8T
Web: https://cqdx.my/9m8t