Three DX-peditions have visited the island and there are sporadic landings by tourists.

DX-peditions are usually group affairs since the desire is to make as many contacts as possible from the location.

Many DX-peditions are organized around various radio contests that happen throughout the year.

Several diving excursions and amateur radio operations, DX-peditions ( 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2007 ), have been carried out in the area.

Because of its particularly remote location, Kure Island has been the scene of several amateur radio DX expeditions, or DX-peditions.

Many DX-peditions take place from locations with adequate access to power and supplies, often where the country has a small resident amateur population or where licensing is not very difficult.

Early DX-peditions were simply exploratory and geographical expeditions in the late 1920s and 1930s, in which one or more radio amateurs participated in order to provide long distance communications.

Three DX-peditions have been sent to the island, in 1987, 1994 and 2006.

Occasional DX-peditions have visited them.

The activity of dedicated DX-peditions was pioneered by one-time ARRL president Robert W. Denniston.

Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.

These increased costs are partially offset by a decrease of $56 million in expenditures for the reserve forces, largely because of the planned reduction in strength of the Army Reserve components during 1961.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

Week-end activities for the entire campus are planned by the Co-op Board.

Applications to organs other than the gastrointestinal tract are planned for future experiments.

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Organ meats such as beef and chicken liver, tongue and heart are planned once a week.

Higher tolls are planned for July 1, 1961, on the Richmond-Petersburg, Va., Turnpike, and proposals for increased tolls on the Texas Turnpike are under study.

Follow-up tests are often distinguished in terms of whether they are planned ( a priori ) or post hoc.

Comparisons, which are most commonly planned, can be either simple or compound.

Ambushes are complex, multi-phase operations, and are, therefore, usually planned in some detail.

Broadly, there are two situations: fire against opportunity targets and targets whose engagement is planned as part of a particular operation.

This is not an annual event ; the most recent performances have been in August 2000 and 2005 but more are planned.

However, sizeable new investments that are expected to address some of the issues are either planned or in progress.

Two lines are planned to Sudan and Cameroon from the capital, with construction expected to start in 2012.

Many states have what are termed mixed economies, referring to the varying degree of planned and market-driven elements in a state's economic system.

Significant tunnel and bridge construction projects in the south of Dalmatia are planned, such as the Biokovo tunnel near Makarska, which will connect the panoramic seashore road with the future A1, and a long Pelješac bridge, connecting the Pelješac peninsula to the Croatian mainland.

In both parts of the island, water shortage is a growing problem, and several desalination plants are planned.

Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D. C., in the United States, Canberra in Australia, and Brasília in Brazil.

Commuter rail systems are also planned for Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin and around the Pearl River Delta region.

We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;

In Patchen's eyes, organized churches are as odious as organized governments, and Christian symbols, having been taken over by the moneyed classes, are now agents of corruption.

Dramatic activity at the College is organized and carried on by The Carleton Players, which is to say by all students who are so inclined to advance these aims.

Foliage pilgrimages, either organized or individual, are becoming an autumn item for more and more Americans each year.

The Rockies have many `` Aspencades '', which are organized tours of the aspen areas with frequent stops at vantage points for viewing the golden panoramas.

Most are photosynthetic like plants, and " simple " because their tissues are not organized into the many distinct organs found in land plants.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

Ethnic Ainu living in Sakhalin Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai are not organized politically.

There are then three functions: the officeholders organized and saw to the complex protocols ; Ho boulomenos was the initiator and the proposer of content ; and finally the people, massed in assembly or court or convened as lawmakers, made the decisions, either yes or no, or choosing between alternatives.

Adhesives are typically organized by the method of adhesion.

These are then organized into reactive and non-reactive adhesives, which refers to if the adhesive chemically reacts to harden.

In the United States, many government agencies are organized under the executive branch of government, although a few are part of the judicial or legislative branches.

At present, the islands are organized as Amakusa District, Amakusa City, and Kami-amakusa City, all of which are under the administration of Kumamoto Prefecture.

The textile and food industries are equally strong, with Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and other beverage brands, as well as fresh and canned food industries being present in the city's organized industrial zones.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

In general they are loosely organized " in-house " unions, although the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions ( BFTU ) is consolidating its role as the sole national trade union centre in the country .< ref >

The leaves are alternate ( rarely opposite ), sometimes organized in basal rosettes ; in rare shrubby crucifers of Mediterranean their leaves are mostly in terminal rosettes, and may be coriaceous and evergreen.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.