This week sees three separate groups operating from just outside the coverage footprint of the QO-100 satellite. From Newfoundland the geostationary QO-100 satellite is nominally 1 degree below the horizon.After 5 years in orbit and much speculation, three groups are in the St John's area to try operating QO-100 with its S band uplink and 10GHz downlink. Already in Newfoundland and having success is Gopan, M0XUU. He is operating with a 0.8m dish from just north of the harbor entrance and updates can be found on the QO-100 DX Club web site. https://qo100dx.club/ Despite frequency periods of no signal or deep QSB, Gopan has alredy managed to work FT8 FT4 and CW. After a week on the air as VO1/M0XUU, Gopan will be leaving early Wednesday morning. Arriving today Monday 13th May, to Friday 17th, are a Canadian team with a 1.8m dish and up to 100W.Details of the operation by Stefan VE4SW and John VE1CWJ can be found at the QRZ.com page for special callsign VO100QO https://www.qrz.com/db/VO100QO Finally, Graham G3VZV and David G0MRF arrive on Wednesday 15th with 2 sets of equipment and will be active as VO1/G3VZV and VO1/G0MRF. They fly back to the UK early Sunday 19th. Updates will be posted on X @g0mrf Operating from the old lighthouse keepers bungalow on the southern side of the harbor entrance, GN37PN85, they will be working all modes including an attempt with DATV with a 175W S band amplifier. When not actively on the bands, a personal beacon will operate on 10489.539MHz in CW to act as a propagation indicator. 73 David