[ETS/PARC List] DX NEWS
Don WILSON
k2dsv at msn.com
Tue Oct 11 10:03:43 EDT 2016
>From Urb W1UL
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>DX News
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>TL - Central African Republic -
>A group of four French ops have announced plans to operate TL0A from
>near Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) starting October 19th. The
>team will be lead by F4WBN, Chris. Joining him will be F9IE, Bernard;
>TR8JLD, Jean Louis and F5DUX, Rene. They will have 2-4 stations with
>two 500 watt amplifiers. Activity will be on 80 through 6 meters,
>including a first time activation on 60 Meters, until October 28th.
>They will be using two Spiderbeams, three verticals and a L wire
>antenna. Activity will be on CW, RTTY and SSB. QSL direct only via
>F4WBN. They will not be using Club Log while in CAR, as they will not
>have access to the Internet. They will not be using LoTW.
>
>CU - Azores -
>Starting tomorrow OH2BH/CU2KG, Martti, "will jump to the Azores and
>put his signal on the air specifically for the Oct. 15/16 weekend
>while converting the world renown CR2X site to its new application".
>
>P4 - Aruba -
>KK9A, John, returns to Aruba October 25-31, including participation in
>the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. Listen for P40A on CW and SSB on all bands
>from 1.8 to 28 MHz. QSL via WD9DZV.
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>GU - Guernsey -
>This Saturday M0HZY (K0UU), Jeff, will be taking a ferry over to
>Guernsey and plans to "will piddle around on 15m-40m as MU0HZY". QSL
>via LoTW only.
>
>HI - Dominican Republic -
>XE1AY, YV4CEG and YV4IVB will be teaming up with Dominicans HI3K,
>HI8K, HI3CC, HI3TT, HI3MPC, HI3MRV, HI3RWP, HI8EES and HI8EFS will
>operate HI3K in the multi-two category of the CQ WW DX SSB, October
>29/30. QSL via KB2MS.
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>HI - Dominican Republic -
>During the CQ WW DX CW Contest, November 26-27, HI3CC, HI3TT, HI3MPC
>and HI8K will be operating HI3CC as a multi-single in the low power
>category. QSL via W2CCW.
>
>PA - Netherlands -
>In celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Netherlands central
>organization for Scouting label campsites special call PA40LAB will be
>QRV from October 14-16. QSL via PA3RVB.
>
>TI - Costa Rica -
>A team from Costa Rica and the United States of America are teaming up
>to put TI5M on the air as a multi-op effort in the CQ World Wide DX
>SSB Contest. The team includes TI2KAC, TI2JCY, TI2LCO, TI4ZM, W4BW,
>W4XO, K4UN and W4KTR.
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>Correction
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>Yesterday we reported the first up of H40GC logs to LoTW. That was
>incorrect as it was really the first upload to Club Log.
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>Silent Key
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>NT4D (ex WN8BMV, WB8BMV), Jamey "Jay" C. Brookover, from Cary, North
>Carolina became a Silent Key on Saturday October 8th. He was 62. Jay
>was both a DXer and Contester as well a Life Member of the ARRL and
>the Potomac Valley Radio Club. Condolences to his wife WD8EBI,
>Debbie, and their daughters KG4CXZ, Stephanie, and Meredith.
>http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jamey+%22Jay%22-Brookover&lc=4234&pid=181824625&mid=7119671
>
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>ZL3WD/G4CWD (ex G8CQW), Albert Leslie (Les) Bagnall, passed away on
>October 5th. He was an IOTA and SCOTIA (Scotland Island Award)
>activator. G4CWD had 329 countries confirmed in the ARRL DXCC Mixed
>standings and achieved the DXCC Challenge Award.
>
>VK2BOD (ex CX7AG and CX9ABH), Mirel Cardoso, is now a Silent Key.
>Mirel first became interested in radio in 1943, obtain his first
>license when he was 19 in 1952 in Uruguay. He moved to Australia in
>the mid 70's. Mirel was interested in 6 Meter DXing.
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>On The WWW
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>The first S9YY logs have been posted to Club Log at
>https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/S9YY
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>5B4WN, Marios Nicolaou, tweets Club Log now has a new feature, which
>gives propagation forecasts for each state for US stations for the
>expedition charts.
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>QSN
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>T31T - CENTRAL KIRIBATI - Topband DXers from both coasts of North
>America reported big signals from the T31T team today on 1826 KHz
>starting before 0530Z through 0715Z.
>
>TZ4AM - Mali - TZ4AM, Jeff, has "just finished rebuilding and fine-
>tuning [his] fixed wire beam toward America (303 degrees) and
>reversible toward the rest of Africa and the Indian Ocean (123
>degrees)". The antenna increases signals from North America and the
>Caribbean about an S-unit and likewise "attenuates Europeans about the
>same". Jeff can often be found on the low end of 20 Meters CW between
>1830 and 1930Z, and occasionally he's on SSB. He says "80 meters QRN
>is still too high to hear calling stations; no antenna for 160 meters
>yet".
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>IOTA
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>The following IOTA stations were active yesterday.
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>IOTA Call Freq. GMT IOTA Call Freq. GMT
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>AF-023 S9YY 24898 1433 EU-067 SV8/IW0HQU 14248 1652
>EU-015 SV9IOI 18147 1832 EU-116 MD0RLA 18115 1613
>EU-015 SY9BUD 28450 1855 NA-085 K4G 14035 1459
>EU-038 PD/DO1BEN 14244 1523 OC-139 VK5GR/P 14085 1408
>EU-042 DF3ZE/P 14017 1335 OC-146 YBTK 14265 1655
>EU-049 SV8FCU 21072 1613 SA-018 CE7KF 28478 1814
>EU-049 SV8JNL 21340 1532
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>IOTA frequencies -
>CW 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530
>SSB 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3765
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>The Daily DX Calendar
>http://www.dailydx.com/calendar.html
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>Upcoming contest rules & dates
>http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php.
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>Today's Propagation Forecast
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>Solar activity will be very low with a chance for a C-class flare
>today through Thursday.
>
>The geomagnetic field will be at quiet to unsettled levels today and
>Wednesday and quiet to minor storm levels on Thursday.
>
>Perhaps the most useful propagation pages for Amateur Radio Operators
>can be found at http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/ and
>http://www.solarham.net/.
>
>The October 10 SFI was 102 and the SESC Sunspot Number was 64.
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>QSL Info
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>Call Manager Call Manager Call Manager
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>4X6TT N4GNR IG9/IZ7ATN IZ7ATN PW7M PS7HD
>9J2BO G3TEV K4G K8EAB SN1923AXL SP5KAB
>9M2TO JA0DMV KH6FX DJ0FX SV5/DL3DRN DL3DRN
>AO5GCE EA5GUQ KH7SD DF1SD T8CW JA0FOX
>CO6HLP IZ1DSH PD/DO1BEN DO1BEN VE3FIRE VE3KGK
>FR5DZ F6CXV PH30EUDXF PA1AW VP9/AA1AC AA1AC
>
>Need a QSL route? Here are some great free sites for you and your
>friends - http://www.dailydx.com/QSLRoutes.html.
>
>QSL cards recently received direct and via managers: YS3/DL5YWM (NA-
>190)
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>QSL cards recently received via the bureau: 8R1RPN, CU2KG, OH4MDY,
>OR200HC, OZ2U, TA2RX, V31TF, V5/DJ2HD, VE7TUB, VK100WIQ, VK7AC,
>YV50WS, YV5VD, YW5YL, YY4KWB and Z60WW.
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>Confirmations recently received via LOTW: FO5QB, LY5W and PA7LV.
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>Credits
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>Many thanks to the following for the above DX information: ADXO,
>CX2SA, DL1SBF, F4WBN, GW4BKG, K8YYY, KD4QMY, KK9A, KO8SCA, M0HZY
>(K0UU), N6RW, NG3K, OH2BH, RSGB, TI2DYP, TZ4AM, W7DN, W8OP and W8UV.
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