[ETS/PARC List] Fw: DX

Tue Apr 4 12:07:18 EDT 2017

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> C5 - The Gambia -
> ON7WP, Pedro, will be on the air April 5-9 from his "Kerr Pedro"
> compound in Buntung, with his regular call (C5WP).  At this QTH he has
> no Internet and is entirely solar powered.  He plans to focus on PSK31
> and JT65 on 40-10 during these upcoming few days.  He has an IC7300,
> five-band Spiderbeam and twin 40M delta loops.  Also look for him
> mobile, April 5-13 with his Codan NGT-SRX2012 and Codan 9350 mobile
> whip, "preferably on 14345, 18145 and 21285 kHz."  QSL direct only,
> with SASE and 3 euros.  www.SmileGambia.org<http://www.smilegambia.org/>
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> T8 - Palau -
> Four hams have intense operating from Koror planned for the middle of
> April.  T88TA, T88FT, T88IH and T88UW will be on 160-6 CW, SSB, RTTY
> and JT65.  The dates are April 13-20.  Their home calls are JM1LRA,
> JA7WFT, JI6IHG and JH7IPR.  QRZ.com has the full QSL info.
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> JD1 - Minami Torishima -
> JG8NQJ/JD1, op Daisuke "Take" Kanno, from Marcus Island, OC-073, will
> be on the air from the middle of May to the middle of July, when Take
> is there to work at the weather station.  He will be QRV in his spare
> time, around his work schedule.  He will not have Internet.  He plans
> to be on the CW and RTTY modes, 50 watts from a Yaesu FT-450, to a TA-
> 33 tribander for 20, 15 and 10, and 4-element HB9CV for 6.  On 80 and
> 40 he has a wire dipole, and another one for 18 and 24 MHz.  QSL via
> JA8CJY.
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> VK0/M - Macquarie Island -
> VK3YP, John, has announced he will be here in early 2018, "with a
> total of five VK operators."  More details to follow as the planning
> shapes up.  (Editor's note: To my knowledge there has never been a
> "DXpedition" to VK0/M - Macquarie Island, only operations where the
> operator happens to be working and can get on the air in there spare
> time.)
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> 3D2/P - Rotuma -
> Antoine, 3D2AG, will be there until April 22 or 25, pending the
> shipping schedule.  He plans to be on 160-6 including 60, CW, SSB,
> RTTY, PSK31 and JT65.  The operation will be entirely solar powered,
> 100 watts to a Spiderbeam and wires.  Being a one man operation, he
> will not be on the air 24 hours a day of course.  He will not have a
> telephone or Internet connection.  To make himself easy to find on the
> bands he plans to be near the popular DXpedition frequency ranges, and
> when on CW on the low end of the band will listen above .25 at times
> for license classes that don't have privileges for the bottom of the
> CW subbands, hoping to give them a new one.  QSL direct only, to his
> 3D2AG home QTH and use PayPal to cover the QSL and mailing costs.
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> CT - Portugal -
> CR6K will be the special callsign for CT1ILT, Filipe, in the CQWW WPX
> CW Contest May 27-28, single op.  QSL to CT1ILT.
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> VP2E - Anguilla -
> VP2EIH is the call for KD4SLM, Ira, now active from a QTH called "The
> Valley."  Rare for Anguilla, he has already been on satellites.  He is
> getting a discone antenna working, omnidirectional, "not the best
> setup" for satellites he says, but it's what he has available.  He is
> also on HF some and likes the "friendly net" Fridays on 7188 from 06-
> 07Z.  He is also sometimes on the Caribbean Weather Net on 3815 from
> 1830-1900Z Thursdays.  He has an FT-857, 100 watts to an off center
> fed wire antenna and MFJ tuner.  QSL via KD4SLM.
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> T7 - San Marino -
> We were told this morning that this one starts soon, T7/DF8AN/p.  Mike
> says "the big problem" is telecom there only authorized him for 144-
> 146 MHz and above, so he can only be on 2M CW, SSB and JT65.  On 2M
> SSB he hopes to give out San Marino to a lot of South and Central
> Europeans and "nobody knows what happens on JT65."  His visit is April
> 14-18 with a "double quad for 2 meters," and he hopes to make a lot of
> contacts.  QSL via DF8AN bureau or direct.
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> 3W - Vietnam -
> DF7DQ hopes to put us all in the log from 3W9DQ.  From Phan Thiet, he
> will be solo May 1-10 with 100 watts to a dipole on 40, 30, 20, 17 and
> 15 CW, SSB and RTTY.  For a card or QSL credit use OQRS or LoTW.  He
> has a website on QRZ.com.  He says it's a vacation style operation,
> not a fulltime DXpedition.
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> V73 - Marshall Islands -
> V73/WW6RG from Kwajalein is planned for this Tuesday and Thursday
> starting around 0330Z plus or minus 14190 for an hour or so, says
> Randy.  He says he will then "jump up to 14230 plus or minus for the
> General [US general class license] guys!"  Around 0700Z he will go to
> 40 meters, "around 7170 plus or minus."  If he finds any issues with
> the Kwajalein ARC gear, plan B is five watts QRP SSB.
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> 6Y - Jamaica -
> 6Y5/DJ7CF will be "QRV for some weeks every year."  This year his
> activity apparently started March 24 and goes to April 28.  He has an
> IC706 to a vertical, operating on SSB, CW and "SIM 31."  He says
> "Being retired, I can happily flee the European winter."  He says "The
> authorities here are very friendly in getting the license."  He,
> Helmut, prefers 20 and 17M and finds the best time for Europe is 15-17
> "MEZ," the time zone in Central Europe, two hours ahead of UTC.
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> 9A - Croatia -
> The 425 DX News reports that 9A/PA4JJ, Jan, will be on the air April
> 10-May 30, mainly digital modes.  QSL direct or bureau to his home
> QTH, direct or bureau, or use LoTW.  Jan's site has a direct link to
> Club Log:  www.pa4jj.nl/html/qsl-request.html<http://www.pa4jj.nl/html/qsl-request.html>.
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> OE - Austria -
> The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's (ORF) "Amateur Radio Section"
> and the "Documentary Archive Radio Communications/QSL Collection" will
> have special call OE17M on the air April 21-23.  This will be an
> "official International Marconi Day station," with QSOs on April 22
> counting for that award.  QSL bureau to OE1WHC or direct to:
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> DokuFunk, OE17M
> An den Steinfeldern 4A,
> 1230 Wien
> Austria
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> OK - Czech Republic -
> OL75SILVERA is the long call apparently now on the air and going to
> April 14, to mark the 75th anniversary of "Operation Silver A," an
> operation in World War II that the Czechoslovakia government-in-exile,
> assisted by the British RAF, conducted.  For this one, QSL to OK1MOW
> direct or bureau, or use LoTW.
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> PA - The Netherlands -
> A correction, the correct call for a WPX CW Contest operation May 27-
> 28 that we mentioned recently, by PA3ARM, is PA150LIM, not PA150LM.
> Thanks AD1C for catching our error.
> https://www.qrz.com/lookup/PA150LIM.
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> 4W - East Timor -
> Today not only did 4W/YB3MM and 4W/YB3LZ show up on the air from East
> Timor, as announced, but also 4W/N1YC, James (9V1YC), and 4W/PE7T,
> Wilbert.  As of press time no word if the four ops are all together of
> separate or how long James and Wilbert will remain QRV.  QSL 4W/N1YC
> via W5UE and 4W/PE7T via his home callsign.
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> 4S - Sri Lanka -
> UA4WHX, Vlad, has added his new 4S7VBG callsign to the QRZ.com
> Website, which typically means he is about to go QRV.  As usual he
> does not announce his operations prior to showing up on the air and he
> never says how long he will continue activity.  So typically he stays
> for about a week and usually operates CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands,
> and sometimes even 160 Meters.  As always QSL via UA4WHX, details on
> his QRZ.com page.
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> The CQ DX Marathon
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> After the ARRL's deletion of the KH4 Midway and KH7K Kure Island
> entities, CQ DX Marathon Manager K9EL, John Sweeney, announced "These
> countries will also no longer be valid entries for the DX Marathon,
> and the DX Marathon country lists have been updated."
> http://www.dxmarathon.com/countrieslist/countrieslist.htm
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> "At this time, we have no plans to change the 2017 DX Marathon
> submission form.  The 2018 form will reflect the deletion of these
> entities.  73, John K9EL, DX Marathon Manager."
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> Also, after the announcement on Friday by ARRL of the delegation of
> both the KH4 Midway Island and KH7K Kure Island "entities," the DXCC
> Honor Roll is now from 328 to 337 current countries confirmed.  It
> should also be noted that band points gained by working KH4 and KH7K
> for the ARRL DXCC Challenge will be deducted in the coming days, if
> the ARRL has not done so already.  In addition, from August 26, 2016
> to the present, any QSOs with either of these now-deleted entities
> will count as KH6, Hawaii, for DXCC purposes.  Also it should be noted
> that the ARRL DXCC Standings have not yet taken into account the
> recent deletions.  As of press time there has been no official word as
> to the status of KH4 and KH7K for the RSGB IOTA Programme.