[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #623
Mike ZooLoo
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Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
12 April 2003
No
623
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4S - Ivan, ex-8Q7VR [425DXN 616] is now active as
4S7DXG from Sri
Lanka
until 1 May. QSL via UR9IDX (P.O. Box 85,
Mariupol 87531,
Ukraine).
[TNX UA3FDX]
5N - Vaclav Voldrich, OK1DXE has been
sporadically active as 5N0W
from
the Czech Embassy in Nigeria since 1 July
2000. He now hopes
to be
able to spend more time on the air as
either 5N0W (club
station
call) and 5N0HVC (his personal call). QSL
via OK1DXE direct
or via
bureau. [TNX OK1DXE]
5Z - Don Gardner, KC7JDC (ex 7Q7DC) has now moved
to live in
Nairobi and
has been allocated the call 5Z4DE. He is the
first US citizen
in 12
years to obtain a 5Z licence and will be
active as soon as
he puts
up his mast and beams. QSL direct only to
G0IAS. [TNX G0IAS]
6W - A groups of operators from the ARAS
(Association des
Radioamateurs
Senegalais, http://www.radio6w.org/) Radio
Club will be
active (on
SSB and CW) as 6V1A from Goree Island
(AF-045) on 7-9 June.
QSL via
bureau to 6W6JX. [TNX F5NQL]
7P - Look for 7P8CF (K5LBU), 7P8TA (WW5L), 7P8MJ
(W5MJ) and 7P8NK
(VA7DX)
to be active (on SSB, CW, PSK31, RTTY) from
Lesotho on 18-25
July.
They will probably have at least one station
on 24 hours a
day. QSL
via home calls. [TNX NG3K]
9N - Dov, 4Z4DX (http://www.qrz.co.il/4z4dx) will
be active (on
160-6
metres CW and digital modes) as 9N7DX from
Nepal from 22
April to 12
May. QSL via home call (Dov Gavish, 27
Hamitnahalim St.,
Ramat
Hasharon 47203, Israel). [TNX 4Z4DX]
BY - Nicola, I0SNY and Gianni, I8KGZ have
cancelled their 6-29 May
trip
to China [425DXN 613]. They will go to
Mongolia instead
and be
active as JT1Y and JT7Y with the help of
Khosbayar,
JT1CD. [TNX
I0SNY]
CX - The CV1T activity from Cabo Polonio
Lighthouse (URU-005)
[425DXN
621] will take place on 26-27 April. Look
for operations on
160, 80,
40 and 10 metres CW and SSB. QSL via EA5KB.
[TNX CX2TG and
EA5KB]
CY9 - N5VL, N0RN, KO4RR, W4WY and possibily
others will be
active (on
2-160 metres CW, SSB and RTTY) from St. Paul
Island (NA-094)
from 24
July to 2 August, including and entry in
the IOTA Contest.
Further
information is expected in due course. [TNX
The Daily DX]
F - Special event station TM6ACO will be
activated on 7-15
June to
celebrate the 71th edition of the 24 Hours
of Le Mans. QSL
via F6KFI
either direct (P.O. Box 22088, 72002 Le
Mans Cedex 1,
France) or
through the bureau. Further
information
at
http://asso.proxiland.fr/aras72/ [TNX F5TJC]
F - Jean-Marc, F8IXZ reports he will be active as
TM0GAY from 20
June to
4 July for the Gay Pride parades in France.
QSL via home
call.
FO - Look for Fabien, FO/F8CFU to be active from
the Tuamotu
Archipelago
(OC-066), French Polynesia and Tubuai
Island (OC-152),
Austral
Islands from 20 April to 16 May. QSL via
home call. [TNX
F0CRS]
HK0_sa - Eight members of the Florida DXPedition Group
will be
operating with
4-5 stations from San Andres Island (NA-033)
on 20-28
October, CQ WW
DX SSB Contest included (requested
contest call is
5J0X). The
Florida DXPedition Group has entered the
CQWW SSB Contest
from a DX
location since 1996 and in the past they
have never asked
for any
assistance, but this year they are asking
for donations
to help
offset the cost. Donations should be sent
to Bill Gallier,
FDXPG,
2694 North Camel Ave., Middleburg, FL
32068. The web pages
for the
operations are at
www.geocities.com/hk02003
and
www.geocities.com/w4wx1/upcoming [TNX W4WX]
HR - Look for HQ9W to be aired on 40, 20 and 15
metres from
Water Cay
(NA-057) on 12-14 April. QSL via HR2HCH.
[TNX HR2JRP]
I - Sergio, IK4JPR will guest operate (SSB and
CW) from the
Guglielmo
Marconi Foundation, IY4FGM on 12 April in
the local morning.
QSL via
IK4UPU.
I - Angelo, I2ADN will be active as IE9/I2ADN
from Ustica
(EU-051, IIA
PA-001, WWL JM68OR) during the Contest Lazio
50Mhz on 12
April. [TNX
IK2XDE]
I - Walter, IN3XUG will be active as IC8/IN3XUG
from Ischia
(EU-031, IIA
NA-001) on 16-27 April. He plans to operate
on 10, 15, 20, 40
and 80
metres SSB and RTTY. QSL via home call
either direct or
(preferably)
thorugh the bureau. [TNX IN3XUG]
I - The newly issued IQ2VA call will be aired
for the first time
on 27
April. This club call belongs to Busto
Arsizio ARI Branch;
QSL via
bureau or direct to Sezione ARI, P.O. Box
125, 21052 Busto
Arsizio -
VA, Italy. [TNX IK2UVR]
I - Ruggero, IK2PZC reports he will be active
(on 40, 20, 15
and 10
metres SSB) as IG9/IK2PZC from Lampedusa
(AF-019, IIA
AG-001) on
3-10 May. During the ARI International DX
Contest (3-4 May)
he will
operate also RTTY.
JA - Look for JI1PLF/1, JA1UNS/1, 7N1GMK/1 and
7L4PVR/1 to be
active (on
10-80 metres SSB, CW and PSK31) from Hachijo
Island (AS-043)
on 6-9
June. QSL direct to home calls or via the
JARL bureau. [TNX
JI6KVR]
OH - In ancient times witches were believed to
fly around
Finland on
Easter eve. Nowadays amateur radio
"witches"
Jatta/OH2IO,
Anne/OH2MXS and Annika/OH2HSJ will "fly
around" Finland with
their
pilot Lasse, OH1LQP on 18-20 April.
They plan to
operate as
OH2YLS(/#) on 80, 40, 20, 10 and 2 metres
(possibly also
15m) SSB
with some CW. QSL via bureau. They also
expect to be
active as
OH1LAG (QSL via OH2IO), OH6MXS (QSL via
OH2MXS) and OH4CNX
(QSL via
OH2HSJ). This will be a good chance to
collect points for the
OH YL
and the OH County
Awards (rules
at
http://www.sral.fi/award_eng.html). [TNX
OH2HSJ]
OH0 - Look for OH0/DF8QJ, OH0/DL2VB, OH0/DK6QW,
OH0/DG1YTF and
OH0/DL6YFB
to be active (on 80-2 metres CW, SSB and
RTTY) from the
Aland
Islands (EU-002) on 19-25 April. QSL via
home calls. [TNX
DL2VFR]
OZ - Look for Peter, OZ/DL4AMK to be active on 10,
12, 15, 17, 20
and 40
metres SSB from Aro Island (EU-172, JY-003
for the Danish
Islands
Award) on 16-21 April. QSL via home call
either direct or
through
the DARC bureau. [TNX DL4AMK]
OZ - Ben, OZ6B will be active from Bornholm
Island (EU-030,
BO-001 for
the Danish Islands Award) on 19-26 June.
Look for him on +/-
14265
kHz. QSL via bureau or direct. [TNX OZ6B]
OZ - Jurgen, OZ0J will be active (SSB and CW)
as OZ0J/p from
Laesoe
Island (EU-088, DIA NK-003) on 26-28 July.
The main
objective of
this trip is the participation in the IOTA
Contest. Those
who want
to arrange a sked before/after the
IOTA event, can
e-mail
[email protected] not later than 20 July.
QSL via home call,
either
direct or through the bureau. Log serach
will be
available at
http://www.oz0j.dk/ [TNX OZ0J]
PY - LABRE-RJ club station PY1AA will be active as
ZW1AA to
celebrate the
Brazilian Communications Day on 3-4 May.
[TNX PY1XP]
S0 - Joe, KO4RR has joined the S05X
multi-national team
scheduled to
begin all-band all-mode operations on 15
April. The
group now
includes YT1AD, YU1AU, I8NHJ, CT1BWW,
N6TQS, KO4RR, EA1BT,
EA2RC,
EA5RM, EA5XX and S01MZ. Donations to help
offset the trip
will be
gratefully accepted and can be sent via the
QSL manager,
EA4URE (URE
- Union de Radioaficionados Espanoles,
Avda. Monte
Igueldo 102,
Madrid 28053, Spain; e-mail [email protected]).
Full details
on the
DXpedition are available at
http://www.pagus.it/s05x/ The
pilots are
Mauro, I1JQJ ([email protected]) and
Maurizio
I1-21171/IZ1CRR
([email protected]); please send your
messages to the
BOTH OF
THEM and put "S05X" in the subject line.
SM - Eric, SM1TDE will be active from Gotland
Island (EU-020) on
12-18
April. He plans to focus on CW and the WARC
bands, with
some RTTY
and SSB. QSL via bureau. [TNX SM1TDE]
SV5 - Ermanno, IK2WZD reports he will be active
on digital
modes as
SV5/IK2WZD from Lipsi Island, Dodecanese
(EU-001) from 24
April
through the summer. QSL via home call
either direct or
through the
bureau.
UN - Vlad, UN7EX will be active as UQ1EDX from
Kokchetav,
Kazakhstan on
19-20 April. QSL via RW6HS or direct to home
call. [TNX
UN8CC]
VE - VE3UUH and VE3GID will operate as VB3MCC
(further
information
www.storm.ca/~scalver) from 27 June to 4
July to celebrate
the 100th
anniversary of Military Communications in
Canada. Note that
Industry
Canada has authorized the use of the
following special
prefixes for
this anniversary between 1 July and 31
August: XM for all VE,
XL for
all VA, XN for all VO and XO for all VY.
[TNX VA3RJ and
VE3UUH]
W - Rick, AI5P reports he hopes to be active
from the
islands of
Martha's Vineyard on 15-18 April and
Nantucket on 21-25
April. Both
of them counts for NA-046. QSL via AI5P.
W - The Maritime Radio Historical Society
(http://www.radiomarine.org)
is pleased to announce that K6KPH will be
on the air on 26
April
(starting at 17 UTC) to participate in
the annual
International
Marconi Day. K6KPH uses the original
transmitters,
receivers and
antennas of famous ex-RCA coast station
KPH. The
transmitters are
located at the transmitting station founded
by the American
Marconi
Co. in 1913 at Bolinas, CA. The receivers
and operators will
be at
the KPH receiving station about 20 miles
north at Pt.
Reyes, CA.
K6KPH transmitting frequencies will be
7050, 14050 and
21050 kHz
(3545 may also be activated if
conditions warrant).
QSLs and
reception reports should be sent to Ms.
D.A. Stoops, P.O.
Box 381,
Bolinas CA 94924-0381, USA. [TNX F5NQL and
W6AWO]
W - W1T will be a special event station operated
by WA2VUY and
K2MVW on
all bands from 5 July through the 27th to
commemorate the
100th
anniversary of the Tour de France. QSL via
WA2VUY (the
card will
have a photograph of 21 of the 22 living
Tour champions taken
on 24
October 2002 in Paris). [TNX WA2VUY]
V2 - A group of operators from the recently
formed Antigua &
Barbuda
Radio Club (V21ARC) will be having a
DXpedition on the sister
island
of Barbuda on 18-21 April. They plan to
operate as V21BBQ on
160-10
metres with three HF stations. QSL to
Antigua & Barbuda Radio
Club,
P.O. Box 965, St.John's, Antigua, West
Indies. [TNX NG3K]
VP2V - Bob, N6RFM will be active as VP2V/N6RFM
from the British
Virgin
Islands on 22-25 April. This will be
a vacation and
casual
DXpedition as time permits. Operation will
be PSK31 QRP on 20
metres
only. QSL via home call. [TNX N6RFM]
ZC4 - Bill, G4EHT will be visiting his son Dez,
ZC4DW between 14
and 28
April. This will be a family holiday but
Bill hopes to spend
some on
HF CW. He will operate from the Eastern
Sovereign Base club
using
their callsign, ZC4ESB. Please be patient
with Bill as he
has not
worked pile-ups for many years. QSL via
G4EHT (Bill Watson, 7
Darwin
Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 7ET,
England). [TNX
ZC4DW]
ZD8 - Jim, N6TJ will activate his ZD8Z station
on Ascension
Island on
16-26 April. He will operate on all bands,
SSB and CW. Jim
will make
an effort on 160 metres, especially on the
18, 19 and
20th. QSL
direct only via VE3HO. [TNX The Daily DX]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
CELTIC CONNECTIONS ---> The GMDX Group introduces
"Celtic
Connections" to
encourage activity by all radio amateurs worldwide
to contact areas
with
Celtic origins: Tras-os-Montes (Portugal), Galicia
and Asturias
(Spain),
Ireland, Brittany (French Departments 22, 29, 35,
56 and 44),
Cornwall
(England), Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland,
Wales and Nova
Scotia
(Canada). This "activity weekend" is to be held on the
third weekend in
April
each year (in 2003 it will start at 00:00 UTC on 19
April and last
until
24.00 UTC on the 20th). Further details from the
GMDX Group web
site
(http://www.gmdx.org.uk). [TNX GM3YTS]
ES OPEN HF CHAMPIONSHIP ---> It will take place on 40
and 80 metres
SSB and
CW from 05.00 through 08.59 UTC on 19 April. Results
of past
editions and
rules are available at http://www.erau.ee [TNX ES5TV]
EU SPRINT 2003 ---> The four 2003 European Sprint
Contests will be
held on
20, 40 and 80 metres only from 15.00 UTC until 18.59
UTC on the
following
dates: 12 April (Spring SSB, managed by G4BUO), 19
April (Spring CW,
managed
by I2UIY), 4 October (Autumn SSB, managed by I2UIY),
11 October
(Autumn CW,
managed by OK2FD). Full details can be found at
http://www.qsl.net/eusprint
GACW WW DX CONTEST ---> It will be held on 19-20
April, detailed
information
is available at http://gacw.no-ip.org [TNX LU6EF]
IARU NEWS ---> Three new members have been admitted
to the
International
Amateur Radio Union effective 4 April 2003, They are
the National
Association
Radioamateurs of Georgia (NARG) the Federation of
Radiosport of the
Republic
of Armenia (FRRA) and the Vietnam Amateur Radio Club
(VARC).
INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY ---> This year the IMD will
run from 00.00
UTC to
23.59 UTC on 26 April. The event is organized by the
Cornish Amateur
Radio
Club which offers awards to stations in various
classes. Please
visit
http://www.gb4imd.co.uk/ for details.
IQ2GM ---> This club call has been assigned to the
Gallarate ARI
Branch and
was aired for the first time on 11 April. QSL via
bureau. [TNX IK2UIZ]
NOT THE MANAGER ---> Norbert, DL9NEI is not the QSL
manager for LX5A.
Cards
should be routed via LX1RQ or bureau.
NOT THE MANAGER ---> Henryk, SQ1GYH is till receiving
cards for T99C,
but he
is not the QSL manager for this station.
OH0CO ---> The 10-16 April operation from the Aland
Islands by Ben,
SM6CCO
[425DXN 622] has been cancelled. [TNX NG3K]
PIRATE ---> Before you begin wondering if I1JQJ (a)
has become unable
to use
his second VFO, (b) has become deaf or (c) has become
crazy, be advised
that
yesterday, 11 April, someone pirated your Editor's
call over and over
again
on XY4KQ's transmitting frequency, on both 15 and 20
metres CW. I
apologize
on behalf of the perpetrator and I am grateful to
those who have
expressed
their sympathy on the PacketCluster and by e-mail.
PIRATE ---> Luis, LU1BR reports someone pirated his
call as VP8/LU1BR
on 13
March (21.40-22.40 UTC on 28006 and 24896 kHz).
Apparently this
pirate is
also used to calling as "LU1BR" on DX stations
transmitting QRG during
split
frequency operations.
PORTUGAL DAY ---> Sponsored by REP (Rede dos
Emissores
Portugueses), the
Portugal Day DX Contest (SSB only) will be held on 14
June (00.00-24.00
UTC).
For full information (soon available also in
English) please
visit
http://www.rep.pt/dia_de_portugal.htm [TNX CT1END]
PORTUGUESE NAVY CONTEST ---> It will be held on
17-18 May.
Details are
available at http://www.marinha.pt [TNX CT1CZT]
QSL 5R8FU ---> All direct cards have been sent out
as of 11 April.
John,
SM5DJZ anticipates he will not be able to answer
future QSLs until
early
August because of his work commitments.
QSL 5T5SN ---> Nicolas Sinieokoff, 5T5SN
(www.qsl.net/5t5sn) reports
that his
QSL manager is IZ1BZV (not F5RUQ, as reported in
425DXN #618). Cards
should
be sent to Giorgio Tabilio, P.O. Box 95, 19100 La
Spezia - SP, Italy.
QSL CL9C ---> Al Bailey, K8SIX is the QSL manager for
CL9C. The
artwork has
not been received yet, please be patient as it will
take some time to
print
the cards. Al is also the QSL manager for CO2OJ.
QSL PX5E ---> The QSL route is direct only via
VE3HO. The recent
PX5E
operator was PP5JR [425DXN 622] from ZX5J contest
location.
QSL ST2X ---> Gerben, PA5NT, reports that all direct
cards for ST2X
have been
answered. Those who worked him on all the 7 bands
that were activated
will
receive a special award.
QSL JY8WW ---> Mark Demeuleneere, ON4WW operated as
JY8WW in March
2003.
Direct cards were expected to be mailed this week,
other contacts have
been
confirmed automatically via bureau.
QSL VIA UA9OBA ---> Yuri Zaruba, UA9OBA reports that
all of the direct
QSLs
for the 16 April-2 May 2001 DXpedition to "The Lost
Islands" - namely
RI0B
(AS-156), RU0B (AS-057), RS0B (AS-042), RU0B/p
(AS-050), RS0B/p
(AS-068) and
R3CA/0 (AS-005) - were answered by RW3GW and
UA9OBA himself in
2002.
Remaining QSOs were confirmed automatically via
bureau. Those who
still need
a direct card, should send their request to UA9OBA
(Yuri V. Zaruba,
P.Box 1,
Novosibirsk-92, 630092, Russia). Do not enclose USD or
EUR, use IRCs
instead
and note that 1 IRC covers air mail postage up to 20
grams.
ST2CF ---> Claudio, IV3OWC logged some 30,000 QSOs
during his recent
activity
from Sudan. Logs are expected to be available soon
at
http://www.irae2.com
[TNX IV3OWC]
THE LOST ISLANDS VIDEO ---> The professionally
produced "Lost Islands"
video
was presented for the first time at the RSGB
International HF &
IOTA
Convention back in October 2002. Copies are now
available in either
PAL and
NTSC versions and can be ordered at
www.nsiradio.com. The
expedition to
Ushakova and Uyedineniya (RI0B and RU0B) was awarded
the IOTA Trophy
for the
Most Courageous IOTA DXpedition in 2001.
WARD AWARD ---> The WARD (World Amateur Radio Day)
Award
commemorates the
World Amateur Radio Day celebrated by IARU on 18
April each year. The
award
is sponsored by MK QTC (the Polish Amateur Radio
Journal) with the
Polish
Amateur Radio Union's support, and it is issued to
licenced amateurs
and SWLs
for contacts made/heard between 00.00 and 24 UTC on
18 April. For
further
information please e-mail Sylwester Jarkiewicz, SP2FAP
at [email protected]
+ SILENT KEY + Claus Stehlik, OE6CLD reports the sad
new of the
passing of
Selim, OE6EEG on 30 March after a long illness.
Selim, who also
held a
Sudanese callsign, was known for his DXpeditions (for
instance to
Abu-Ail in
1979) as well as for his activity on the European DX
Net.
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
CT BY K1EA: Ken Wolff, K1EA has announced that his
popular contest
logging
software (CT) is now freeware. The web
site where to
download
the programme is at http://www.k1ea.com
LOGS: The first logs for VK9XI are
now available
at
http://www.qsl.net/vk4cp/vk9xi/logbook.htm
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QSLs received direct: 3G1A (SA-069), 3W2FM, 5A1A,
5R8FU (AF-013),
5T5PBV,
5U7JK, 5X1DC, 5X1DC, 7Q7LA, 6W1RD, 7Q7LA, 9K2F,
9K2USA, 9L1BTB,
9M2/G4ZFE,
9S1X, 9V1YC, 9X/ON4WW, A61AJ, A71MA, A92ZE,
AC4LN/HR2, AC4LN/J3,
AC5ML/p
(NA-168), BD4ED, BQ9P (AS-110), C6AGN, C98RF, CE6M
(SA-061), CN8LI,
CP6XE,
CT9DLH, CY0MM (NA-063), D2BB, D44TD, D4B, DP1POL,
DS2GOO/4 (AS-093),
DS3EXX,
DS5XEH/4 (AS-148), EK3SA, EL2WW, EP6KI (AS-166),
ER1LW, EZ8CQ,
FG/F6FXS,
FG5FR, FK8HZ, FM5BH, FS/KF2HC, FY5KE, FY5LS, HC2SL,
HH4/K4QD,
HH4/K9MDO,
HH4/N2WB, HH4/W4WX, HH6/DL7CM, HH6/DM2AYO,
HI3/OK2ZU, HK5QGX,
HP3XUG,
HS0/OZ1HET, J75EA, J75ET, J75KG, J75WP, J75ZH,
JW0HU, JY0HU,
JY9QJ, K8O
(OC-077), K8T (OC-045), KH7X, KM9D/KH8 (OC-200),
KP2D, L65W (SA-065),
L99D,
LU1ZA (AN-008), LU1ZV, LX/PA6Z, LX7I, MJ/K3PLV,
MU0FAL, N4BQW/KH9,
N7OU/HI9,
OA4/DL3JRM (SA-052), OA4O, OD5/OK1MU, OH0/W3UR, OX3LG
(NA-220), OY3QN,
OY9JD,
P3A, P40TA (SA-036), PJ2K, PJ2T, PJ7/ND5S, PX2I
(SA-028), PY0FF,
PY2XB/PY0F,
R1ANC, R1ANF, RV2FW, S9MX, ST2X, SU9BN, SV9CVY, T77C,
TI5/K7AR, TI5N,
TU2IG,
TY3M, UN7EG, UN7MO, UY0CA, V25WX, V26FM (NA-100),
V26WP (NA-100),
V31YN,
V44KJ, V47KP, VK6LC/4 (OC-138), VP2MCV, VP2MEA,
VP2MET, VP2MPA,
VP2MWM,
VP2MWP, VQ9LA, VR2KW, VR2MY, VS5RG, VU2PCD,
VU2TMP, WP3R, XP1AB,
XT2SX,
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