[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #609

Mike ZooLoo [email protected]
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:21:53 -0800 (PST)


   3 January 2003                                     
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

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the  425 DX News  
Index
for  2002   can  be   downloaded  in   either  .pdf  
or  .doc   
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http://www.425dxn.org
The deadline for the 425 DX News DXCC  Most Wanted
Survey is 6 January  
2003.
If you want to participate, please go to 
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3C     - Alan, G3XAQ  reports  he  will  be  visiting 
Malabo,  Bioco  
Island
          (AF-010), Equatorial Guinea on 9-21 January 
and expects to  
operate
          on 160-10 metres,  with an emphasis  on the
low  bands CW.  
Callsign
          3C5XA has been requested. QSL direct to
G3XAQ.
9G     - Arno, DL1CW and  Andy, DL3GA plan  to be
active  from Ghana on  
5-18
          February. Requested calls are 9G5AP (DL1CW)
and 9G5GA 
(DL3GA);  they
          will operate on  10-80 metres (hopefully  on
6 metres  as 
well)  CW,
          RTTY and some  SSB. Participation in  the
WPX  RTTY and  ARRL 
DX  CW
          Contests is also being planned. [TNX DL3GA]
C6     - Bill, KM1E (C6AGN) will be active  on 160-6
metres from the  
Bahamas
          from 4 January to 4 March. QSL via W1DIG.
[TNX The Daily DX] 
D4     - Al, 4L5A will participate in the following
contests as D4B 
from Cape
          Verde:
          CQ 160 Meter CW            24-26 January   
single operator
          ARRL International DX CW   15-16 February  
SOAB HP or single 
band
          CQ 160 Meter SSB           21-23 February  
single operator
          ARRL International DX SSB  1-2 March       
SOAB HP or single 
band
          Further information at
http://www.qsl.net/d44tt [TNX NG3K]
DU     - Chris, VK3FY/DU8 has been on Mindanao
(OC-130) since 26 
December and
          planned to be active on  and off from  an
island in  OC-235 
as of  1
          January for some ten days. Day operations
will be from 8 to 
18 local
          time, but there  is a possibility  of an 
overnight stay.  
Due to  a
          sensitive  local  situation,  this 
operation  could  be  
terminated
          without notice.  QSL  via  EA7JX.  The 
Contact  Point  for  
further
          information  is  Stuie,  VK8NSB 
([email protected]).  [TNX   
OPDX
          Bulletin]
F      - Fabrice/F5NBQ, Bertrand/F6HKA and
Jean-Louis/F5UJK will be 
active as
          F5NBQ/P from Oleron Island (EU-032) on 
25-27 January, 
including  an
          entry in the CQ WW 160 Meter CW DX Contest.
[TNX The Daily 
DX]
HC     - Andy Stchislenok, NP3D will be active (on all
HF bands plus 6 
metres
          SSB and CW) as HC1/NP3D from Ecuador on
22-27 January, 
including  an
          entry in the CQ 160 Meter CW Contest. QSL
via W3HNK. [TNX 
NG3K]
HI     - John, F5VHQ  (ex  OE5TGL) will  operate  (on
40-10  metres  
SSB)  as
          F5VHQ/HI9 from the Dominican Republic
(NA-096) on 16-24 
January. QSL
          via home call either direct or through the
bureau. [TNX 
F5VHQ]
HR     - Wayne, K9YNF  reports he  will be  active as 
K9YNF/HR9 from  
Roatan
          Island (NA-057) on 11-18 January. He will
operate SSB only on 
14260,
          18128, 24950, 28460  and 28560  +/- QRM. 
QSL via  home call  
either
          direct or through the bureau.
JD1_og - Fukushige, JM6DZB will  be working on  Iwo
Jima (AS-030),  
Ogasawara
          Islands until the end of 2003.  He plans to
operate as 
JM6DZB/JD1 on
          80, 40 and 15 metres SSB during  his free
time.  QSL via  
home call,
          preferably through the bureau. [TNX JI3DST]
UA     - Eugene, UA4HUR will be celebrating the  new
year as UE4HNY 
until  15
          January.  QSL  via  home  call  (Eugene 
Vihanov,  P.O.  Box   
1228,
          Togliatti, 445032, Russia). [TNX RU4HP]
UT     - Special event station EM60USB will be active
from 23 January 
through
          2 February  to commemorate  the 60th 
anniversary of  the 
Battle  of
          Stalingrad. QSL via UT5UKY either  direct
(Vladimir 
Prikhodko,  P.O.
          Box 54, Kiev 04213, Ukraine) or through the
bureau. [TNX 
UT5UKY]
V3     - Art Phillips, NN7A, will  operate as V31JZ/p 
from South Water  
Caye
          (NA-180), Belize  on 17-20  January. NA-180 
was activated  
for  the
          first time  by  Art  himself and  Mike 
Sharp,  NG7S/V31RL  
back  in
          February, 1993. This will be a  part-time
one-person 
operation  with
          100 watts, vertical and wire antennas. Art
will operate 
mostly CW on
          40-10 metres, WARC bands included, with some
80m and 160m. 
Some  SSB
          on 20 and 15 metres is possible, conditions
permitting. QSL 
via NN7A
          either direct (Art Phillips, P.O. Box 201,
Flagstaff, AZ 
86002, USA)
          or through the bureau. [TNX NN7A]
V3     - Gisela, DK9GG and Gerd, DJ4KW will  be active
(CW and SSB) as  
V31GW
          and V31YN  from  Belize from  9  January
until  25  February.  
On  8
          February thry will be joined  by Frank,
DL2SWW  and Gabi, 
DG2TM  (V3
          calls not known) and the four  plan to
operate from NA-073 on  
21-23
          February. QSL via home calls. [TNX DL2VFR]
VE     - Gerald/VE2ACP, Gervais/VE2UE and 
Steve/VE2TKH will  be active  
from
          Zone 2  on 14-17  January. Gerald  and
Gervais  plan to  
operate  as
          VO2UE, while Steve expects to use  either
VE2TKH/VO2 or, if 
he  gets
          it in time, VO2ZT. This will  be a generator
and battery  
operation,
          with a G5RV and vertical antennas on most HF
bands, mostly 
SSB  with
          some CW. QSL VO2UE via VE2ACP, QSL
VE2TKH/VO2 (or VO2ZT) via 
VE2TKH.
          Further information will  be available at  
http://www.qsl.net/ve2tkh
          [TNX NG3K]
VP6    - Ed, W2SN  reports he  will operate  as  VP6EM
from  Pitcairn  
Island
          (OC-044) on  4 February,  between 17.00  and
23.59  UTC, on  
10,  15
          and/or 20 metres SSB, depending on
propagation. QSL via home 
call.
VP6_duc- JR2KDN, FO3BM, VP6AZ,  VP6DB, VP6MW and 
other operators from  
Japan
          expect to be active (on 10-160  metres CW,
SSB and RTTY) from  
Ducie
          Island (OC-182) for one week starting around
8 March. [TNX 
The Daily
          DX]
VR2    - Terry, VE7TLL  plans to  operate as 
VR2/VE7TLL from  Lantau  
Island
          (AS-006), Hong Kong between 30 January and
10 February. This 
is  not
          a DXpedition, but he  will try to  be as
active  as possible 
on  the
          usual IOTA frequencies. [TNX VE7TLL]
W      - The Marconi  Radio Club  (W1AA) and  the
Marconi  Cape Cod  
Memorial
          Radio Club (KM1CC)  will operate a  special
event  station on  
11-19
          January to celebrate  the 100th anniversary 
of Guglielmo  
Marconi's
          first wireless transmission  between the
United  States and  
Europe.
          Operations will take place  from the former 
Coast Guard 
station  at
          Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts,
 from near the 
site  of
          the   original    Marconi   1903    station.
  For    details    
see
          http://personal.tmlp.com/k1vv/w1aa [TNX
K1VV]
W      - Look for Bob, W2SF/p to be active  (on SSB,
CW and RTTY) from  
Lower
          Matecumbe Key (USI FL-062S) in the Florida
Keys (NA-062) 
until June.
          QSL via home call, either direct or through
the bureau. [TNX 
VA3RJ]
ZK2    - Bert, PA3GIO will be active  as ZK2GI from 
Niue Island 
(OC-040)  on
          approximately 18-26 January. He will operate
SSB only with 
100 watts
          and a Doublet antenna. QSL via PA3GIO,
preferably through the 
bureau
          (e-mail requests for bureau cards are 
welcome at 
[email protected],  no
          attachments and  no eQSLs  please). Direct 
QSLs  to Bert  vd  
Berg,
          Parklaan 38, NL-3931 KK  Woudenberg, The
Netherlands. The web  
pages
          for   the   operation   are   at   
http://www.pa3gio.nl/ZK2GI/   and
          http://www.qsl.net/pa3gio/ZK2GI/ [TNX
PA3GIO]
ZL     - Bert, PA3GIO  will be  active as 
ZL1/PA3GIO/p from  Waiheke  
Island
          (OC-201) on 10 January only. QSL via PA3GIO,
preferably 
through  the
          bureau  (e-mail   requests  for   bureau  
cards  are   
welcome   at
          [email protected], no attachments  and no eQSLs 
please). The web  
pages
          for   the    operation   are    at  
http://www.pa3gio.nl/ZL/    
and
          http://www.qsl.net/pa3gio/ZL/ [TNX PA3GIO]
ZS     - Members of the Vaal Triangle ARC will operate
as ZS90SAP on 
80,  40,
          20, 10  and 6  metres  through 31  December 
to celebrate  
the  90th
          anniversary of the South African Police 
Service. QSL via 
bureau  or
          direct to ZS6ZYM (Jan Swanepoel, P.O.  Box
14393, Zuurfontein  
1912,
          South Africa). [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

NOT THE MANAGER ---> Please note that K4SXT is not the
QSL manager for 
A92GE.

PIRATE ---> W2FB is not the QSL manager for EL2FB:
"This is what the 
operator
was signing", The Daily DX reports, "so the November
operations of 
EL2FB must
have been that of a pirate".

QSL ARRL 10M  CONTEST ---> Ferdi,  XQ5SM reports that 
the following  
special
calls were used during the latest ARRL 10 Meter
Contest (14-15 
December):
CE3N (ops. CE3NR and CE4PBB), QSL via CE3NR
CB4Y (ops. CE4FXY and CE4USW), QSL via CE4FXY
3G5A (op. XQ5SM), QSL via XQ5SM.

QSL HZ1HZ ---> Due to a regrettable oversight, Leo
Fry, K8PYD has been 
listed
as the QSL manager for HZ1HZ (425DXN #608). Please
note that the 
correct  QSL
route is (and  has been  since 1984)  via Dick  Moen,
N7RO  (while Leo  
still
manages HZ1AB only). We apologize for any
inconvenience this may have  
caused
our readers.

QSL UK8FC ---> Vasil, RW6HS report that DK6CW "is not
and has never 
been" the
QSL manager for Gena, UK8FC. QSL cards are still to
sent to RW6HS 
himself.

QSL VE2/ & VY0/W2NTJ ---> In 2002 Jack, W2NTJ only
operated as VE2/ 
from  his
cabin a few miles north of Chibougamau, and as VY0/
from North Twin 
Island in
Hudson Bay.  All DX  cluster  spots indicating  NA-159
 were wrong.  
Jack  is
expected to mail his logs to VE3LYC over the next few
days. [TNX 
VE3LYC]

QSL VIA N9NU ---> Tim  is the QSL  manager for KH6X, 
9K2AI and, 
effective  1
February    2003,     YB0GJS.     Online    logs    
are     available     
at
http://www.n9nu.net/logsearch/logsearch.html.   QSL  
either   direct    
(Tim
Dickerson, 900 Vincent Drive, Sandwich, IL 60548, USA)
or through the 
bureau.
[TNX N9NU]

WABA DIRECTORY --->  The Diamond DX  Club reports that
 the new WABA  
(Worked
Antarctic Bases Award) Directory 2003 is  now
available for free  
downloading
as .pdf document [425DXN 598] on  the club's web site 

(http://www.ddxc.net).
The WABA Directory 2003  includes a 12-page  revised
Antarctic bases  
listing
(with corrections, integrations and a new column for
IOTA reference  
numbers)
as well as  a new section  (6 pages) for  historical
notes.  [TNX 
Diamond  DX
Club]

ZK3 ---> Someone recently circulated the information
that Mario, IZ8DBJ 
would
operate as ZK3DJ from a Tokelau  new IOTA on 1-8
February.  This is not  
true
and Mario cannot explain where the news originated
from. He and other 
Italian
operators are  actually planning  an activity  from an
 IOTA new  one,  
which
obviously cannot be Tokelau (OC-048); further
information will be given  
only
if and when their plans are firm. [TNX IZ8DBJ]
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

LOGS:           Online  logs  for   William,  ST0F 
have   been  
updated   at
                
http://www.zs4tx.co.za/logs/st0f_logsearch.html   [TNX
   
The
                 Daily DX]
OC-252:         A photo  gallery from  YC9BU's
operation  from Temaju  
Island
                 (OC-252) is available at
www.mdxc.org/oc-252 [TNX 
IZ8CCW]
TOP DXPEDITION: Gil, F5NOD reports that the Top  DX
Expedition page has  
been
                 updated at
www.qsl.net/f5nod/topdxexpe.html
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QSLs received direct:  3D2CY, 3E500CWB, 3XA8DX, 
3XY7C, 4K6DI, 4L1UN,  
5H1HS,
5K0Z (NA-033), 5W0IR,  5Z4DZ, 7X2RO,  8P9HT, 9H1ZA, 
9J2BO, 9K2/KM5FY,  
9M6NA
(OC-133),9S1X, 9U0X, A22BP,  A25/DJ6SI, A61AJ, AP2ARS,
 AP2IA, C56RF,  
C91RF,
C98RF, CE0Y/DM5TI,  D4B,  DU1/N6HPX,  EA4DX/HK0 
(NA-049),  ED5TII  
(EU-093),
ER1LW, EY8/F5CW, FG/DJ6SI,  FG5FC, FO/I2YSB, FO0EEN, 
FO5RA, FO5RK  
(OC-051),
FR5ZQ/G, FT5ZH, FY5FY,  H44XX, HC8N,  HI8RV, HV5PUL, 
J3/N2GA, J37K,  
J48ALO,
J49HW (EU-015),  J49HW/P  (EU-187), J6/VK2IR,  JT1X, 
K1B,  KE7X/6Y5,  
KG4DX,
KH8/VK2IR, KP2/K3TEJ, KP2/OK1TN, KP3Z, LY2ZZ,
N6MZ/KH9, NP4Z, 
OD5/OK1MU, P3A,
P40E, P40P, PJ2/PA0VDV,  R16S, R1ANB,  R1ANZ, RA3NY/1,
 RI0CA, RI0CB,  
RK21Z,
RN3R, RW0BB/9, S07L,  TT8DX, TY4DX, TY9F,  TZ6VV,
UA0QMU/0, UA2BD,  
UA9MQR/1,
UE0OFF, UX0FF/P (EU-182),  V31OM, V51AS,  V63WN
(OC-253  and OC-254),  
V73CW,
V73GJ, VK9YL, VO2WL, VP2MKS, VP2VE, VP5/N5KW,
VP5/W5AO, VP5DX, VP5JM, 
XU7ACB,
XU7AN, XU7AUR (AS-133),  YI9OM, Z37M,  ZB2FK, ZC4DW, 
ZK1MA, ZK1TLA,  
ZK1XYL,
ZK1YRE (OC-159), ZK2MO.


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