[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #610

Mike ZooLoo [email protected]
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:31:54 -0800 (PST)


   11 January 2003                                    
           No 
610
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7Q      - Allan, G0IAS reports that Harry, 7Q7HB  will
be active from  
Malawi
           for some other eight weeks, while Les,
7Q7LA will be active 
from 14
           January for about three  months (looking
this  time to give  
people
           the chance of QSOs on 30  metres). QSL for
both stations via  
G0IAS
           (direct only).
A4      - Marco, IV3NCC is  active as  A4/IV3NCC from 
Oman for  a 
couple  of
           months. He hopes  to operate soon  on the
low  bands. QSL 
via  home
           call.
CE      - Fernando, XQ5SM says he will not be  part of
the CE6M team 
that  is
           going to Mocha Island (SA-061) [425DXN 
607]. The operation 
is  now
           scheduled to take place on 15-20  January.
The operators 
will  work
           SSB (on +/-  28510, 24950, 21250,  18145,
14275,  7085, 
7150,  3690
           KHz) during the first four days  and will
concentrate on CW 
on  the
           19-20th.    Latest    information    will  
 be    published     
at
          
http://www.geocities.com/ce6ne/Mocha_Island. QSL to 
P.O. 
Box  591,
           Temuco, Chile. [TNX CE6NE]
CX      - The CV1F activity from San Gabriel Island
(SA-057) [425DXN 
607]  is
           now scheduled to take place on 10-15
January. The operators 
will be
           CX1CV, CX1ABC, CX1SI,  CX2FR, CX2AM, CX3CE,
 CX3AN, CX4CR,  
CX4AAE,
           CX4AAJ, CX8FB and LU2NI. They will  be
active on 160-2 
metres  SSB,
           CW, PSK31 and RTTY if possible. QSL via
EA5KB. [TNX CX2AM]
FG      - Jack, F6HMJ/TO2FG [425DXN 603] will be
active (on 20 metres 
SSB and
           CW) as TO2FG/p from Marie Galante  (NA-102,
DIFO FG-008) for 
a  few
           hours on 11 January, starting around 13
UTC. QSL via home 
call. The
           DIFO web page is at
http://www.qsl.net/f5nod/difo.html
           [TNX F5NQL]
I       - Special call II1D will be aired by Carlo,
IZ1CCE and others  
during
           2003 to celebrate the European Year of the
Disabled. QSL via 
IZ1CCE
           either direct (Carlo Sobrito, Via I Maggio
9, 10051 
Avigliana - TO,
           Italy) or through the bureau. [TNX IZ1CCE]
KH9     - Chuck Brady, N4BQW is  expected to operate 
as N4BQW/KH9 from  
Wake
           Island (OC-053) on 15-25  January. QSL
direct  to KB6NAN. 
[TNX  The
           Daily DX]
LU      - Look for Robert, 3A2MY to be signing
LU/3A2MY on 16-23 
January from
           Aconcagua, the highest peak (6959 metres
asl) in the Andes.  
Robert
           will use a home made  QRP transceiver (5 
watts) supplied by  
solar
           cells, and will operate  between 14280 and 
14290 kHz. 
Special  QSL
           via home call. [TNX F5NQL]
LU_ant  - Dominik, DL5EBE reports that LU1ZG from
"General Belgrano II"  
base
           (WABA LU-08, IOTA  AN-016), LU1ZD  from
"San  Martin" base  
(LU-11,
           AN-016)  and  LU1ZV  from  "Esperanza" 
base  (LU-06,  
AN-016)  are
           expected to be on 21365 kHz at 22 UTC as
follows: 
           LU1ZG      15 January  and  14 February
           LU1ZD      24 January  and  28 February
           LU1ZV      28 January  and  18 February
           In the meanwhile, operator  Jose is active 
as LU1ZA from  
"Orcadas
           del  Sur"  base  (WABA  LU-14)  on  Laurie 
Island,  South  
Orkneys
           (AN-008); he is QRV almost daily between 22
and 23 UTC on 15 
and 20
           metres.
P2      - Bernhard, DL2GAC/P29VMS is currently active 
as H44MS from  
Honiara
           (OC-047), Solomon Islands and on 13 January
he will go to 
Papua New
           Guinea. On 18 January he will leave Kavieng
(New Ireland  
Province)
           on board of a fishing vessel that  is due
to call at Nissan  
Island
           (OC-231), the Talun Islands (OC-???), the
Nuguria Islands  
(OC-???)
           and to return to Kavieng at  the end of
January. Bernhard 
does  not
           know how long the ship will stop at each
island, but he 
hopes to be
           able to operate for 1-2 days from some of
these islands. 
These will
           be battery powered and solar recharged
operations, and IOTA 
chasers
           are invited to work him only once per
island. QSL via 
DL2GAC.  [TNX
           DL2GAC]
PJ      - Lee Reisenweber, VP2VE  will be active  as
PJ5/K3RGD  on all  
bands
           from St. Eustatius (NA-145) from 10 January
to 10 February. 
QSL via
           WA2NHA. Skeds may  be arranged  using
[email protected]  with 
a  very
           short message (1 line - 75 characters).
[TNX VP2VE]
ST      - Gerben, PA5NT will be active as ST2X from
Khartoum, Sudan on  
20-28
           January. He will operate on 40-10  metres
mainly CW with 
some  SSB,
           activity on 80 and 6 metres will depending
on local 
conditions. QSL
           via PA5NT (Gerben A. Menting,
Waezenburglaan 104, 9351 HG 
Leek, The
           Netherlands). More information at
http://dx.to/ (log search 
will be
           available during the operation). [TNX
PA5NT]
VK      - Look for VK7KHZ/P to be active  (on 10, 12,
15,  17 and 20  
metres)
           from Bruny  Island  (OC-233)  on  19-22 
January.  QSL  via  
EA7FTR
           (Francisco Lianez  Suero,  Asturias 23, 
21110  Aljaraque,  
Huelva,
           Spain). [TNX EA7FTR]
VP8_ant - Micky is currently QRV from VP8ROT, 
"Rothera" base (WABA 
G-07)  on
           Adelaide Island  (AN-001), Antarctica.  He
has  been active  
on  20
           metres between 2 and 5 UTC. QSL via GM0HCQ.
XY      - Hiroo, JA2EZD (XW2A) will be active  as XY1M
from Myanmar on  
14-29
           January. He plans to concentrate on 6
metres and the low 
bands. QSL
           via XW2A (Hiroo Yonezuka, P.O.Box 2659,
Vientiane, Laos). 
[TNX  The
           Daily DX]
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CAROLINA DX ASSOCIATION  ---> At  its annual  meeting
in  December 
2002,  the
Carolina DX  Association  (http://www.cdxa.org/)
elected  the  
following  new
officers for  2003:  Ted Goldthorpe,  W4VHF 
(President); Bob  Burton,  
N4PQX
(Vice-President); Jim Miller, K4SQR
(Secretary-Treasurer); Joe 
Simpkins, K4MD
(Cluster Manager); John Scott, K8YC (Newsletter
Editor). [TNX K8YC]

DARC  10M  CONTEST  --->  The  DARC  HF  Contest 
Committee  invites  
you  to
participate in the DARC 10M  Contest (CW and  SSB) to
be  held on 12  
January
from 9  UTC  through 10.59  UTC  (two hours  only). 
Rules can  be  
found  at
http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/fedcz.htm [TNX DL8WAA]

DUCIE ISLAND ---> In early March the operators for the
second Ducie 
operation
will leave the Gambier Islands (French  Polynesia) via
boat for 
Pitcairn  and
then Ducie. Several more operators will  be welcome,
particularly one 
who  is
CW competent. Some SSB and  RTTY experience will  be
helpful. 
Interested  and
experienced operators can contact Stu, WA2MOE
([email protected]) 
with  a
brief outline of experience.

HR5/F2JD ---> Gerard, HR5/F2JD  has logged 5200+  QSO
so far  (he will 
be  in
Honduras until early March) and hopes  to put up an 
antenna for 160  
metres.
Jean-Michel, F6AJA has received the first batch of
logs. If you want to 
check
your QSO, send  an e-mail  to [email protected]  (put
your  callsign 
in  the
subject line). [TNX F6AJA]

K1BV DX AWARDS DIRECTORY ---> The 2003 Edition
features hundreds of  
changes,
especially from the  European countries  that adopted 
the Euro  as a  
common
currency last  year, as  well as  over 150  new
awards.  Ted has  
prepared  a
special page on his website which gives a better
description of the  
changes:
http://www.dxawards.com/2003edition.htm

NOT THE MANAGER ---> Please note that DJ7DZ is not the
QSL manager for  
Yuri,
UA9SP. [TNX UA6JD]

QSL HK3CW ---> Mike, W2GR reports he is now handling
*direct* cards 
only  for
Rob, HK3CW. QSL to Mike Benjamin, 1064 99th Street,
Niagara Falls, NY  
14304,
USA. Bureau cards should go to HK3CW.

QSL 9U5D & 9Q0AR ---> Leif, SM5BFJ reports that "the
Swedish Post 
Office  has
raised the  postage to  a level  that 1$  is not 
enough to  cover my  
return
postage". If you still need a QSL card, "please 2$ or
1 IRC".

QSL LX/PA6Z --->  Bert, PA1KW reports  that the QSL 
cards for the  
September
2002 operation from Luxembourg are going  to be sent
out  in the next  
coming
weeks.

QSL R1ANC --->  Please note that  cards for R1ANC 
from Vostok  base 
are  via
DL5EBE, while cards for Alan's (UA1PAC) portable
operations should be 
sent to
Alan V. Kuz'menko, P.O. Box  88, Amderma, 166744, 
Russia. Alan is  
currently
active as R1ANC/p  from Lake Vostok  until 15 January;
 he also  plans 
to  be
active as KC4/UA1PAC from McMurdo base  and as
ZL3/UA1PAC from  
Christchurch,
New Zealand for a few days in late January. [TNX
UA1AKE]

QSL RU0SYL ---> Nadia, RU0SYL operates on 10, 15 and
20 metres from 
near  the
city of Bratsk,  Zone 18. Her  QSL manager  is UA0SE 
(Serge Karpov,  
P.O.Box
5247, Angarsk 665819, Russia). [TNX UA0SE]

QSL V63RE & V63WN ---> Bewteen Christmas  and the New
Year Nando, 
IT9YRE  was
hospitalized and had to  undergo two operations. 
Nando is slowly  
recovering
and expects to leave the hospital very soon, but he is
still extremely  
weak.
Gaetano, IT9GAI  is helping  him with  the QSL cards,
and  the two  are 
doing
their best to send out the cards so that they reach
their destination 
in time
for the IOTA Honour Roll annual update.

QSL VIA N9NU ---> Tim is the QSL manager  for KH6XT
(not KH6X as 
reported  in
425DXN 610). He apologizes for any inconvenience this
may have caused. 
Online
logs are available at
http://www.n9nu.net/logsearch/logsearch.html

QSL VIA  UA4WHX  ---> Vladimir,  UA4WHX/AC4LN 
apologizes for  the  
delay  in
answering the  QSL  requests for  his  summer
operations  (V31BV,  
TG4/AC4LN,
TG4/UA4WHX, YS1/AC4LN, AC4LN/HR2, AC4LN/HR1, H7/AC4LN,
AC4LN/TI2,  
HP8/AC4LN,
HP1/AC4LN, AC4LN/6Y5, HI8/AC4LN, AC4LN/HH2, 9Y4/AC4LN,
8R1/AC4LN,  
8P9/AC4LN,
8P9BV, J6/AC4LN, J73/AC4LN, J8/AC4LN, AC4LN/J3). The 
QSLs have been  
printed
but their quality was so low that the whole order had
to be placed 
again, and
this might take  an extra while.  If you are 
interested in  knowing if  
your
QSL(s) has/have  been received,  please drop  Vladimir

([email protected]  or
[email protected]) a note with the call and the date/time
of the QSO(s). 
QSL  to
Vladimir M. Bykov, P.O. Box 2040, Izhevsk 426000,
Russia. [TNX UA4WHX]

WORLD LIGHTHOUSE AWARD  ---> Developed by  F5OGG,
F5SKJ,  F6DGT, 
F-17511  and
W9DC, the  World  Lighthouse Award  (WLH)  is
available  to  either  
licenced
amateurs and  SWLs for  confirmed contacts  made  with
valid  WLH  
lighthouse
expeditions since 1 July 1997. Further information,
including the WLH 
list of
valid lighthouses, is available at
http://wlh.online.fr [TNX F5OGG]
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CQ CALLBOOK: Oleg N.  Silkin, RA3DCT  is the  author
of  a shareware  
logging
              software ("CQ Log") and a new  programme
called "CQ 
Callbook"  -
              please  visit  
http://www.cqlog.com/cqcallbk/cqcallbk.html   for
              further information
CT1EEB:      Pictures and short  stories from Jose's, 
CT1EEB (aka 
4W6EB  and
              VK8CS) operations are available at 
http://www.qsl.net/ct1eeb
I QRP CLUB:  The  new web site for the I(taly) QRP
Club is up and 
running  at
              http://www.arimontebelluna.it [TNX
I3FFE]
LICENCES:    The worldwide  licensing  information 
pages  by  Veikko  
"Veke"
              Komppa, OH2MCN 
(http://www.qsl.net/oh2mcn/license.htm)  
contain
              detailed and  up to  date  information
on  how  to get  a  
radio
              amateur license  in 250+  countries.
Latest  changes 
regard  C5,
              5Z4, 9V1, V85, 9M and VK.
LOGS:        The C53M & C56R logs are now available at

http://dx.qsl.net [TNX
              OH9MM]
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CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER     CALL  
     MANAGER
===================================================================
3C5XA       G3XAQ       D88S        DS4CNB     
PJ2/W0CG    N9AG
3G5A        XQ5SM       E20AJ       HB9AOF (a)  PT2ZAW
     OK1FWQ
3W2XK       W9XK        E20AJ       HS7AHV (b)  R1ANB 
     RU1ZC
4L1MA       ON4RU       ED6FAN      EA6ZX       S21YY 
     JM1HXU
4L4L        TA9I        EM0U        UT3UZ       S9SS  
     N4JR
4W6MM       TF3MM       EU6MM       IK2QPR      T88HA 
     JK1FNN
5R8FU       SM5DJZ      EW8AF       DL8KAC      T97M  
     K2PF
5R8GZ       G3SWH       EX0V        N6FF        TF3CW 
     LX1NO
5U7JB       ON5NT       EY1HQ       DJ1MM       TL8CK 
     F6EWM
5W1/VK2GND  VK2GND      FK8KAB/P    FK8AH       TO2FG 
     F6HMJ
5W1SA       JH7OHF      FK8VHY      F8CMT       TP3CE 
     F5LGF
6J3D        XE3D        FP5EJ       K2RW        UA0AZ 
     W3HNK
7X5AB       F6BFH       GB2COS      G7BQY       UE4HNY
     UA4HUR
7Z1AB       KN4F        GN4SIW      GI4FUM      UK8FC 
     RW6HS
7Z2AB       K1SE        H2G         5B4AGC      UN7MO 
     EA7FTR
7Z5OO       W1AF        H44MS       DL2GAC      UU9CW 
     KD5RBU
9H1EL       LA2TO       HF55KAB     SP5KAB      V31JP 
     KA9WON
9H3UW       G3RJQ       HG2HNY      HA2NC       V51HK 
     DL6OBS
9J2BO       G3TEV       HS0ZCW      K4VUD       V73MJ 
     JF1NZW
9K2ZZ       W8CNL       HZ1AB       K8PYD       VP2EY 
     HB9SL
9N7AS       JH3PAS      HZ1HZ       N7RO        VP2VE 
     WA2NHA
9N7WU       JA8MWU      IY4FGM      IK4UPU      VP5NN 
     NN6NN
9N7YJ       LA5YJ       J79BEY      G1SSL       VQ9CJ 
     VQ9X
A45WD       YO9HP       J79SSL      G1SSL       VQ9DT 
     VQ9X
A71AW       W3HNK       JD1YBJ      JH1EFP      XT2HB 
     F5RLE
AH2K/KH0    JE8KKX      JT9BH       JT1BH       XV9NA 
     JE1JKL
AT0NG       VU2JOS      JW0HU       SP3WVL      YA1BV 
     JA1PBV
B7K         W2AY        JY9QJ       DL5MBY      YA1JA 
     JA1CQT
BA7NQ       W2AY        KH0/KB9LQG  SP5EWX      YC4VD 
     LZ1YE
BD7NQ       W2AY        LU1ZA       LU4DXU      YR500 
     YO9KPD
C21HC       DL9HCU      LX/PB5CW    PA1TO       YR9P  
     YO9HP
C31LJ       VE3GEJ      N8Z         WZ8D       
YS1/N4BP    N4BP
CB4Y        CE4FXY      N9N         KG9N        YS2ZKK
     DK2KK
CE2LZR      EA5KB       NA7DB/HP4   NA7DB       YS3VE 
     N3TUK
CE2SQE      EA5KB       OH0B        OH2BH       Z22JE 
     KZ5RO
CE3N        CE3NR       OH0R        OH2PM       Z33Z  
     DJ0LZ
CN2MK       DL3APO      OP0GS       ON5GK       ZC4VG 
     G0UVX
CO2CI       WD4OIN      OR3T        ON4UN       ZD7DP 
     W1ZT
CO6XN       HK6DOS      OY4TN       ON5UR      
ZL1/PA3GIO/p PA3GIO
CP4BT       EA5KB       P29KPH      K5YG        ZL5CP 
     AI3P
CP6AA       IK6SNR      P3F         5B4AGN     
ZS7/ZS4AGA  DL5EBE (c) 
CP6XE       IK6SNR      P40AV       K4AVQ      
ZS7/ZS4AGA  ZS4A (d)
CV1F        EA5JB       P49MR       VE3MR       ZW1NE 
     PY1NE

(a) direct only
(b) bureau
(c) E-Base (WABA ZS-04)
(d) SANAE IV (WABA ZS-03)
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AP2IA   Ijaz Akram, 5 Haroon Road, Saroba Gardens,
17KM Ferozpur Road, 
Lahore
         54760, Pakistan
DJ0LZ   Ace Jevremov, P.O. Box 14, D-82378
Peissenberg, Germany
DL5EBE  Dominik Weiel, Johannes-Meyer-Str. 13, D -
49808 Lingen, 
Germany
DS4CNB  Lee Dae Ryung, P.O Box 30, Tongyung 650-600,
South Korea
JA8MWU  Kazunori Abe, 12-5-9, 7-Jyo, Kagura,
Asahikawa, 070-8007 Japan
JE8KKX  Nozomu Takahashi, 2-5 5-chome 18-jo Toko,
Asahikawa, Hokkaido,
         078-8358 Japan
LU8VCC  Alejandro Rocca, Calle 217 Bis 1128, 8332
General Roca, Rio 
Negro,
         Argentina
PA3GIO  Bert vd Berg, Parklaan 38, NL-3931 KK
Woudenberg, The 
Netherlands
SM5DJZ   Jan Hallenberg, Vassunda Andersberg, SE-741
91 Knivsta, Sweden
UA3CS   Serge A. Ivanov, Ul. Vokzalnaya D.11 Kv.25,
Zavety Il'icha, 
141254,
         Pushkino, Moskovskaya Obl., Russia
UA4HUR  Eugene Vihanov, P.O. Box 1228, Togliatti,
445032, Russia
VA7DZ   Eric Manning, 2909 Phyllis Street, Victoria,
BC V8N 1Y8, Canada
YO9HP   Alex Panoiu, Pleasa, Prahova RO-2038, Romania

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