[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #611

Mike ZooLoo [email protected]
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:29:26 -0800 (PST)


   18 January 2003                                    
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3B8     - Frank/DK7AO, Katrin/DL1AXL, Guenter/DL2AWG
and Peter/DL3APO 
will be
           active  as  3B8/DK7AO  from  Mauritius 
Island  (AF-049)  on   
9-15
           February. They will operate on 160-10
metres with two 
stations  and
           an emphasis on the low and WARC bands. QSL
via DL3APO. Logs 
will be
           available at http://www.radioklub.de/3b8
[TNX NG3K]
3B8     - Look for 3B8/ON4AME to be active (on all
bands SSB, CW and  
digital
           modes) from Mauritius Island (AF-049) on
9-22 March. [TNX 
SM7AED]
5X      - Babs, DL7AFS and Lot, DJ7ZG will be active
as 5X1DC from 
Uganda  on
           9-23 February.  QSL via  DL7AFS. Details 
on the  operation 
can  be
           found at http://www.qsl.net/dl7afs/ [TNX
DJ7ZG]
9A      - Daki/9A2WJ,  Emir/9A6AA,   Neno/9A7N,  
Fredy/DE0MST,   
Sven/DF9MV,
           Rug/DJ3XG, Dieter/DL1SDN, Mathias/DL5MFL 
and Chris/DL9CHR 
will  be
           active (on 10-80 metres SSB and CW) as
9A0CI and 
9A/homecall/p from
           Vela Palagruza  (EU-090,  IOCA  CI-084) 
and  lighthouse  
(LH-0057,
           CRO-012) between 2 and 10 May. Side trips
to the satellite  
islands
           of Mala Palagruza  (CI-461) and  Galijula
(CI-462)  are also  
being
           planned. QSL via DE0MST either direct
(Fredy Stippschild, 
P.O.  Box
           1406, D-83657 Lenggries, Germany) or
through the DARC 
bureau.  Maps
           and pictures can be found at
http://www.inet.hr/9a6aa [TNX 
9A6AA]
9Y      - Ben, DL6RAI and  Roberto, IV3IYH (aka 
IK2MRZ) will  be 
active  (on
           10-160 metres SSB,  CW and RTTY)  as
9Y4/DL6RAI  (QSL via  
DL6RAI),
           9Y4/IV3IYH (QSL via IK2ILH) from Tobago 
(SA-009) from 11  
February
           to 3 March, including entries in the ARRL
DX SSB and CW 
contests as
           9Y4TBG (QSL via DL4MEH). [TNX IV3IYH]
A4      - Marco, A4/IV3NCC reports  he and Younis, 
A41MA will  be 
active  as
           A4/IV3NCC/p and  A41MA/p  from  Suwadi 
Island  (AS-112)  
until  18
           January. QSL via home calls either direct
(Marco Tuniz, Via  
Savoia
           18, 34079 Staranzano  - GO,  Italy and 
Younis Albeloushi,  
P.O.Box
           1470, 111 Muscat, Oman) or through the
bureau.
CE      - CW operator CE6AKH has  not joined the  CE6M
team currently  
active
           from Mocha Island (SA-061). Plans were to
concentrate on CW  
during
           the last  two  days  on the  island 
[425DXN  610].  Marco,  
CE6TBN
           apologizes and says they "will be back in
the near future 
with  one
           CW operation".
CE      - Guillermo/XQ3SA, Axel/CE3AFC, Hector/CE3VII
and Felipe/CE3SAG  
will
           be active as XR6M from Mocha Island
(SA-061) on 5-9 
February.  This
           activity will  be entirely  devoted to  6 
metres (50110  
kHz)  and
           satellites  (AO-40,  AO-7,   UO-14,  RS-15 
 and  AO-27).   
Further
           information at http://www.qsl.net/xr6m [TNX
XQ3SA]
DL_ssh  - DP1ANF is the callsign issued by the German
licencing  
authorithies
           to be used by Oleg, R1ANF from the Eduard
Dallmann 
Laboratory (WABA
           DL-NEW), located on King George  Island,
South Shetlands  
(AN-010).
           Activity might start  at the beginning  of
February.  Oleg 
is  also
           planning to operate  from the Teniente 
Ballve refuge of  
Argentina
           on Ardley Island, South Shetlands(AN-010)in
about one or two 
weeks.
           QSL via RK1PWA. [TNX DL5EBE]
DU      - Vlad, UX2VZ  reports that  Oleg, UT2VU  is
active  again from  
Cebu
           Island (OC-129)  until 23  February. QSL 
via UR7VA  either  
direct
           (P.O. Box 23, Kirovograd-9, 25009, Ukraine)
or through the 
bureau.
EY      - Those who need Tajikistan on Topband should
look for Nodir,  
EY8MM,
           who plans to  participate in the  CQ 160 
Meter CW  Contest 
from  a
           temporary low noise level QTH. QSL via
K1BV. [TNX NG3K]
F       - Patrick, F6OIE will  use special  call TM0A 
on all  bands 
from  18
           January through 1 February. QSL via F6OIE.
[TNX F6AJA]
F       - Franck/F5JOT, Daniel/F5LGQ and Claude/F6CKH
will be active 
from the
           Chausey Islands (EU-039) on  19-26 April.
They  plan to 
operate  on
           10-80 metres CW, SSB and maybe RTTY and
SSTV. [TNX F6AJA]
HC      - Andy, NP3D  provides an  update on  his
forthcoming  activity  
from
           Ecuador [425DXN 609]. He now plans  to
operate as HC1/NP3D  
(Quito)
           on 21-23 January and as HC4/NP3D from near
Manta on 24-27  
January.
           He will also try to operate from nearby
Isla de la Plata  
(SA-033).
           QSL via W3HNK.
HH      - Four members of the Florida DXpedition 
Group (FDXPG) will be  
part
           of a thirty member humanitarian mission 
team travelling to  
Haiti.
           Look for Jan/K4QD, William/N2WB, Bill/W4WX
and Al/K3VN to be 
active
           as  HH4/homecall  from  the   Northwest 
Haiti  Christian   
Mission
           (http://www.nwhcm.org/)  on  10-21  March. 
They  will  have  
three
           stations and when not working on mission
projects they will 
operate
           on 160-6  metres all  modes; their  goal is
 to keep  at 
least  one
           station operating 24 hours a day. QSL
HH4/N2WB via N2OO, 
others via
           home    call.    For     further   
information    please     
visit
           http://www.geocities.com/n2wb2003/ [TNX
K4QD]
HL      - Mirek (aka 7X0DX, 9V1XE, VK6DXI, VK3DXI,
9M8DX) is currently 
QRV as
           HL5/VK2DXI from  Pohang, Korea.  He expects
 to will  remain  
there
           until mid May and to concentrate on the low
bands. QSL via  
DS5UCP.
           [TNX HL5/VK2DXI]
HS      - Choon, E20HHK  plans to  be active  as
E20HHK/P  from Chang  
Island
           (AS-125) on 18-19 January. This will be a
CW only operation 
on  40,
           20 and 15 metres, with dipoles and 100
watts. QSL via 
E21EIC.  [TNX
           K7SO]
I       - Special event station IY1SP is being
activated (on the HF 
bands CW,
           SSB and RTTY,  plus 2 and  6 metres) by 
ARI La  Spezia 
through  31
           January to celebrate the 100th  anniversary
of Guglielmo  
Marconi's
           first wireless transmission between the 
United States and  
Europe,
           as well as the experiments carried  out by
Marconi and the  
Italian
           Navy at La Spezia in 1903. A special QSL
will be sent 
automatically
           via bureau. [TNX IW1PDP]
J3      - Bill, VE3EBN will  be active again  as J37LR
from  Grenada 
from  31
           January through 2  April. He will  operate
on 10-80  metres 
CW  and
           SSB. QSL via VE3EBN, [TNX NG3K]
J7      - Bob Reiser. AA1M and Mike Rioux, W1USN will
be active as 
J75PL  and
           J75RN  respectively  from  Dominica 
(NA-101)  on  21-28   
January.
           Operations will be  on the HF  bands with
activity  in CW, 
SSB  and
           PSK31. QSL via home calls (direct or
bureau). [TNX AA1M]
JA      - JI5USJ and JI5RPT plan to operate  (on
160-10 metres SSB, CW,  
RTTY
           and PSK31) as homecall/6 from the Daito
Islands (AS-047) for  
about
           one week in early March. Details  are
expected in due 
course.  [TNX
           JI6KVR]
JA     -  Look for JQ1SUO/1, JF1CCH/1 and JA2HMD/1  to
be active (on 
10,  15,
           20, 30 and 40 metres CW and  SSB)  from
Hachijo Island 
(AS-043)  on
           8-9  March. [TNX JI6KVR]
JW      - SM0BSO, SM0LQB  and SM1TDE  will be  active
from  Svalbard 
from  24
           February to 1 March.  They will operate 
from the 
clubstation  JW5E
           located in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
(EU-026). Look for  
JW/SM0BSO,
           JW/SM0LQB and JW/SM1TDE to be active on
160-2 metres CW, 
SSB,  RTTY
           and other digital  modes. One  station will
 be devoted  to 
6m  and
           another one to the satellites (AO-7, 
AO-10, UO-14, FO-20,  
FO-29).
           QSL via home calls,  bureau or direct. 
Further information 
can  be
           found at
http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86523219/JW03.htm [TNX 
SM1TDE]
KG4     - Pick,  WA5PAE  (KG4IZ)  and  Jay,  K4ZLE 
(KG4MO)  will  
return  to
           Guantanamo Bay from 28 January until 4
Feburary. They will  
operate
           all bands from 160 to 10  metres using
mostly CW, PSK-31 and  
RTTY.
           QSL via home calls either direct or through
the bureau. [TNX 
NG3K]
LU      - Look for LU6EPR/E, LW4DRH/E, LU8EBJ/E, 
LW3DKC/E and other  
members
           from the Bahia Blanca DX Group 
(http://www.geocities.com/bbdxgroup)
           to be active from Recalada Lighthouse
(ARG-009) during the 
weekends
           of January  and February  starting on  17
January.  QSL via  
LU7DSY
           (Carlos Almiron, P.O. Box 709, 8000 Bahia
Blanca, 
Argentina).  [TNX
           LU6EPR]
LZ_ssh  - Danny, LZ2UU is currently active from LZ0A
at St. Kliment  
Ohridski
           base (WABA LZ-02) on Livingston  Island,
South Shetlands  
(AN-010).
           QSL via LZ1KDP.
OH0     - Look for  OH5DX (ex  OH1EH)  to participate 
in  the CQ  160  
Meter
           Contest (CW)  as  OH0Z 
(http://www.qsl.net/oh0z)  from  the  
Aland
           Islands. QSL via  OH5DX (Ari Korhonen, 
Kreetalank. 9A1, FIN  
29200
           Harjavalta, Finland). [TNX OH5DX]
OZ      - Alan, G0RCI and  other operators  from the 
Grantham Amateur  
Radio
           will be  active (on  all bands  CW, SSB 
and maybe  SSTV and  
other
           modes) as OZ/G0GRC  from either Fur,  Livoe
or 
Vendsyssel-Thy  (all
           counts for  EU-171) on  2-6 June.  All 
QSOs will  be  
acknowledged
           within 28  days  of  the  operators' 
return,  QSL  cards  
are  not
           required. [TNX G0RCI]
PJ      - W8UVZ, K8GG and KD9SV will be  active
(mainly on  the low and  
WARC
           bands) as PJ2/homecall from Curacao
(SA-006) on 20-29 
January.  QSL
           via home  call.  They will  participate  in
the  CQ  160  
Meter  CW
           Contest,  requested  call  is  PJ2X  (QSL 
via  W8UVZ).  
[TNX  OPDX
           Bulletin]
PJ      - Look for Ron, PJ7/ND5S and Sue, PJ7/KF5LG to
be operating 
from  St.
           Maarten (NA-105) from 9 through 22 
February. Ron will  
participate
           in the ARRL CW DX Contest. Outside the
contest activity will 
be 160
           through 10 metres  CW, RTTY and  SSB in 
that order.  QSL 
via  ND5S
           (direct  or  bureau).  Details  of  past 
trips  can  be  
found  at
           http://www.qsl.net/nd5s [TNX ND5S]
PJ      - Look for Klaus, DJ4SO to be active on 40-6
metres (plus 160 
and  80
           if it is possible to install the antenna at
the hotel) CW, 
SSB  and
           RTTY as PJ6/DJ4SO from Saba (NA-145) from
18 February to 12  
March.
           QSL via  home  call either  direct  or
through  the  bureau  
(email
           requests for  bureau  cards are  welcome 
at  
[email protected]).  [TNX
           DJ5AV]
PY0_fn  - Bill, W5SJ will participate in the  CQ WW
160  Meter CW 
Contest  as
           PR0F from  Fernando  de Noronha  (SA-003). 
Before  and  
after  the
           contest he might use PY0F/W5SJ and  will
concentrate on 30, 
17  and
           12 metres CW (with some SSB  upon request).
QSL via W5SJ. 
[TNX  The
           Daily DX]
S2      - John, KX7YT will be active as S21YV from
Dhaka, Bangladesh 
from  27
           January to 2 March.  He plans to  operate
on 10,  15 and 20  
metres
           SSB, PSK31  and CW.  Usual operating  times
are  12 UTC  to 
16  UTC
           daily. John  will  be  active  during the 
ARRL  CW  and  
Phone  DX
           Contests, work schedule permitting. QSL via
home call. [TNX 
KX7YT]
SP      - Operators from club station SP4KSY will be
active as 3Z0OL on 
17-18
           January. They will operate from the
cloister of the ancient  
castle
           of Olsztyn, where Nicolaus Copernicus 
carried out his  
reasearches
           on the equinox. QSL  via SQ4NR either 
direct (Grzegorz 
Gawel,  ul.
           Herdera 16/14, 10-691 Olsztyn, Poland) or
through the 
bureau.  [TNX
           SQ4NR]
UR_ant  - Roman, UT7UA is expected to  be at Vernadsky
 base (WABA 
UR-01)  on
           Galindez Island (AN-006) for the upcoming
austral winter 
season. He
           will arrive  in late  January or  early
February  and will  
operate
           again as VP8CTR. QSL via DL5EBE. [TNX
DL5EBE]
V2      - Wicky, W4LW  and  Fred, K4FMD  will  operate
V2/K4UP  from  
Antigua
           (NA-100) on 2-8 February. The operation
will be casual style 
on 10,
           12, 15, 17, and 20 metres SSB only. QSL via
K4UP direct or  
bureau.
           [TNX N2BT]
V4      - AC8W, K8DD and one or two  other operators
will be active 
from  St.
           Kitts (NA-104)  on 12-19  February, ARRL 
DX CW  Contest  
included.
           Before and after the contest they  will
operate PSK31, RTTY 
and  on
           the WARC  bands.  QSL via  home  calls
(personal  calls  
have  been
           applied for in addition to a contest call,
details are 
expected  in
           due course). [TNX K8DD]
V5      - Hubertus, DJ1HN  is active  as V51/DJ1HN 
from Namibia  
through  28
           January. He operates on 10, 15  and 20
metres  SSB. QSL via  
DJ1HN.
           [TNX DX Newsletter]
VE      - The first announced  operation in this 
year's IOTA Contest  
(26-27
           July) is  VE2/VE9MY/p from  Iles de  La
Madeleine  (NA-038).  
Linda
           (VE9GLF) and  Len Morgan  (VE9MY) will  be
active  during 
the  week
           prior to the IOTA event, with an entry in
the contest. 
Details will
           be made available in due course. [TNX
VE9MY]
VK      - Australian radio amateurs will be able to
celebrate their 
country's
           national day for 48 hours this year with
the use of the 
alternative
           prefix AX replacing the  normal VK. The 
mainland of 
Australia  has
           four different time zones -  and mix of 
standard and summer  
time.
           VK's can substitute the AX prefix  from
00.01 local time on  
Sunday
           26 January  through 23.59  local time  on 
Monday 27  
January.  WIA
           Victoria (http://www.wiavic.org.au) will be
activating AX3WI 
on the
           two days using SSB,  RTTY, PSK31 and  CW,
mainly on  20, 15 
and  10
           metres. A special event QSL card will be
issued. [TNX VK3EW]
VP6_duc - Dieter/DJ9ON,     Hans/DK9KX,    
Philippe/FO3BM,      
Hiro/JA1SLS,
           Yuichi/JR2KDN, Doug/N6TQS, Dave/VP6DB,
Mike/VP6AZ and 
Meralda/VP6MW
           are the operators for the second DXpedition
to Ducie Island 
[425DXN
           610]. They expect to be QRV on all HF bands
SSB, CW and RTTY 
plus 6
           metres and  AO-40, starting  on 8-9  March
for  about a  
week.  The
           callsign will be announced shortly before
the operation 
begins. QSL
           via JR2KDN. The pilot  stations will be 
JE2EHP, DJ8NK and  
WA2MOE.
           The web pages for the operation are at 
www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/ducie.htm
           and www.qsl.net/aa0mz/ducie2.htm
W       - Tom, WA6WPG  reports he  will be  active as 
WA6WPG/p from  
Anacapa
           Island (NA-144) on 8-9 March. He expects to
be on the air on  
10-40
           metres for about 26 hours starting at 20
UTC.
XE      - Enrique/XE1IH  (ex   XE1LWY), 
Javier/XE1KOF,   Jose/XE1ZJV,   
Jose
           Luis/XE1YJL and Juan Jose/XE1XNH  plan to
be  active as 
XF2IH  from
           Enmedio Island in the Veracruz State  South
group (NA-???)  
between
           20 and  27 March.  They expect  to operate 
CW (1825,  3530,  
7030,
           10115, 14040, 18098,  21040, 24910, 28040 
and 50102  kHz) 
and  SSB
           (1845, 3755, 7055,  14260, 18128,  21260,
24950,  28460, 
28560  and
           50145 kHz), with some PSK31. QSL via XE1IH
(Enrique Garcia  
Munive,
           P.O.  Box  75-481,   07050  Mexico  D.F.,  
Mexico).  For   
further
           information       (postage       included) 
     please       
visit
           http://www.qsl.net/xe1ih [TNX XE1BEF]
XY      - Hiroo, JA2EZD is  still waiting for  his
Myanmar  licence 
(XY2A  or
           XY1M), which  he  hopes  will  arrive  on 
18  January.  Two  
other
           operators from Japan will join him on 25-27
January. [TNX 
The Daily
           DX]
ZK1_sc  - Jun/VK4SJ and Doug/VK4BP will  be active (on
 10-40 metres 
SSB)  as
           ZK1AYL and ZK1SIM from the South  Cook
Islands in April-May.  
Their
           first stop  will  be at  Aitutaki  (OC-083)
starting  on  27  
April
           through 14 May,  then they  will go  to
Rarotonga  (OC-013) 
and  be
           active from 15 through 26 May.  QSLs via
VK4SJ either direct  
(June
           Sim, P.O.  Box  406,  Caloundra  4551, 
Queensland,  
Australia)  or
           through the  bureau. E-QSLs  will not  be 
accepted. [TNX  
VK4SJ  &
           VK4BP]

CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Manfred, DJ7RJ reports he will be
active (on 160-6 
metres
CW and SSB)  as J79RJ from  Dominica on 18-31  January
and  as J3/DJ7RJ  
from
Grenada on 1-13 February.
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

IREF ---> The new web site for the Island Radio
Expedition Foundation  
(IREF)
is up and running  at http://www.islandradio.org. In 
2002 IREF 
sponsored  13
expeditions that represented  16 different IOTA 
references (OC-051,  
OC-077,
OC-090, OC-126, OC-186,  OC-235 plus ten  new ones: 
AF-092, AS-161,  
AS-165,
NA-222, OC-248, OC-249, OC-250, OC-252, OC-253,
OC-254). More than 
$5,500 was
granted to help fund these expeditions  that produced
more than 47,000  
QSOs.
Contributions to the expeditions ranged  from $150 to 
$700 depending 
on  the
difficulty and rarity of the island. [TNX AD5A]

MIAMI TROPICAL HAMBOREE ---> The South Florida DX
Association will be 
hosting
the DX  Forum at  this year's  Miami Tropical 
Hamboree  on 1  
February.  For
further information on the event, as well as on the DX
"Happy Hour"  
Cocktail
Party       and        the        DX       Dinner,    
   please        
visit
http://www.qsl.net/k4fk/Tropical_Hamboree.html [TNX
W4DTA]

NEW PREFIX  ---> IQ  (India Quebec)  is currently 
being issued  as  
ordinary
prefix club stations in Italy. For  example, IQ4AD is
the permanent  
callsign
for the Parma ARI Branch.
Since IQ is no longer a special prefix for individual
Italian amateurs, 
those
who held an IQ contest callsign  shall change it. For
example,  
Andrea/IV3SKB
(ex IQ3X) will now be using IU3Y in major contests.
QSL IU3Y via 
IV3SKB.

QSL EU-073 ---> All of the direct requests for
IJ7/IZ8DBJ and 
IJ7/IZ8AJQ (San
Pietro Island, September 2002) have been processed and
mailed; the  
remaining
QSOs have been confirmed automatically through the
bureau. [TNX IZ8AJQ]

QSL FW8FP ---> "The QSL cards  for FW8FP are not 
ready", Bill Horner,  
VK4FW
reports. "I am receiving literally hundreds  of emails
about this" 
Please  be
patient, "the cards will be done as soon as received
from the printer".

QSL PT0F ---> All cards for PT0F operated by CT1BOH
should go to W3HC.

QSL YI1BGD ---> Cliff, G0MMI is the  QSL manager only
for contacts made  
with
YI1BGD operated by  Rodger, G0TLC.  These *do  not*
include  CW 
contacts,  as
Rodger does not work CW. Cards for the current
activity from the club 
station
in Baghdad should go via YI1DZ.

QSL ZD8M ---> If  you still need  a QSL for  Mike's
(G3UOF) 1993/94  
activity
from Ascension Island, you can send  your card to M.R.
Wadsworth, 67  
Station
Road, Bardney, Lincoln LN3 5UD, England. [TNX G3UOF]

QSL VIA  IT9NVA --->  Those who  need a  direct card 
for one  of  
Vincenzo's
several operations  from  Italian lighthouses  and 
islands  should  
use  the
following new address: Vincenzo Altamura, P.O. Box
164, 96100 Siracusa 
-  SR,
Italy. [TNX IT9NVA]

QSL VIA  YO9HP  ---> Alex,  YO9HP  still  has logs 
and  QSL  cards  
for  his
activities from Kuwait as 9K2/YO9HP (1995-1997) and
9K5/YO9HP (1996). 
He also
operated from KARS club station 9K2RA  during that
time frame, but 
cards  for
those activities  should go  to 9K2RA  either  direct
(Kuwait  Amateur  
Radio
Society, P.O. Box 5240, Safat 13053,  Kuwait) or
through the 9K bureau.  
Alex
is now  active as  A45WD from  Oman,  and has  replied
 to all  direct  
cards
received before 22 December 2002. He prefers direct
cards (to be sent 
to Alex
Panoiu, Pleasa, Prahova, RO-2038, Romania), but bureau
cards will be 
honoured
as well. [TNX A45WD]

SV2ASP/A ---> Someone pirated Monk Apollo's  callsign
on 15  metres CW 
on  13
January. However Kostas, SV1DPI  reports that Apollo 
expects to 
operate  CW,
and possibly  RTTY and  PSK31 as  well, in  the next 
coming days.  
Typically
Apollo's free time is around 5.30 UTC and again
between 17 and 19 UTC. 
QSL to
Monk Apollo, Dochiariou Monastery, GR-630 87 Dafni,
Mount Athos, 
Greece.
Apollo would  like to  remind DXers  that the  SY
prefix  is currently  
being
issued to ordinary Greek stations as a special prefix.
None of the 
recent SYs
was from Mount Athos, except for  SY2A (operated by
Monk  Apollo a 
couple  of
years ago). [TNX SV1DPI and IK3ZAW]

VP8ROT --->  Mike, GM0HCQ  confirms that  VP8ROT  from
Rothera  (the  
British
Antarctic Survey's  base  on Adelaide  Island, 
AN-001) "is  currently  
being
activated by one of the summer  base staff and  I will
be  acting as 
the  QSL
manager. Due to the restrictions on operating  from a
base, I will be  
unable
to send  any requests  for skeds  to the  base. I  am
still  waiting on  
some
further information regarding the  operator who is 
working the 
station,  and
once known I will be publishing  the details on  my
site at  
www.gm0hcq.com".
[TNX VE3LYC]

WLH CONVENTION ---> This year the  World Lighthouse
Award Convention 
will  be
held at Le Pouliguen (France) on  13-15 June. For
further information  
please
e-mail [email protected] [TNX F5OGG]

ZL1AMO UPDATE  --->  After three  months,  Ron has 
been  released  
from  the
hospital and is now home. He thanks "the many hundreds
around the 
planet  who
have kept me going over the past months". [TNX AA7UC]
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                          *** 4 2 5  D X  N E W S ***
                          ***  NEWS FROM THE WEB  ***
                          ===========================
                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

EU-169:   Pictures of the  recent ZA0IS  & ZA0/IK7JWX 
operations from  
Sazan
           Island are  available at  
http://www.qsl.net/ari-lecce/za0.htm  and
           http://www.ddxc.net [TNX IK7JWX]
TP2CE:    In addition to http://www.ewwa.net, the
radio  club at the  
Council
           of   Europe   now    has   its   own    web
  page   and    
mailbox
           ([email protected])  on   the 
institution's   
portal   at
           http://www.coe.int [TNX F6FQK]
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QSLs received direct: 3B8CF, 3D2CY, 3V8BB, 3XY7C,
4K4POL (AS-065, 1990  
QSO),
4U1ITU, 5B4AHA,  5H1HS,  5K0Z, 5V7BR,  5X1Z,  7X2RO, 
8A3M  (OC-250),  
8P9HT,
8R1USA, 9M2KE, 9M6NA (OC-133), 9U0X, A35RK, A41KJ,
A61AJ, AH6HY/AH8 
(OC-077),
AP2IA, AP2MQ,  BA4RF, BQ9P  (AS-110),  BW3/UA3VCX,
C31LJ,  C5AEH,  
C6A/N2CBU,
C98DC, C98RF (AF-072), CU9X (EU-089), D44TD (AF-086),
D44TR, EG9IA  
(AF-042),
EL2WW, EY8MM, FM5BH, FM5GU, FO/HG9B/P,  FO/I2YSB,
FO/SP9FIH (OC-027),  
FO0CLA
(OC-066), FO5RH  (OC-066), FO5RK  (OC-051),
FR/PA3GIO/P,  FY5FY, HC4T,  
HC8A,
HC8Z, HK3JJH/4  (SA-093),  J67RN, J75A,  J75KG,  KP2A,
KP4JRS,  LX5A,  
LY2ZZ,
MJ0DEU, MU0FBO, OA4O,  OZ1ING (EU-171),  P43W,
PJ5/K1NA,  PJ5NA, PW0T,  
PW6AI
(SA-019), PY8AZT/P  (SA-060), R1ANF,  RI0CA (AS-044), 
RI0CB (AS-114),  
RS0F,
RU0B (AS-057), RX3AJL/1  (EU-153), S07L, S21YY,  S9SS,
ST0F, SZ8LH  
(EU-049),
T7IARU, TF3BM, TF8GX, TG4/W0IZ, TI5KD, TI5N,  TT8ZZ,
TU2DP, TX5BTY  
(OC-152),
TY9F, UA0AZ, UA9YAU, V51AS, VE8AE/VY0 (NA-130),
VK3CDC, VK9NS, VK9YL,  
VP2MX,
VP2VE, VP6BB,  VP6DI,  W2RA/VE9, WP2Z,  XF4/XE1JJU, 
XT2DX,  XU7ABN,  
XU7ACB,
XU7ACE, XU7ACJ,  XU7ACN, XU7AUR  (AS-133),  YB0DPO,
YB0ECT,  YC9MB  
(OC-151),
YS1/N4BP, YV1DIG, ZC4VG, ZD7DP, ZD8A, ZD9IR,  ZF2DN,
ZF2NK, ZK1APM  
(OC-014),
ZK1ASQ, ZK1EQL,  ZK1FGV, ZK1TTG,  ZK1VVV, ZK1XYL 
(OC-013 &  OC-083),  
ZL6LH,
ZL9BSJ/P, ZY7C.
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