[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #612
Mike ZooLoo
[email protected]
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:08:08 -0800 (PST)
25 January 2003
No 612
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>>> 425 DX NEWS MOST WANTED SURVEY
<<<
The results are now available at
http://www.425dxn.org/surv2003/ -
many
thanks to the 2663 participants in the survey (last
year they were
1985).
Give also a look to the results of The DX Magazine's
Most Wanted
Survey at
http://www.dxpub.com/dx_news.html
Bernie McClenny, W3UR, Editor of The Daily DX, has
combined the
results of
the two surveys and has come to the conclusion that
the top 10
positions are
being held by Andaman (VU4), Scarborough (BS7),
Lakshadweep (VU7),
Juan de
Nova & Europa (FR/J) and Peter I (3Y), Desecheo (KP5)
and Yemen (7O),
Navassa
(KP1) and North Korea (P5), Aves (YV0).
5X - Bob, WB2YQH reports that Graham, 5X1GS has
been semi-active
this
month due to work related travel away
from Kampala. He
is now
travelling to Kenya (no operation) and
back to Uganda for
a day
before departing for the UK on 30 January.
He will return to
Uganda
on 15 February, hopefully with a WARC beam
for a better
signal. QSL
via WB2YQH.
6W - Norbert, F6AXX will be active as 6W7/F6AXX
from Saly, Senegal
from
25 January to 7 February. His favourite
mode is CW and he
plans to
operate mainly during his morning and
night hours on or
around
14035, 18090, 21035, 24105 and 28035 kHz.
QSL via F6AXX
either
direct or through the bureau. [TNX NG3K]
9Y - Look for Moni, 9Y/DL1SEN and Mike, 9Y/DL2SEK
to be active on
SSB and
digital modes from Tobago (SA-009) until 6
February. QSL
via home
calls. [TNX DX Newsletter]
HH - Hans/DL7CM and Sid/DM2AYO will be active as
HH6/DL7CM and
HH6/DM2AYO
from Ile a Vache (NA-149), Haiti from 30
January to 15
February.
They plan to operate on 160-6 metres CW,
SSB and RTTY, with
a beam
and a GP for the low bands. QSL via
home calls. Logs
will be
available at
http://www.qsl.net/dl7cm/haiti.htm [TNX DL7CM]
I - Vincenzo, IT9NVA plans to be active from
Cozzo Spadaro
lighthouse
(WAIL SI-012, IOTA EU-025) on 25 January.
He also says
that is
correct new address is P.O. Box 216, 96100
Siracusa - SR,
Italy (Box
164, reported in 425DXN #611, was a mistake
and Vincenzo
apologizes
for any inconvenience this may have caused).
OD - Pavel, OD5/OK1MU will participate in the CQ
WW 160 Meter CW
Contest
as Single Operator HP (he has about 400W
but only a
35m half
slooper). QSL via OKDX Foundation or
OK1TN. His web page
is at
http://www.qsl.net/ok1mu [TNX NG3K]
PY - Scout Association Baependi, PY3UEB will
operate as ZX3S
until 19
February to celebrate the World Social
Forum taking place in
Porto
Alegre. QSL via PY3CQ. [TNX PY3CQ]
T31 - Mike, KM9D is currently active as T31MY from
Canton Island
(OC-043),
Central Kiribati. QSL via OM2SA. The
Daily DX reports
that Mike
expects to remain there for the next three
to four weeks.
VK0_mi - The Daily DX reports that Peter, VK0MQI
will be leaving
Macquarie
Island the last week of March: "he plans
his last
activity this
Sunday (GMT) at 0000Z. Keep an ear on 21365,
24940 and
28630".
VP5 - Chrissy, KB9VAL and her father Gary,
K9SG will be
active as
VP5/KB9VAL and VP5/K9SG from Providenciales
(NA-002) from 31
January
through 3 February. QSL via K9SG. [TNX The
Daily DX]
XE - Hector/XE2K, Pablo/XE2CHE,
Rogelio/XE2FCR,
Emidgio/XE2ZY,
Hector/XE2CK and Ray/N6VR (CW operator) will
be active as
XF1K from
Isla Pelicano (NA-167) between 6 and 9
February. This
rare IOTA
group (Sonora State North) is needed by the
97.40% of the
current
IOTA members. The operation will last three
days. The team
hopes to
start operating at 3 UTC on 6 February
and expects to
leave the
island on either the evening of 8 Feburary
or the morning of
the 9th
(the decision will depend on tides). SSB
and CW
operations are
expected to take place on 80, 40, 20, 15
and 10 metres, for
12-18
hours a day. QSL via N6AWD either direct
(Fred K.
Stenger, 6000
Hesketh Dr, Bakersfield, CA 93309, USA) or
through the
bureau. The
operations is sponsored by the Island
Radio Expedition
Foundation
(IREF) - http://www.islandradio.org [TNX
AB5EB]
XY - Kai, JH6VZS and Shirow, JF6DEA are going to
join Hiroo,
XY2A, who
has been already active from Myanmar for a
few days. Kai and
Shirow
plan to be active, hopefully as XY5D and
XY6J, on 25-27
January and
to concentrate on the low bands and 6
metres. There is
further
infomation on Shirow's web site
(http://www.ham-net.net/vu-dx/).
QSLs for XY5D and XY6J should be sent
direct to JH6QIL
(Shin-Ichi
Kusumoto, 1777-289, Nishi-Mochida,
Aira-cho, Aira-Gun,
Kagoshima,
899-5431 Japan). [TNX JF6DEA]
YB - Stan, OK1JR/YB0AJR reports he will be active
during the CQ
WW 160
Meter CW Contest as YE0X from Jawa,
Indonesia. He will be
looking
for Europeans around 1855 kHz. Special QSL
via the YB bureau.
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CDXC AWARD ---> Robert Felicite, 3B9FR is the first
winner of the
Chiltern DX
Club's "Local Heroes" Award. Club members voted for
Robert as an
outstanding
operator who, resident in a rare DX location, has for
many years
tirelessly
provided QSO's and QSL's for thousands of amateurs
worldwide, all
without
major sponsorship. Nominations are now requested for
the 2003 award
which
will be decided in June this year. Votes
can be
e-mailed to
[email protected] [TNX G3LAS]
EWWA ---> The new Country List for the European World
Wide Award can be
found
at http://www.ewwa.net or can be requested by
sending an
e-mail to
[email protected] [TNX F6FQK]
GREEK PREFIXES ---> Costas, SV1XV reports the Greek
amateur radio
prefix
system has changed recently to support the
introduction of the new
VHF-only,
no-CW licence:
* SV1-SV9 = full HF privileges
* SW1-SW9 = 144 MHz and higher, no HF or 50 MHz
* SZ1-SZ9 = club stations
* J41-J49 = special event stations
* SY1-SY9 = special event stations
* SX1-SX9 = special event stations
* SV1x-SV9x = voice repeaters and beacons
* J41xxx-J49xxx = digital repeaters
* SV0XAA-SV0XZZ = foreign amateurs with semi-permanent
licence (HF)
* SW0AAA-SW0ZZZ = foreign amateurs with semi-permanent
licence (VHF
only).
* Temporary operations by foreign amateurs shall use
the SV or SW
prefixes,
as appropriate, followed by the original
callsigns and the
appropriate
identifier /P, /M, /MM, /AM.
* The following identifiers shall be used for
portables etc:
/P portable
/M land mobile, mounted on a vehicle
/A alternative licensed location
/MM maritime mobile
/AM aeronautical mobile
* There is no provision for call area identifier, if
operating outside
main
station call area; SV1AAA portable in SV5 will be
SV1AAA/P.
* There is no prefix reserved for Mount Athos.
SY callsigns
and /A
identifiers do not imply a Mount Athos operation.
QRP MARATHON ---> The I-QRP Club organizes the 4th HF
Marathon to
encourage
QRP activity. Open to licenced amateurs and SWLs, it
will take place
from
00.00 UTC on 1 April through 24.00 UTC on 31
August. For further
details
please contact Giovanni Zangara, IW0BET at
[email protected]
QSL MANAGER OFFERED ---> Alan Roocroft, VK4AAR says
that now he has
more time
to manage the QSLs of additional DX or IOTA
activities. If any of our
readers
need his services, please contact Alan for
the details at
either
[email protected] or [email protected] Alan
currently handles
cards for
the following stations (some now QRT): C21RH, KH2VM,
P29RH, V63PD,
VI0ANARE,
VK0MM, VK6BM (OC-234), VK6BSI (OC-243), VK8AN,
VK8AN/6 (OC-154),
VK8AN/8
(OC-229), VK8AV/3 (OC-136), VK8DP, VK8MI (OC-173),
VK8RH, VK8XC,
VU3RSB,
ZK2JJ, ZK2PJ. Please note that logs for YJ8AA are
no longer
available to
Alan.
QSL 9V1DJ ---> QSL cards can be sent via the SARTS
(Singapore Amateur
Radio
Transmitting Society) bureau. Those who want to QSL
direct, please note
that
Taka, 9V1DJ/JA3KAB will be going back to Japan an
the end of
February. He
advises that after 15 February direct cards should
be sent to
Taka K.
Shimazu, 10-36 Kizuri 3-chome Higashiosaka, Osaka
577-0827, Japan. [TNX
K1XN]
QSL CO6XN ---> Effective immediately, Frank Dalonzo,
N3ZOM, will be
handling
all of CO6XN's direct cards. Bureau cards will
continue to be
handled by
Oscar Gaviria, HK6DOS. [TNX HK6DOS]
QSL CV1F ---> The correct QSL route is via EA5KB (not
EA5JB): Jose F.
Ardid
Arlandis, P.O.Box 5013, 46080 Valencia, Spain. Many
thanks to Paulo,
PY2PAI
for detecting the typo in 425DXN 610.
QSL KC4/N2TA ---> Mike Fokin (RW1AI) went QRT from
"East Camp" (WABA
K-12,
AN-016) on 22 January, after some 5000 QSOs made as
KC4/N2TA. QSL
direct only
to P.O. Box 392, Brooklyn, NY 11230, USA (mail drop).
Mike and Alex,
UA1PAC
were expected to stop for a couple of days at
McMurdo Base (WABA
K-09,
AN-011) on their way to Christchurch, New Zealand.
[TNX UA1AKE]
QSL YI1BGD ---> Contradictory information is being
circulated
about the
correct QSL route for the current activity of YI1BGD.
Diya, YI1DZ, confirms that he is the QSL manager and
QSL cards should
be sent
direct only to P.O. Box 7361, Baghdad 12216, Iraq.
However Steve, OM3JW, states that the current operator
at YI1BGD is
his son
Mike, OM2DX [425DXN 605], who, while waiting for
his personal call
to be
issued, is active from the club station. The QSL route
for this
operation is
via OM3JW (logs are at http://www.qsl.net/om2dx).
At the same time Cliff, G0MMI, reports that "due to
the confusion
regarding
the latest operation at YI1BGD, I am no longer
Rodger's manager.
All QSL
cards go to YI1DZ" (Cliff used to be the QSL manager
only for contacts
made
with YI1BGD operated by G0TLC).
At the end of the day, as John, K1XN from the Golist
wisely says,
"guess this
one should be: QSL via operators instructions".
QSL VIA KU9C ---> "As of January 31", Steve says, "I
will be current
with all
direct QSL received for PW0T and YA5T as of January 6,
2003. Please
note that
this means that if you sent a QSL to me for
*only* PW0T or YA5T
(i.e.,
without another card for a station I manage), it will
have been
processed and
mailed to you. If you do not have your card within a
reasonable mailing
time
from NJ at that time, I'd suggest you resubmit.
The 2002 BQ9P operation will be my next focus, and I
expect to have
that done
in February.
Other calls I manage have been on the back burner a
bit, although I'm
mailing
them out as I can get to them. If you sent me
*individual* SASEs for
these
stations, I expect to have them out in the next month
or so as well.
Many QSLs will be delayed beyond the above schedule
because more
than one
call have been included in the SASE.
Statistics: just under 50,000 PW0T QSOs and 20,000
YA5T QSOs have
been
issued. When I take these with the other calls I
manage, including
bureau
mailings, approximately 100,000 QSOs have been issued
by me since
January 1,
2002".
SWL CONTEST ---> The SLP Contest for SWLs will take
place in eight
sessions
through the year. The first session is on
25-26 January.
Visit
http://www.veron.nl/cie/nl/swlcontest.htm for the
rules, or e-mail
Ruud
Ivens, NL-290, the new VERON SWL Manager, at
[email protected]
[TNX
I1-21171/IZ1CRR]
WRTC 2002 VIDEO ---> The official video of the
Amateur Radio Olympics
(WRTC
2002) is now available on DVD and VHS. Unlike previous
ham radio
videos, this
one is produced from a 100% "pro-sports" perspective.
In order to
capture as
much of the action as possible, three different camera
crews were sent
out to
film as many teams and events as they could
during the actual 24
hour
competition. And supporting all this great footage are
high-end 3D
graphics,
intra-competition scoreboards, top-ten boxes, team
profiles, and
lots of
other things that you might expect when watching a
professional sports
event
on television. The entire production is even narrated
by one of
ESPN's top
announcers. Total running time is 60 minutes. The DVD
version also
contains
lots of extra features like full score breakdowns for
each team,
continental
line-ups, competitor rulebook, and even all the past
WRTC scores dating
back
to 1990. All information on how to obtain your
copy can be
found at
http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~jamesb/ [TNX OH5DX]
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CONTEST CALENDAR: The 12-Month Contest Calendar,
compiled by Bruce
Horn,
WA7BNM and updated as new contest
information is
received,
is available at
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/ The
e-mail version can be requested
by sending an
e-mail to
[email protected]
QSL ROUTES: Boye, OZ7C reports that his QSL
manager web page is
back up
and running at
http://www.qsl.dk/oz7c/ (the QSL and
Manager
databases contain 336,368 and
17,570 records
respectively).
Weekly updates will be posted
usually on Mondays.
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CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL
MANAGER
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3C5XA G3XAQ EY8MM K1BV T30HC
DL9HCU
3V8SQ DL1BDF FG5FC F6DZU T77GI
pirate
3W2XK W9XK FK8GM WB2RAJ
TA0/NK7U pirate
3Z0OL SQ4NR FP5BZ F5TJP TF3CW
LX1NO
4K7A TA2ZV FY5GS F6FNU TM0A
F6OIE
4X6HP/P EA7FTR H44MS DL2GAC TM5SIA
F2WS
5H9IR ZS6EZ HC#/NP3D W3HNK TT8FC
EA4AHK
5R8GZ G3SWH HI3HN OE7NHT UA6JD
K0KG
7Q7HB G0IAS HI8ROX ON4ANT
UA6LGR/3 UA6LGR
7Q7LA G0IAS HK3CW W2GR [a] UA9YAU
W4CMB
7X2RO OM3CGN HL5/VK2DXI DS5UCP UK8ZC
RW6HS
8Q7AM EA5MB II1D IZ1CCE UN0F
EA5KB
9G1YK PA3ERA IY4W I4JED UN9GC
LZ1YE
9H3CT G0WKJ J41LHA SV1GRB V31JP
KA9WON
9J2BO G3TEV J75PL AA1M V31JZ
NN7A
9K2GS W6YJ J75RN W1USN V31KQ
WA0ETE
9L1BTB SP7BTB J79AK 8R1AK V31YN
DJ4KW
9N7YJ LA5YJ J79RJ DJ7RJ V51HK
DL6OBS
A45WD YO9HP JT1R JT1BL V51XG
DL8AL
A61AJ N4QB JW0HU SP3WVL V73GT
WF5T
A61AQ N1DG JW7VK LA7VK V73RX
N6RX
A61AR UA6MF K8LIZ/C6A K8LIZ VK0MQI
JA1ELY
C21HC DL9HCU K9YNF/HR9 K9YNF VK0MQI
JE1LET
C31LJ VE3GEJ LU1ZA LU4DXU
VK7KHZ/P EA7FTR
C6AGN W1DIG LW4EU EA7FTR VO2UE
VE2ACP
C6ALB AA8LL LZ0A LZ1KDP VO2ZT
VE2TKH
CE/CO2WW pirate N4BQW/KH9 KB6NAN VP8ROT
GM0HCQ
CM8WAL EA5KB OH0B OH2BH VQ9SS
N6SS
CT3FN HB9CRV OH0R OH2PM
W8DLI/WH0 JI3DLI
CV1F EA5KB OH0Z OH5DX
W8XGI/KH0 JA1XGI
D2EB I3LLH P29VMS DL2GAC WH0EWX
SP5EWX
D44TD CT1EKF P40AV K4AVQ XT2ATI
EA4YK
D88S DS4CNB P40RH W6FRH XW1N
HS6NDK
DA0ED DJ5CL P49MR VE3MR XY2A
XW2A
DU9/N0NM W4DR PJ5/K3RGD WA2NHA YA1BV
JA1PBV
E44Q pirate PR0F W5SJ YA6RF
F6ITD
ED2TIS EA2ICA RU0SYL UA0SE ZF2CM
K0BJ
ED5MUC EA5URM S21B KX7YT ZF2DS
W3WKP
ED5URV EA5URV S21YY JM1HXU ZK1UKX
W6UKX
ED6SAA EA6ZX SB7OOJ SM5CAK ZK2GI
PA3GIO
EM60USB UT5UKY ST2X PA5NT ZP62AA
ZP5AA
ER60SB ER1DA SU9BN EA7FTR
ZS90SAP ZS6ZYM
[a] direct cards only
[b] others
[c] JA stations only
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5A1A Assid, Hardehauser Weg 4, 33100 Paderborn,
Germany
A41MA Younis Albeloushi, P.O.Box 1470, 111 Muscat,
Oman
CE6M P.O.Box 591, Temuco, Chile
DS4CNB Lee Dae Ryung, P.O Box 30, Tongyung 650-600,
South Korea
EA2ICA Asociacion Radioaficionados Aragon, P.O. Box
10263, 50080
Zaragoza,
Spain
EA4YK Ricardo J. Hartasanchez, P.O.Box 41079,
28080 Madrid, Spain
EA6ZX Pau Balaguer, P.O. Box 240, 07080 Palma de
Mallorca, Spain
EA7FTR Francisco Lianez Suero, Asturias 23, 21110
Aljaraque, Huelva,
Spain
ER1DA Valery Metaxa, P.O. Box 3000, Chisinau,
MD-2071, Moldova
EX8MLE Sergey Tkachenko,P.O. Box 742, Bishkek
720017, Kyrghyzstan
IT9NVA Vincenzo Altamura, P.O. Box 216, 96100
Siracusa - SR, Italy
IV3NCC Marco Tuniz, Via Savoia 18, 34079 Staranzano
- GO, Italy
K2ZR/4 Dick Stein, 206 / Apt.2 Southard Street, Key
West, FL 33040,
USA
KB6NAN Dianna R. Killeen, P.O. Box 911, Pescadero,
CA 94060-0911,
USA
KC4/N2TA P.O.Box 392, Brooklyn, NY 11230, USA
LA5YJ Hugo Bjorn Ark, Rute 504, Reinsvoll, N-2840
Norway
LU4DXU Horacio "Henry" Ledo, P.O. Box 22, Martinez
1640, Buenos
Aires,
Argentina
N6SS Preston T. Smith, 20 N. Outback Rd., Dewey,
AZ 86327, USA
NN7A Art Phillips, P.O. Box 201, Flagstaff, AZ
86002, USA
OH5DX Ari Korhonen, Kreetalank. 9A1, FIN 29200
Harjavalta, Finland
OM2SA George Sipos, 93013 Trhova Hradska 550,
Slovakia
ON5NT Ghis Penny, P.O. Box 93, BE-9700 Oudenaarde,
Belgium
PA3GIO Bert vd Berg, Parklaan 38, NL-3931 KK
Woudenberg, The
Netherlands
PA5NT Gerben A. Menting, Waezenburglaan 104, 9351
HG Leek, The
Netherlands
SQ4NR Grzegorz Gawel, ul. Herdera 16/14, 10-691
Olsztyn, Poland
UA0SE Serge Karpov, P.O.Box 5247, Angarsk 665819,
Russia
UR7VA P.O. Box 23, Kirovograd-9, 25009, Ukraine
UT5UKY Vladimir Prikhodko, P.O. Box 54, Kiev 04213,
Ukraine
W2GR Mike Benjamin, 1064 99th Street, Niagara
Falls, NY 14304, USA
XW2A Hiroo Yonezuka, P.O.Box 2659, Vientiane,
Laos
YO9HP Alex Panoiu, Pleasa, Prahova, RO-2038,
Romania
ZS6ZYM Jan Swanepoel, P.O. Box 14393, Zuurfontein
1912, South Africa
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