[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #633

Mike ZooLoo [email protected]
Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:00:07 -0700 (PDT)


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5T     - Frank, DL8YHR  (http://www.dl8yhr.de) will 
be active  as 5T5M  
from
          Mauritania from 29  June to 7  July. He 
plans to  
concentrate on  6
          metres (50130 kHz). [TNX La Gazette du DX]
9A     - Eugene 9A/RZ3EC, Sergey  9A/UA3NAN and  Emir
9A6AA  (9A0CI) 
plan  to
          operate from  Karantunic  (IOCA CI-421), 
Kosara  (EU-170,  
CI-043),
          Babac (EU-170, CI-005), Mrtovnjak (EU-170,
CI-195), Ravan  
(CI-422),
          Blitvenica  (CI-156)  and  possibly   other 
Croatian  
islands   and
          lighthouses  on  12-19  July.  Further 
details  are  
available   at
          http://www.inet.hr/9a6aa [TNX 9A6AA]
CT     - Look for CT1GFK/P, CT1GPQ/P and  CT2IHP/P to
be  active (on 
80,  40,
          20, 15  metres SSB,  CW and  RTTY,  with
some  30,  17, 12  
and  10m
          operation) from Culatra  Island (EU-145, DIP
 AL-01) on 20-22  
June.
          QSL via home calls. direct or bureau. [TNX
CT1END]
CU     - Lars, SM3CVM  plans to  be active  as
CU2/SM3CVM/P  from Sao  
Miguel
          (EU-003), Azores from 24 June to  6 July. He
 will operate on  
80-10
          metres CW  mostly in  his late  evening
hours.  QSL via  home  
call,
          either direct or through the bureau. [TNX
SM3CVM]
F      - Look for Sebastien, F8DQZ/p to be  active on
40, 20,  17, 15 
and  12
          metres from Ouessant  Island (EU-065,  DIFM
AT-001)  ob 28-29  
June.
          [TNX La Gazette du DX]
F      - Bill, ON9CGB reports he will single  operate
in the IOTA 
Contest  as
          F/G0MEU/p from  Sein Island  (EU-068), while
 the rest  of 
the  team
          [425DXN 613] will use TM3ON. QSL for both
via ON4ON.
FH     - Martial, F5SIE will be active as FH/F5SIE
from Mayotte 
(AF-027, DIFO
          FH-001) on 1-15 July.  He will operate  on
40, 17  and 15 
metres  CW
          only with 50 watts into dipoles. QSL bureau.
[TNX F5NQL]
FH     - John, G4IRN  will  be  active as  FH/G4IRN 
from  Mayotte  on  
16-23
          September. He will operate mainly  CW on
10-40  metres and 
will  run
          100 watts into a vertical antenna. QSL via
home call. [TNX 
G4IRN]
G      - Amateur   radio   operators   at    the  
National   Space    
Centre
          (http://www.g3stg.btinternet.co.uk/) in
Leicester will 
activate  the
          GB2NSC station  on  the HF  bands  for the 
first  time on  
22  June
          (between 10 and  17 local time).  While
normally GB2NSC  is 
used  to
          demonstrate  Amateur  Satellite 
communications  to  
visitors,  this
          special  activation  will  mark   an 
important  space   
exploration
          anniversary: forty years ago Russian
cosmonaut Valentina 
Tereshkova,
          travelling in Vostok 6, became the  first
woman to orbit 
earth.  QSL
          via G8ATE. [TNX F5NQL]
G      - Look for GB2BLE to be aired from Lundy Island
(EU-120) from 28  
June
          through   5   July.    Further   information
   is   
available    at
          http://www.draxium.com/gb2ble [TNX OPDX
Bulletin]
GM     - The Cockenzie  and  Port Seton  ARC  will
participate  in  the  
IOTA
          Contest as GM2T from the Isle of Tiree
(EU-008). The 
operators  will
          be MM0DXC, GM4UYZ,  MM0JXI, M0RNR, GM4XZZ, 
GM4IKU, GM4VJV,  
MM3SRU,
          MM3ISA and MM1CPP/MM3IDM. Look for activity 
as MM0CPS/P 
during  the
          week before the contest from around 21 July.
QSL for both 
call signs
          via GM4UYZ. Further details  are available
at  
http://www.cpsarc.com
          [TNX M0RNR]
GM     - Forth  Valley  Contest  Group  members 
John/MM0CCC,  
Robert/MM0ANT,
          Colin/GM0CLN,  Ian/GM4ZRR  and  Keith/GM0FZM
 will  be  
active  from
          Benbecula (EU-010) on  24-28 July, including
 an entry  in 
the  IOTA
          Contest as  GM4V  (QSL  via  MM0ANT). 
Updates  will  be  
posted  on
          http://www.gm4v.co.uk/ [TNX GM0CLN]
GM     - Ed, G3SQX will participate in the IOTA
Contest as GM7X from 
the Isle
          of Arran  (EU-123). The  entry will  be in 
the CW  section,  
either
          12-hour or 24-hour.  QSL via G3SQX 
(requests for  bureau 
cards  are
          welcome at [email protected]). [TNX G3SQX]
HL     - Maeng, 6K2BYF  will  be active  (on  10-10
metres  SSB  and  
CW)  as
          6K2BYF/3 from Anmyon  Island (AS-080) on 
20-23 June,  All 
Asian  DX
          Contest included.  QSL via  home call, 
either direct  (Maeng  
Seong
          Youl, P.O.  Box 12,  Pocheon 487-600,  South
Korea)  or 
through  the
          bureau. [TNX DS4NMJ]
HL     - DS5AAQ, DS5ACV, DS5ARL,  DS5DNO, DS5DYM,
DS5KJR  and DS5MNO 
will  be
          active during the IOTA Contest as 
homecall/p from Ch'angson  
Island
          (AS-081). QSL via bureau to their respective
home calls. [TNX 
NG3K]
I      - Look for IZ7AUH/p and  IZ7FLT/p to be  active
(on 40,  20, 15 
and  6
          metres) from Chianca d'Abramo (EU-091, IIA 
LE-017) on 25 
June.  QSL
          via home calls, bureau or direct. [TNX
IZ7AUH]
I      - Special event station IR8P will be activated
by operators from 
ARI -
          Pomigliano d'Arco on 26 June. [TNX I8JOQ]
I      - Look for Vesuvio DX Team member IZ8FDH to be
active as 
IF9/IZ8FDH on
          all bands, 6  metres included, from 
Favignana (AF-019, IIA  
TP-011)
          from 29 June  to 6 July.  QSL via  home
call,  either direct  
(Paolo
          Capobianco, Via  Enrico Cocchia  26, 80124 
Napoli -  NA, 
Italy)  or
          through the bureau. [TNX IZ8DDG]
I      - IZ8CGS, IK8VRH, IZ8CCW  and CW operator 
IK0ESW will 
participate  in
          the IOTA Contest as either IL7M or
IL7/IZ8CGS from the island 
of San
          Domino (EU-050, IIA  FG-001). QSL via 
IZ8CGS either direct  
(Gianni
          Marruccella, P.O. Box 5, 80029 S. Antimo -
NA, Italy) or 
through the
          bureau. [TNX IZ8CCW]
I      - Giovanni/IK8LIU,    Enzo/IK8YTG,    
Fabio/IZ1EGT,     
Marco/IZ7DOK,
          Oreste/IZ8EDJ and Francesco/IZ8EQF will
operate  (as either 
IC8M  or
          IC8/IK8LIU on  HF and  6 metres,  SSB and 
CW) from  Licosa   
Island
          (EU-031, IIA SA-001) on 2-3 August. QSL via
IZ8EDJ. The web 
page  is
          at http://www.mdxc.org/ic8m [TNX IZ8EDJ]
I      - IO1DCI will  be the  call of  the special 
station to  be  
activated
          during the  2nd  DCI  (Italian  Castles 
Award,  
http://www.dcia.it)
          Meeting organized by ARI Mondovi' on 20-21
September.
IS0    - Stefano, IK5PWQ will be active as IM0/IK5PWQ
from San Pietro  
Island
          (EU-165, IIA CA-013) on 1-14  July. Look for
 him especially 
on  20m
          SSB and 30 & 40m CW between 20 and 22 UTC.
Logs will be 
available at
          http://www.qsl.net/ik5pwq. QSL via home call
either direct  
(Stefano
          Ceccotti, Piazza Dante Alighieri 3/AL, 56030
 Cascine di Buti 
-  PI,
          Italy) or through the bureau (e-mail
requests for bureau 
cards  will
          be welcome at [email protected]). [TNX
IK5PWQ]
JA     - Look for JJ8DEN/6 to be active (CW and
RTTY)from Yakushima  
(AS-032)
          on 12-14  July.  QSL via  JJ8DEN  either 
direct  (Yoshitake  
Izumi,
          Minami-24-7, Nishi-1,  Obihiro-City, 
Hokkaido, 080-0011  
Japan)  or
          through the bureau. [TNX JI6KVR]
JA     - Kenji, JA4GXS will participate in the IOTA
Contest as JA4GXS/4  
from
          Yashiro Island (AS-117). He will  operate
both CW  and SSB 
and  will
          remain on the island  until 23 UTC  on 27
July.  QSL via home  
call,
          either direct or through the bureau. [TNX
JI6KVR]
OH     - OH6HJE, OH6NJ,  OH6UV and  OH6XX will  be
active  (on  HF, 6  
and  2
          metres) as  OH6AW/8 from  Marjaniemi
Lighthouse  on Hailuoto  
Island
          (EU-184) from 27 June to 1 July. QSL via
OH6AD. [TNX OH6NJ]
S7     - John, G4IRN will be active as S79IRN from the
Seychelles 
(AF-024) on
          13-16 and  23-27  September, before  and 
after  his  
activity  from
          Mayotte (see FH above). He  will operate
mainly  CW on 10-40  
metres
          and will run 100 watts into  a vertical
antenna. QSL via home  
call.
          [TNX G4IRN]
TA     - TA1E, HB9DUR, IK2AQZ, IW2HUZ and SM0JHF will
be active (on HF 
SSB, 6
          and 2 metres) as YM0KA  from Bozcaada
(AS-099)  on 20-25 
June.  [TNX
          IK2AQZ]
T32    - La Mar, T32Z is returning to Kiritimati
(Christmas) Island 
(OC-024).
          He expects to  arrive on 30  June and
operate  (on 6  metres 
and  HF
          bands, SSB, CW and some digital  modes) as
time permits for  
several
          weeks. QSL via K3PD (please direct any
questions about the 
operation
          or QSLs to [email protected]). [TNX K3PD]
T5     - Baldur/DJ6SI is currently  active, mainly on
CW, as T5X from 
Somali.
          QSL via home call.
TG     - Mario/TG9ADQ, Francisco/TG9ANF, Edgar/TG9AXF 
and Sergio/TG9SM  
will
          operate (on 40, 20,  17 and 15  metres SSB,
RTTY,  PSK and 
SSTV)  as
          TG0AA on 29-30 June (from 18 UTC to 18 UTC).
The activity 
will  take
          place from Pacaya, an active volcano located
some 17 miles 
away from
          Guatemala City. A special QSL  will be
issued  via TG9AXF 
(P.O.  Box
          57, Mixco 01957, Guatemala). [TNX TG9ANF]
UA     - RA6EAG,  RA6ED,  RN6FJ,  RV6HJD,  RW6HKF, 
RZ6HGG,  UA6ECU,  
UA6EDQ,
          UA6EDU, UA6EM and UA6EZ will operate (on
80-15 metres SSB and 
CW) as
          homecall/p from Gidam-Bashi, a mountain
(2410m  a.s.l.) in 
the  Main
          Caucasus Range on  25-29 June.  QSLs via 
bureau or  direct 
to  home
          calls. [TNX RW6HKF]
UA     - Igor, RA3QSY and  Alex, RW3QDE  will be 
active as  RF3QFF 
from  the
          Natural Reserve of Voronezhsky on 27-30
June. QSL via RA3QSY  
either
          direct (Igor Makeev, P.O.Box 2, Voronezh,
394010, Russia) or 
through
          the  bureau  (e-mail  requests  for  bureau 
cards  are  
welcome  at
          [email protected]). [TNX RA3QSY]
V3     - Jay, K0BCN (V31MX) and Cal,  V31MF will be 
active (on 10-80  
metres
          SSB with  some  CW)  from  Caye  Caulker 
(NA-073)  on  23-29  
July,
          including an entry in the IOTA  Contest by
Cal.  QSL both 
calls  via
          K0BCN, direct or bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
VE     - Mike/K9AJ [425DXN  621], Jim/K9PPY  and 
maybe Susan/K9XYL  
will  be
          active (CW and SSB hopefully with two
stations) as 
homecall/VY0 from
          Somerset Island (NA-???) on 13-20 July. Mike
will be in the  
Nunavut
          region from  11  to 26  July  and he  plans 
to  operate  
also  from
          Cornwallis Island (NA-009) and/or Baffin
Island (NA-047), as 
well as
          from Southampton Island (NA-007) on 22-24
July. QSL via home  
calls.
          [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
XU     - Hiroo, XW2A will be active as XU7ADX from
Cambodia the last 
week  of
          June. QSL via XW2A. Please note  that his
address has 
changed:  send
          your cards plus return postage (IRCs only,
not dollars) to 
P.O.  Box
          10003, Vientiane, Laos. [TNX The Daily DX]
YA     - Dan, JA1PBV (YA1BV) has been in Kabul since
early this week 
and will
          be moving  soon  to Kandahar,  where  he
will  operate  as  
YA1BV/P,
          especially on the  digital modes. After  his
South  Pacific 
tour  in
          August (see below), on 1 September  Dan will
be back to  
Afghanistan
          and remain there until March 2004. [TNX
JA1PBV]
YI     - Dane, YI/S57CQ, one  of the UN  World Food 
Programme workers,  
will
          stay in Northern Iraq for the  next few
months. He is active  
mostly
          during the weekends, with 100 watts into a
multiband dipole. 
QSL via
          S57DX (Slavko Celarc,  Ob Igriscu 8,  1360
Vrhnika, 
Slovenia).  [TNX
          S57DX]
YB     - YE9R is the call issued for the operation
from Rote Island  
(OC-241)
          that was previously announced  to take place
 as 8A9R [425DXN  
625].
          Kadek, YC9BU and others will be  there for
another couple of  
weeks.
          QSL direct only to YC9BU (Kadek Kariana SP,
P.O. Box 106,  
Singaraja
          81100, Bali, Indonesia). [TNX YC9BU]
YU     - This year the Serbia & Montenegro  team (33
operators) will  
compete
          as YT0HQ in the IARU HF World Championship
on 12-13 July. All 
of the
          QSOs will be confirmed automatically via
bureau. [TNX YU1ZZ]
YV     - The Grupo  DX  Caracas and  the  Asociacion
de  
Radioaficionados  de
          Venezuela will operate  (on 160-6 metres 
SSB and CW)  as 
YW8D  from
          either La Cotorra or Remediadora (both the
islands count for 
SA-063)
          on 20-24 June. QSL via W4SO (maildrop). [TNX
YY5JMM]

SOUTH PACIFIC TOUR  ---> Dan, JA1PBV  reports he  will
operate  as H44V  
from
Guadalcanal (OC-047), Solomon Islands  on 5-9 August 
and (along with  
Kazuo,
P29KM) as H40V from the Santa Cruz Islands (Temotu) on
11-16 August. He  
will
also sign P29SI  from Port Moresby,  Papua New  Guinea
before  going 
back  to
Japan around 20 August.
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

4L QSL BUREAU ---> NARG (National  Association
Radioamateurs of 
Georgia)  has
been ammitted  to IARU  membership effective  4  April
2003.  NARG  
President
Mamuka Kordzakhia,  4L2M reports  that the  address 
for their  
incoming  QSL
bureau is P.O. Box 123, Tbilisi, 380004, Republic of
Georgia.

7Q7/10JUNE ---> The various Portuguese communities
around the world are  
used
to celebrating Portugal Day (10 June) and this year
Vasco, 7Q7CT, was 
granted
permission by the Malawi Communications Regulatory 
Authorithy to 
operate  as
7Q7/10JUNE from 7 to 15 June 2003. "Those who worked
Vasco with the 
call sign
7Q7/10JUNE made a legitimate contact", Leo/CT1CSN
says, "and can ask 
for  the
confirmation through his QSL Manager ZS6AMX".

QSL 5H3RK ---> The correct address for Ralph
5H3RK/VK4VB is: Ralph 
Karhammar,
6 Seven  Oaks  St., Taringa,  QLD  4068, Australia. 
Ralph  will  be  
leaving
Tanzania soon,  but will  arrange subsequent 
collections of  cards 
from  the
Embassy as he expects they will keep  dropping in for
at least another  
year.
[TNX KI4RU]

QSL 9K2ZZ ---> Bob, 9K2ZZ will  be QRT from Kuwait
this  weekend and 
his  QSL
manager (W8CNL) would like to wrap up the QSLing  by
the end of the 
year.  "I
have about 3000 cards left", he  says, "and quite sure
no  more will 
ever  be
ordered". Requests  should be  sent  direct only  to 
Raymond H.  
McClure,  5
McKenzie Circle, North Augusta, SC 29841-4319, USA.
[TNX OPDX Bulletin]

QSL HC4/NP3D/P --->  Andy, NP3D has  ordered special
cards  for the  
contacts
made from La Isla (SA-056) in May and is waiting for
them to arrive 
from  the
printer. He made 76 QSOs on  20m SSB (between 22.32
UTC on  22 May and  
16.47
UTC on the 23rd)  and 307 QSOs  on 15m CW  (between
18.30 UTC  on 24 
May  and
16.16 UTC on  the 25th). Cards  for these contacts 
may be obtained  
directly
from Andy rather than through Joe, W3HNK. [TNX KD6WWW]

QSL OZ/G0GRC ---> Alan, G0RCI reports  that all cards
for the Grantham  
ARC's
operation from Vendsyssel-Thy, Fur and Mors  (EU-171)
have been 
delivered  to
the RSGB bureu. All direct cards have been answered as
well.

QSL MANAGER  OFFERED --->  Gert E.  Janssens, K5WW  
(http://www.qsl.net/k5ww)
offers his services as QSL manager to the  DX
community. A member of 
The  QSL
Managers' Society, Gert has several years of
experience handling the 
incoming
and outgoing  QSL  for the  members  of two  large 
clubs and  their  
contest
stations. Gert accepts paper and/or electronic logs
and since he now 
lives in
a "no antennas  welcome" neighborhood, he  has plenty
of  time to help  
other
DXers with their QSL. All requests are welcome at
[email protected]
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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH

EU SPRINT: Results and logs of the European Sprint
Contest/Spring CW 
(held on
            19 April) are  now available  at 
http://www.qsl.net/eusprint  [TNX
            I2UIY]
QSL DB:    Boye Christensen,  OZ7C  has updated  his 
QSL  DBase  
(which  now
            contains 340,087 unique records) for 
Packet Cluster. The  
package
            can be downloaded at
http://www.qsl.net/oz7c/qsl [TNX OZ7C]
_____________________________________________________________________________

QSLs received direct: 3D2AG/R, 3G0Y, 3G1A, 3V8BB,
3V8KO, 3XY7C, 3XY8A,  
4L3Y,
5N1BHF, 5R8FU,  5T5HC,  5T5PBV, 5V7BR,  5V7XO,  5W0DL,
5W0TR,  5X1DC,  
7Q7HB,
7Q7LA, 7X0DX, 8A3M (OC-250), 8N1OGA, 9G5ZZ,
9M6/JA1HGY, 9N7YJ, 9Y4TBG, 
A22BP,
A25/DL1YFF, A52DA, A71AW, AH3D, AP2ARS, AX0LD, BO0M,
C31LJ, C56/DL7CM, 
C91CO,
CO2TI, CP4BT,  CP6XE, CY0MM,  CY9DH, D2CR,  D44AC,
D44TD,  DU6/DK6PD,  
EA9IE,
EK3SA, EL2RF, EY8CQ, FG/T93M, FO0FR, FO0FRY, FO0PT,
FP5KE, FR/F6KDF/T, 
FR5ZL,
FW0DX, FW5ZL,  FW8FP,  H40T, H44H,  H44V,  H7DX,
HC1OT,  HH6/DM2AYO,  
HI3LFE,
HK0GU, HK3AXY, HP1/F5PAC  (NA-072), HP2/F5PAC 
(NA-202), HP3/F5PAC  
(NA-071),
HP4/F5PAC (NA-088),  HP9/F5PAC (NA-203),  HQ8V, J37K, 
J75KG, JD1YBJ,  
JT1BE,
JT1BH, JT1CO,  K8T,  K9YNF/HR9,  KB5GL/5  (NA-089), 
KB7OBU/KH2,  
KH2/JA1HGY,
KH2/JJ2QXI, KH2TX, KL7AC,  N6XIV/KH9, NH2PW,
OD5/OK1MU,  OH0B, OJ0SM,  
OY7ET,
OY7QA, OY7TW,  P29SI,  PJ2/WI9WI,  PJ5/K3RGD,  PR0F, 
PV8DX,  R0POL,  
RA9LI/9
(AS-083),  RI6AAA,   RK6CZ/P   (EU-185),  S05X,  
S21YY,   SU9BN,   
SV5/SM8C,
SV9/DL7VOG/P, SV9CVY, T2DA, T94MZ, TF8GX, TI1C,
TI2/AK0A, TK5T, TR8CA, 
TU2XZ,
TY5ZR, UA1ONY/P (EU-035), UA6CW/P (EU-185),  V60A
(OC-259), V60A/P  
(OC-260),
VK9LS, VK9XC, VK9XE, VP2MDY, VP2V/AH7G, VP8LGT, 
VP9ID, XE1UN, XQ6ET,  
XT2DX,
XU7ACG, XV3TAA, XX9C  (AS-075), YI/S57CQ, YI9OM, 
YL1XX, YN4SU, Z32M,  
Z32ZM,
ZA1B, ZF2FK, ZK1AGG, ZK1AKX, ZL7C, ZS1RBN (AF-064),
ZS23I (AF-077).
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