[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #633
Mike ZooLoo
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Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
21 June 2003
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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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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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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]
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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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