[KCDXC] Fwd: 425 DX News #627
Mike ZooLoo
[email protected]
Sat, 10 May 2003 08:41:58 -0700 (PDT)
10 May 2003
No
627
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3V - Francois, F8DVD plans to be active on
SSB from Djerba
Island
(AF-083) using the call sign of the Djerba
Scouts Radio Club,
3V8SM
from 23 June to 4 July. QSL via F8DVD (by
special
permission of
Mustapha, DL1BDF) either direct (Francois
Bergez, 6 rue
Liberte,
71000 Macon, France) or via the REF bureau.
[TNX VA3RJ]
7P - Two other operators have joined the
team of the 18-25
July
DXpedition to Lesotho [425DXN 623]. The
group now includes:
Charles
F. "Frosty" Frost (K5LBU/7P8CF,
http://www.k5lbu.com),
Madison Jones
(W5MJ/7P8MJ), Neil King (VA7DX/7P8NK), Tom
Anderson
(WW5L/7P8TA),
Dave Anderson (K4SV/7P8DA) and Igor Zdorov
(W0IR/7P8IZ).
This will
be an all mode, all band operation with
beams, dipoles, a
couple of
amplifiers and hopefully at least one
station on the air 24
hours a
day. 7P8CF and 7P8TA will be the main phone
operators, while
7P8MJ,
7P8NK, 7P8DA, and 7P8IZ will be mostly CW
and digital
modes. The
DXpedition is under the aegis of
the Texas DX
Society
(http://www.tdxs.net/) and the Lone
Star DX
Association
(http://www.dxer.org/lsdxa). QSL via each
operator's home
call. For
additional information please contact
K5LBU
([email protected]) or
WW5L ([email protected]). A web page will be
announced later. [TNX
WW5L]
CT - A multi-national team (including CT1APE,
CT1CJJ, CT1EEB,
CT1ILT,
CT2GLO, EA1CA, EA1DKV, EA4ABE, EA4ST, EA5FX
and N5KO with
help of
EA1MC) will be active from Ons Island
(EU-080) on 25-27
July and
will participate in the IOTA Contest as
ED1ONS. One
station will
also be active in 50, 144 and 432 Mhz "for
the
true-believers". A
web page is under construction at
http://www.qsl.net/ed1ons
(on line
logs will be available). QSL via ED4URJ
either direct
(Seccion
Comarcal URE Jarama, P.O. Box 123, 28700 San
Sebastian de Los
Reyes
(Madrid), Spain) or through the bureau. [TNX
CT1EEB]
DL - H7AX, DH1LA and DL2VFR will be active (on
80-10 metres SSB
and CW)
from Hiddensee Island (EU-057, O-005 for
the German Islands
Award)
from 29 May to 1 June. They will operate
from the Dornbusch
(ARLHS
FED-026, German Lighthouse nr. 17) and
Gellen (ARLHS FED-088,
GL 22)
lighthouses. QSL via home calls either
direct or through the
bureau.
The web site for the German
Lighthouses Award
is at
http://www.lighthouse-award.com [TNX DL2VFR]
EA6 - Peter, DL8YR reports he will be active as
EA6/DL8YR/p
from the
Balearic Islands (EU-004) on 14-28 May,
CQ WW WPX CW
Contest
included. QSL via home call.
ER - Special station ER0ITU will be active from
Moldova on 12-17
May to
celebrate the World Telecommunications
Day. QSL direct to
ER1DA
(Valery Metaxa, P.O. Box 3000, Chisinau,
MD-2071, Moldova)
or via
the bureau. [TNX ER1DA]
GM - Look for the Vital Sparks Group (MM0VSG) to
be active as
MM0VSG/p,
MM0DFV/p and GM0EZP/p from Bute Island
(EU-123) on 10 May.
QSLs via
CBA (see http://www.qrz.com). [TNX MM0DFV]
GM - Bob/N5ET, Linda/KE5TF and Peter/GM3OFT expect
to be QRV as
MM/N5ET/P
on 15, 20, and 40 metres from Raasay Island
(EU-008) from 9
UTC on
31 May for about 5 hours, and from Great
Cumbrae Island
(EU-123)
from 11.30 UTC on 4 June for about 6 hours.
Direct QSLs via
GM3OFT
(Europe only) and N5ET (others) or bureau.
[TNX GM3OFT]
HC - Andy, NP3D is going to Ecuador and reports
he plans to
operate as
follows:
19-20 May: HC1/NP3D (along with Taka,
HC1/JA2JPA) from near
Quito
21-23 May: HC4/NP3D/p (along with Alex,
HC1AJQ/4 and
Taka,
HC4/JA2JPA/p) from La Plata
Island (SA-033) on SSB
24-25 May: HC4/NP3D for the CQ WW WPX CW
Contest from the
mainland.
HK - Pedro, HK3JJH will be active from El Morro
Grande SA-082
(HK2) on
3-8 June. He will operate mostly on 20
metres SSB. QSL
direct only
to Pedro J. Allina, P.O. Box 81119, Bogota,
Colombia. [TNX
HK3JJH]
I - Vanni, IK4RUX will be active as IG9/IK4RUX
from Lampedusa
(AF-019,
IIA AG-001) on 17-23 May. He plans to
operate also
from the
lighthouse at Capo Grecale (WAIL SI-020).
QSL via home call,
either
direct or through the bureau.
IS0 - Marco, IK1YED reports he will be active (on
HF and 6 metres
SSB) as
IM0/IK1YED/p from Maddalena Island
(EU-041, IIA SS-001) on
24-31
May. He also plans to operate from Caprera
(EU-041, SS-005)
during
that time frame.
JA - Kaoru/JA3MCA, Aru/JA0KNM, Jun/JJ1EQW and
Kai/JE3NJZ will be
active
as homecall/JR6 from Hateruma Island
(AS-024) on 6-9 June.
They will
operate on 40-2 metres SSB and CW. QSL via
home calls either
dsirect
or through the bureau. [TNX JA3MCA]
KP2 - Ann/W2AZK and Brian/KF2HC, from the North
Jersey DX
Association
(http://www.njdxa.org), will be active
as homecall/KP2
from
St.Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands on 12-19 June.
They plan to
operate on
160-10 metres SSB and CW. QSL via home
calls either
direct or
through the bureau. [TNX KF2HC]
PY - LABRE/Sao Paulo members PU2OCZ, PY2HN and
PY2ZX will be
active (on
160-2 metres CW, SSB and FM) as PV2AA from
Comprida Island
(SA-024,
DIB 021) on 17-18 May. This is a joint
project between
LABRE/SP
(www.labre-sp.org) and the Sao Paolo City
University. QSL via
PY2AA
either direct (P.O. Box 22, 01059-970 Sao
Paulo - SP,
Brazil) or
through the bureau. [TNX PY2ZX]
PY - ZW8M is the callsign to be used on 21-25
May from Mexiana
Island
(SA-042) [425DXN 613]. Team members
include
Roberto/PT2GTI,
Daniel/PT7BI, Marcelo/PY8BI,
Rocha/PY8EA,
Moreira/CT1AHU,
Samuel/CT1EEN and Helmut/LU1YU. QSL via
CS1GDX. The web page
for the
operation is at
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/mexianaisland [TNX
CT1EEN]
SV5 - Goran, SM0CMH will be active (on 10-160
metres CW) as SV5/SM8C
from
Kalymnos Island, Dodecanese (EU-001) on
17-30 May. He
will
participate in the CQ WW WPX CW Contest as
J45KLN. QSLs via
SM0CMH
either direct or through the bureau. [TNX
SM0CMH]
SV9 - SV1GE, SV1RP, SV2DGH, SV2FPU and SV2GWB will
be active as SX9G
from
Gavdos Island (EU-187) on 4-15 June. QSL
via SV2DGH. The
web page
for the operation is at
http://www.qsl.net/sx9g [TNX SV2DGH]
TA - Metin, TA1ED will be active (on 10-80 metres
SSB) as TA1ED/0
from
Kekova Island (AS-115) on 15-18 May. QSL via
home call. [TNX
TA1ED]
V6 - Look for JA7ZP, JA7AGO and JA7HMA to be
active (on 10-40
metres CW
and SSB) as V63ZP, V63GO and V63DX from
Pohnpei (OC-010),
Micronesia
on 12-15 May. QSL to home calls. [TNX ARRL
DX Bulletin]
VE - Bob, VE3UUH reports that he and VE3GID
will operate as
VC3MCC
(instead of the announced VB3MCC) from
27 June to 4
July to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of Military
Communications in
Canada
[425DXN 623]. The web site is at
http://www.storm.ca/~scalver
VE - Len/VE9MY and Linda/VE9GLF will be on
Newfoundland (NA-027)
from 13
to 22 May. This is a working trip so their
operations will
be in
their evenings, but on 17-19 May they
will try to
operate from
nearby islands (NA-027 and NA-198). QSL via
home calls either
direct
or through the bureau. [TNX Islands On The
Web]
VE - Linda (VE9GLF) and Len Morgan (VE9MY)
plan to arrive
on the
Madeleine Islands (NA-038) [425dxn 611]
on 20 July
and be
operational for eight days. They will
have mobile and
portable
capabilities with 100 watts, beam, vertical
for 10, 15, 20
metres
and dipole for 40 metres. They are planning
on doing two
islands per
day depending on band conditions; during the
IOTA Contest
they will
operate with two stations. QSL via home
calls either
direct or
through the bureau (it is not necessary
to send a QSL
for each
contact- one QSL with a list is all right).
[TNX VE9MY]
VP9 - Merv, N6NO will be active (on 10-80
metres, possibly on
160m as
well) as N6NO/VP9 from Bermuda on 14-21 May.
He will focus on
CW and
his operating times will favour the
difficult Asia/Oceania
path. QSL
via home call. [TNX NG3K]
W - Operators from the United Radio Amateur Club
(http://www.k6aa.org)
will be active (on 10-80 metres CW and
SSB) as K6AA/P from
Santa
Catalina Island (NA-066) on 17-18 May. QSL
via K6AA. [TNX The
Daily
DX]
W - Look for WA6WPG/P to be active (on 10-40
metres SSB and CW)
from San
Miguel Island (NA-144) on 25-27 July. He has
made plans to
increase
his available power and should be able to be
on the air most
of the
three days he will be on the island. [TNX
Islands On The Web]
XU - Jaak, ES1FB will be active (on 40-6 metres,
mostly SSB)
again as
XU7ACE from Sihanoukville, Cambodia for ten
days starting on
11 May.
Weather permitting, he will operate from
AS-133 on 17-18
May. QSL
via ES1FB either direct or through the
bureau. [TNX ES1FB]
YO - Jean-Michel Duthilleul, F6AJA, Editor of
"Les Nouvelles
DX"
(http://LesNouvellesDX.free.fr), reports he
will once again
(for the
tenth year in a row) be active in his free
time as YO/F6AJA
from the
QTH of Silviu, YO8FZ in Suceava, Romania
on 19-28 May.
QSL via
F6AJA.
Z3 - Lothar, DJ7ZG and Babs, DL7AFS plan to be
active as Z38Z
from
Macedonia starting on 15 May for about ten
days. They will
operate
on 6-160 metres mainly RTTY, PSK and SSB
and will
concentrate on
North America and Japan. QSL via DL7AFS.
Their homepage
is at
http://www.qsl.net/dl7afs [TNX DJ7ZG]
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ARBE ---> The "Amateur Radio Balloning Experiment",
previously
scheduled to
take place on 10 May, has been postponed to 17 May
due to bad
weather. See
425 DX News #626 for the details; for further
information please email
Tibor,
IK2SAI ([email protected])
ARMED FORCES DAY ---> The US Army, Air Force, Navy,
Marine Corps and
Coast
Guard are co-sponsoring the annual military/amateur
radio
communications
tests in celebration of the 53rd Anniversary of
Armed Forces Day.
Although
the actual AFD is celebrated on 17 May, the AFD
Military/Amateur
Crossband
Communications Test will be conducted on 10 May
(local) so as not to
conflict
with the Dayton Hamvention scheduled for the same
weekend (May
17-19). The
annual celebration features traditional military
to amateur
crossband
communications test and the message receiving
test. QSL cards
will be
provided to those making contact with the
military stations.
Special
commemorative certificates will be awarded to anyone
who receives
copies of
the digital AFD message from the Secretary of
Defense. Further
details at
http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/af-day/armdfrcs-2003.html
DXCC NEWS ---> The following have been approved for
DXCC credit:
OJ0/OE1ZKC,
OJ0/JH1ARJ, OJ0/AH7X, OJ0/JR4PMX (Market Reef, 12-16
July 2001).
EAST TIMOR OFF THE AIR ---> The International
Telecommunications
Union had
assigned the prefix block 4WA-4WZ for use by radio
stations within the
areas
administered by UNTAET (United Nations Temporary
Administration of
East
Timor). This prefix assignment was for the use of
UNTAET as long
as it
existed, and was to be released to the ITU at the
end of its
existence.
"Since the UNTAET organization's charter in East
Timor expired May
20th of
2002", The Daily DX reports, "all ham radio operating
authority also
expired
on that date. A successor organization called UNMISET
does not have the
same
telecommunications and other authority that UNTAET
had; an emerging
East
Timor government is expected to take over
responsibility for
administrative
things such as ham radio licensing", but for the time
being it appears
that
East Timor is off the air. For DXCC purposes, UN
Temporary
Administration of
East Timor was added to the DXCC List with the
effective date of 1
March
2000.
NEW 10M CONTEST ---> The first edition of the 10
Meter Italian
Contest,
sponsored by the Mediterraneo DX Club
(http://www.mdxc.org/contestitalia),
will be held on 17-18 May. Participation is limited to
Italian amateurs
only.
NEW QSL ROUTES ---> The QSL Managers Society
(http://www.qsl.net/qslmanagers)
was created to protect and preserve Amateur Radio DX
and DXpedition
logs and
to make QSL cards available for all such logs, no
matter how old. In
March
2003, the QSL Managers Society was approached by
Bob Young, K4JDJ
about
taking over the logs that he was handling (many of
them were those
from the
late John Parrot, W4FRU) and on 5 April, Bob
Schenck/N2OO and Skip
Maze/N1IBM
drove down to Virginia to pick up 60 logs and some
100,000 blank QSL
cards.
Thirteen new QSL managers were solicited among the
members of
the QSL
Managers Society to take over these logs and on
23 April the
logs and
appropriate blank cards were shipped to their new
homes.
The new QSL routes for cards formerly handled by
W4FRU and/or K4JDJ
are the
following:
Station Via Period
---------------------------------------------------------------
1S0XV N2OO Apr-May 90
1S1RR N2OO 11-12 May 90
3W0A K2PF Jan 89-Feb 89
3W100HCM K2PF May 90
3W7A K2PF Mar 90
3X1Z K2PF Aug 81-Nov 82
5N0DOG NZ9Z 11 May 79-17 Mar 81
5N0RMJ K2PF Jun 80-Mar 81
5N20DOG NZ9Z Oct 80
5N20RMJ K2PF Oct 81
5N4ROF K1BV 21 Sep 80-13 Apr 81
5T5ZZ K1BV Jun 81-Dec 81
5Z4BI NZ9Z 2 Sep 89-4 Jul 93
8R1ZG NZ9Z 12 Feb 96-21 Jun 97
9M0S N2OO 26 May-2 Jun 93
9X5AA W9OL 15 Nov 87-19 Dec 89
A4XYS W9OL Sep 83-Mar 84
BS7H KU9C 1995 and 1997
E30GA N2OO 4-17 Nov 98
ET3USE W2GR 8 Dec 73-3 Feb 75
FB8WJ N2OO
FM5WE WF1N Oct 85-Dec 2001
FR7BE N1IBM Jun 78-Mar 79
J28EM W1TE Jul 85-Jul 87
KB4ATV/4S7 W9OL Apr 84
KX6PO W9OL 10 Jun 83-14 Dec 83
S21A N2VW Jul 92-Oct 95
S21B K2PF Nov 92-Apr 2000
S21NQ W2GR 5 Jun 91- 30 Sep 91
S21ZG AA1M 7 Dec 92-27 Jul 94
TA1A N1IBM 1 Mar 88-2 Jan 89
TO0R N2OO 26 Dec 96-2 Jan 97
TO0R/mm N2OO Jan-Feb 97
TYA11 W9OL 19-21 Jun 81
V29A W9OL Nov 88-May 91
VK0IR N2OO 14-27 Jan 97
VK4NIC/3X W2GR 7 Nov 80-20 Apr 81
VP8CBC N2OO Dec 94
VP8CRB N2OO Dec 94
VP8CRC N2OO Dec 94
VP8SGP N2OO 6-15 Jan 95
W3IVP/5N1 K2PF Mar-Apr 81
WZ6C/MM/S21 W2GR
WZ6C/S21 W2GR 18 Jan 92-31 May 92
WZ6C/ST4 W2GR 29 Nov 89-22 Oct 90
XV0SU K2PF Apr 90
XV0SU/mm K2PF Apr 80
XV100HCM K2PF May 90
YB1AQC W9OL 16 Feb 88-11 Oct 88
ZD7BJ N1IBM Dec 86-Sep 96
ZD7HH N1IBM 14 Sep 79-4 Jan 81, 26 May
00-12 Oct 00
ZD7XY N1IBM 20 Oct 95-7 Jun 96
ZD8HH N1IBM 25 Mar 87-5 May 90
ZD8XX W9OL 5 Aug 89-24 Aug 89, 30 May
91-10 Jun 91
ZD9BV WB2YQH 1 Mar 81-17 Oct 2000
ZD9CK WF1N Mar 86-Oct 87
ZD9CN K1BV Jun 90-Jul 90
ZD9CO WF1N Aug 90-Dec 91, Jan 93-Nov 93
ZD9YL WF1N May 82-Sep 83
ZS1EDR K1BV May 90-Mar 92
NOT THE MANAGER ---> Mats, JH6VLF is not the QSL
manager for DU1ZV.
Cards
should be sent to either JA1BRK (bureau or direct)
or via the
Philippine
Amater Radio Assciation. Cards already received by
JH6VLF have been
sent to
JA1BRK. [TNX JH6VLF]
PIRATE ---> Ken Brown, N6KB ([email protected])
is the trustee of
club
call NH7O, formerly KH7K. He reports that KH7K
"was revoked by
the FCC
shortly after our club used the call in the 2001 CQ
160 CW Contest", as
"2X1
K suffix KH7 calls are reserved for Kure Island".
Ken reports he
receives
QSLs for KH7K almost weekly, but "these QSLs are all
for QSOs that
could have
never happened. Most are for bands that KH7K never
operated on, and
many are
for dates after FCC revoked the callsign". [TNX
QRZ-DX]
QSL EM0U ---> Apparently there was confusing
information about
the QSL
manager for this station. Alex, UT3UZ states that the
official QSL
routes for
EM0U are: for SSB and CW contacts via UT3UZ, for RTTY
and PSK
contacts via
UT7UW.
QSL VIA I2VGW ---> Gabriele, I2VGW reports he is going
to close the
logs for
his operations as ID9/I2VGW, IH9/I2VGW, IG9/I2VGW
(1996-1997),
VK9NR and
VK5ASK (1998). Those who still need a card should sent
their request as
soon
as possible to Gabriele Villa, P.O. Box 966, 20101
Milano - MI.
VI5WCP ---> Peter, VK3QI reports that the recent
VI5WCP operation from
from
Waldegrave Island (OC-261) was on the air for 110
hours and logged 6698
QSOs
(4326 SSB and 2372 CW). Most of the contacts were made
on 20m SSB
(2709) and
30m CW (1165). The continent breakdowns are
Europe/2727, Asia/2086,
North
America/1431, Oceania/411, Africa/23 and South
America/20.
WAICS ---> The Worked All Italian Club Stations award
(WAICS),
sponsored by
ARI Formia (IQ0FM), is available to either licenced
amateurs and
SWLs for
working club stations (the new IQ prefixes) from
Italy. For further
details
please visit
http://web.tiscali.it/ariformia/WAICS.htm or
e-mail
[email protected] (ARI Formia, P.O. Box 33,
04023 Formia - LT,
Italy).
[TNX IZ0EGC]
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SA-028: Pictures for the recent PY2TEL/P operation
from Anchieta
Island
(SA-028) will be posted on
http://www.py2tnt.com. The
operators were
Anderson/PY2TNT, Adriano/PY2AXH and
Andre/PU2TET. QSL via
PY2TEL.
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QSLs received direct: 3B8CF, 3C2MV, 3D2IZ
(OC-121), 3XA8DX, 3XY1L,
4D2B
(OC-092), 4L6AM, 4U1VIC, 5N0MVE, 5R8GZ, 5T5PBV,
5U7JK, 5X1CW, 5X1DC,
5Z4FM,
6D2X, 7X2DG, 8P9NX, 9E1S, 9J2BO, 9L1AB, 9M0M
(AS-051), 9Q1A/2,
9U0X,
9Y4/DL6RAI, 9Y4TBG, A41KB, A71EM, A92ZE, AH2K/KH0,
AH8A, BY1DX, C53CW,
C98RF,
CE2LZR, CE9/R1ANF, CO8EJ, CO8ZZ, CY0MM, D44TD, D44TT,
D4B, DP1POL,
DU9/N0NM,
DX0C (OC-120), EW1WZ, EY7AF, FJ/AK7G, FM5GU,
FO/N5XX, FS/AH8DX,
FS/G3TXF/p
(NA-199), GB2PL, GJ2A, H44V, H6C, HH4/K4QD, HH6/DL7CM
(NA-149), HK3CW,
HQ8V
(NA-223), HR4/YN4SU, HS0ZBS, J75KG, J88DR, K8O,
K9YNF/HR9, KL7J,
KL9A,
KP4JRS, L65W (SA-065), LU1ZA, LW9DAH, OD5/OK1MU, OH0B,
OH0RJ, P29SI,
P29VMS,
P29VR, P3F, P40PW, PJ2/WI9WI, PJ2EL, PJ7/W3HNK,
PJ9/ON4CFD, PP5XZ,
PV8DX,
PW0T, R1ANM, RK0SWA/P (RR-21-01), RU9G, RW3TN/R9Z,
RW9G, S21YY, T97M,
TG9ASO,
TI5/N0ZA, UA0FDX, UA3YH/0, UK9AA, V31DJ, V31MD,
V31QQ, V51AS, VK9LO,
VP2EN,
VU2TRI, W2002WTC, WA6WPG/p, XF1/N5XX, XF1K
(NA-167), XX9C, YA1BV,
YA5T,
YI9OM, YN4SU, YW1T (SA-066), ZC4BS, ZD8Z, ZK1CG,
ZK1TLA, ZK2GI,
ZL1/PA3GIO/p
(OC-201).
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