16 October
2004
No 702
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
6O - Joe, VA6JWT (6O0JT) has postponed
his trip to Galkayo, in the
Puntland autonomous area of Somalia
[425DXN 701] until 21 October.
[TNX The Daily DX]
6W - Albert, F5VHJ and Jacques, F6BEE will operate
as 6W1RY and 6W1RW
(the latter mostly
on CW) from Senegal from 24 October to 1
November. QSL via home calls.
Look for 6W1RY to participate in the
CQ WW DX SSB Contest (SOAB). [TNX
F5VHJ]
A5 - A52CDX is the callsign for the operation
that four Clipperton DX
Club members will conduct
from Thimphu and Jakar, Bhutan from 24
October to 11 November [425DXN
701]. QSL via F9DK.
F - F6HDH and F6HKS will operate as homecall/P from
Cap Bear Lighthouse
(PB-148, ARLHS FRA-212) on
16-17 October. They will operate 40, 20
and 15 metres CW and SSB. QSL via
home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
F5NQL]
FP - Suggested frequencies for the
23 October-2 November FP/VE7SV
operation from Miquelon Island
(NA-032) [425DXN 686] are 1822, 3502,
7002, 10102, 14022, 18072, 21022,
24892, 28022 and 50102 kHz (CW);
1842, 3795, 7052, 14195,
18145, 21295, 24945, 28495 and 50102 kHz
(SSB); 3570, 7035, 10137, 14085,
18100, 21085, 24920 and 28075 kHz
(RTTY); 3580, 7037, 10140, 14071,
18100, 21071, 24920 and 28071 kHz
(PSK31). The
pilot for the expedition is
Paul, VE7AVV
(ve7avv@hotmail.com). QSL
via N7RO, direct or bureau. Complete
details can be found at http://www.bcdxc.org/st_pierre_miquelon.htm
FR/G - Didier/F5OGL, Dany/F5CW, Freddy/F5IRO, Pascal/F5PTM and maybe others
plan to operate from the
Glorioso Islands (AF-011) for a couple of
weeks is May 2005. Plans
are subject to change, even at the very
last moment, owing to
the international situation, as all the
operators are military personnel.
QSL via F5CQ. Further information
is expected in due course. [TNX LA
Gazette du DX]
FY - F4AJQ, F5AGB, F5CW, F5TVG, F5VHQ, F6AML, F8BJI, F9IE and
OE3GCU will
operate (on 160-6 metres CW, SSB,
RTTY and PSK31) as TO7C from Iles
du Salut (SA-020, DIFO
FY-008), French Guiana on 10-17 March. QSL
via F9IE, either direct
(Bernard Chereau, P.O. Box 211, 85330
Noirmoutier en l'Ile, France)
or through the bureau. The web site
for the operation is at http://to7c.free.fr/
[TNX F5NQL]
G - Look for M0GAR/P to be active from Lindisfarne Island
(EU-120) from
10 to 16 UTC on 17 October. QSL via
M0GAR. [TNX VA3RJ]
I - Operators from ARI Scandicci (www.ariscandicci.it)
will beactive as
IQ5BL/P during the annual Ham Fair
on 14-17 October. This operation
will count as B962 for
Italian Towns Award (www.aripompei.it). QSL
via bureau. [TNX IZ5FSA]
I - IU0SRT, IU3SRT, IU6SRT, IU7SRT, IO8SRT and
IR8SRT are the special
calls to be aired
during the Strange Radio Team event on 22-24
October [425DXN 697].
The special event station will be II8SRT.
Information is available at http://www.strangeradioteam.com
or from
the Event Manager Marco
De Carlo, IZ7DOK (iz7dok@libero.it) [TNX
IZ8EDJ]
JA - Look for JA5BEX/SO2005 to operate from Megishima
(AS-076) on 16-17
October. QSL via home call, bureau
or direct. SO2005 celebrates the
Special Olympics World Winter Games
that will be held in Nagano in
February-March 2005. [TNX JI6KVR]
KC4_ant- The Daily DX reports that Nick, NH6ON will be back to
Antarctica
between 6 November and
15 December for his annual communications
engineering trip.
He hopes to operate from KC4AAA
at the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole station
(K-08 for the Antarctica Award).
KH8 - Lee, KH6BZF will be active in his spare
time as WH8/KH6BZF from
American Samoa (OC-045) on
22-28 October. He plans to operate on
15-80 metres, plus 12 amd
10 metres depending on conditions. QSL
direct only to KH6BZF. [TNX The
Daily DX]
P4 - Mike, OK2PBM is active as P40H from Aruba (SA-036) until 21
October.
Typically he can be found on 14020
kHz at 16-18 UTC and on 30 and 40
metres CW starting aorund 21 UTC.
PY_ssh - ZW0CF and ZX0GTI are the calls to be used in November [425DXN 692]
from the Brazilian
station "Comandante Ferraz" (PY-01 for the
Antarctica Award) on King
George Island, South Shetlands (AN-010).
The activity is expected to
take place on 160-6 metres SSB, RTTY,
PSK31, CW and SSTV from 11 to
19 November. PT2DX/MM might be aired
from the "Ary Rongel"
during the voyage; weather permitting, there
might be also some activity
from Elephant Island (AN-010) on 7-8
November. QSL via PT2GTI. [TNX
PT2HF]
TX_ci - The voyage to the Chesterfield Islands started from Noumea around 3
UTC on 11 October and the German
team of operators became active on
the 14th. TX9 is the special
(and full!) call being used. QSL via
DL5NAM (SSB and RTTY) and
DL4XS (CW and 6m). The web site for the
DXpedition is at
www.df3cb.com/chesterfield
VE - Look for VA3YDX, VE3GKW and VE3/ER1MF to be
active (on 80, 40, 20
and 15 metres SSB, CW,
RTTY and PSK) on 22-25 October from the
following Canadian islands:
Manitoulin (CISA ON-001), Barrie (CISA
ON-015), Great Clotche
(CISA ON-016), Little Clotche (CISA new),
Birch (CISA ON-017), Parry (CISA
ON-029) and Goat (CISA ON-072). If
conditions permit, they will
also try to operate from other "new"
islands. QSL via home calls. [TNX
VA3YDX]
VE - Jeffrey, VE3JFF will operate as VC3W
between 23 October and 23
December to celebrate the
175th anniversary of the opening of the
first Welland Canal (29 November
1829). He plans to operate from a
couple of islands located in
the the old and current canals: The
Island (CIsA ON-110, Not
IOTA) on 13 November starting at 17 UTC,
and Merritt (CIsA ON-109, not
IOTA) on 14 November starting at 17
UTC. QSL via VE3JFF
(Jeffrey Hetherington, 139 Elizabeth Street
West, Welland, ON L3C 4M3, Canada).
[TNX VA3RJ]
VK - VK4WRE is the callsign issued to Paul, G0WRE
[425DXN 697] for his
current activity
from Magnetic Island (OC-171), which is now
expected to continue until 17
October. QSL via G0WRE (all QSOs will
be confirmed automatically via the
RSGB bureau). [TNX G4NXG]
VK - Johan, PA3EXX has changed the itinerary of
his IOTA trip [425DXN
692], and will now
operate as VK4WWI/8 from the Bremer Islets
(OC-185, 30-31 October) and
Centre Island (OC-198, 1-2 November).
These islands are easier to travel
to and he will have more time to
operate. His other two activities -
from Sweers Island (OC-227, 3-4
November) and the
unnumeberd Marion Reef (8-12 November) - are
confirmed. He will operate SSB and
CW (on OC-185 he will concentrate
on CW and the WARC
bands because of the concurrent CQ WW DX SSB
Contest). QSL via home call. [TNX
PA3EXX]
W - KA3UNQ and N2US will operate (on +/- 14270 and 7270 kHz)
as N3L from
Maryland's Hooper Strait
Lighthouse (ARLHS USA-378) from 14 to 22
UTC on 16 October,
celebrating the 125th anniversary of the first
lighting. QSL direct to KA3UNQ.
[TNX N2US]
W - N8YC, KG8AP, K4BRI and maybe others plan to be active as
K8SCH from
Santa Rosa Island (NA-142, USI
FL-003S) on 25-29 October. The dates
are tentative, so if there are any
changes it will be plus or minus
one or two weeks at the most. QSL
via K8SCH. [TNX VA3RJ]
YI - YI9KT (SP8HKT) and YI9GT (SP3GTS) are both
located at the Polish
base near Al-Chilla. They
operate in their spare time and will be
stationed in Iraq until February
2005. YI9KT plans to operate on 160
metres CW this weekend. QSL card
requests will be processed when the
operators return home. [TNX SP7DRV]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
CALL FOR SUPPORT (ANDAMAN ISLANDS) ---> Manoj "Miku" Agarwal, VU2WAP and
Mrs.
Bharathi Prasad, VU2RBI (team leader of the 1987 expedition to the Andamans)
are both trying to get a permission to go and operate from VU4. Please note
that these are SEPARATE efforts, but there is NO competition between the two.
They are asking the worldwide DX community to provide
separate letters
supporting their applications. Their addresses are:
VU2WAP Manoj Agarwal, 44/1E Fairfield Layout Race Course
Road, Bangalore
560001, India
VU2RBI Mrs. Bharathi Prasad, Qtr. #1284, Type IV Special, Sector
12, R.K.
Puram, New Delhi 110022, India
Further information and suggestions can
be given by Randy, WX5L
(wx5l@charter.net, for VU2WAP) and Charly, K4VUD
(k4vud@hotmail.com, for
VU2RBI).
DXCC NEWS ---> 9U6PM (not 9U5, 425DXN 701) has been approved for DXCC credit,
effective 20 August 2004.
MIA ---> Corrado, IT9DAA reports that owing to the autumn and winter season,
the MIA Bulletin will no longer be published on a regular basis
until the
next spring.
PIRATE ---> Pierre-Marie, HB9DTM/F6FNL reports that his last QSOs
as 9U6PM
from Burundi were made on 26 Septemper during the CQ/RJ WW DX RTTY Contest.
Contacts after that date were made with someone who was pirating his call.
QSL YI9ZF ---> Eric, SM1TDE has received the final log file from Kas, YI9ZF.
The log (46,000+ QSOs in five months) is on line at www.qsl.net; all of the
outstanding QSL requests have been processed. [TNX SM1TDE]
QSL VIA HK3JJH ---> Pedro reminds island chasers that requests should be sent
direct only to Pedro J. Allina, P.O. Box 81119,
Bogota, Colombia. This
includes cards for his operations of 4-6 July (NA-132 and NA-133)
and 4-5
September from Margarita Island (YV7, SA-012).
QSL VIA VE2DWA (LU7DW) ---> Claudio, LU7DW has moved to Canada and
now is
VE2DWA. He has all of the logs and QSL cards for his operations
as AY7D,
CX/LU7DW (SA-030 and SA-057), KP2/AD6RC (NA-106),
L27DW, L47DW, L65W
(SA-065), L99D, LS7D (home and SA-055), LU7DW, LU7DW/p
(SA-055), LW0D,
LW8EXF/p (SA-055), N1LU/7 (NA-065) and OH0/VE2DWA (EU-002). Cards
can be
requested either via the Canadian bureau or direct to Claudio Fernandez, 200
rue North, Apart 14, Gatineau, QC J9H 6Y9, Canada. [TNX VE2DWA/LU7DW]
QSL VIA W8CNL ---> Raymond, W8CNL has uploaded all of the Kuwait logs of Bob,
9K2ZZ to LoTW. This covers all logs for 9K2ZZ, 9K9Z, 9K2ZZ/NLD and
9K2USA
(operator Bob Furzer only) - a total of almost 300,000 QSOs.
Raymond will
still handle paper cards (direct only) for these calls, except 9K2USA (he has
no cards for that one). [TNX W8CNL]
S92BWW ---> Marq, CT1BWW reports that he had to cut short his S92BWW activity
form Rolas Island (AF-023). He spent the second week on Sao Tome, where he he
was not able to operate.
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*** NEWS FROM THE WEB ***
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
ANTARCTICA AWARD: Gianni, IZ8CGS reports that the Rules for the
Antarctica
Award are now available in French (thanks to F5NQL) and
Croatian (thanks to 9A6AA) languages in the Download area
on www.mdxc.org/antarctica
GOLIST: Full details on
the Golist, a most valuable source of QSL
Manager routing information, and its various products and
services can be found at http://golist.net/
LOGvrr: The updated
manager files (by IV3EHH) for LOGvrr, as well
as the programmes for the Italian Islands and Sezioni ARI
awards, are now available at http://www.iv3ehh.it
[TNX
IV3EHH, iv3ehh@tin.it]
LOGS: The
log of GB0SM (EU-011) at www.qsl.net/g0pse/dxpeds.htm
has been updated and includes the QSOs of this year's DX
pedition (2-8 October).
E-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to either
thomas.taylor@btinternet.com or g0pse@qsl.net [TNX G0PSE]
LOGS: On
line logs for HF0QF and HF0POL operated by Voytek,
SP5QF are available at www.sp7iwa.republika.pl; current
logs include QSOs made through 18 September and they will
be updated as soon as Wanda, SP7IWA receives the new ones.
HF0QF/HF0POL operates from the Polish base "Arctowski"
(SP-01 for the Antarctica Award) on King George Island,
South Shetlands (AN-010). QSL via SP7IWA. Wanda is also
the Antarctica Award checkpoint for Poland. [TNX SP7IWA]
LOGS:
On-line logs for the recent IG9/IZ8CGS activity from
Lampedusa can be found at
http://www.mdxc.org/logsearch1.asp
(the log file name is
IG9-IZ8CGS2004(. [TNX IZ8CGS]
LOGS:
On-line logs, as well as a photo gallery
and QSO
statistics, for the recent LX/PA6Z operation can be found
at http://www.qsl.net/pa6z
[TNX PA5R]
LOGS:
Pictures and on-line logs for EC3ADC's activities from the
Pacific (3D2EA, 3D2EA/p, A35DX, T20DX, ZK3DX) can be found
at http://www.mdxc.org/ec3adc/
[TNX IZ8CCW]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
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CALL MANAGER
CALL MANAGER
CALL MANAGER
===================================================================
3D2AH DL2AH
EL2PM EI5IF
SM5/AC4LN UA4WHX
3D2PX AI5P
EM1HO I2PJA
ST2ZA SM7WZA
3D2TY JA7OV
FK8GM WB2RAJ
T30KU DL2AH
3D2YT JA7AQR
FR/PA3GIO PA3GIO
T6EE KE6GFF
3Z60LOK SP5KCR
FW7AQR JA7AQR
TJ3FR DJ7DF
4E72LA DU7LA
FW7OV JA7OV
TJ3SL F5PSA
4L0CR DJ1CW
HI9CF DL4NCF
TJ3SP DL7DF
4L6AM 4Z5CU
HJ6PRO EA5KB
TM6MXP F5KFL
4Z0V 4Z4KX
HK4SAN EA5KB
TM8AKR F2WS
5N44EAM IK2IQD
HS72B E20NTS
TR8CF F8BUZ
5X4/KH9AE W5WP
II0RAI IK0ZRR
TR8DF F5SWB
5X4CM W5WP
II9RAI IK0ZRR
TY5M PA7FM
5Z4YT1CS YT1CS
JW1EOA LA1EOA
UN5A DL8KAC
7Q7HB G0IAS
JW2VOA LA2VOA
V63NS V73NS
7W0AD EA4URE
JW6BKA LA6BKA
VI6175WA VK6NE
9H3AP DL1CW
JW7VW LA7VW
VK9LA VK4FW
9K50KAC 9K2QA
JW9LMA LA9LMA
VK9LW VK4FW
A35RK W7TSQ
LU1ZI LU4DXU
W4A W4HHH
A45WD YO9HP
OM80MMM OM8CA
WH2V JF2VFN
C93Q VK4VB
P29SX G3SXW
XT2PT N5DRV
CF5xxx VA5xxx
P29XF G3TXF
YC9YKI YB9BU
CG5xxx VE5xxx
R1ANF RK1PWA
YI9DM KF7DM
CM2IZ EA1EAU
R73SRR RV3ACA
YJ0AX VK4TI
CN2R
W7EJ RA6QA
RW6HS YS1RR W3HNK
CO2KK W5WP
RA6QAS RW6HS
Z21HL G8VHB
D85NSF DS3EXX
RA6QD RW6HS
Z21KF M5AAV
DT04YL HL1OYF
RK6QWA RW6HS
ZB2CN DJ9WH
EA9EU EA9AZ
S79RJ DJ7RJ
ZS6CCW OK1LL
ED8FPC EA8URV
S79SO DJ4SO
ZY0K KQ0B
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******* ADDRESSES *******
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Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
DL4XS Maike Voss, Friedrichsthal 21, 51688 Wipperfuerth, Germany
DL5NAM Chris Sauvageot, Guttenburg 19, 91322 Graefenberg, Germany
DL7DF Sigi Presch, Wilhelmsmuehlenweg 123, D-12621 Berlin, Germany
I2PJA Antonio Petroncari, Via Enzo Togni 87, I-27043 Broni, Pavia, Italy
IF9ZWA Michele Rotolo, Via Cavasino 4, 91010 Marettimo - TP, Italy
JA1SKY Steve Miyamoto, P.O. Box 30, Haneda Airport, Tokyo, 144-6591 Japan
JA7AQR Yoshihiro Tanaka, 1-10-6 Minamihara, Yamagata, 990-2413 Japan
JA7OV Yoshinobu Takahashi, 4-9-36 Emata, Yamagata, 990-0861 Japan
KE6GEF John Kountz, 1065 Van Dyke Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA
KE6GFF John Kountz, 1065 Van Dyke Dr., Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA
PE1OPM Will Bakker, Molenstraat 33, 4641BA, Ossendrecht, The Netherlands
SP7IWA Wanda Jakubowska, Ul.Dewonska 14/3, 25-637 Kielce, Poland
UR3UN Sergei Petlevanny, ul. Slabinuka 35, Fastov - 5, 08505 Ukraine
UR5UO George Muzyka, Kozhanka, Kiev - Fastov, 08550 Ukraine
US5UL Yaroslav Gricenko, Kamp 4, ul., Borowaya, Kiev - Fastov, 08505
Ukraine
V51AS Frank Steinhauser, P.O. Box 2516, Swakopmund, Namibia
VK4FW Bill Horner, P.O. Box 513, Nambour 4560, Australia
VK4TI Trent Sampson, P.O. Box 1647, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
VK4VB Ralph Karhammar, 1306 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007-2801, USA
VU2GSM G. Srikantha Murthy, Flat No 202, Chitramala Apartments, Jayanagar
1st Block East, Bangalore 560011, India
W5WP W. David Paperman, 19266 Sims, Cleveland, TX 77328-6205, USA
W8CNL Raymond H. McClure, 5 McKenzie Circle, North Augusta, SC 29841-4319,
USA
XW3DT Alexey Sinchukov, P.O. Box T511, Vientiane, Laos
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