09 July 2005
No
740
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DX INFORMATION ****
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Edited
by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore
Responsabile I2VGW
9M - 9M6US and 9M6MU will be the operators of 9M4SHQ,
the official IARU
HQ station for Malaysia
in the IARU HF World Championship. The
station will be located at the
Hillview Gardens ARC in Sabah, East
Malaysia. QSL via N2OO. [TNX N2OO]
A3 - Alex, HB9FBO will operate as A35BO from Tonga
from 24 October to 1
December. He will be active
on 10-80 metres (and maybe 160m as
well) SSB, CW and possibily PSK31,
with verticals for 10-40 metres
and a vertical monobander for
80 metres. QSL direct only to home
call (QSLling policy at http://www.qrz.com/a35bo). [TNX HB9FBO]
CT3 - Special event station CS9SRA will be active on 15-17
July from the
50th Cattle Exibition at
Porto Moniz, Madeira (AF-014). QSL via
CS3MAD. [TNX CT1END]
CU - Special scout station CU3N will be
active on 14-20 July from
Terceira (EU-175), Azores
during the XI Azorean Jamboree. QSL via
CU3CY. [TNX CT1END]
FW - Guy, FR5ZL reports he will be active, possibly again as
FW5ZL, from
Wallis from 16 July to 15 August.
He plans to operate on 20, 15 and
30 metres CW and SSB, probably with
some PSK and RTTY as well, with
80 watts, a grund plane and
a dipole. QSL direct only via FR5ZL.
[TNX IZ8AJQ]
I - The following stations and host operators
will participate in the
IARU HF World
Championship representing ARI
(Associazione
Radioamatori Italiani) [TNX
IK1QBT]:
IU7HQ
10m CW IK7JWY
IU2HQ 40m CW
IK2CIO
IU9HQ
10m SSB IT9EQO
IU7HQ 40m SSB
I7RIZ
IU3HQ
15m CW IV3SKB
IU7HQ 80m CW
I7ALE
IC8/IU2HQ 15m SSB
IC8WIC IU4HQ
80m SSB IZ4DPV
IU1HQ
20m CW I1HJT
IU1HQ 160m CW
IK1YDB
IU9HQ
20m SSB IT9BLB
IU2HQ 160m SSB
IK2HKT
I - Enzo, IT9ECQ and others will operate
as IF9/IT9ECQ from Scoglio
Porcelli (EU-054, IIA TP-008) and
lighthouse (WAIL SI-061) on 16-17,
23-24 and/or 30-31 July. QSL via
IT9FXY. [TNX IT9ECQ & IT9FXY]
I - Marco, IZ6ASI reports he plans to operate
SSB as IZ6ASI/p from the
lighthouse ARLHS ITA-226 on 8-9
July.
JA - Cho, 7N4JZK will operate from 8J2AI, the special
station at the 2005
World Exposition in Aichi, from 9
to 10 UTC on 16 July. He will be
looking for DX stations on +/-
14250 and 21250 kHz. A special QSL
card will be sent automatically via
the bureau. [TNX JA1ELY]
J7 - Pierre, HB9CUA will operate on 6-40 metres as
J79PAK from Dominica
(NA-101) from 11 July to 3
August. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX OZ6OM]
LA - Giovanni, IZ2DPX reports that he plans to operate
from the Lofoten
Islands (EU-076) during his
forthcoming trip to Norway [425DXN 737].
LA - QLF DX Team operators Bjorn/LA5UKA, Andy/LA8AJA and
Tony/LA9VDA will
be active on 18-80 metres CW, SSB
and some RTTY as LA6Q from Utsira
Island (EU-055) and
lighthouse (ARLHS NOR-262) on 20-24 July. QSL
via LA9VDA, direct or bureau
(e-mail requests for bureau cards can
be sent to la9vda2003@yahoo.no).
The web page for the operation is
at http://home.online.no/~andreask/expeditions/eu55/index.html [TNX
LA9VDA]
LU - The Radio Club Argentino will operate as
LR4D from Martin Garcia
Island (SA-055) on 28-31 July, IOTA
Contest included. They plan to
concentrate on CW and RTTY on
28-29 July. QSL via LU4AA, direct or
bureau. [TNX LU4BR]
PA - JanJaap, PG7V and Jack, PD2JVE will operate
as PC6IOTA from Texel
Island (EU-038) from 27 July to 3
August. Before and after the IOTA
Contest they will operate on
all HF bands CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK,
plus 6m, 2m and 70cm. QSL via
PG7V, direct or bureau. The web page
for the operation is at http://www.pg7v.net/pc6iota [TNX PG7V]
SM - Mike, SM2OAN/p will be active from Seskaro Island
(EU-139) until 30
August. QSL via home call, direct
or bureau. [TNX VA3RJ]
SM - Kjell, SM4DDS, will be active as 7S5A from Stora Alo
Island (EU-177)
on 17-22 July. He will operate CW
and SSB on 10-80 metres, QSL via
SM4DDS, direct or bureau. [TNX
SM4DDS]
SP - Special event station SN0GG will be active until 31
July for the 6th
Amateur Radio Meeting to be held at
Gliczarow Gorny, near Zakopane.
QSL via bureau to SP9PTG. [TNX
SP9GKM]
UA - Special event station R3K will be active on 15-21 July
to celebrate
the 30th anniversary of
the Apollo-Soyuz space program. QSL via
RN3DK, direct or bureau. [TNX
RN3DK]
UR - The club station of the Ukrainian State Centre of Radio
Frequencies
will operate as EM0ITU on 12-15
July during the ITU workshop on the
Automation of the Spectrum
Management. QSL via UT3UZ (Alex Arbuzov,
P.O. Box 7, Kiev-232, 02232,
Ukraine). [TNX UT3UZ]
VE - A small group of the Club de Radioamateur de Beauce
(VE2CRB) will be
active from Pozer Island (not
IOTA, CISA QC-100) on 9 July. They
will be using a low power
transceiver with portable antenna on SSB
(7260, 14260 kHz) QSL via bureau or
direct to VE2GHI or VE2EZD. [TNX
VE2GHI]
W - Phil, WA2ART reports he will be spending most of
his weekend through
September on Johnson
Island, The Thimbles (NA-136). There's no
electricity on the island, and Phil
will be operating QRP with the
antenna just feet from the salt
water.
W - Ross, K3HR is active as K3HR/2 until 6
September from Long Beach
Island (NA-111). He plans to
participate in the IOTA Contest. QSL
via home call, direct or bureau.
[TNX VA3EJ]
W - Rebekah/WG4Y, Angela/WN4C, Truman/NN4C, Allan/KV4T
and Bridget/KS4YT
will operate on 80-10 metres CW and
SSB from Dauphin Island (NA-213)
on 16-17 July. QSL via home calls,
direct or bureau. [TNX VA3RJ]
YO - YR0HQ will be the Federatia Romana de
Radioamatorism's HQ station
for the IARU HF World Championship.
A free of charge award will be
issued for contacts
made with YR0HQ, details can be found at
http://www.hamradio.ro/ [TNX N2YO]
IARU HF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ---> The following IARU
Member Society HQ
stations are expected to participate in this year's event (9-10 July):
3DA5HQ Swaziland (RSS)
IU1HQ
Italy (ARI)
4L0NARG Georgia (NARG)
IU2HQ
Italy (ARI)
5Z4RS Kenya (ARSK)
IU3HQ
Italy (ARI)
8N1HQ Japan (JARL)
IU7HQ
Italy (ARI)
8N2HQ Japan (JARL)
IU9HQ
Italy (ARI)
8N3HQ Japan (JARL)
IU2HQ/IC8
Italy (ARI)
8N4HQ Japan (JARL)
JT3T
Mongolia (MRSF)
8N7HQ Japan (JARL)
LU4AA
Argentina (RCA)
8N8HQ Japan (JARL)
LY0HQ
Lithuania (LRMD)
9K9HQ Kuwait (KARS)
LZ7HQ
Bulgaria (BFRA)
9M4SHQ Malaysia (MARTS)
NU1AW/3
IARU HQ
B1HQ China (CRSA)
OE50A
Austria (OVSV)
B2HQ China (CRSA)
OO175B
Belgium (UBA)
B3HQ China (CRSA)
OZ1HQ
Denmark (EDR)
B4HQ China (CRSA)
PA6HQ
The Netherlands (VERON)
B7HQ China (CRSA)
S580HQ
Slovenia (ZRS)
BV0HQ Taiwan (CTARL)
SN0HQ
Poland (PZK)
CX1AA Uruguay (RCU)
TI0HQ
Costa Rica (RCCR)
DA0HQ Germany (DARC)
TM0HQ
France (REF)
EI0HQ Ireland (IRTS)
YE0HQ
Indonesia (ORARI)
GB5HQ U.K. (RSGB)
YR0HQ
Romania (FRR)
HG0HQ Hungary (MRASZ)
W1AW/5
USA (ARRL)
HS0AC Thailand (RAST)
Other stations expected to participate in the contest include:
I - IK2WXQ and IK2ULV as IQ2GM/1 (Single TX Mixed). [TNX IK2WXQ]
LU - LU2FA, LW7DX, LW9DA, LU5CW, LU1FZR, LU4FPZ
and LU5FF as LR2F
(Multi-Single, CW and SSB). QSL via LU2FA. [TNX LU5FF]
SP - Kris, SP6DVP as 3Z6V (SOAB Low Power SSB). QSL via
home call. [TNX
SP6DVP]
YB - Adhi, YC3MM on 40 metres from Surabaya City (Java,
OC-021). QSL via
IZ8CCW. [TNX IZ8CCW]
YI - Ilian, YI9LZ from Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. QSL via LZ1ZF. [TNX NG3K]
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GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore
Responsabile I2VGW
425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The latest issue (June 2005) is now available
in
.pdf format at http://www.425dxn.org/monthly/. Articles and pictures should
be sent to Nicola Baldresca, IZ3EBA (iz3eba@libero.it).
DX SPOTS ---> Rod Elliott, VE3UW has collected the DX spots from the
OH2AQ
Web Cluster since January 1997. The collection - from January 1997 up to June
2005 - is available at http://www.425dxn.org/dxspots/ , as well the software
(DXINFO v2.0) which will enable you to handle the iles (instructions at the
URL above).
NOT EU-083 ---> Vanni/IK4RUX, Sergio/IK4JPR and Franco/IK4GLV were not able
to land on Tinetto Island on 2-3 July owing to the rough sea. They operated
from Palmaria Island (IIA SP-003), which does not
count for the IOTA
programme. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the
bureau.
[TNX IK4RUX]
QSL XF2ZEX ---> Alfio, IT9EJW reports that all of the direct requests for the
recent XF2ZEX operation from Sacrificios Island (NA-224) have been processed
and mailed.
QSL VIA VK3DYL ---> Gwen, VK3DYL reports that the A35YL
and YJ0YL cards
should be posted out in approximately one month's time. The
IOTA groups
covered during the trip were OC-035 (YJ0YL, 2-19 May), OC-049 (A35YL, 23-29
May) and OC-064 (A35YL, 30 May-7 June). The Australian postage stamp covering
return at "Card Only" rate will be a special issue stamp
picturing the YL
operators, VE7YL and VK3DYL, on it. Note: this stamp cannot be used with two
cards in the same envelope.
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NEWS FROM THE WEB ***
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Direttore
Responsabile I2VGW
425DXN AUDIO VERSION: We are working on an audio version of 425 DX News
for
poor-sighted
or blind amateurs, which will be used also
for
Echolink tests. The latest two issues (#738 and
#739)
can be downloaded from
http://www.425dxn.org/Audio_bulletin/indbulle.html
Comments
and suggestions can be sent to Paolo Pero,
I1HJP
(i1hjp@arinizza.it).
DX SUMMIT & OH#W: The Elisa Radio Club
of Finland is managing the
original
world-renowned DX Summit, and you may have
noticed
that their heading includes the callsign of the
group
who operates the DX Cluster, OH9W.
This
coming weekend marks another interesting event
when
the DX Cluster will be employed to support the
WRTC-2006
(World Radiosport Team Championship) OH
qualifying
run for 24 hours during the CW/SSB IARU
Radiosport
Contest.
OH9W
along with six other callsigns (OH2W, OH4W, OH5W,
OH6W,
OH7W and OH8W) will compete with low-power
stations
to capture the honors for Finnish team captain
of
the 2006 WRTC event (the competing
captain
candidates
will be OH0XX, OH1JT, OH1NOA, OH2UA, OH4JFN
and
OH6RX).
You
are invited to try to log these seven stations by
following
this DX
Summit
link:
http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/wrtc.html
From
the above link you can move to the DX Summit Main
Page
and send your own spots and compete for honors to
be
one of the stations producing the highest number of
spots
during this event. If you manage to work all
seven
stations, a professional video featuring the
WRTC-2002
event will be yours at no cost. [TNX OH2BH]
LOGS:
On-line
logs for TA0/YZ1SG (AS-098) and TA4/YZ1SG are
now
available on http://dx.qsl.net/logs/index.html. QSL
via
YZ1SG, direct (Goran Savic, Zlatiborska 59, 31310
Cajetina,
Serbia & Montenegro) or bureau. [TNX YZ1SG]
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QSL INFO ********
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Direttore
Responsabile I2VGW
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CALL MANAGER CALL
MANAGER CALL
MANAGER
===================================================================
3DA0CF K5LBU FK8GJ
F6CXJ SN0HQ
SP2PI
3Z50PTR SP3PML GB2CD
G7BQY SN10MP
SP9PKM
3Z6V SP6DVP GB5HQ
G3TXF SN125LO
SP8PAB
4K9W DL6KVA
HB0/F2JD F6AJA
T32Z K3PD
4X17A 4Z4TL
HB0/K4SV K4YL
T99Y
T94YT
4X17B 4Z4TL
HB0/N2WB N2OO
TA1ED/0 TA1ED
4X17C 4Z4TL HC1AJQ
EA7FTR TA3BN/0
TA3BN
4X17H 4Z4TL HC1HC
NE8Z TF8GX
KT6YL
4X17I 4Z4TL HF50NH
SP9NH TI0HQ
TI0RC
4X17M 4Z4TL HG0HQ
HA6NY TI8CBT
EA7FTR
4Z17A 4Z4DX HS0AC
GM4FDM TM0GP
F5KCH
4Z17B 4Z4TL HS0ZEA
OE2REL TM0HQ
F8CRH
4Z17C 4Z4TL HZ1AN
DJ9ZB TM1RHC
F1BOW
4Z17M 4Z4TL HZ1ZH
EA7FTR TM1TF
F6KUF
4Z17MG 4Z4TL IR7LH/p
IK7JWX TM5TDF
F6HAV
5H3RK W3/VK4VB IU#HQ
I2MQP TM9ES
F5GTW
5H9KR KF9TC J20VB
UA4WHX TT8PK
F4EGS
5T0JL ON8RA J39BW
WB2RAJ UA9QFF/9
RW9QA
5Z4RS bureau J68AS
N9AG UE1NLO
RN1NA
7Q7HB G0IAS J68ID
W8QID UE1QSK
UA1RJ
7Q7MT NU5O
JA6WFM/HI8 JA6VU
UE1RAP/m UA1RJ
7W1ASF 7X2DD JT3T
JT1CH
UE1RDA/4 UA1RJ
7Z1UG DO1HEN K4S
K5JIM
UE3QRP/2 RU2FM
8N#HQ bureau K5F
KT5AR
UE4HKW UA4LCH
8N5SAIT/5 bureau K8YU/KH2
JH8KYU UE4HWR
UA4LCH
9A10KC 9A7K KP2AA
K7JA
UE4LPR/4 UA4LCH
9G1YE PA3ERA LR2F
LU2FA
UN7MMM EA7FTR
9G5OO DL4WK LU1ECZ
EA5KB UN9GC
LZ1YE
9K2JH KE4JG LY0HQ
bureau V31DM
KD5YDN
9K2RA bureau LY90E
LY2FN V31IV
W6JKV
9K9HQ 9K2CQ LZ7HQ
LZ1BJ V31UB
KU5B
9M2IDJ JA6IDJ MM0MWW/P
GM0IFM VA7C
VE7RLE
9M4SHQ N2OO N4M
K5MI
VD2X
VE3IKV
9V1YC N5ID
OE50A
bureau VP9/W9AEB
WF9V
BV0HQ BV2QB OH0B
OH2BH VY2ZM
K1ZM
CE2LZR EA5KB OH0Z
OH5DX
W3MR/KH9 W3MR
CN2R W7EJ
OH6AW/1 OH6AD
WP3C W3HNK
CP4BT EA5KB
OL200BA OK2SW
XE1FT EA5KB
CU6NS EA5KB OM16PB
OM8CA XE1L
WA3HUP
CX1AA KA5TUF (a) OO175B
ON4UN YE0HQ
YB0DPO
CY9SS VY2SS OZ1HQ
OZ1ACB YI1HXH
IK2IQD
DT50 HL0HQ
PA2000N PA0KHS
YI9DKE N3ST
ED1RAV EA1EG PA6HQ
PA3CAL YI9LZ
LZ1ZF
ED4URH EA4LO PP5WRTC
PP5VB YI9QWO
K5QWO
ED5DIE EA5AEN PZ5CM
K3BYV YI9XJ
LY2XJ
ED6IDP EA6AEI PZ5JR
K3BYV YK1BA
N5FF
ED6TBG EA6SB R110RP
RW9QA YL740T
YL2GQT
ED7CK EA7HBC R750AC
RA2FAC YM3SCT
TA3KC
ED8GCR EA8AKN R750KE
UA2FBQ YR50KAD
YO5KAD
EG0JMA EA7GRA R750W
UA2FW YT5K
YZ1SS
EI0HQ EI4BZ R750Z
UA2FZ YU55HFG
YU1HFG
EI4TSR EI3JB RK3IWT/1
UA3IHP YW4C
IT9DAA
EK3AA DK6CW RK9QWZ
RW9QA ZF2AH
W6VNR
EK6TA DJ0MCZ RP1QVO
UA1RJ ZK1IR
W3HNK
EK8SK DJ0MCZ RP1ROR
UA1RJ ZK1USA
ZK1CG
ET3TK OK1CU
RZ1CXO/P RN1CW
ZP8VAO EA7JX
EV8DP UA3FDX SK6SAQ
SK6DK ZX5PGA
PY5PDC
(a) IARU HF World Championship 2005 only
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ADDRESSES *******
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Direttore
Responsabile I2VGW
G3TXF Nigel Cawthorne, Falcons, St George's Avenue,
Weybridge, Surrey
KT13 0BS, England, UK
GM0IFM Colin Blunn, Tiree, Rendall, Orkney, KW17 2PB, United
Kingdom
IT9DAA Corrado Ruscica, Via Cap. Salemi 41, 96019 Rosolini - SR,
Italy
JD1YBJ Marcus Loran Ham Club, 2-14-10, Kasuga, Chuo-Ku,
Chiba City,
260-0033 Japan
JR6TYH/JD1 Yuji Itokazu, 1743-1 Mabashi, Matsudo 271-0051, Chiba, Japan
JT1CH P.O. Box 421, Ulaanbaatar-38, Mongolia
KH9/AH8A George Arthur Taft, Box 1199, Waimea Kauai, HI 96796, USA
KT5AR David Auguste, 12770 Bandera Road, Apt 1128,
Helotes, TX 78023,
USA
N5FF Saad A. Mahaini, 428 Brook Glen Dr.,
Richardson, TX 75080, USA
OE50A OVSV-HQ, Eisvogelgasse 4/1, 1050 Wien, Austria
PA0KHS Henk van Hensbergen, Smaragdstraat 53, NL-6534 WN,
Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
PP5VB Vantuil Barbosa Dias, P.O. Box 13, Imbituba,
Santa Catarina,
88780-000, Brazil
RN1CW Andrew A. Petushkoff, P.O. Box 215/6, Sosnovy
Bor, 188540, Russia
RW9QA Vlad Kondratenko, P.O.Box 1, Kurgan-38, 640038,
Russia
SP6DVP Krzysztof Bieniewski, P.O Box 2210, PL 45-246 Opole
15 ZWM, Poland
UA4WHX Vladimir M. Bykov, P.O. Box 2040, 426000 Izhevsk,
Russia
VE3IKV Pete Csanky, 4 Ravensdale Rd, Cobourg, Ontario K9A
2B9, Canada
VE7RLE Ron Essex, 3691 - 65th Avenue N.W., Salmon Arm, BC
V1E 3A5, Canada
VK3DYL Gwen Tilson, 3 Gould Court, Mt. Waverley, Vic. 3149,
Australia
VY2SS Robert Robertson, RR#3, Oleary, PEI, Canada C0B
1V0
WB2RAJ Kash Kashdin, 4591 West Overlook Drive,
Williamsville, NY 14221,
USA
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