425 DX News #684 12 June 2004 Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Information, reports and suggestions must be sent to: Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ: DX information (e-mail i1jqj@425dxn.org - BBS I1JQJ@I1YLM.IPIE.ITA.EU) Maurizio Bertolino, I1-21171: 425 DX News Web Pages (e-mail i121171@425dxn.org) 3D2 - Laurence, KL1X/5 (GM4DMA) will be active on HF and 6 metres as 3D2KL from Viti Levu and Vanua Levu (OC-016), and possibly other Fijian islands, from around 21 June till 9 July. He is working for a voluntary organization and time for amateur radio may be limited. Updates on the expedition will be posted at http://myweb.cableone.net/flow [TNX KL1X/5] 4S - Ron, 6Y5/4S7RO has been in Jamaica since September 2000, but will be back to Sri Lanka for a few months. He expects to be operational as 4S7RO starting on 15 June. Ron will operate mostly CW and SSB, but he will also try to be active on PSK31. QSL 4S7RO via DJ9ZB; 6Y5/4S7RO via G0IAS. [TNX 6Y5/4S7RO] 9M2 - Ian, 9M2/G3TMA and Mirek, 9M8DX/2 will operate from Pulau Ketam (AS-074) during the weekend. They will arrive on the island on 12 June after 7 UTC and leave on the 14th around 1 UTC. It will be an ultra light type operation with 100 watts transceivers. See www.qrz.com for the QSL routes. [TNX 9M8DX/2] GM - Tim, M0AFJ will operate as MM0AFJ/P from the Island of Harris (EU-010) from 27 June to 2 July. He plans to be active on 10-80 metres CW and SSB, plus 6 metres if conditions allow. QSL via home call. Skeds are accepted at m0afj@tiscali.co.uk [TNX M0AFJ] HB0 - Klaus, DL7NS will be active on CW as HB0/DL7NS from Lichtenstein on 14-25 June. QSL via bureau to DL7NS. [TNX NG3K] HB0 - Giovanni, IZ2DPX and Flavio, IW2NEF will operate as HB0/IZ2DPX/P and HB0/IW2NEF/P from Liechtenstein on 3-4 July. They will operate on 2 metres from JN47SB and on 6, 10, 12, 17, 15, 20 and 40 metres from JN47TC. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX IZ2DPX] I - The Mediterranean Islands Award (http://www.mdxc.org/mia) Bulletin reports that IU7I/p will be activated from Isola Grande di Porto Cesareo (EU-091, IIA LE-002, MIA MI-040) on 20 June and again for the IOTA Contest, and from Sant'Andrea Island (EU-091, IIA LE-001, MIA MI-100) on 26-27 June. QSL via IK7JWX, direct or bureau. [TNX IT9DAA] KP - Carlos, WP4U will operate next to the Punta Mulas Lighthouse (PUR-015) on Vieques Island (NA-099) on 14-18 June. This Island is valid for the WPRI (Work Puerto Rico Islands) Award. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX] SP - Special call 3Z0BLY is active on all bands from the Battleship museum ORP Blyskawica (Gdynia, Poland) through 31 July. QSL via bureau to SP2PMW. [TNX SQ2HFH] ST - Dane, S57CQ is now working for the UN WFP in Khartoum, Sudan for the next three months. Look for him to operate as ST2T as soon as his worload permits. He will use a log periodic on 30-10 metres and a multiband dipole for the low bands. QSL via S57DX. [TNX S57DX] TK - Serge, F6AUS will be active as TK/F6AUS from Corsica (EU-014) from 22 June to 23 July. He plans to operate also from EU-164 for one or two weekends and from EU-100 for a few days. When he is not on the main island, Serge will sign TK/F6AUS/p. QSL via home call. [TNX F6AUS] VP2E - Jim, WB2REM will be active again as VP2EREM from Anguilla (NA-022) on 17-27 June. He plans to operate on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres CW and SSB. QSL via WB2REM. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] UA - Nikolai/UA9KM, Serge/UA9KB, Andy/RA9KM, Mike/UA9KGH/1, Boris/UA9LAC, Tim/RV6LFE, Valery/UT7CR and Mike/UT9IO will operate as RK9KWK/p from Litke Island (RR-06-02, RDA YN-14) in the Marresalskiye Koshki Islsands (AS-089) from 22 June to 1 July. They plan to be active with three stations on 10-80 metres SSB and CW. QSL via UA4RC, direct or bureau. [TNX UA9KM] UR - Look for Sergey, UT2FA/p to activate three Ukrainian lighthouses on 12 and 13 June. He plans to activate both Ochakova lighthouses (UKR-036/ULA-039 and UKR-037/ULA-040) one day and the Victorovsku peredny lighthouse (UKR-040, ULA-037) the other day. QSL via UT2FA. [TNX VA3RJ] W - Peter, W1DAD and Jeanne, K1MOM will operate as K1D until 20 June to celebrate Kid's Day (19 June) and Amateur Radio Awareness. QSL via W1DAD, direct or bureau. [TNX W1DAD] W - W2NDP, N4WBJ and N4DLW will operate as homecall/4 from Gasparilla Island (NA-069) on 13 June. It will be a reconnaissance trip in view of the upcoming IOTA Contest.QSL direct to home calls. [TNX The Daily DX] YA - Daniel, DL5SE will be active as YA0Y from Kabul, Afghanistan until September. He operates with 100 watts into a ground plane. QSL via DL5SE. [TNX DL2JRM] YB - Dudy, YB0DPO and several other YB0 and YB1 operators will be active on 80-10 metres with three stations (one for SSB, one for CW and one for RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV) as YE1P from Peucang Island (OC-237) on 21-25 July, IOTA Contest included. QSL via YB1TC, either direct (Soekardi, P.O. Box 151 BSD, Serpong 15330, Indonesia) or through the bureau. Full details, including logs, can be found at http://www.peucang.org [TNX YB0DPO] _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA CE9/R1ANF ---> Dominik, DL5EBE reports that Oleg, UA1PBA (R1ANF) operated as CE9/R1ANF from the Chilean station [see 425DXN #661] on Ardley Island, South Shetlands (AN-010), on 15 May. Originally established by the former German Democratic Republic, this small Antarctic station was first taken over by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Reasearch, and then transferred to Chile in February 1997. NOT THE MANAGER ---> Bill, K8ZBY says he is still receiving cards for 9K2FM, but he is not and has never been the QSL manager for this station. QSL 3B8GL ---> Mart, DL6UAA (aka 3B8MM) has known 3B8GL and 3B8GL in person for ten years and advises not to QSL 3B8GL via UR5VHB. Ashvin's QSL cards are managed by his father (3B8CF) and he never sent his logs to UR5VHB. QSL P40L ---> Gert, K5WW reports that effective immediately he is the new QSL manager for QSOs made with P40L in 2003, 2004, etc. QSL VIA EA4BQ ---> Olli, EA4BQ (aka OH0XX) participated in both the CQ WPX contests this year - as ED8EW (SSB) and OC4WW (CW). QSL for both these activities should go to Olli Rissanen, Calle Ciguela 331, Los Cotos de Monterrey, 28729 Venturada, Madrid, Spain. [TNX EA4BQ] T33C AT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN ---> A lecture & slide-show on T33C (April 2004 DXpedition to Banaba) will be held on 25 June in the Konferenzzentrum (Room Oesterreich) at 16.00. Visitors will be able to collect their QSL cards on 26 June at booth 437 (Hall A1), from 10.30 to 12.00 and again from 13.30 to 16.00. [TNX DF2SS] WLH CONTEST ---> The first edition of the Worldwide World Lighthouses Contest will be held from 6 UTC on 3 July to 12 UTC on the 4th. Complete details are available at http://www.wlh-award.com/ [TNX F5NQL] _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** NEWS FROM THE WEB *** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA 3XDQZ: Pictures of Sebastien's (F8DQZ) April operation from Alcatrack Island (AF-096) can be found at www.mdxc.org/3xdqz [TNX IZ8CCW] DAYTON 2004: Tom Roscoe, K8CX has posted the 2004 Dayton Gallery http://hamgallery.com/dayton2004/. The Gallery has 174 photos (146 taken by Tom, the rest come from W4MYA) from the Contesters Dinner, Top Band Dinner, DX Dinner and Crowne Plaza Hospitality Suites. [TNX K8CX] QSL DB: Boye Christensen, OZ7C has updated his QSL DBase (which now contains 354,325 unique records) for Packet Cluster. The package can be downloaded at http://www.qsl.net/oz7c/qsl [TNX OZ7C] _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL INFO ******** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3D2XX N5XX (a) F/PA6JUN PB0AJN PJ4U YL2KL 3D2XX W6YOO (b) FK8GJ F6CXJ PW3A PY3CQ 3G1E CE1FA FO/ON4AXU ON4AXU R200MIG RV3LZ 4X6HP EA7FTR GB60DDL G0VIX S5048AL S58AL 5K1X EA7FTR GB6JUN G0OOO S5049N S59N 5N6EAM/7 IK2IQD GI1A UT5SI SI9AM SM3CVM 5N9NDP IK5JAN GM7CXM/C6A EA5ON SJ9WL SM5DJZ 5Z4IA N3CLO GX3WRS/P M3ZYZ SN0KAL SP3PKL 5Z4IC MW0AIE HA2YNG HG2EBJ SN0R SP2QCR 6W7RV F4AHV HF2EU SP2EB SO8FH PA0F 6Y4OJ WC4E HG3M HA3MY ST2DX PA7FM 8R40USA 8R1AK HG3UHU HA3MQ SU9BN EA7FTR 9A/N0MX DJ2MX HI3TEJ ON4IQ SV0XAN/5 IK2WZD 9H3BC DF6MS HK1HHX EA7FTR TJ3SL F5PSA 9H3DX DF2UU HN0Z SM1TDE TM6ACO F6KFI 9H3MM DF4SA HS0ZCW K4VUD TM6BMC F5IL 9K2/M0AYL G4OHX IG9/IV3NVN N1IBM TM6J F6KCZ 9M6A N2OO IG9B N1IBM TM6JDD F8KFE 9M8DX DL4DBR IH9/IT9MRM IT9MRM TM6JUN F5RJM 9V1GO OK1DOT II5LDV I5NZR TM6O F5SDH A45WD YO9HP IO1PDT IZ1CCE TM6OGM F5NLX A61AR UA6MF IR7MD IK7XNF TM6OVS F5RPB AM4UCM EA4GU IS0/S52A S59AA TM6SME F6IPS BW0CW BV2KI IU3AC IK3GES TM6VER F8IQS BY6DX BA4EG J42T SV2BFN TM7BDX F8BBL CE2LZR EA5KB J47DX HA4DX TM7HAM F6KWP CE9/R1ANF RK1PWA J47HW HA0HW TM7OAA F6KAT CN8YZ EA7FTR J47XG HA4XG TM8SOE F8KKV CO2CI WD4OIN J49PM HB9IQB TM9GS F8KKV CO6XN N3ZOM JW/CT1BWW CT1BWW TM9R F6IRA CO8TW IZ8CCW JW1CCA LA1CCA TU8/F5LPY F5LPY CO8ZZ DK1WI JW3R LA3R UE1RDA UA1RJ CQ24FUH CT2FUH JW7FJA LA7FJA UE1RDA/1 UA1RJ CS0RCL/p CS0RCL (a) JY9QJ DL5MBY UE1RDA/A UA1RJ CS0RCL/p CT1GFK (b) KH6BB K1ER UE1RDA/P UA1RJ CS2004REP CT1REP KH6ZM I0MWI UE1SSD UA1RJ CS5E CT1CSY KL7J N3SL UN7QX W7BO CS6T CT1ILT KP3A W3HNK V51KC WD4AWO D2BB W3HNK LG5LG SM5DJZ V85SS JA4ENL D2PFN KK5DO LU5FF EA7JX VK4FW/p VK4FW D44TT K1BV LW2DFH EA5KB VP6TC K6RPF D4B K1BV LZ2TU WB2RAJ VP9/W9AEB WF9V D80HQ/3 DS1KVP MD3VPE/P M3VPE W2T AF2HD E20HHK/P E21EIC NJ2BB KB2BRR W5D W5GAD ED1VIC EA1YS OD5UJ YO3FRI WP2Z KU9C ED2TER EA2BIB OE#XRC/90KK OE4RGC WW2DDM K4BSF ED4CLA EA4AFY OE2XCW/90KK OE4RGC XR2F NK4U ED4PSV EA4EGA OE2XRM/90KK OE4RGC YB0ECT K5ZE ED4RCP EA4RKF OE5XAM/90KK OE4RGC YB1HDF EA5KB ED5CPX/P EA5FER OE5XCL/90KK OE4RGC YI3SRA IZ8EDJ ED5MUC EA5URM OE7XBH/90KK OE4RGC YI9KT SP8HKT ED5RCV EA5ADD OH0B OH2BH YI9WRV W3HNK ED6FSS EA6ZX OH0Z OH5DX YT200S 4N1RS (SSB) ED7FPR EA7BNL OH9A OH1NOA YT200S YU1AB (CW) ED7MCE EA7CFU OJ0SM SM5HJZ YT200S YZ1DZ (RTTY) ED7MMC EA7AYS OL7D OK1TD YV5SSB EA5KB ED7SRS EA7URC OL7R OK1XUV YZ200A YZ1AA EG#FAS EA4FAS OM500KM OM2FY Z32AF N8RKA EG4UCM EA4GU OZ0MS DH8BQA Z33F IZ8FWN EG4UPU EA4GU OZ1RDP DL9BCP ZD8JA N1ZZZ EG7DFA EA7GRA P29YS VK6YS ZF2BI K4BI EM1HO I2PJA P4/LY2CY LY2CY ZP9XB PP5BI EM3H UR3HC P4/LY2TA LY2TA ZS10JUN ZS6AMX EN35F UX0FF P40O LY2TA ZT6T ZS6MG ET3TK OK1CU P40X LY2TA ZW7AA PS7KC F/ON6JUN/P ON5SD P49MR VE3MR ZX7AA PS7KC (a) bureau (b) direct _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* ADDRESSES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA AF2HD Bob Wilder, 6032 Idlemoore Court, Theodore, AL 36582-4117, USA CE1FA P.O. 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