425 DX News #711
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December 2004 Edited by I1JQJ &IK1ADH
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3W - Nag, JA7GAX [425DXN 709] has been unable to get a licence and has
cancelled his planned IOTA activities from AS-130 and AS-128. [TNX
The Daily DX]
5T - Phil/G3SWH, Jim/G3RTE, Jean/ON8RA and Adriano/ON5GA will be active
as 5T0CW from Nuachachott, Mauritania between 24 February and 4
March. They will operate CW only on all bands 160 to 10 metres and,
propagation permitting, they plan to have at least one station on
the air on a 24 hours a day basis. QSL via G3SWH, direct or bureau
(e-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to
phil@g3swh.demon.co.uk). [TNX G3SWH]
8Q - Paolo, IK2QPR will operate as 8Q7PR from Dunikolhu, Maldives
(AS-013) on 9-17 January. He will be active on 10-40 metres SSB and
CW. QSL via home call (Paolo Fava, Via Bertani 8, 46100 Mantova -
MN, Italy). [TNX IK2QPR]
A6 - Look for A61Q/p to be aired from Al Siniyah Island (AS-021) on 17-20
December. Abdullah/A61Q, Mohammed/A61AV and Alex/RV6LNA will arrive
in the local afternoon of the 17th, and will be joined by Ghis/ON5NT
the day after. They will stay on the island until around 16.00 local
time on the 20th (A6 time is GMT +4). Plans are to operate SSB and
CW mainly on 21260, 14260, 7060, 21040, 14040, +/- 10103 and +/-
7003 kHz. QSL via ON5NT (Ghis Penny, P.O. Box 93, BE-9700
Oudenaarde, Belgium). Please note that cards for A61Q from his home
QTH still go via EA7FTR. [TNX ON5NT]
I - ARI Lecce and Salento DX Club members will operate as IQ7AF on 17-18
December during the Italian Telethon for research against genetic
diseases. QSL via bureau. [TNX IK7JWX]
JA - Look for JN4MBO/5, JA5BEX/5 and JF0BPT/5 to operate from the islands
of Wasa, Nabe, Koyo and Yoshi (new ones for the JIIA award) on 23-26
December. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR]
KC4_ant- Brent, KD4VMM/KC4 is currently active from Palmer Station (K-10 for
the Antarctica Award) on Anvers Island (AN-012), Antarctica. QSL via
home call.
OK_ssh - Jarda, OK1FOW is currently active as OL0ANT from the small Eco Base
(http://www.antarctica.cz) of the Czech Republic (OK-01 for the
Antarctica Award) located on the northern side of Nelson Island,
South Shetlands (AN-010). He expects to remain there until 10
January and to operate with a battery powered transceiver, a
vertical antenna for 20, 15 and 10 metres and a dipole for the low
bands. QSl via OK1FOW. [TNX OK1FOW]
OZ - Jakob, OZ7AEI plans to operate from the lighthouses of Hvide Sande
(ARLHS DEN-087, DEN-197, DEN-198 and DEN-199) on 23 December,
between around 8 UTC on 20 metres (later on 40m) an 13 UTC. Pictures
of all the lighthouses activated by Jakob can be found in the Photo
Gallery at http://oz7aei.qrz.dk [TNX OZ7AEI]
PA - Six special calls will be aired from The Netherlands during the last
two weeks of 2004 to celebrate the final weeks of the Dutch
presidency of the European Union. Look for PA6EU from Amsterdam,
PB6EU from The Haque and Scheveningen, PC6EU from Rotterdam, PE6EU
from Valkenburg-Maastricht, PF6EU from Groningen and PG6UE from
Noordwijk. QSL via PA7DA. [TNX PA7DA and The Golist]
V4 - Larry, KJ4UY (V47UY) expects to operate on 160-6 metres from St.
Kitts and Nevis (NA-104) between 23 December and 2 January. [TNX
KJ4UY]
XE - The ARRL DX Bulletin reports that members of the Radio Club Cancun
are active (on 80-10 metres SSB, RTTY and some Satellite) as XF3CC
from Holbox Island (NA-045) until 19 December. QSL via XF3RCC.
XE - Yuri/XE1UN, Alberto/XE1NK and Ramon/XE1KK will operate as XF3T from
Tamalcab Island, in the rare Quintana Roo State South group (NA-200)
between 18 UTC on 21 December and 00.00 UTCon the 24th. They expect
to be active with two stations on 10-40 metres SSB, CW and PSK31
during the local daylight hours only. QSL via N1NK. [TNX XE1KK]
PACIFIC TOUR ---> Aki, JA1KAJ reports he will operate (on 80-10 metres SSB,
CW, RTTY and SSTV) as YJ0AKA from Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu from 27 December to
2 January. On 4-9 January he will be active from New Caledonia (OC-032),
callsign not know so far.
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>>> NEWS FROM WWW.425DXN.ORG On 9 December the Carolina DX Association (http://www.cdxa.org/)
held its Annual Meeting along with its annual Holiday Party. The following
were nominated and elected to serve as officers for the 2005 calendar year:
Ted Goldthorpe/W4VHF (President), Tom Wright/N4HN (Vice President), Jim
Miller/K4SQR (Secretary/Treasurer), John Scott/K8YC (Newsletter Editor), Joe
Simpkins/K4MD (Cluster Manager), Paul Sturpe/W3GQ (Assoc. Cluster Mgr), Wayne
Setzer/WB4BXW (Webmaster). [TNX K8YC]
IOTA TOOLS ---> Francesco Giacoia, IZ7AUH has developed two useful IOTA
search tools that allow to find the IOTA reference numbers for either the
Italian islands valid for the IIA (Italian Islands Award) and the Antarctic
bases valid for the Antarctica Award. Both the search tools can be found on
our home page (http://www.425dxn.org). Comments and suggestions can
be sent to
iz7auh@tin.it [TNX IZ7AUH]
PIRATES ---> Paulo, CT2ITZ has been repeteadly pirated on the packet cluster
in the past few days, typically for spots about VU4RBI and VU4NRO on bands he
is not even allowed to operate on. [TNX CT1GFK]
QSL SU9FL ---> The QSL manager for Greg, SU9FL is WD9DZV (Timothy M. Garrity,
5407 W. Rosedale Ave., Chicago, IL 60646-6525, USA). He has received the logs
and will be sending cards out immediately. Please e-mail wd9dzv@arrl.net for
further questions. [TNX WD9DZV]
QSL TZ6JA ---> The Daily DX reports that JA3EMU is no longer the QSL manager
for TZ6JA. Cards should be sent to Makoto Obara, P.O. Box 59, Tama, Tokyo
206-8691, Japan.
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AS-124: Pictures of the recent A61AV/p operation from Sirat Al Khawr
(AS-124) can be found at http://www.mdxc.org/a61av-p
DX SPOTS: Rod Elliott, VE3UW (ex VE3IRF) has collected the DX spots from the
OH2AQ Web Cluster since January 1997. The collection - from January
1997 up to November 2004 - is available at www.425dxn.org/dxspots/,
as well the software (DXINFO v2.0) which will enable you to handle
the files (instructions at the URL above). [TNX IZ7AUH]
GACW: The web site for the Grupo Argentino de CW is at
http://gacw.no-ip.org (Spanish and English versions). [TNX LU6EF]
PS7AHR: The new web site for the Brazilian Amateur Radio Historical
Archive, the only organization in Brazil that is devoted to
documenting and preserving the history of amateur radio in that
country, is at http://www.radioamador.org.br [TNX PS7AB]
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3D2NA, 3D2VB, 4J9RI, 4S7NE, 5N0HVC,
5N0NHD, 5T5SN, 5W0DL, 6W1RY, 7X4AN, 8Q7LM, 9K2MU, 9N7MS, 9V1GO, 9Y4/N9LAH,
A35RX (OC-169), A61AJ, A61AR, A71BX, AH2R, AP2IA, AY1ZA (AN-008; AA LU-14),
BI7DX (AS-139), C21DL, C50I (AF-060), C6AKQ, C91Z, CN8KD, CT8T,D2PFN, D44TD,
DU3NXE, EA5KB/7 (EU-152), ET3TK, EX8MLE, EY8CQ, EY8MM, FK/KF4TUG (OC-079),
FO/AC4LN, FP/DK6XR, FP/W8MV, FR/PA3GIO/P, FR1AN, FR5HA, FS/AH8DX, HC8L, HF0QF
(AN-010; AA SP-01), HK1XX, HK3SGP, HP3XBS, J73CCM, J75J, KG4WW, KM9D/KH8
(OC-200), LT0H, LW4EU, LY1FW, N1VF/KH0, OH0RJ, OH0Z, OZ5EV, P29SX (OC-240),
PZ5RA, R0PA, RW2F, S9SS, SK7AX, ST2T, SU1SK, SY8DX (EU-174), T20VB, T30M,
TA1ED/0 (AS-098), TF3YH, TF4MM, TF8VET, TI5N, TJ3FR, TJ3SP, TU2WL, TU2XZ,
TY5M, TZ6M, UA2FX, V47KP, V6O (OC-155), VK4WWI (OC-227), VK4WWI/8 (OC-185
& OC-198), VK4WWI/P (OC-267), VK9LA, VK9LW, VK9XG, VQ5C, VQ9LA, VQ9MJ,
VR2XMT, W4OV/VP9, WP3R, XE1M, XF4IH, YI9OM, YN4SU, YS1AG, YV0D, ZA1A, ZC4LI,
ZK1/AC4LN, ZP5MAL.
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