425 DX News #753
08 October 2005
A.R.I. Dx BulletinEdited by I1JQJ &IK1ADH
Information, reports and suggestions must be sent to:
Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ: DX information
(e-mail i1jqj@425dxn.org )
Contributors are invited to send their DX information to
Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ
(i1jqj@425dxn.org)
The deadline is 12 UTC on Fridays
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3A - Kaz, SP2FAX and Slavek, SP2JMB will be active as 3A/SP2FAX and
3A/SP2JMB from Monaco on 15-18 October. They plan to operate CW and
SSB on 80-10 metres and 6 metres. QSL for both via SP2PI. [TNX
SP2PI]
3B8 - Look for JA2AAU, JA2AIC, JA2ATE, JR2FOR and JJ2KTY to be active on
80-10 metres SSB, CW and RTTY as 3B8/homecall from Mauritius
(AF-049) until 13 October. QSL via home calls. [TNX JA1ELY]
4S - Joel, F5PAC will be active again as 4S7PAG from Sri Lanka (AS-003)
between 28 November and 16 December. On 9-11 December he will return
to Barberyn Island (AS-171). QSL via home call, direct (Joel
Sutterlin, 1 Rue du Rossberg, F-68310 Wittelsheim, France) or
bureau. [TNX F5NQL]
4X - Hal, W8HC (ex KC8FS) will return to Israel in October for a third
consecutive CQ WW SSB Contest from the IARC Club Station 4X4REM in
Reut, located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Joining Hal this year
is Jerry, K8OQL and they will operate as a M/S entry using 4X0WV.
QSL via W8HC, direct or bureau. [TNX W8HC]
5H - Hans, DL6JGN and Jan, DJ8NK will operate (on 10-160 metres CW, SSB,
RTTY and PSK31) as 5H1GHW and 5H1JCH from from Zanzibar Island
(AF-032), Tanzania on 13-20 October. QSL via home calls. They will
install the equipment donated by Han-Peter/HB9BXR and Ben/DL4MMT to
Hamisi, 5H3AH, a newly licenced amateur radio operator. [TNX The
Daily DX and NG3K]
6W - Benoit, F8PDR will be active either as 6W7/F8PDR or with a 6W7
callsign from southern Senegal on 10-19 October. He plans to operate
on 10-80 metres mainly CW, and to emphasize 80, 40 and 30 metres.
QSL via home call, direct (Benoit Le Bourgeois , Route de Chevry,
50420 Tessy/Vire, France) or bureau. [TNX F5NQL]
8P - K3LP (8P9LP), K1LZ (8P9LZ), W3ARS (8P9AS), N3KS (8P9KS), N3VOP
(8P9OP), W3ADC (8P9DC), W3ADX (8P9DX) and WB6CBU (8P9HC) will
operate from Barbados between 25 October and 1 November. They will
participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as 8P9R (Multi-Multi).
Before and after the contest they will operate on all HF bands, plus
plus RTTY/PASK and 6 metres. QSL for all via W3ADX. [TNX NG3K]
CT - Marq, CT1BWW reports he has been granted permission to operate as
CS5BWW on 8-9 October, 29-30 October (CQ WW DX SSB Contest), 19-20
November, 26-27 November (CQ WW DX CW Contest), 17-18 December. QSL
via bureau to home call. He also says that the QSL cards for his
PY0F activity have are arrived from the printer and direct requests
are being processed right now.
EK - SP9ERV, DJ0MCZ/SP9UON and SP9LJD, with the support of EK6YL and
EK6TA, will participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as EK0B
(Multi-2). They will pay special attention to 160, 80 and 40 metres.
Before the contest they will operate RTTY. QSL via SP9ERV. [TNX
SP9LJD]
F - Special event call TM0GPK will be aired on 9-23 October for the
Karting FFSA Grand Prix. Expect activity on all bands SSB and on 20
and 40 metres SSTV. QSL via F4ERQ. [TNX F8REF]
F - Special call TM1NOR will be aired on 14-16 October for the
anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (http://www.battle1066.com/),
fought on 14 October 1066 and won by William the Conqueror, Duke of
Normandy and future King of England. QSL via F8LDX. [TNX VA3RJ]
FG - A group of French operators (namely Jacques/F1BCS, Jean-Marc/F1HDI,
Gilles/F5JBE, Patrick/F6CMH, Olivier/F6EIE, Daniel/F6EPD,
Irenee/F6GAL and Yves/F6JMV) will be active as TO5S from Les Saintes
(NA-114), Guadaloupe from 2 to 10 or 12 November. Expect activity on
HF and 6 metres CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via F1BCS (Jacques Salomon,
15 rue de La Garenne, F-94440 Villecresnes, France). [TNX
www.rsgbiota.org and F5NQL]
FS - Jean-Pierre, F5AHO will active (mainly on 20 and 17 metres SSB) as
FS/F5AHO from Saint Martin (NA-105, DIFO FS-001) on 9-18 November.
On 11 and 13 November, from 14 to 20 UTC, he will operate from
Tintamarre Island (NA-199, DIFO FS-002). QSL via F5AHO, direct or
bureau. [TNX F8DQZ and F5NQL]
G - The Leeds Talking Magazine for the Blind will be on air every Monday
night in October under the special callsign GB0LTM. The station will
be operated from the Leeds and District ARS. QSL via G4LAD. [TNX
VA3RJ]
G - The St. Dunstan's ARS will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its
founding with the special event callsign GB90STD on 7-14 October.
QSL via G3STD. [TNX VA3RJ]
GM - Jim, MM0BQI reports he will be active from the Isle of Skye (EU-008)
on 8-15 October. He plans to operate SSB, CW and RTTY on 80-6
metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau or LOTW.
GM - John,GM6LYJ and Andy, GM4JR will operate as GB4SLH from Southerness
Lighthouse during three weekends (15-16, 22-23 and 29-30 October).
[TNX F5NQL]
GU - Carol, 2E1DQZ has joined the group of operators for the 12-19
October activity from Alderney Island [425DXN 749]. A generator has
been made available, so they will also be active (most probably on
16 October) from Alderney Lighthouse at Quenard Point (ARLHS
GUE-004). QSL MU3SDE via M3SDE; QSL GU5XW, GU1OCN, MU0JZE and 2U1DQZ
via G5XW. [TNX G1OCN]
HB0 - Kaz, SP2FAX and Slavek, SP2JMB will be active as HB0/SP2FAX and
HB0/SP2JMB from Liechtenstein on 12-13 October. They plan to operate
CW and SSB on 80-10 metres and 6 metres. QSL for both via SP2PI.
[TNX SP2PI]
HI - Hiro JA6WFM/HI8 will go QRT and return home on 26 October. QSL via
JA6VU. [TNX JI6KVR]
I - Look for special calls IO1ALP, IO1BIA, IO1BOB, IO1CRO and IO1CUR to
be aired from 10 October through 9 November. These activities are
part of the approach march to the XX Olympic Winter Games that will
take place in Torino in February 2006. All of the contacts will
confirmed automatically via the bureau, direct cads should be sent
to I1JQJ. Full information on the Torino 2006 Award can be found at
http://www.ari-r1.it/torino2006
JA - Look for JE4YAR, JE4NKF/4 and JL4GEL/4 to operate from Miya Island
(AS-117, JIIA AS-117-021), Hiroshima Prefecture on 15-16 October.
QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR]
J3 - Bill, VE3EBN will operate as J37LR from Grenada from 18 October to
16 November. Expect activity on 40-6 metres CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL
via home call. [TNX NG3K]
KH2 - Tada, JA3PPH and Yoshi, JA3EGZ will operate as KH2/JA3PPH and
KH2/JA3EGZ from Guam (OC-026) on 25-28 November. They plan to
operate on 40-15 metres SSB, plus 160m with a 500W amplifier.
KH2/JA3EGZ will also participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as as
Single Operator All Band entry. QSLs for both via JA3EGZ (Yoshikazu
Mega, P.O. Box 6, Himeji, 670-8691 Japan). [TNX JA1ELY]
OZ - Tom, DL4VM plans to be active as OZ/DL4VM (on 40, 20 and 15 metres
QRP CW only) from Fano Island (EU-125, NS-002 for the Danish Islands
Award) on 15-31 October. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
VA3RJ]
PZ - Low Land DX-pedition Team members Ronald/PA3EWP (PZ5WP) and Rob/PA2R
(PZ5PA) will be active from Paramaribo, Suriname between 23 November
and 14 December. They will have two stations running with amplifiers
on 10-160 metres CW, SSB, RTTY. They will also be active as PZ5C in
the CQ WW DX CW and ARRL 10 Meter contests. QSLs via PA7FM (Dennis
Robbemond, Loggerhof 11, 3181 NS Rozenburg, The Netherlands).
Further information and on-line logs will be available at
http://www.lldxt.nl/ [TNX PA2R]
T32 - Family reasons have caused Alfio, IT9EJW to drop out of the T32 IOTA
expedition [425DXN 729]; the operators are Nando, IT9YRE (T32S) and
Claudio, I1SNW (T32SNW). Neither Flint Island nor Millennium Island
will be activated this year; operations will take place from Fanning
Island (OC-084) instead. Their plans were to operate for 3-4 days
from Fanning; then to return to Kiritimati (Christmas Island) and
operate holiday style for another 4-5 days before getting their
flight back home on 17 October. However, the latest reports indicate
that their activity will be cut short owing to a typhoon approaching
the area. They became QRV on 7 October in the UTC evening hours, and
reportedly they will have to shut down in the UTC evening of the
8th. QSL via home calls.
TL - Claudio, IV3OWC reports he plans to operate (licence to be collected
upon arrival) in his spare time from Central Africa between 6 and 20
November. He will use car battieries and be active on 10-40 metres
SSB. QSL direct to home call.
V6 - Shoji, JA7HMZ (V63DX) will be active again from Pohnpei (OC-010),
Micronesia. Look for V6A on 14-19 November; he will operate on all
bands and mode, with an emphasis on 160 metres and RTTY. QSL via
JA7AO. [TNX NG3K]
W - Tad, WF4W will be active from Jekyll Island (NA-058) from 26 October
to 2 November. Look for him on +/- 14260, 18128, 7230, as well as on
other IOTA SSB and CW frequencies. During the CQ WW DX SSB Contest
he will probably be doing a mixture of calling CQ and hunting &
pouncing. [TNX WF4W]
XX9 - Misao, JJ1DWB and Hide, JM1LJS will be active with personal XX9
callsigns (TBA) from Macao from around 4 UTC on 4 November until 19
UTC on the 5th. QSL direct only via home calls. Further information
at http://radio-dream.com/macau/ [TNX IK8CNT]
ZK1_sc - Ben/SM7EQL (ZK1EQL), Jan-Olof/SM7ETW (ZK1ETW) and Rikard/SM1CQA
(ZK1CQA) are active from the South Cook Islands until 31 October.
They will be on Aitutaki (OC-083) until the 18th; on 19-20 October
they will be on Rarotonga (OC-013) and then will go and operate from
Mangaia (OC-159) until the 31st. Ben's web page for the operation is
at http://www.sm7eql.se/travel/zk1eql2005/zk12005main.html (please
read his QSLling policy).
ZS - The official opening of the "South African Large Telescope"
(http://www.salt.ac.za), situated near Sutherland, will take place
on 10 November. The Boland Amateur Radio Club will run a special
event station with the call sign ZS1SALT from the SALT site on 21-23
October. Activity will be on all HF bands. QSL direct to ZS1SALT,
P.O. Box 273, Strand, 7139, South Africa. [TNX ZS4BS]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The latest issue (September 2005) is now available
in .pdf format at http://www.425dxn.org/monthly/. Articles and pictures
should be sent to Nicola Baldresca, IZ3EBA (iz3eba@ari.it).
K7C ---> The team went QRT around at 22 UTC on 5 October (operations had
started at 07.12 UTC on 25 September) after 52,113 QSOs on 160-10 metres
(27917 CW, 22334 SSB, 1862 RTTY). The worldwide QSO distribution percentages
are Asia 45,4%, North America 32,4%, Europe 17,9%, Oceania 2,2%, South
America 1,7%, Africa 0,4%. The number of unique callsigns in the K7C log is
15,507. The dupe rate was 7.4%. No 6m QSOs were logged, although K7C fielded
the gear and was ready. A preliminary summary is available at
http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/KURE_pages/KURE_Preliminary_Summary.html
QRP BEACON ---> Richard, SO5GB and Stanislaw, SP5ANU have activated an
"extreme-QRP" beacon on 3588 kHz in Warsaw, Poland. Power is presently 0.5mw
(500uw), and they intend to reduce power, depending on signal reports, most
likely in 3db steps starting on 11 October. For signal reports, comments and
further information please contact Richard at translations@qdnet.pl [TNX
SO5GB]
QSL 4L8A ---> OZ1HPS is no longer the QSL manager for Vakhtang, 4L8A. Cards
should be sent direct only to Vakhtang Mumladze, P.O. Box 120, Tbilisi 0108,
Georgia. [TNX IK3QAR]
QSL IM0X ---> Sauro, IK5EKB reports that the QSL cards for the IOTA Contest
IM0X (EU-041) operation will not be printed before the end of October. Please
be patient and refrain from sending second cards.
QSL VIA YB9BU ---> Kadek is the QSL manger for the following stations: YC9MKF
(Timor Island, OC-148), YC9YKI (Yapen Island, OC-147), YC8RRK (Sangihe
Island, OC-210) and YC4FIJ (Belitung Island, OC-144). All of them can usually
be found on 15 metres SSB daily starting around 12 UTC. [TNX YB9BU and
JN6RZM]
SCHOOLS ON FREQUENCY ---> The Schools on Frequency Award, sponsored by the
Calabria DX Team, is for contacting amateur radio stations operating from
various Italian schools. The award is free of charge and will be sent to the
applicant by e-mail as a .pdf file attachment. Further information can be
found at www.polistenaweb.it/sof or from the Award Manager Alessandro Pochi',
IK8YFU (ik8yfu@tele2.it). [TNX IK8YFU]
W/VE ISLANDS QSO PARTY ---> The 11th W/VE Islands QSO Party, sponsored by the
US Islands Awards Program (USI), will take place from 16 UTC on 22 October
through 23.59 UTC on the 23rd. The object is to work as many American and
Canadian islands on 160 through 6 metres as possible. Amateurs and SWLs
worldwide are welcome to participate. Full information can be found at
http://www.eng.mu.edu/usislands/usvetest.html
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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 September 2005 - is available at http://www.425dxn.org/dxspots/,
as well the software (DXINFO v2.0) which will enable you to handle
the files (instructions at the URL above).
LOGS: On-line logs for 3DA0LJ, 7P8LJ, 9M6LJT, A25LJ, BW2/JM1LJS, JD1BLK
(Ogasawara), JM1LJS/JD1 (Ogasawara), KH2VL, KH2VL/KH0, KH2/JM1LJS,
T88LJ, V5/JD1BLK, V63LJ and V73J are available on
http://radio-dream.com/logsearch/logsearch_index.html [TNX IK8CNT]
LOGS: Thanks to the kind efforts of Doug, N6RT, the on-line log for GB0SM
(EU-011) has been updated to include the 2005 operation and is now
available for checking at http://www.qsl.net/gb0sm. QSL via G0PSE
(e-mail requests for bureau cards can be sent to g0pse@qsl.net).
[TNX G0PSE]
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B8CF, 3D2EA, 3D2RR, 3V8BB, 4U1WB,
4X4WF, 5T5BAB, 5W0HR, 7P8ZZ, 7W4HI, 7X5JF, 8P2K, 8P9AM, 9G5GA, 9M2/G3TMA
(AS-074), 9Y4/DL6RAI, 9Y4ZC, A35PX, A61AJ, AX0MT, BA5TT/5 (AS-138), BD7IN/7
(AS-131), BQ9P, C6AKQ, C91CW, C93DY (AF-098), CE0ZIS, CN2MP, CY0AA, ET3TK,
EX8AA, EY8AM, FJ5DX, FP/VE7SV, HH4/N2WB, HK0/N2WB, HK3JRL, HP2AT, HV0A,
J68AS, J68GS, J79WWW, JR6TYH/JD1, KP2/N4EXA, LA/SA4V (EU-036), LB9JE, LY3BG,
OA4DJW, OJ0J, P43E, PY0/PS7JN, PY0FF, RA0FU, RK0LWW/P (AS-066),RZ0ZWA/P
(AS-095), S21AR, S61FD (AS-019), S79S, S92LZ, S9MX, S9SS, SF50A (EU-037),
T6X, TG9NX, TI8CBT, TK5EF, TO7C, UX2IQ/P (EU-179), V44KJ, V51/DL5XL, V63ME,
V73GE, VC6X, VP2MDY, VP9/K3TRM, VS9ASP, VU2TS, WB9CIF/J6, WP4U, WW2END,
XE1MEX, XX9C, YB7M, YI/N5JEH, YI9OM, YV6BTF, YW8D (SA-063), ZC4LI, ZK1COW,
ZK1EPY, ZK3DX, ZL7/AI5P, ZW0S.
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