16 January 1999
No 402
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
9A - 9A4DU (Ante), 9A6DX (Nick) and 9A4NC
(Zoran) will be active (SSB and CW) as home call/p from Mljet
Island (EU-016) between 16 and 25 January. QSL via home calls
either direct or through the bureau. [TNX 9A4DU]
C6 - Don, KN4UG will be active as KN4UG/C6A
from Abaco Island (NA-080) until 19 January. QSL via KN4UG either
direct (Don Namm, 103 Birkhaven Drive, Cary, NC 27511, USA) or
through the bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
FO_aus - Wulf, DL1AWI and Mat, DL5XU plan to
operate respectively as FO0AWI and FO0XUU from Rurutu (OC-050),
Austral Islands and Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (OC-027) between
16 January and 5 February. QSL via DL5AWI. [TNX The Daily DX]
KL - Frank, KL7FH/KL1SLE is planning on being
on St. Lawrence Island (NA-040) in the next 2-3 weeks. This may
only be a one day/night operation. For more information visit http://www.customcpu.com/personal/kl7fh.
[TNX KL7FH]
VE - Special event station CI6CI will be
active (on all bands SSB) on 16 and 17 January to celebrate the
20th anniversary of the Peace Country ARC. QSL to Peace Country
ARC, 9836-83rd Ave., Grande Pairie, Alberta T8V 3T5 Canada. [TNX
DX News Sheet]
VK9_coc- Kazu, JA1CMD will be active (on all
bands 10-160 metres, mainly on CW) as VK9CA from Cocos Island
(OC-003) between 16 and 20 January. QSL via JA1CMD either direct
(Kazu Miyamori, #52604 Hilton Residence II, Jl Gatot Subroto,
P.O.Box 4083, KBY Jakarta 12040, Indonesia) or through the JARL
bureau. [TNX JA1ELY]
VU - Norbert, DJ9RB is active on 10 metres as
VU2RBQ from southern India until 23 January. Look for him at his
local sunrise and sunset on 1824.5 KHz. QSL to DJ9RB via the
bureau. [TNX DL2GAC/VU2BMS]
VU - Manohar, VU2UR (other calls AT2UR &
AT0ITU, e-mail q7x@hotmail.com)
will be active with the special call AT0U during the weekends
between January and March. QSL via VU2UR (B.L. Manohar, House
MIG-6, 80 feet Road, Kingeri Upnagara, Bangalore 560060, India).
[TNX Vikram bir Singh]
YB - Ronny, YC8TXW and Benny, YC8YZ started
their operation from Obi Islands (OC-222) on 10 January, a couple
of days earlier than expected. According to Jo, YC0LOW they were
expected to be active "for three or four days" on 80,
40, 15 and 10 metres, CW and SSB, low power. QSL via YC8TXW (P.O.
Box 166, Tahuna 95800, Indonesia).
ZL9 - ZL9CI expected to hit the 50,000 QSOs
mark on 15 January. The main pileups to Europe on 40, 20 and 15
metres CW are still huge, and they are continuing their push on
these bands. SSB on 40 and 80 metres remains a low priority at
this stage of the DXpedition, probably not until early next week
as it now stands. 10, 12, 15 and 17 metres are good to Europe
when conditions pick up, and they will be on those bands (CW and
SSB) daily between 06.30 UTC and 10.00 UTC until things cool off.
RTTY operation has commenced on an almost daily basis on 20
metres at 03.30-05.30 UTC and a big push is expected this coming
weekend. As the other bands thin out, and they have more time to
dedicate an operator to RTTY, these short hours will increase.
QSL via ZL2HU (Ken Holdom, P.O. Box 56099, Tawa, New Zealand).
[TNX N1DG]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
5T5CW, P29FV, P29MC ---> Norm,
K6ZDL/5 states "no logs received or retained"
for 5T5CW, P29FV and P29MC, "stations have been
closed for over 10 years". Do not send your cards to
him. [TNX K1XN and The Golist]
C6 BUREAU ---> C6AFV is now handling
bureau cards distribution for the Bahamas Amateur Radio
Society. The new address is P.O. Box F, 43563 Freeport,
Bahamas. [TNX C6ANO]
POSTAL RATES (CANADA) ---> Further
information [425DXN 401] comes from Garth, VE3HO. As of
January 4th the new rates for 20 grams are 95 cents
(international air mail) and 55 cents (mail to the USA),
but the actual costs are higher due to the government tax
on postage stamps. Therefore 95 and 55 cent stamps cost
respectively 1.02 VE dollar and 59 cents to purchase. One
US green stamp is approximately equal to 1.50 Canadian
when exchanged at the bank. One IRC currently is not
being redeemed for a 95 cent stamp, the post office is
still giving only a 90 cent stamp.
QSL 8P9BX ---> This was Winston
Seeney, VE3WFS who operated from Barbados (NA-021) for
about three weeks over the Christmas holiday period. He
was not permitted to put up antennas from his hotel, so
he put everything into a shopping cart and got permission
to operate from St. John's Parish cemetery (!). QSL via
VE3WFS. [TNX VE3SRE]
QSL DU3NXE ---> Chuck, DU3NXE reports
his new QSL manager is W3HNK. [TNX K1XN and The Golist]
QSL EP2MKO ---> Ali, EP2MKO says he
knows nothing about F/HH2HM, who is not his QSL manager.
The correct manager is still UA6HCW (Igor Kovalyov,
P.O.Box 59, Pyatigorsk 357500, Russia). Ali also reports
he has never operated on either 80 metres and WARC bands.
[TNX RW3AY]
QSL XM7P ---> All the cards for XM7P
(May 1998 operation from Trutch Island, NA-181) [425DXN
368] have been sent out, but some of them went out
without the QSO data on them. QSL manager VE7ARS (ve7ars@sfu.ve7cc.ampr.org
reports he will re-issue the blank cards and that there
is no need for stations to send another card or more
postage. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
QSL YO2LDE ---> Cards can be sent
either to the new QSL manager, N1NJ (Tony Naglieri, 22
Sherwin Street, Ware, MA 01082-1020, USA) and to YO2LDE's
new address (Daniel M. Vuescu, Zadei F3-1-7, RO-1700,
Resita, Romania). Daniel's e-mail address is yo2lde@qsl.net. [TNX
YO2LDE]
QSL VIA IK2PZG ---> Bruno, IK2PZG
reports all direct cards for IOTA and IIA 1998 operations
(IL7, IC8, ID8) by IK2PZG, IK2WXW, I8KCI and IK8UHA have
been sent out.
QSL VIA IK7JWX ---> For any query
about Alfredo's (IK7JWX) past operations from Albania
(ZA/IK7JWX) and several Italian islands (IJ/ and IL7/)
please get in touch with him at adenisi@webitalia.it.
SALENTO ISLANDS AWARD ---> It is
sponsored by ARI Lecce and Salento DX Team. A web site
has been established and further information can be found
at http://www.freeweb.org/hobby/IK7JWY/sia.htm.
[TNX IK7JWX]
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
ZL9CI - The log server had some problems
on 11 January an Don, N1DG has put an alternate site up.
Try http://www.goldtel.net/lookup.html.
ZP6VLA Victor Hugo Sosa, C.C. 22065,
2160 San Lorenzo, Paraguay
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