6 November 1999
No 444
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
4U1UN - Bert, PA1KW is expected to operate
from the station at the United Nations in New York until 9
November.
5H - Orlando, IN3KIZ is now active from
Tanzania as 5H3OC. QSL via IN3DEI (Claudio Daddario, P.O. Box 55,
39100 Bolzano - BZ, Italy). [TNX IN3DEI].
9A - Special event call 9A643KC is being used
until 31 December by operators from Koprivnica ARC (9A8K) to
celebrate the 643rd anniversary of the town of Koprivnica. QSL
via 9A7K (Kresimir Juratovic, P.O. Box 88, HR-48000 Koprivnika,
Croatia). [TNX 9A7K]
9M6 - Phil, HS0/G4JMB is active (10-40 metres
SSB) as 9M6CT from East Malaysia until 18 December. QSL via
HS0/G4JMB (Philip Weaver, P.O. Box 7, Pat Pong P.O., Bangkok
10506, Thailand). [TNX The Daily DX]
9U - Gus, 9U5D will operate on 80 and 40
metres (3585, 7035 and 7080 kHz) and 160 metres in the night
between 6 and 7 November (21.00-04.00 UTC). He will be on
1831-1832 every hour on the hour for about 15 minutes, listening
up 3-5 Khz. QSL via SM0BFJ. [TNX The Daily DX]
EA8 - Tony, EA8AVB will be active as EA8AVB/p
from Isla de la Gomera (AF-004, DIE S-014) on 5-8 November. QSL
via EA8URE. [TNX EA8AVB]
C9 - Jean-Louis, F5MAW is now active as
C91MSF from Mozambique. MSF stands for "Medecin Sans
Frontiere", the organization which has been recently awarded
the Nobel Prize for Peace.
KH4 - Mert/W0UFO, Thor/W0QIK and Ed/N0OKW
expect to be on Midway Island on 4-13 November. They plan to
operate in their spare time (around 17 UTC and between 4 and 5
UTC) as KH4/W0UFO and KH4/W0QIK. [TNX The Daily DX]
OA - Yves/F5TYY, Alan/F6BFH and Bernard/F9IE
[425DXN 443] were active as OA5/home call from SA-073 on 4-5
November. Plans are to operate from other IOTA groups subject to
transportation and landing permissions. QSL via home calls.
PY - Look for PX7G to be active from Forte de
Pau Amarelo on 5-7 November. QSL via PS7AB either direct (Rony
Reis Caixa Postal 2021, 59094-970, Natal/RN, Brazil). [TNX PY7YL]
R1A_ssh - Oleg, R1ANF is currently again
signing R1ANF/A from the Chinese Antarctic base Great Wall on
King George Island, South Shetlands (AN-010). QSL via RK1PWA.
[TNX DL5EBE]
W - Southern California DX Club members N6KZ,
N6FH, WU6T, N6IC and W8DX will be active (on 10-80 metres CW and
SSB) from Catalina Island (NA-066) between 12 and 15 November.
[TNX The Daily DX]
XX9 - QRZ-DX reports Alberto, XX9AS has
decided to close down operation from Macao, has already taken
down his antennas and hopes to be active soon from another QTH.
ZL - Ed, K8VIR is expected to be active as
ZM4IR/4 from Stewart Island (OC-203) on 7-15 November. His
favourite frequencies are 28505, 24950, 18130 and 14260 kHz.QSL
via W8WC. [TNX The Daily DX]
LOGS: Logs for the recent operation from
Mauritius Island by PA0VHA, PA3EPD, PB0AIT and PE1ALV are
now available at http://www.pi4cc.nl/3b8/log/index.htm.
9N1MM DONATIONS ---> The following
comes from Charles Harpole, K4VUD/9N7UD (k4vud@hotmail.com):
"If anyone would care to make a rig or $$$ donation
to the 9N1MM memorial club station in Kathmandu, Nepal,
please contact me. If you have gear or parts to
contribute, please plan to have them shipped to me at
K4VUD Callbook address to arrive prior to December 1,
1999. There are three NEWLY licensed 9N hams there now
who have no prospect of getting gear and getting on the
air unless donations come to them. One of them is young
with some time to operate and is a 30 WPM CW man! He does
not even have a Morse key of his own!".
CYCLONE EMERGENCY ---> The following
comes from Nat, VU2NTA: "The Cyclone which hit the
East Indian state of Oriisa has left behind utter
devastation. Radio amateurs are active on 14.140-180 and
7.030 MHz and we would Appreciate if all stations
(particularly from Europe, Russia and the CIS countries),
when propogation opens up, do not use these segments so
as to enable relief to reach the affected areas".
IOTA 2000 ---> The purpose of the
RSGB IOTA Millennium Programme (IOTA 2000) is to
celebrate the Millennium, to promote IOTA activity and to
have fun on the HF bands. The programme will be
administered by the Chiltern DX Club-The UK DX Foundation
on behalf of the RSGB IOTA Committee. For full details
please visit http://www.425dxn.org/iota/iota2000.
LU3XX ---> This is Mario Alfredo
Carballido, LU3XPS who received his new General licence
on 13 October.
VK4AAR ---> "More than 50% of
QSL requests come to me via my old address in
Dalveen", Alan/VK4AAR reports. "I am also
astounded that many are still using the address in Arana
Hills which was prior to Augsut 1993". Please note
that his current address is: Alan Roocroft, P.O. Box 421,
Gatton 4343, Australia.
VK9RS ---> A limited quantity of
special legal 45 cent postage stamps are being printed by
Australia Post to commemorate the recent VK9RS operation
from the Rowley Shoals and will be available in four
weeks. Amateurs and SWLs interested in stamp collecting
are invited to contact Malcolm K.Johnson, VK6LC at either
vk6lc@iinet.net.au
or 9 Abinger Road, Lynwood, 6147 Western Australia,
Australia. [TNX VE6VK]
QSL VIA IK0ZKK ---> Paolo, IK0ZKK is
the QSL manager for 4X6RE, CN8SH, CO8DC (CM8DC), YC6HDF
and YC8FI. He currently has some logistic problems, but
he plans to reply to the requests received so far by
December. Please be patient and do not send duplicates.
S79AU ---> This was Sergio, IK4AUY,
who was active from Mahe and Praslin (both count for
AF-024) in the Seychelles between 22 October and 3
November. QSL via IK4AUY (Sergio Cartoceti, Via Di
Corticella 241, I-40128 Bologna - BO, Italy). [TNX
IK4AUY]
SILENT KEY - Mike, W6RW reports the
passing of Bill Adams, W6BA on 29 October at almost 91
years of age. First licensed in 1924 as 6ANN, four years
later he made the first known transcontinental QSO on ten
metres when he worked 2JN in New Jersey from his Long
Beach, CA QTH. He spent the last 35 years of his life
retired on his 40 acre antenna farm in Twentynine Palms,
California, where he has hosted multi-multi, multi-single
and single operator contest operations since 1967.
YB0AI - Taufan Prioutomo, P. O. Box
8000, Jakarta 11000, Indonesia
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