27 November 1999
No 447
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
3D2 - After their operation from Rotuma,
Birgit (DL7IO) and Holger (DL7AU) will be active again as 3D2IO
and 3D2AO from Fiji until 9 December. QSL via DL7VRO. [TNX OPDX
Bulletin]
3D2 - Hirotada, JA0SC will be active (10-80
metres SSB and RTTY) as 3D2HY from Fiji on 3-5 December. QSL via
JA0SC either direct (Hirotada Yoshiike, 1378-1 Mashima
Mashima-machi, Nagano-city 381-11, Japan) or through the bureau.
[TNX The Daily DX]
6Y - Alan, G3XAQ will be active as G3XAQ/6Y5
from Jamaica (NA-097) between 29 November and 9 December. [TNX
The Daily DX]
9A - Frane/9A5V, Fredi/9A5KV, Matko/9A3VM and
possibly Tom/9A2AA plan to operate from Jakljan Island (EU-016,
CI-033 for the Croatian Islands Award) on 3-4 December and from
Olipa Island (EU-016, CI-079) on 5 December. QSL via home calls.
[TNX 9A2NO and 9A3ZG]
A3 - Paul, A35RK (OC-169) is currently QRT as
all his equipment is broken. Replacement equipment is now being
purchased and assembled in the Seattle area for transport to
Tonga. "If you, or anyone you know, is planning on coming to
Tonga, between now and Christmas, and would be willing to hand
carry any or all of this gear, please contact my QSL manager Bob
Preston, W7TSQ (w7tsq@aol.com),
as soon as possible." Paul looks forward to getting back on
the air in time for the New Millennium celebrations (and it may
be worth noting that contacts made with OC-169 in *** JANUARY ***
will score three points towards IOTA 2000...). [TNX The Daily DX]
CN - A large group of operators from the
Bavarian Contest Club (http://www.uni-erlangen.de/~unrz45/BCC)
will participate in the CQ WW CW DX Contest as CN8WW
(Multi-Multi) from Morocco. QSL via DL6FBL either direct (Bernd
Och, Chr.-Wirth-Str. 18, D-36043 Fulda, Germany) or through the
bureau. The web site for the operation is at http://www.dl6fbl.de/cn8ww/.
[TNX DF4RD]
FT5W - Gilles, FT5WH will be leaving Crozet
on 7 December. QSL manager F5NOD reports he has the logs for
contacts made up to 14 October and that all of the requests
received before 5 November have been processed. [TNX F5NOD]
GJ - Bert, PA3GIO will be active (10, 12, 15,
17, 20, 40, 80 metres) as MJ/PA3GIO/p or /m from Jersey (EU-013)
on 11-16 December. QSL via PA3GIO preferably thorugh the bureau.
The web site for the operation is at http://www.xs4all.nl/~pa3gio/GJ99/.
[TNX PA3GIO]
HR - When asked if the Swan Islands (NA-035)
operation was still on for December [425DXN 441], Rene, HR1RMG
recently said that "because the weather maybe bad, he may
have to wait untill the spring." However Rene hopes to be
active from Tigre Island (NA-060) "the first week in
December". [TNX G0APV and Islands On The Web]
LU - North Patagonia DX Group operators
Rafael/LU7VCH, Sergio/LU7YS, Alex/LU8VCC and Martin/LU3VED will
participate in the ARRL 10 Meters Contest as LT5V. QSL via LU8VCC
(Alex Rocca, P. O. Box 37, 8332 General Roca, Rio Negro,
Argentina). [TNX LU8VCC]
LZ_ssh - Danny, LZ2UU will be active as LZ0A
from the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island, South
Shetlands (AN-010) [425DXN 445] starting around 4 December
through February 2000. QSL via LZ1KDP (P.O.Box 812, Sofia 1000,
Bulgaria). [TNX LZ1PJ and LZ2CJ]
OH - Look for special Santa Claus station
OH9SCL to be active on all modes and bands from Rovaniemi on
17-19 December. Further information is expected to be published
at http://www.oh9scl.com.
[TNX OH9HNP]
P4 - Martin, VE3MR will be active as P49MR
from Aruba (SA-036) between December and April. QSL via VE3MR or
P49MR (Martin Rosenthal, P.O. Box 4069, Noord, Aruba). [TNX The
Daily DX]
PA - Look for Johan, PA3FDO to be active as
PA3FDO/p from Ameland Island (EU-038) on 10-13 December,
including the ARRL 10 Meters Contest. QSL via PA3DFO. [TNX
PA3DFO]
PY - Look for PQ7G to be active from Forte
das Cinco Pontas (DFH PE 06) on 3-5 December. QSL via PS7AB
either direct (Rony Reis, Caixa Postal 2021, 59094-970, Natal/RN,
Brazil) or through the bureau. [TNX PY7YL]
R1A_ant - An Antarctic expedition left Mirny
base on 18 November to reach Russian bases Pionerskaya, Vostok 1,
Komsomolskaya and Vostok (and then back to Mirny following the
same itinerary). The radio operator is Evgeniy, R1ANB who will
operate on 20 metres SSB (between 15 and 16.30 UTC only on 14.160
MHz) as R1ANB/A from Pionerskaya (hopefully starting on 1
December) and Vostok 1, as R1ANK from Komsomolskaya and as R1ANC
from Vostok. QSL direct to RU1ZC (ex-UW1ZC). [TNX R1ANF and
K4MZU]
SU - For those who have asked: if you want to
offer your contribution to the May 1999 SU9DX operation from
Giftun Island (Red Sea Coast North Group, AF-???) [425DXN 445],
the contact point is the DXpedition leader, I8IYW (Peppino
Jannuzzi, P.O. Box 5083, I-80144 Napoli - NA, Italy; e-mail computronica@tin.it)
V6 - Hide, JM1LJS will be active (on 10-80
metres CW and SSB) as V63LJ from Ponape (OC-010), Micronesia
between 26 and at least 31 December (when his licence expires: if
he has it renewed he will operate until 4 January 2000). QSL via
JH8DEH (Akira Miyata, 4-28-5, Minami Nishi 23 Jyou, Obihiro
080-2473, Japan). [TNX JM1LJS]
VP9 - Mark, AA1AC will be active 8on 10-40
metres SSB and CW) as AA1AC/VP9 from Paget Parish, Bermuda
(NA-005) on 16-20 December. QSL via home call.
XU - Andy, G4ZVJ has extended his stay and
will be active as XU7AAV [425DXN 443] until 00.30 UTC on 5
December. QSL via home call. [TNX N4KG]
XU - Yoh, 7L1MFS and Koji, JS6BLS Koji will
be active (on 40-6 metres SSB, CW and RTTY) as XU2C on 4 and 5
December. QSL for this operation via JS6BLS (bureau cards can be
requested at js6bls@qsl.net).
[TNX JS6BLS]
XZ - The XZ0A DXpedition to Thahtay Khun
Island, Mergui Archipelago (AS-???), Myanmar [425DXN 417] is
scheduled to take place between 13 January and 6 February 2000.
Organized by the Central Arizona DX Association, this will be the
first amateur radio activity from outside the capital city of
Yangon and the very first IOTA from this country. Twenty-four
operators (namely AF7O, EA5XX, G3VMW, HS0/G3NOM, JA1UPA, JA1UT,
JR0CGJ, K6RKE, K7TR, K7VS, K7WX, K7ZV, KD6XH, KM5EP, N5IA, N7XYR,
NA7DB, V73GT, WY7K, W8AEF, WA6CDR, WF5T, XE1L, YB0ARA) will be
active with eight stations on all bands and modes. QSL via W1XT
either direct (Bob Myers, 37875 North 10th Street, Phoenix, AZ
85086, USA) or through the bureau. For further information please
visit http://getnet.com/~k7wx/myanmar.htm. [TNX
K7WX]
YU - The OPDX Bulletin reports that Andy,
RW3AH will be in Kosovo for the next couple of years and expects
to be active as YU8/9X0A.
ZL7 - Lothar, DJ4ZB reports he has been
authorized to operate as ZM7ZB during his 31 January-3 March
activity for the Chatham Islands (OC-038) [425DXN 433]. Special
attention will be paid to Europe on 12 (24935 kHz) and 10 metres
(28395, 28495, 28595, 28460 kHz). Contacts made with ZM7ZB in ***
JANUARY *** will score three points towards the RSGB IOTA
Millennium Programme (IOTA 2000). QSL via DJ4ZB (Lothar
Grotehusmann, Quaekerstrasse 35, D-13403 Berlin, Germany).
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
CQ WW CW DX CONTEST ---> Last minute
additions to the list of the stations who have announced
their participation include [TNX 7K4QOK, CT1CJJ, JT1CO,
LU6XQI]:
Call Zone Category QSL via Notes
=============================================================================
CQ1A 14 CT1CJJ op. CT1DSC
JT1JA 23 MM JT1CO (**)
LU8XW 13 LU8XW op. LU3XQ, LU6XQI
TX8CW 32 20,15,10 FK Bureau (*)
ZM1A 32 MS op. ZL3CW,ZL1AMO,ZL1BMW,JA4EKO
(*) ARANC, P. O. Box 3956, 98846 Noumea Cedex
(**) Ch.Chadraabal, P.O.Box 905, Ulaanbaatar 23, Mongolia
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PIRATE ---> "I am still
receiving lots of cards showing me as QSL manager for
ZA1SRB", Tony (G4UZN) reports. "This station
was a pirate and seems to have been active on all hf
bands for quite a while in November and December
1998."
VISALIA 2000 ---> The International
DX Convention, sponsored by the Southern California DX
Club, will take place on 14-16 April at the Holiday Inn
in Visalia, CA. For further information please visit the
SCDXC site at http://www.scdxc.org.
VK6 QSL BUREAU ---> Plese note that
after sixty years the address has changed. The new
address for the VK6 QSL Bureau is P. O. Box 10, West
Perth 6872, Western Australia, Australia. [TNX VK4BLE,
WIAQ QSL Bureau Manager]
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
VK8: The new web site with on-line logs,
pictures etc. for the recent VK8ML (OC-173) and VK8CI
(OC-229) IOTA operations is at www.vk2nnn.com/IOTA.
[TNX VK8NSB]
YO: The logs for the special "Solar
Eclipse" station YR99E and the final scores of the
YO-DX HF 1999 contest are available on the web site for
the Romanian Amateur Radio Federation. [TNX YO3FWC]
PERIOD CALL REF
===========================================================================
till 05/12 3B8/F6HMJ: Mauritius Island (AF-049) 443
till 09/12 3D2IO & 3D2AO: Fiji * by DL7IO and DL7AU 447
till 29/11 3W6DK: Vietnam * by N0ODK 445
till 22/12 3XY2D: Guinea * by VE2DPS 442
till 01/12 4M7X: Coche Isl (SA-012), Venezuela * by Team Vertical 445
till 30/11 8J2POS: special event station (Japan) 431
till 30/11 8P: Barbados * by K4BAI, K1TO, N4TO 446
till 31/12 9A643KC: special event call 444
till 31/12 9A770N: special event station (Croatia) 422
till 29/11 9M6AAC: East Malaysia (OC-088) * by N2OO and others 443
till 18/12 9M6CT: East Malaysia * by HS0/G4JMB 444
till 10/12 9U5D: Burundi * by SM5DIC 439
till 01/12 C6AKP: South Bimini (NA-048) * by N4RP 446
till 02/12 N7NU/C6, K7AR/C6, WJ7R/C6, W7RR/C6, C6AJX: Bahamas 446
till 30/11 WA3WSJ/C6A: Abaco (NA-080) 446
till 28/11 CO0DX: Camaguey Archipelago (NA-086) * by COs 445
till 31/12 DU67: special anniversary prefix 441
till 01/12 E4/S53R: Palestine 445
till 30/11 FO0DEH: French Polynesia and Austral Is * by ON4QM 440
till 07/12 FT5WH: Crozet (AF-008) * by F5AGL 447
till 20/12 FT5ZJ: Amsterdam Island 399
till 03/12 GD4UOL: Isle of Man (EU-116) * by G4UOL 445
till 30/11 H44MX & H44YL: Solomon Is * by K1XM & KQ1F 445
till 31/12 HB7OGR: special call 428
till 03/12 HI3JH and HI3K: Dominican Republic * by AD4Z 435
till 31/12 HS72A: special event call 443
till 01/01 IU0PAW: special event station 442
till April JD1BKR: Iwo-Jima (AS-030), Ogasawara 441
till 15/12 KC4/WA1O: Antarctica 443
till 04/12 KH4/SM6FJY: Midway (OC-030) * by SM6FJY and V63YL 429
till 10/01 KH4/W4ZYV: Midway (OC-030) 445
till 01/12 PJ4/home call & PJ4B: Bonaire (SA-006) * by Ws 446
till end Nov PY1NEZ/PP1,PU1NEZ/PP1,PY1LVF/PP1,PY1NEW/PP1: SA-067 443
till 30/11 PY0ZFO & PY0FF: Fernando de Noronha (SA-003) * by W9VA 446
till January PZ5DX: Suriname * by K3BYV 433
till 04/12 S92CW or S92DX: Sao Tome (AF-023) * by DA1MH & DL5OBZ 445
till 02/12 SV5/G4OBK and SV5/G4RCG: Rhodes 439
till 29/11 T32BE, T32BO, T32PO: Christmas Island (OC-024) * by Ws 445
till ?? TZ6YV: Mali * by K7YV 446
till 30/11 UE0JX: special event station 435
till 29/11 V26K: Antigua (NA-100) * by AA3B 441
till 30/11 V26KW: Antigua (NA-100) * by K3TEJ 441
till 01/04 V31JP: Belize * by K8JP 443
till 29/11 VC1A: special event station (Canada) 443
till 29/11 VP2MGU: Montserrat (NA-103) * by DL7VOG 443
till 01/02 VP8NJS: Antarctic base Patriot Hills 446
till January VQ9DX: Diego Garcia (AF-006), Chagos * by AA5DX 439
till 05/12 XU7AAV: Cambodia * by G4ZVJ 447
till 03/12 XV7SW: Vietnam * by SM5MX 446
till 31/12 XW2A: Laos * by JA2EZD 438
till 02/12 XX9TDX: Macau * by SM0GNU 446
till 30/11 ZD8A: Ascension Island (AF-003) * by K6NA 445
till May ZF2NT: Little Cayman (NA-016) * by N6NT 443
till March ZM: special Millennium prefix (New Zealand) 438
till 06/12 ZP6/AB2E, /N3BNA, /CX6VM, ZP6T: Paraguay 439
27/11-28/11 PT7AAC: Mundau Lighthouse (DFB CE-04) 446
27/11-28/11 CQ WW CW DX Contest ***
29/11-09/12 G3XAQ/6Y5: Jamaica (NA-097) * by G3XAQ 447
30/11-14/12 HC1MD and HC1MD/HC7: Ecuador * by NE8Z 439
30/11-01/12 JI3DST/3: Awajishima (AS-117) 443
01/12-05/01 3F: special prefix (Panama) 445
01/12-06/12 T46AA and T46CW: NA-201 (Cuba) 434
03/12-05/12 3D2HY: Fiji * by JA0SC 447
03/12-04/12 9A: Jakljan Isl (EU-016) * by 9A5V,9A5KV,9A3VM,9A2AA 447
03/12-05/12 PQ7G: Forte das Cinco Pontas (DFH PE 06) 447
03/12-06/12 PV7ZZ: Ponta Do Mel Lighthouse (DFB RN-02, LH 1323) 445
03/12-05/12 ARRL 160 Meters CW Contest ***
04/12-04/01 3W6KM: Vietnam * by ES1AKM and ES1AX 443
04/12-29/02 LZ0A: South Shetlands (AN-010) * by LZ2UU 447
04/12-05/12 XU2C: Cambodia * by 7L1MFS and JS6BLS 447
04/12-05/12 EA DX CW Contest ***
05/12 9A: Olipa Island (EU-016) * by 9A5V,9A5KV,9A3VM,9A2AA 447
10/12-13/12 PA3FDO/p: Ameland Island (EU-038) 447
11/12-12/12 LT5V (ARRL 10 Meters)
11/12-16/12 MJ/PA3GIO/p: Jersey (EU-013) 447
11/12-12/12 ARRL 10 Meters Contest ***
11/12-12/12 Italian Contest (40 & 80 Meters) ***
14/12 II2V * special A. Volta station 407
16/12-20/12 AA1AC/VP9: Paget Parish, Bermuda (NA-005) 447
17/12-19/12 OH9SCL: "Santa Claus" station 447
26/12-03/01 8Q7BX: Maldives (AS-013) * by I4ALU 445
26/12-31/12 V63LJ: Ponape (OC-010), Micronesia * by JM1LJS 447
31/12-29/02 M2000A: special call (England) * by Cray Valley RS 439
31/12-01/01 Happy New Year 2000 Contest 437
December 4S7: Sri Lanka (AS-003) * by DL7FER 445
Dec-Jan P2OOOK: New Britain (OC-008) * by P29PB 441
Dec-Apr P49MR: Aruba (SA-036) * by VE3MR 447
December HR: Tigre Island (NA-060) * by HR1RMG 447
from December R1ANB/A, R1ANK, R1ANC: Russian Antarctic bases 447
01/01-31/12 2000 IOTA 2000 (http://www.cdxc.org.uk) ***
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