4 December 1999
No 448
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
3V - Giovanni, I5JHW reports he will
participate in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest (11-12 December) from
3V8BB.
5T - From 13 to 20 December 1999 the
International Amateur Radio Volunteers (IARV) will dispatch eight
members to Mauritania to build an emergency medical radio network
in some remote cities. During their stay there, they will operate
as 5T5U. They will operate mainly WARC bands including 10MHz, 28
MHz FM (29.260) as well as 6m band (50.115 MHz - beacon). QSL via
JA1UT. Your kind support will be much appreciated. [TNX G3NOM and
JA1UT]
9G - Zdeno, OK2ZW is active as 9G5ZW from
Ghana for the next three years. The QSL manager is Miro, OM3LZ
(the cards are being printed and he will start processing the
requests in early January). [TNX OM3LZ]
CO - A group of Cuban operators (including
CO6ZG, CO6ZP, CO6XN, CO7PH, CO6RD, CO6WD, CO6JL, CO6SE, CO6MZ and
CM6MNG) plan to be active (on 2-80 metres CW, SSB and FM) from
Key Breton (NA-201) on 9-13 December. [TNX The Daily DX]
FS - Members of the North Jersey DX
Association (http://njdxa.org/)
are active as FS/W2QM from St. Martin (NA-105) until December 8.
RTTY and 160 metres operations are planned in addition to the
regular HF bands. QSL via W2QM. [TNX ARRL DX Bulletin]
FT5Z - Michel, FT5ZJ is expected to leave
Amsterdam Island in about two weeks, around 15 December. QSL via
F2YT.
GU - Jim, G0OFE will be active as GU0OFE from
Guernsey (EU-114) on 8-13 December. He will participate in the 10
Meter ARRL Contest as MU0C. QSL for both calls via G0OFE (bureau
cards can be requested at g0ofe@currantbun.com).
[TNX OPDX Bulletin]
H40 - Bernhard, DL2GAC (aka H44MS and H40MS)
will be leaving for India on 12 December. At the end of January
2000 he will start a three-month trip in the Pacific area and
plans are to operate for abouth three weeks from Temotu in
February. He is looking for a RTTY operator to join him on Temotu
(WPX RTTY Contest included), where a beam and an amplifier are
available. Please contact him by fax at 0049-741-15377. [TNX
DJ3IW]
JA - JA6CTW is a new resident on Yakushima,
Osumi Archipelago (AS-032). QSL via JARL. [TNX JE1DXC]
OH0 - Look for OH0Z (Multi-Single) to
participate in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest (11-12 December) from
the Aland Islands. QSL via OH1EH. [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 home call (not
PA3DFO as reported in 425DXN 448: thanks to Gose, PA3GNZ for
detecting the typo!).
TY - Philippe, TU2FH/FK8VHU will be in Benin
between 6 and 28 December and hopes to get a licence. [TNX F6AJA
and Les Nouvelles DX]
VK0_mac - Alan Cheshire, VK0LD (aka GM4EEL,
VP8PJ, A4XFY, VS6AC, V85AC, P29AC, VK6CQ and VK8AC) is currently
active (operating times depend on his work load) from the ANARE
Base on Macquarie Island until late 2000 [425DXN 442]. According
to a release from Jim Smith, VK9NS "it seems likely that
Alan might be the last amateur radio operator on Macquarie Island
for many years to come. He is primarily a CW operator, can
operate split [in fact on 3 December he was transmitting on
14.003 MHz and listening 5 up, ed.] and is capable of sustained
high QSO rates. He will concentrate mainly on 20M or perhaps 15M
to maximise the chance of the DXers working a new country. He
seems to be uninterested in chasing around the bands towards the
multi-band QSO routine and is not interested in list operations
of any sort". For further information please visit http://www.geocities.com/vk0ld/1.html
and do not try to get in touch with him through ANARE. Jim also
reports that "it seems that QSLing will be done at the end
of the tour on Macquarie Island".
VP5 - Fred, K4LQ will be active as VP5/K4LQ
from Providenciales, Caicos Islands (NA-002) on 8-15 December. He
will participate in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest as VP5W with Bruce,
W4OV. [TNX The Daily DX]
YB - YC8ZAM will be active (40, 80 and 15
metres SSB) on 3-5 December to celebrate the 40th anniversary of
Sidrap municipality on Sulawesi (OC-146). QSL via YB8BRI (P. O.
Box. 73 UPTR, Makassar 90245, Indonesia). [TNX YB8BHC]
ZF - Glenn, W0GJ will be active as ZF2RT from
the Cayman Islands (NA-016) on 8-14 December, ARRL 10 Meter
Contest included. QSL via W0GJ. [TNX The Daily DX]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
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.
BORNEO DXPEDITION ---> The 1999
Hillview Gardens Borneo DXpedition is now over. A
preliminary wrap-up indicates some 21,000 QSOs as 9M6OO/p
(Spratly Islands), 6,000 as V85OO, 7,000 as 9M6AAC and
1,000 as 9M6RIT. QSL 9M6OO, V85OO and 9M6AAC via N2OO;
QSL 9M6RIT via G4SHF. The web site for the operation is
at http://www.qsl.net/n2oo/borneo/. [TNX
N2OO]
C6 BUREAU ---> Delano Taylor, C6AFV
has assumed duties as Bureau Manager for the Bahamas
Amateur Radio Society. The address is P.O. Box F-43563
Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas. Delano currently has
thousands of cards for the following:
C6ADR
C6AER
C6AFE
C6AFP
C6AFQ
C6AFZ
C6AGH
C6AGN
C6AGP
C6AGT
C6AHE
C6AHG
C6AHK
C6AHN
C6AHR
C6AHX
C6AHY
C6AJA
C6AJJ
C6AJQ
C6AJT
C6AJU
C6AJZ
C6AKA
C6AKL
C6AKP
C6AKQ
C6AKT
C6AKW
C6AMI
C6ANF
C6APK
C6ASR
C6AVW
C6AXP
C6CDQ
C6CR
C6LE
C6LFN
C6MPN
C61D
KR8V/C6A
These cards will be held for 60 days as of 1 December
1999, If there is no response from these stations, your
cards will be disposed of.
NCDXF/IARU BEACON ---> The
seventeenth beacon in the NCDXF/IARU Beacon Network came
on the air from Novosibirsk, Russia at 0945Z on 26
November 1999. The beacon operator is Yuri Zaruba, UA9OBA
and call is RR9O (Radio Radio Nine Oscar). The final
beacon will be in Hong Kong, China with the callsign
VR2HK. For full information please visit www.ncdxf.org.
[TNX N6EK]
NOT NA-086 ---> Last week CO0DX
operated from Cayo Sabinal and gave NA-086 as IOTA
Reference Number. Martin Atherton, G3ZAY (RSGB IOTA
Committee Chairman) reports that "according to the
British Admiralty charts there is only about 40 metres of
separation between the Cayo and the Cuban mainland at the
eastern end (possibly via a man-made or maintained
channel) - thus the island does not count for NA-086 (as
it fails the 200m rule) if this is accurate. If the CO
group can submit better maps then the situation can
obviously be reconsidered."
P51BH ---> A few readers were
surprised at not seeing any mention of this recent
"activity" in last week's 425DXN. We cannot but
quote what reported by The Daily DX: "The operator
is not Martti, OH2BH and the QSL manager is not Kan,
JA1BK". Period!
PATHFINDER ---> Pathfinder, a program
that searches address and manager databases, as well as
country-specific callbooks, makes it easy to find QSL
information from web-accessible sources. As of today, its
search library represents 60 online sources of QSL
information. Pathfinder is free, and contains no
advertising. Commercial use is expressly forbidden. See http://www.qsl.net/pathfinder
for additional information and download/installation
instructions. [TNX AA6YQ]
QSL OD5ZZ ---> Dwaine, K8ME
(ex-WA8MEM) reports he is no longer the manager for
OD5ZZ. "I have not spoken to Walid in 4 years and I
ran out of cards three years ago. Please send all
requests direct to Walid in Lebanon". [TNX QRZ-DX]
QSL VK9RS ---> Mal, VK6LC reports
that direct cards (via I1HYW) for VK9RS (OC-230) could
start to flow around Christmas time, while bureau cards
(via VK6LC) are scheduled for about May 2000. The VK9RS
special stamps [425DXN 444] are not for sale because of
limited quantity: they have been sent to all VK9RS
sponsors, the remaining are available to those who have
"supported a reasonable donation with their direct
QSL card". [TNX VE6VK]
QSL VIA IK2DUW ---> Antonello reports
he has processed all the requests received so far for
3W6KA, 3W6LI, BA4RE, EK6LV and UA0FO. He he still waiting
for the RU0LL and RU0LL/a cards to arrive from the
printer.
WAZ AWARD MANAGER ---> Paul
Blumhardt, K5RT (k5rt@cq-amateur-radio.com)
has been appointed CQ WAZ Award Manager, effective
immediately. He will succeed Jim Dionne, K1MEM, who
passed away in October. All WAZ applications and other
correspondence should be sent to Paul Blumhardt, 2805
Toler Rd, Rowlett, TX 75088, USA. [TNX KF2TI]
SILENT KEY - Ulli, DL9WVM reports the
sad news of the sudden passing of Hartmut
"Hardy" Mueller, DL2HZM/PY0FZM on 22 November
while on Fernando de Noronha. Gerd, DL5WX (Hardy's
brother) and Dietmar, DL2HWA will take all his belongings
back to Germany, including the logs for PY0FZM. Cards for
DL2HZM and all of his past DXpeditions will be handled by
DL9WVM, while cards for PY0FZM will be handled by Gunter,
DL3XM. You can express your condolences to Gerd, DL5WX at
dl5wx@t-online.de.
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
CQWW CW: A list of QSL routes for
stations active during last week's event is available at http://www.arrakis.es/~ea5eyj.
[TNX EA5EYJ]
LOGS: Logs for IQ2X and IU2X (CQWW SSB
and CW) are available at http://www.hamlan.org/bsdx.
[TNX IK2GZU]
W5RXP/KH3 - Rich Kellner, 4496 Ridgeway
Dr., Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA
XX9SC - Choi Sio Man, P. O. Box 6018,
Macau
YB0CBI - Ferry Soedjana, P. O. Box 8075
JKSTB, Jakarta 12080, Indonesia
YB1BUL - Mula Warman W., Jln. Golf Barat
F3/16, Arcamanik, Bandung 40293, Indonesia
YB1CS - Agus Krisnadi, Jl. Sangkuriang
47A, Bandung 40135, Indonesia
YC1FIH - H. Ismar Lewan, P. O. Box 123,
Tasikmalaya 46101, Indonesia
YC8EBW - Tonny Jongingkriwang, P. O. Box
1614, Makasar 90014, Indonesia
YS1/KA0UBH - Francisco, P.O. Box 01-105,
San Salvador, El Salvador
ZP7FRA - Luis Alberto Rebori, P. O. Box
25, 3300 Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay
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