18 December 1999
No 450
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
TO ALL OUR READERS WARMEST THOUGHTS AND BEST
WISHES FOR A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
MACAU - Will Macau remain on the DXCC list?
Read the following analysis coming from Bernie McClenny, W3UR,
Editor of The Daily DX (http://www.dailydx.com): "December 20th
marks the return of Macao back to China. In order for Macao to
remain on the DXCC list it must meet one of the following
criteria. One, be a member of the United Nations (UN), it
currently is not. Two, have an International Amateur Radio Union
(IARU) society, it currently does not. Three, have it's own Call
Sign Prefix block issued by the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU), it does not have this currently as the XX prefix
block belongs to Portugal. From all readings it appears that
China plans to have Macao set up as a Special Administrative
Region (SAR) like Hong Kong, which was handed over to China by
the British in the summer of 1997. Hong Kong meets two of the
requirements to be on the DXCC list. It has its own IARU society
and its own Call Sign Prefix block. So it appears the only way at
this point in time for Macao to remain on the ARRL DXCC list will
be for China to assign Macao it's own prefix block which would
need to appear on the ITU web page at
http://www.itu.int/radioclub/rr/aps42.htm".
6W - Jacques, F6BUM will be active from
Senegal (6W1 and 6W4) between 24 and 31 December. QSL via home
call. [TNX F6BUM]
9U - Gus, SM5DIC was expected to go QRT as
9U5D on 11 December. He will be back to Burundi on 10 January for
other three months. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
7Q - Edwin, ZS5BBO will be active (on 10, 15,
20 and 6 metres) as 7Q7BO from Malawi between 19 and 26 December.
QSL direct only to ZS5BBO (Edwin Musto, P.O. Box 211032, Bluff
4036, South Africa). [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
8P - Dan, N8DCJ will be active as 8P9CW from
Barbados (NA-021) between 25 December and 8 January. [TNX The
Daily DX]
CE9_ant - UA9OBA and RW3GW are members of the
International Antarctic "Millenium Expedition". They
are expected to operate as CE8/ and CE9/R3CA from Antarctic base
"Patriot Hills" and possibly from other bases as
R3CA/ant. The expedition will have skeds at 5 and 6 UTC on 14135
kHz starting on 20 December. [TNX RW3GU]
HR - Luigino, YV5ENI reports his operation
from NA-035 and NA-057 [425DXN 441] has been cancelled "due
to personal reasons".
HV - Francesco, IK0FVC reports he will be
operating as HV0A from Vatican station HV4NAC starting on 24
December to celebrate the Jubilee Year. QSL via IK0FVC.
P4 - Alan, K4AVQ (ex W0RIC) will be active
(on 10-160 metres) as P40AV from Aruba (SA-036) between 18
December and 1 January. QSL via K4AVQ. [TNX The Daily DX]
SP - Peter, SP5PB eports he will be active
(mostly CW on 7012, 14022, 18072, 21022, 24902, 28022) as SP5PB/1
from Kolobrzeg lighthouse (SPL 12 from the Polish Lighthouses
Award) on 19 December. QSL via home call.
TA - Nilay, TA3YJ (YL opertor) and Berkin,
TA3J will be active (SSB on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 2 metres and
70 cm) as YM21TA between 21.21 UTC on 21 December and 21.21 UTC
on 21 January to celebrte the XXI century. QSL via TA3YJ either
direct (Nilay Mine Aydogmus, P.O. Box 876, 35214 Izmir, Turkey)
or through the bureau. [TNX TA3YJ]
VK0_mac - If you need Macquarie and want to
have updated information on Alan's (VK0LD) operating schedules,
do not forget to bookmark http://www.geocities.com/vk0ld/3.html.
W - W2M is the special callsign for the
Millenium Celebration from Sacramento, California during the
period 24 December 1999 - 7 January 2000. Special QSL direct via
N6ZS. [TNX N6ZS]
W - Don, W9DC will be active as W9DC/m from
Cedar Key (NA-076) on 27 December between approximately 18 UTC
and 24 UTC. The purpose of this operation is to assist those who
thought they had worked a recent NA-076 expedition later to find
it was NA-034 [425DXN 445]. Look for Don on or around 14260,
21260 and 28460 kHz SSB (but he can operate CW if required). QSL
via W9DC (Don Chamberlain, 2 Coxswain Place, Salem, SC 29676,
USA). [TNX W9DC]
USHAKOVA 2000 ---> The Russian Robinson
Club (RRC), the Trotting Radio Amateur Club and "Polar
World" (http://www.skypole.ru)
are organizing an IOTA DXpedition to Ushakova (AS-???) and
Uedineniya (AS-057) islands between 1 and 15 May. Plans are to
gather an international team of up to twelve experienced
operators. If interested in joining the team, please find full
information (including costs, complete travel details, documents
needed etc) at http://rrc.sc.ru/eng/e2000new_iota.shtml. The
project co-ordinator is Roman Levichev, RV3MA (Box 35, Rybinsk
152901, Russia; e-mail vilich@yaroslavl.ru).
Sponsors and donations are welcome. [TNX RW3GU]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
4X2K AWARD ---> The 4X2K Award is for
contacting stations operating from the Holyland and from
seven major historical sites (namely Bethlehem, Nazareth,
Jerusalem, Tiberias & the Sea of Galilee, Galilee,
Samaria, Judea) between 1 January and 31 December 2000.
For full details please contact Yoram Gottesman, 4Z1GY (high_test@ibm.net).
[TNX 4Z1GY]
A61AJ ---> The main part of the most
recent operation (by A61AJ, K1ZM, K3RA, KE3Q, N6ZZ,
PA4AO/T94S, T93M, T93Y, T97M, W0UN and W3UR) took place
on 22-30 November, but T97M stayed until 7 December and
was active, with a total of 30306 QSOs (CW 23818, SSB
6201, RTTY 287). The on-line log search will be updated
by the end of the week (http://www.dailydx.com/a61aj_search.html).
QSL via W3UR either direct (Bernie McClenny, 3025 Hobbs
Road, Glenwood, MD 21738) or through the bureau: direct
cards will start to go out after the holidays, while
bureau cards will mailed out in the summer of 2000. The
home page for A61AJ is at http://www.a61aj.com. [TNX W3UR]
BT2000 ---> Zheng, BA4EG reports the
QSL route given in 425DXN #449 is not correct. Cards for
this special Millennium station, which will be operating
from AS-137 between 25 December and 2 January), should be
sent to BA4EG (ex-BD4EG) at P.O. Box 122-001, Shanghai
200122, China. For further information please visit http://www.qsl.net/ba4eg.
CAYO SABINAL ---> Please refer to 425
DX News #445 and #448. The following has been received
from Oscar Morales, CO2OJ (General Secretary, Federacion
de Radioaficionados de Cuba): "The information about
an operation to Cayo Sabinal for the IOTA Program was
unauthorized and wrong. The organizers of the DXpedition
knew nothing about the note that was sent to you. The
person who sent the information was not member of the
station. The FRC and the Cuban DX Group know perfectly
that Sabinal does not apply for the IOTA Program and it
was never part of the operation objetives".
DX CONVENTION ---> The Pacific
Northwest DX Convention (DX2000) will be held in
Vancouver on 28-30 July. Details are available at http://www.bcdxc.org.
[TNX VE7VR]
FO0 ---> Andre, F6AOI/FO0AOI (SSB)
and Serge, F6AUS/FO0SOU (CW) made some 12,000 QSOs during
their recent operation. The were active from Marquesas
(OC-027) on 4-14 November (8295 QSOs), Raiatea (OC-067)
on 15-19 (1934 QSOs), Bora Bora (OC-067) on 20-21 (1140
QSOs) and Tahiti (OC-046) on 22 November (621 QSOs). QSL
via home calls. [TNX F6AJA]
GERMAN ISLANDS ---> If you are still
looking for one or more German IOTA islands, you can
participate in DL2VFR's survey at http://www.iota-post.de.
OH3AC ---> A special award
celebrating the 70th anniversary of OH3AC will be
available in 2000. For further information please visit http://www.softavenue.fi/oh3ac
or e-mail oh3-911@sral.fi.
[TNX OH3-911]
PIRATE ---> According to an official
notice sent out by Pete deVolpi, KC3TL, the York County
ARC (KY3ORK) and the PA DX Association, "it is a
matter of record that Alex Oosterloo, PD0SES holds a
Novice call" which does not allow him to operate on
HF. He also signed PA/SV0SS and SV0SS from his home QTH
at Huizen, The Netherlands. Since he "has used the
PA DX Association for his QSL management fraudulently,
the PA DX Association and the York County ARC are
nullifying all cards issued by them for contact with
PD0SES, PA/SV0SS, and SV0SS". [TNX KC3TL and The
Daily DX]
QSL 5R8FL ---> Phil, DS1GQS is
receiving several QSLs for 5R8FL, apparently because one
of the information sources (http://www.buck.com/)
lists his home address in Seoul instead of F5TBA's one in
France. Phil is returning these requests to sender at his
own expenses. Please note that F5TBA's correct address is
Joel Champeaux, 372 rue Robert Le Coq, 80000 Amiens,
France.
QSL J59OFM ---> The new QSL manager
is IZ3BIY: Lodovico Gottardi, Via Colonne 13, 30022
Ceggia - VE, Italy [TNX IZ3BIY]
QSL ZL9CI ---> QSL manager Ken
Holdom, ZL2HU reports that all QSLling for the January
1999 DXpedition to Campbell Island is up to date with
both direct and bureau requests. As at 10 December a
total of 12,680 envelopes have been received which
contained QSL cards for 50,155 individual QSOs. In
addition to the above 4,089 QSOs have been responded to
via the bureau.
XU7AAV ---> Andy, G4ZVJ reports he
made some 18000 CW QSOs (3825 during the CQ WW CW
Contest) on all bands as XU7AAV between 21 November and 5
December. QSL via G4ZVJ (Andy Chadwick, 5 Thorpe Chase,
Ripon, HG4 1UA U.K.). Andy's web site is at http://www.g4zvj.demon.co.uk/xu.htm.
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
ARAC: Pat, F6BLQ reports the website for
the Amateur Radio Association of D.R. of Congo (http://www.multimania.com/aracongo/index.ht)
now includes a 1948-1998 9Q* tentative callbook.
CT1EEN: The web site for CT1EEN's IOTA
operations (EU-040 & EU-167, OC-183 & OC-199 as
VK6EEN and OC-230 with the VK9RS team) is under
construction at www.qsl.net/ct1een. [TNX CT1END]
ARRSM QSL Bureau - P.O. Box 77, 47031
Repubblica di San Marino
UBA QSL Bureau - P.O. Box 900, 9000
Ghent, Belgium
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