8 September 2001
No 540
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S ***
**** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

9A - Tibor, HA3HP will be active from Dugi Otok (EU-170, IOCA CI-018) on 8-15 September. He also plans to operate from the islands of Arta Mala (EU-170, CI-003), Arta Vela (EU-170, CI-004), Murter (not IOTA, CI-074), Murvenjak (EU-170, CI-075), Radelj (EU-170, CI-097), Vrgada (EU-170, CI-143) and Zminjak (EU-170, CI-153) during that time frame. [TNX 9A6AA]

9A - Look for 9A5V/p (Frano), 9A3VM/p (Matko) and 9A5KV/p (Fredi) to be active from the island of Bobara (EU-016, IOCA CI-157) on 8 September starting around 11 UTC. [TNX 9A6AA]

9H - The OPDX Bulletin reports that a large group of Dutch operators will be active (on all bands 40-2 metres) from Malta (EU-023) between 14 September and 6 October. They will use either 9H0VRZ (QSL via PA7DX: Anton Kerkhof, Blaublomke 2, 8401 MG Gorredijk, The Netherlands) or their own individual calls as follows: 9H3AAG (QSL via PA1XA), 9H3AAK (QSL via PE1RVQ), 9H3IE (QSL via PA0BEA), 9H3LRK (QSL via PA0LRK), 9H3ON (QSL via PA3BIZ), 9H3Q (QSL via PA0RDY), 9H3QC (QSL via PA3CLF), 9H3QF (QSL via PA3FEO), 9H3S (QSL via PA3HGP), 9H3TE (QSL via PE1NZA), 9H3X (QSL via PE1NGF), 9H3YM (QSL via PE1OFJ), 9H3YT (QSL via PA3GUU), 9H3? (QSL via PA1SL).

BY - On 5 September Alan/BA1DU, Jerry/BA1FB and Chen/BA1HAM left for a reconnaissance trip to Furong Island (Shandong Province North West group) [425DXN 535] on 5 September and were joined by the rest of the team on the 7th. Plans are to be active (with three stations on 10-40 metres CW, SSB and RTTY) as BI4F until 10 September. [TNX BA1DU]

CE - Sergio, IZ6BRN (ex VU3CUR, AP2WAP, 9N7RN) has been in Chile for six months and will be working there for a couple of years. He is active as CE3/IZ6BRN exclusively on 12, 17 and 6 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX CE3/IZ6BRN]

CU - Bert, SM1CJV will be signing CU1/SM1CJV from Sao Miguel Island (EU-003), Azores on 10-17 September. He will operate CW QRP on or around 14060 and 21060 kHz during his evenings. [TNX SM1TDE]

D4 - IK7VJP plans to be active from Sao Tiago (AF-005), Cape Verde between 14 and 21 September. QSL via home call. [TNX IZ8CCW]

E3 - Chris/DL5NAM (SSB, RTTY and 6m), Dieter/DF4RD (SSB and CW), Wolf/OE2VEL (low bands SSB and CW) and Falk/DK7YY (low bands CW) will be active (with special attention for North America, Asia and the low bands) as E30NA from Eritrea between 17 October and 3 November. Their target QTH is one of the islands in the Dahlak Archipelago (AF-038), if they cannot go there they will operate from the capital city. The group is looking for financial support from the DX community (please contact Chris, DL5NAM at dl5nam@qsl.net). A web site is under construction at http://www.qsl.net/e30na. [TNX DL5NAM]

EA9 - EA9LS, EA9LZ, EA9CD, EA9AZ, EA9BW, EA9GW and EA9PB will participate in the WAE DX Contest (SSB) as EA9LS. QSL via home call either direct or through the bureau. [TNX EA9CD]

F - Didier, F5BJW will be active (on 10-80 metres mainly SSB) as TM2A from Groix Island (EU-048, DIFM AT-012) on 15-24 September. QSL via home call. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]

G - The Cray Valley Radio Society will be operating GB2FB HF and VHF from 8 UTC on 15 September until 14 UTC on the 16th as part of "Transmission 2001" to help raise money for the British Wireless for the Blind Fund. QSL via G4DFI. [TNX BRS-32525]

H4 - Luca, IZ6DSQ [425DXN 532] now plans to be active from Guadalcanal (OC-047, Solomon Islands) on 6 and again on 14 October, from the Reef Islands (OC-065, Temotu Province) on 7-13 October and from the New Georgia Islands (OC-149, Solomon Islands) on 15-22 October. [TNX IZ8CCW]

LX - Look for Ralf, LX/DH7RD/p to be active (on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 metres SSB) from Eisenborn, Luxembourg between 8 and 15 September. QSL via home call through the DARC bureau. [TNX DL4FCH]

OZ - Look for Rudolf, OZ/DK7OM/p to be active on SSB and digital modes from Mors Island (EU-171, NJ-002 for the Danish Islands Award) on 8-22 September. QSL via home call. [TNX DL2VFR]

PJ2 - Look for Joeke, PJ2/PA0VDV to be active (CW only) from the Netherlands Antilles between 15 September and 12 October. [TNX The Daily DX]

SV - Look for Simon, SV8/IZ7ATN and Raffaele, SV8/IZ7BNH to be active (on 10-40 metres SSB, WARC bands included) from the islands of Skiros (EU-060) and Skiatos (EU-072) between 7 and 10 September. QSL SV8/IZ7ATN via IZ0CKJ either direct (Alessio Roma, Via Sterparo 43, 03023 Ceccano - FR, Italy) or through the bureau. QSL SV8/IZ7BNH direct only to IZ7BNH (Raffaele Di Troia, P.O. Box 178, 70056 Molfetta - BA, Italy). [TNX IZ7ATN]

SV9 - Rene/ON5KH, Bill/ON5JE and Luk/ON4BB will operate from (on 40-10 metres SSB and CW) Crete (EU-015) on 10-23 September. If conditions permit and if they find suitable transportation, they will also be active from Paximadia (EU-187) for one or two days during that time frame. QSL via home calls, preferably through the bureau. [TNX ON4BB]

TF - Gulli/TF8GX, Tiny/ON4CAT, Norby/LX1NO and Fred/DL8DXL will be active (on 10-80 metres SSB, CW and possibly some digital modes) from Flatey Island (EU-168) on 12-19 September. Gulli and Tiny will be signing TF4RX (QSL via K1WY or ON4CAT), while Fred and Norby will operate as TF4/LX9EG (QSL via LX1NO). [TNX K1WY]

VU - Special call AT0HF will be aired on 1-9 September to celebrate the Hamfest India 2001 HF Contest. The Hamfest will be held at Nagpur on 27-28 October (details from niarindia@hotmail.com). QSL via VU2APR (National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India). [TNX VU2JOS]

VU - Ram, VU3DJQ reports he will be participating in various contests as AT0D until mid-November. He operates on 20 metres with 50 watts. QSL direct via home call with IRCs (no green stamps please).

W - Look for John, K1FWE to be active (on 10-40 metres SSB and CW) from the Isles of Shoals (NA-217) on 15-16 September. [TNX DL2VFR]

ZK1_nc - Look for Mike, KM9D/ZK1QMA (on 10-160 metres mainly CW) and YL operator Jan, KF4TUG/ZK1TUG (on the higher bands SSB) to be active from Penrhyn (Tongareva) Island (OC-082), North Cooks on 8-16 September. QSLs via OM2SA either direct or through the bureau. [TNX OM2SA]

GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• ISS ---> The current ISS (International Space Station) crew members are the American Commander Frank Culbertson (KD5OPQ), the Russian Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and the Russian Flight Engineer Mikhail Turin. The call signs available for use on the ISS are RS0ISS, RZ3DZR, NA1SS, RZ3DZR-1 (packet station mailbox callsign). The following frequencies are currently used for ARISS general QSOs: 145.80 (Voice and Packet Downlink, worldwide), 144.49 (Voice Uplink for Regions 2 and 3), 145.20 (Voice Uplink for Region 1) and 145.99 (Packet Uplink, worldwide). QSL for the USA to ARRL Headquarters, ARISS QSL Expedition-2, 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA. QSL for Canada to Radio Amateurs of Canada, ARISS QSL Expedition-2, 720 Belfast Road, Suite 217, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. QSL for Europe to ARISS-Europe QSL Bureau, c/o AMSAT-France, 16 rue de la Vallee,, 91360 Epinay sur Orge, France. For other countries, please use the US or Canadian address above. [TNX IZ1CRR]
• QSL A61AJ ---> Bernie, W3UR has stepped down as QSL manager for Ali, A61AJ; effective 5 September all QSL requests need to go to N4QB (Joe Veras, P.O. Box 1041, Birmingham, AL 35201, USA), who will have all logs for all QSOs made by A61AJ. Cards already sent to W3UR need not to be resubmitted to N4QB.
• QSL 9L1DX ---> Dr. Elmer R. Ribeiro (aka OA8DX, 7Q7DX and P29DX) is now stationed in Sierra Leone and operates as 9L1DX (logs at http://www.qsl.net/ea4cen). QSL via EA4CEN either direct (Jose A. Rodriguez Fernandez, General Castejon 1-6-A, 28924 Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain) or through the URE bureau. [TNX EA4CEN]
• QSL SM1T ---> This call was used during this year's IOTA Contest from Gotland Island (EU-020) by SM1TDE and SM5DJZ. All QSOs have been confirmed via the bureau; direct cards can be sent to Eric, SM1TDE. [TNX SM1TDE]
• QSL TU2WL ---> Gianni, IN3ASW reports he has run out of QSLs for his April 2000 activity as TU2WL and it will take at least two months to have the new cards printed. Please be patient.
• QSL VIA LY2MM ---> Cards for 4L1AE, 4L1W and 4L5T can be sent to Al, LY2MM direct only with appropriate return postage. Al does not reply to bureau cards, but he stores them while waiting for any opportunity to give them to his Georgian friends. He had a chance to do so in May, but "the time for next opportunity is undefinite".
• QSL VIA VK4FW ---> Please note that effective 1 September the new address for VK4FW is: Bill Horner, P.O. Box 1343, Maroochydore, 4558, Australia.
• QSL VIA YC9BU ---> Kadek, YC9BU reports that some 60% of the direct QSL requests he gets from the IOTA community arrive without return postage. He recommends not to use US dollars but IRCs.

NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• DX ATLAS: Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA is the author of "DX Atlas", an electronic World atlas for radio amateurs available for download at http://www.dxatlas.com. [TNX VK6LC]
• IOTA HELP LISTINGS: If you have still to convert your IOTA credits on the basis of the IOTA Directory 2000, you might find of interest the IOTA Help Listings maintained by John, WD8MGQ at http://www.cm.quik.com/wd8mqg/newiotas/.
• LOGS: Roberto, EA4DX logged 7800 QSOs as H40DX from Temotu and 18200 QSOs as H44DX from the Solomons. and logs are now on line at http://www.qsl.net/ea4dx/. QSLs for both calls direct only to EA4DX (Roberto Diaz, Doce de Octubre 4, 28009 Madrid, Spain).
• MOST WANTED SURVEY: The annual DX Magazine Most Wanted Survey is now available on the DX Publishing Web site at http://www.dxpub.com/dx_survey2001.html). The world-wide results of the 2000 Survey are posted on the web site under "DX News". [TNX N4AA]

QSL INFO - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

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CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER
===================================================================
3A/F5RBB    F5RBB       EY10S       DJ1MM       T88MO       7K1SGX
3D2AW       DL2AWG      FM5GU       KU9C        TA3DD       KZ5RO
3D2HY       JA0SC       FM5WD       W3HNK       TE8AA       TI5BX
3D2XU       PA3AXU      FO0FLA      AH6HY       TG/DB2TR    DL1SBF
3V8MED      DL1BDF      GB5FI       GW0ANA      TK/IK1QBT   IK1QBT
3W2B        XW2A        H40DX       EA4DX       TM5MA       F8AJF
4L1FX       DJ1CW       H44RD       EA4DX       TR0A        UA3DJY
4N7M        YU7KMN      HI3HN       OE7NHT      TT8DX       F5OGL
4W1XW       pirate      ID9/IT9SSI  IZ8CCW      TT8FC       EA4AHK
4Z8GZ       DH2GZ       J3/PA0ZH    PA5ET       TT8JE       F6FNU
5A32        5A1A        J3/PA3EWP   PA5ET       UA0AZ       W3HNK
5R8EE       FR5EL       J3/PA5ET    PA5ET       UA1CIO/P    RZ1AK
5R8HC       F6BUM       J3/PA7FM    PA5ET       UE1ZPQ      RA1ZS
5U7AH       I6NLJ       J38PA       PA5ET       UE3DDJ      RZ3DJ
5U7JK       I2YSB       J44L/P      SV4AQJ      UM8AR       UK8AR
5Z4TT       SP5TT       J6/EX0M     DF8WS       UM8CK       UX5UO
6D0Z        AC7DX       J8/PA0ZH    PA5ET       UM8LA       RW3RN
6D2X        AC7DX       J8/PA3EWP   PA5ET       UM9AA       UK9AA
6D8Z        AC7DX       J8/PA5ET    PA5ET       UN5J        W3HNK
6G0V        AC7DX       J8/PA7FM    PA5ET       UN7QX       W7BO
7L2ICS/JD1  7L2ICS      J8PA        PA5ET       UP0ACS      DL8KAC
7X5JF       DJ8QP       JH1AEF/4    JH1AEF      V63KA       JH8BKL
8P9JM       K2ZD        JT1FBX      JG5PJJ      V63MC       JH8BKL
9A/N0MX     DJ2MX       JT1FYT      K4YT        V63OO       JA3AJ
9A3OY       9A1CCY      JW2PA       LA2PA       V63YB       JH8MYB
9E1S        IV3TRK      JW7QI       LA7QI       V73MJ       JF1NZW
9M2JI       JK1AJX      KC4USV      K1IED       VE2/F5TBA/p F5TBA
A45WD       YO9HP       KG4DX       W4WX        VK0KMT      VK4KMT
CE2LZR      EA5KB       KH0/JA3MVI  JA3MVI      VK4AWX      KC6AWX
CO7KR       DL5DCA      LW9DAH      AC7DX       VK4BRK      N5HHS
CO8EJ       EA5KB       LX/ON6CK    ON6IJ       VK7TS/4     VK7TS
CT1GFK/P    CT1GFK      LX0RL       LX1KQ       VK9CQ       PA3GIO
CT1HZE      DL8HCZ      OG3GZ       OH3GZ       VK9XV       PA3GIO
CT3/OK2BOB  OK2BOB      P29AM       NU5O        XE0DX       AC7DX
CW1D        CX1UU       P29VB       N5HHS       XE2GV       AC7DX
CX2AQ       EA5KB       P29WS       W4HUT       XE2XA       AC7DX
D2BB        W3HNK       PJ2/AE9B    AE9B        XE2Z        AC7DX
D44TD       CT1EKF      PJ2/NW0L    NW0L        XM2CWI      VE2CWI
E20HHK      E21EIC      PJ2/W0CG    W0CG        YC1ANA      EA7FTR
ED1SDC      EA1AUM      PJ2T        KN7Y        YJ0ADX      JE1DXC
EK1700S     EK6GB       RI6LAP      UA6MF       YL800KA     YL2KA
EK6TA       DJ0MCZ      RI9K        UA4RC       YL800LW     YL2LW
EM1HO       I2PJA       RT9W        RZ9WWH      YN4SU       TI4SU
EO100ZOO    UY0ZG       RZ1AK/p     RZ1AK       YU8/9X0A    UA3DX
EO10N       UX5UO       S21YH       7M4PTE      ZB2AZ       G3MNN
EP3SP       W3HC        SV0LR       HB9LDR      ZC4DW       G0DEZ
ER10MD      ER1BF       SV5/SM8C    SM0CMH      ZD7DP       W1ZT
EX10A       EX2A        SW1XV       SV1XV       ZG2FX       G3RFX
EX8QB       IK2QPR      T30XU       PA3AXU      ZP26DC      ZP1LL
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ADDRESSES - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• 7L2ICS - Youichi Kamata, 2-3-8, kami-Ikebukuro, Toyoshima-ku 170-0012, Japan
• 7M4PTE - Shin Makoto, 2-3-18, Naritanishi, Suginami-Ku, Tokyo 166-0016, Japan
• CT1EEB - Jose Emanuel Ribeiro de Sa, P.O. Box 79, P-3860 Estarreja, Portugal
• CT9F - A.R.R.M., P.O. Box 4694, 9001 Funchal, Portugal
• DJ2MX - Mario Lovric, Am Oelberg 11, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
• DS2LGK - Choi Kyu Yong, P.O. Box 63, Inchon, 400-036, Korea
• F5OGL - Didier A. Senmartin, P.O. Box 19, F-35998 Rennes Armees, France
• FY5KE - Radio Amateur Club, B.P. 450, 97382 Kourou Cedex, French Guiana
• G0DEZ - Dez Watson, C.A.O., JSSU (AN), BFPO 59, via London, UK
• HA5NG - Andras Szilagyi, P.O. Box 88, H-1554 Budapest, Hungary
• IK0YUJ - Riccardo Bruzzichini, P.O. Box 59, 06012 Citta' di Castello - PG, Italy
• IK1QBT - Antonio Gallo, Via Capo Santo Spirito 1/16, 17020 Borghetto Santo Spirito - SV, Italy
• IZ0CKJ - Alessio Roma, Via Sterparo 43, 03023 Ceccano - FR, Italy
• IZ8CCW - P.O. Box 360, 87100 Cosenza- CS, Italy
• JH8BKL - Katsuhide Kawase, 284-30 Kawaguchikisen, Teshio, 098-3312 Japan
• JH8MYB - Susumu Harada, 3-8 Taga, Mikasa, 068-2152 Japan
• JK1AJX - Mac Kumakura, 10-18 Kawagishi 4 chome, Kitakami, Iwate 024-0032, Japan
• K8ONV - E.A.R.S., P.O. Box 572, Englewood, FL 34295-0572, USA
• KC6AWX - Robert T. Devine, 407 Alameda Del Prado, Novato, CA 94949-6302, USA
• ON7YX - Ronald Van Aken, Kapelstraat 5, 2330 Merksplas, Belgium
• PA3GIO - Bert vd Berg, Parklaan 38, NL-3931 KK Woudenberg, The Netherlands
• PS7ZZ - Francisco Edvaldo Pereira de Freitas, Av. Sao Miguel dos Caribes 31, Neopolis II, 59086-500 Natal - RN, Brazil
• RW3RN - Alex Kuznetsov, P.O. Box 57, Tambov-23, 392023 Russia
• RZ1AK - Dennis Eremin, P.O. Box 202, St.Petersburg 196070, Russia
• SV1XV - Costas Krallis, P.O. Box 3066, GR-10210 Athens, Greece
• TI5BX - P.O. Box 159, St. Barbara, 3009 Heredia, Costa Rica
• UA4RC - P.O.Box 252, Almetyevsk, Tatarstan Republic, 423452, Russia
• UA6MF - Ivan A Gudima , P.O. Box 47 , Rostov-on-Don 344007, Russia
• UA9KM - Nikolai Kuprin, P.O. Box 158, Nadym, Yamalo-Nenetski AO, Tyumen obl., 629736, Russia
• UK9AA - P.O. Box 58, Tashkent 700000, Uzbekistan
• VE2CWI - West Isl. A.R. Club, P.O. Box 884, Dorval, QC H9R 4Z6, Canada
• VE9MY - Len Morgan, 35 Upper Quaco RD., Baxters Corner, NB, E2S 2S2, Canada
• VK4KMT - Mark Tell, 44 Corowa St, Wavell Heights, Queensland, Australia 4012
• VK7TS - Trevor Spargo, 1 Roebourne Rd, Otago, Tasmania, Australia 7017
• W6JHB - Jim Bennett, 25 Lagunita Court, Martinez, CA 94553-3039, USA
• YT1AD - Dr. Hrane Milosevic, 36206 Vitanovac, Yugoslavia

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