18 May 2002
No 576
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
EI - John, EI4GK and Declan, EI9HQ plan to be
active as EJ4GK and EJ9HQ from Great Blasket Island (EU-007) on
23-26 May. Operation will be mainly SSB on all bands 10-80
metres, but they also hope to include a 6m operation and some
PSK31. QSL via home calls. [TNX EI4GK]
EW - Andy, W2/NP3D will be active (on all
bands CW, SSB and RTTY) as EW/NP3D from Belarus on 18-27 May. QSL
via W3HNK. [TNX W2/NP3D]
F - Look for Pascal, F8CGL/P to be active
from Oleron Island (EU-032, DIFM AT-025) on 17-24 May. QSL via
home call either direct or through the bureau. [TNX La Gazette du
DX]
F - Bernard, F5XX and the Castres DX Gang
will be active (on 160-6 metres CW, SSB, PSK31, RTTY) as F5XX/P
from Fort Brescou (EU-148, DIFM ME-001) on 23-27 May. They will
participate in the CQ WPX CW Contest as TM5B (MS low power). [TNX
F5NQL]
I - Raul, IK8VRS will be active from the
islands of Procida (EU-031, IIA NA-002) and Vivara (EU-031, IIA
NA-005) during the weekend. [TNX IZ8CCW]
JA - JO1EPY has been forced to cancel his
8-10 June operation from Tokara Archipelago (AS-049) [425DXN 573]
due to business commitments. [TNX JI6KVR]
JT - Nicola, I0SNY and Gianni, I8KGZ will be
active as JT1Y from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for a couple of weeks
starting on 21 May. In late May they will take a side trip to
China and will operate from Beijing's Radio Club for 2-3 days.
QSLs via I0SNY. [TNX I0SNY]
OZ - Six German operators from the Amateur
Radio Scout Group VCP-Bremen will operate as OZ1RDP from Romo
Island (EU-125) on 18-21 May. They plan to be active on 80-10
metres, plus 6 and 2 metres, SSB and CW. [TNX IZ8CCW]
OZ - Finn, OZ4EL will be active (on 80-10
metres SSB with some CW) from Sletterhage Lighthouse (DEN-043) in
central Jutland between 25 May and 7 June. QSL via OZ4EL either
direct or through the bureau. Finn is the President of the Danish
lighthouse Society (http://home.19.inet.tele.dk/fyrtaarn)
and Chairman of the Radio Aateur Lighthouse Group Sletterhage (http://home19.inet.tele.dk/lhouse)
PY0_fn - Dennis, K7BV will be active from
Fernando de Noronha (SA-003) between 24 May and 1 June, including
an entry in the WPX CW Contest (possibly with a special call).
Log and further information will be available at http://www.qth.com/k7bv/PY0F.
[TNX The Daily DX]
R1M - A group of operators from Russia
(including six WRTC 2002 operators, who will take advantage of
this activity to simulate the WRTC competition for 24 hours) and
Finland will operate (on 10-80 metres SSB and CW, CQ WPX CW
Contest included) from Malyj Vysotskij Island (EU-117) starting
in the local evening of 22 May. The Russians will depart on 27
May, while the Finnish team remain on the island until the 30th.
Calls will be R1MVI (QSL via OH2BR) and special calls R1MVC,
R1MVD and R1MVF to be used during the WRTC simulation. [TNX The
Daily DX]
TI - Look for Dick, W5AA to be signing
W5AA/TI8 from Costa Rica between 22 May and 17 June. He will
operate on all bands with an emphasis on 30, 12 and 17 metres.
[TNX W5AA]
TI - N0KE, W8QZA, W1XE, CX6VM and probably
others will participate in the upcoming CQ WPX CW Contest as TI5N
from TI5KD's contest station (http://www.yantis.net/ti5kd/).
This will be a QRP (5 watts) Multi-Multi operation. QSL via
W3HNK.
UA - Yuri, UA9OBA logged some 1500 QSOs as
R3CA/0 from Makar Island (Respublika Sakha, Laptev Sea Coast East
group, AS-163) on 14-15 May. The "Polar Ring"
expedition is now on the coast of the East Siberian Sea and Yuri
might operate again as R3CA/0 from Nemkova or Smerti in the
Kolesovskaya Otmel' Islands (AS-???). QSl via UA9OBA (Yuri
Zaruba, P.O. Box 1, Novosibirsk-92, 630092, Russia). [TNX WRC/RRA
Bulletin]
VE - Terry, VE7TLL reports that Canadian
amateur radio operators have been authorized to use special
prefixes to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
From 18 May through 18 July, the following special prefixes are
authorized on a voluntary basis:
XM1 for VE1 XL4 for VA4 XM8 for VE8
XL1 for VA1 XM5 for VE5 XM9 for VE9
XM2 for VE2 XL5 for VA5 XN1 for VO1
XL2 for VA2 XM6 for VE6 XN2 for VO2
XM3 for VE3 XL6 for VA6 XO0 for VY0
XL3 for VA3 XM7 for VE7 XO0 for VY1
XM4 for VE4 XL7 for VA7 XO2 for VY2
VP9 - Merv, N6NO will be active as N6NO/VP9
from Bermuda (NA-005) on 22-28 May. He plans to concentrate on
the WARC bands CW. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
YB - Ten operators from ORARI Medan branch
will be active as homecall/p from Pandan Island, North Sumatera
on 25-26 May (Pandan is not listed in the IOTA Directory 2002 and
as long as its location is cleared up, this operation will not
count for any IOTA group). They plan to operate on 40 (7.060 Mhz)
and 80 (3.820 Mhz) metres only. QSL via YC6PUP (P.O. Box 2395,
Medan 2001, Indonesia). [TNX YC6LPM]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
7W4HI ---> The 14-18 May 7W4HI
operation from the Habibas Islands (AF-???) [425DXN 575]
was cancelled at the very last moment due to unexpected
bureaucratic problems concerning landing permissions.
"I am frustrated and it's big disappointment for
me", Steve, OM3JW says, as "we spent a lot of
time with preparations of this project".
NOT THE MANAGER ---> DK3WO has
received several cards for contacts made with
"ST6MM" on 29 September 2001 (20 and 15 metres
CW and SSB). Please note that DK3WO is not the QSL
manager for any station, let alone this pirate. [TNX
DL3KVR]
QSL 4U1ITU ---> Due to a most
unfortunate oversight Robert, W5IUA has been listed
recently as the QSL route for 4U1ITU. Please note that he
is not and has never been the QSL manager for 4U1ITU ar
anyone else. Cards still have to be sent via the bureau
or direct to IARC, P.O.Box 6, CH-1211 Geneva 20,
Switzerland. We apologize for any inconvenience this may
have caused Robert and our readers.
QSL DU1/SQ9BOP ---> Jacek, SQ9BOP
made some 6000 QSOs from the Philippines; now he is in
Poland and in July will be goint to the US for one year.
Cards should be sent to SP6GVU (Andrzej Kaleta, P.O. Box
498, Wroclaw 2, Poland). [TNX SP6GVU]
QSL MANAGER OFFERED ---> Nick
Pisaroff, LZ2JF has been a radio amateur for more than
twenty years and now is willing to offer his services as
a QSL manager for someone in need. Please contact him at lz2jf@yahoo.com.
SILENT KEY ---> DXpedition pioneer
Bob Denniston, VP2VI (W0DX) died unexpectedly in his
sleep a few days ago at 83 years of age. He served as
ARRL president from 1966 until 1972 and as IARU president
from 1966 until 1974. After heading up the VP7NG
DXpedition to the Bahamas during the second weekend of
the 1948 ARRL International DX Contest, he was credited
with being the "father of the modern
DXpedition." First licensed as W9NWX at the age of
13, he subsequently held W4NNN, W0NWX, W0DX and, when he
retired to Tortola (British Virgin Islands), VP2VI. He
remained active on the amateur radio bands until his
death.
UA9ORQ - Vladimir Volosozhar, P.O. Box
868, Novosibirsk, 630089, Russia
UT1WL - Leo Kharchenko, P.O. Box 5951,
Lviv, 79054, Ukraine
UT2UB - Andrej Lyakin, P.O.Box 99,
Kiev-10, 01010, Ukraine
UZ8RR - Vladimir Antonowich, P.O.box 28,
Chernihiv, 14000, Ukraine
VK3ER - P.O. Box 87, Mitcham, Victoria,
Australia 3132
VQ9X - Diego Garcia A.R.C., PSC 466 Box
15, FPO AP 96595-0015, USA
XV9DT - Eddie Visser, P.O. Box 88,
Hanoi, Vietnam
YT1AD - Dr. Hrane Milosevic, 36206
Vitanovac, Yugoslavia
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