15 November 2003
No 654
4 2 5 D X N E W S
DX INFORMATION
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

OUR FRIENDS - We at 425DXN should like to open a new page on the website featuring the QSL cards with the 425DXN logo printed on either the front or back side. If your QSL has the 425DXN logo on it, you are invited to send a scanned copy (preferably a .jpg file not larger than 300Kb) direct to our web master Maurizio Bertolino, I1-21171/IZ1CRR (i121171@425dxn.org). The logo is downloadable at http://www.425dxn.org/425dxlog.zip.

3A - Special event call 3A50ARM will be aired on all bands and modes from Monaco on 15-30 November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Association des Radio amateurs de Monaco (ARM). QSL via bureau. [TNX 3A2LF]

5X - Terry, K3JT is active as 5X1X from Uganda. He will be there for about six weeks. QSL home call. [TNX ARRL DX Bulletin]

CE - The 3G2D operation from Damas Island (SA-086) [425DXN 649] is now confirmed to take place on 26-28 November. XQ1IDM, XQ4ZW, CE1URH,CA2WUI, CD0906 and CE6TBN plan to run three stations on 160-6 metres CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via CA2WUI (P.O. Box 1037, La Serena, Chile). Further information at http://www.qsl.net/3g2d. [TNX CE6TBN]

FR/E - The DXpedition to Europa Island [425DXN 651] is still on a go. The team (F5CW, F5JKK, F5NHJ, F5IRO and F5PTM) will leave France on 15 November, arriving at Europa on the 24th. Activity is expected to start as TO4E (TO4WW will be used during the CQ WW DX CW Contest) on the 25th and continue until 15 December. Please note that, for reasons beyond their control, the operators might go QRT thrice a day (around 5, 10 and 16 UTC) for 30 minutes or more. QSL via F5OGL. The pilots for the operation are Rafik/F5CQ (europa2003@free.fr, Europe), Frank/AH0W (franxmith@worldnet.att.net, USA West), Floyd/N5FG (floydgee@datasync.com, USA East), Toshi/JA1ELY (ja1ely@bb.mbn.or.jp, Japan), Mike/UA0MF (ua0mf@mail.ru, Asia) and Lee/ZL2AL (leejen@paradise.net.nz, Oceania). Further information at http://europa2003.free.fr/.

I - Look for IQ3AZ/p to be aired from Pampagnola Island (EU-130, IIA GO-016) during the weekend. QSL via bureau or direct to IV3WMI.

J3 - Ann, WA1S will be active (on 10-160 metres CW and SSB) as J38AA from Grenada between 22 November until 1 December, including an entry in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX WA1S]

KP2 - Slavek, OK1TN will operate as KP2/OK1TN from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands from 15 November to 13 December, including an entry in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via home call. [TNX OK1TN]

R1_ssh - Oleg, UA1PBA is preparing for the upcoming Antarctic summer season as R1ANF. He expects to arrive to Bellingshausen Base (WABA UA-004) on King George Island, South Shetlands (AN-010) between 21 and 24 November. The R1ANF team this season will include also Slava/UA1PAI and Aleksei/UA1PAW. If work allows they will be active also from other locations. [TNX DL5EBE]

VP2V - Maciek, WQ7X (ex SP8EST and SP5EST) will be active as VP2V/WQ7X from the British Virgin Islands (NA-023) until 24 November. QSL via home call. [TNX SP5UAF]

YB - Look for YC0IEM/7 to operate from Borneo (OC-088) until 20 November. QSL via IZ8CCW. [TNX IZ8CCW]

YI - Darran, M1DAZ is on active duty with the British Forces Broadcast Services in Iraq and has obtained official authority to operate with the callsign YI9DAZ. He should be there for another week or so. He prefers PSK31 not to disturb his room mate. QSL via M1DAZ. [TNX MW0USK/MW3USK]

YU - 4N25K is the special callsign celebrating the 25th anniversary of the radio club "Novi Beograd", Radio-section Kozara. QSL via YU1SB. [TNX 4N1DX]

ZD8 - Jim, N6TJ will operate again as ZD8Z from Ascension Island from 21 November to 2 December, including a SOAB entry in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via VE3HO. [TNX The Daily DX]

ZK1 - Vlad, UA4WHX/AC4LN was active from Penrhyn Atoll (OC-082), North Cooks and is now expected to go to Mangaia (OC-159), South Cooks, on 17 November. [TNX The Daily DX]

GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• BQ9P VIDEO ---> A BQ9P video showing the "major challenges" the team went through just to air this rare entity is now available (DVD or VHS). The video also shows some of the beauty of the island as well as some historical information. Please visit http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~iota/newpage64.htm for the details. [TNX JI6KVR]
• EUCW 160M CONTEST ---> The third edition of the EUCW 160 Metres Contest, sponsored by the Union Francaise des Telegraphistes (http://www.uft.net), will be held on the first weekend of January (from 20 to 23 UTC on 3 January and from 4 to 7 UTC on the 4th). Complete rules are available at http://perso.club-internet.fr/jacar/eucw_160m.html. [TNX F5NQL]
• NOT THE MANAGER ---> Brendan McCartney, G4DYO (a former editor of the DX News Sheet) has been QRT for many years, yet he still receives QSL cards from people who believe he is a QSL Manager. "Usually they are for D6 callsigns", he says, "but today I received one for a D4 call. All of the stations must be pirates because I have never heard of them and I am not a QSL Manager for any station for many years".
• OD5/I1HJT ---> Alfeo reports that his September 2003 operation from Lebanon has been approved for DXCC credit.
• QSL KL7Y ---> All known requests for QSO confirmations with KL7Y (SK) have been mailed. This includes requests that were sent to KL7Y, direct or via bureau, or to other QSL managers, including W8LU. "I believe I have all KL7Y logs with the exception of his contest logs prior to 1994", Ken, W8LU says. He will be happy to respond to any requests either direct or via the bureau. [TNX W8LU]
• QSL NA-225 ---> Jim, K9PPY and Mike, K9AJ are currently answering the direct requests for their K9PPY/VY0 and K9AJ/VY0 operation. QSL requests via the bureau will be answered as they arrive. Those who are interested in receiving a confirmation for their 2004 IOTA Annual Update, should send their card direct for a quick response. [TNX K9PPY]
• QSL OJ0LA ---> Bureau cards for the September 2003 operation from Market Reef can be requested by e-mail to la9vda2003@yahoo.no. [TNX LA9VDA]
• QSL YC7SKM ---> Antonio, IZ8CCW reports that effective immediately he is the new QSL manager for YC7SKM (OC-088).
• QSL YJ8MN ---> After working in Vanuatu for about three years, Masahiro Nada, YJ8MN (JH3IIU) will leave that country and go back to Japan on 21 November. Do not use his Port Vila address any longer, but send your cards to JH3IIU, direct or through the JARL bureau. [TNX YJ8MN/JH3IIU]
• QSL VIA N6AWD ---> Fred, N6AWD says that the QSL cards for XF1K (NA-162) and V73T (OC-263) are presently at the printers and should be arriving by the end of the month. Fred has over 1500 envelopes to process and he expects to have them all out before the end of the year. Please be patient and do not send second requests. [TNX Islands On The Web]

NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• MOST WANTED SURVEY: The 2004 edition of the 425DXN Survey will concentrate on Europe. Go to http://www.425dxn.org/surv_eu and select the European entities you have never worked and/or confirmed from the list of the top most wanted European DXCC Entities, as resulted from the 2003 global survey.
• DX SPOTS: Rod Elliott, VE3IRF has been collecting the DX spots from the OH2AQ Web Cluster since January 1997. The collection - up to October 2003 - is available at http://www.425dxn.org/dxspots/, as well the software that enables you to handle the files.
• TS7N: The web page for the upcoming TS7N operation from the Kerkennah Islands (AF-073) [425DXN 641] is at http://ts7n.tk.

QSL INFO - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

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CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER
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3B8/ON4LAC  ON4LAC      D90ID/2     HL2WP       T88DR       JF2SDR
3B8/ON5AX   ON5AX       EA6/HA5RT/p HA6NL       TA3DD       K3PD
3B8/PA0VHA  PA0VHA      EA8BVY      I5WEA       TA5FA       TA1KA
3B8/PA3BAG  PA0VHA      EA8BYR      WA1ECA      TM1NDL      F8CSD
3B9/PA0VHA  PA0VHA      ED1SML      EA1CP       TM2QM       F6KBG
3B9/PA3BAG  PA0VHA      EI2VNO      NN5O        TO0O        KC0W
3D2LL       JA2LLK      EN60UGL     UX7UN       TO6M        F6AUS
3D2VB       UA4WHX      EN60ULP     UT4UZA      TP6CE       F6FQK
3V8SM       DL1BDF      EN60UPS     UT4UWC      TR8CA       F6CBC
3W9HRN      DL1HRN      EN60UWO     UY2UA       TU2OJ       F5IPW
4D71HBC     DU1HBC      EN750WKD    UT7WZ       TY4JM       ON4JM
4K9W        DL6KVA      ET3BN       DL1JRC      UE9XWN      UA9XS
5H3AA       K6EID       EX8QB       IK2QPR      UN5A        DL8KAC
5H6BA       DL4MMT      G6PZ        M5AAV       UN9LV       RW6HS
5H6IZ       DL4MMT      HA645D      HA6ZQ       UU8AA       G3SWH
5H9IR       ZS6EZ       HC8/N1KO    W1ZS        UY2VM       DL6MHG
5U7B        I2YSB       HG3IPA      HA3JB       V26B        WT3Q
5V7BR       F5RUQ       HP100RCP    HP1RCP      V26EM       W2SN
5VZBB       W2FUI       HS0ZDZ      GM4FDM      V26G        N2ED
5W1SA       JH7OHF      HZ1AB       K8PYD       V26KEN      N2KEN
5X1X        K3JT        IR7LH       IK7JWX      V26OC       N3OC
6W/ON5TN    ON5TN       JT1FDD      RW6HS       V26R        KA2AEV
6Y5/4S7RO   GOIAS       KF0R/YU8    N2OW        V26U        W2UDT
8Q7JE       JA1KAW      KH6BK/AH8   VE3HO       V31LZ       LZ3RZ
9G5JH       PA0CJH      KK2H/KH2    JL1UXH      VK9CYL      VK3DYL
9K2MU       WA4JTK      LU3CU       LU4AA       VK9XG       W0YG
9M6A        N2OO        LU3XQ       WD9EWK      VQ9CJ       N5JED
9M6AAC      N2OO        LZ100JVA    LZ1PJ       VR2EH       RW6HS
9M6OO       N2OO        MB2HFC      G4BWP       XQ6ET       W8UVZ
9M6US       N2OO        MJ/PA3HHT   PA3HHT      XU7AJV      ON4AJV
9Q1MC       ON5SE       MU/PA3HHT   PA3HHT      XU7TZG      ON4AJV
9Y4/DL8DYL  DL8DYL      ON4PTC      ON7YB       YA1RS       ZL1RS
9Y4/DL9DRA  DL9DRA      PA3GIO/VP9  PA3GIO      YI9X        OM3JW
AP2ARS      JA1PBV      PJ2/PG5M    PG5M        YL85GN      YL2GN
CD1C        CE1VLY      PJ7/VA3RA/m VE3IKV      YL85UZ      YL2UZ
CO3JN       IZ8EBI      R1ANB       RU1ZC       YL85XN      YL1XN
D2BB        W3HNK       R3ARS/3     RA3AKF      YQ0IPA      YO3AS
D2CR        RK3BR       RK3DZJ/3    RA3DEJ      ZA1A        OH2BH
D2PFN       KK5DO       S9SS        N4JR        ZK1/AC4LN   UA4WHX
D2U         CT1BFL      T20VB       UA4WHX      ZV6AA       PY6AA

(*) CQWW SSB 2003
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ADDRESSES - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH

• EA1CP - P.O. Box 474, 33400 Aviles, Spain
• HA3JB - Gabor Kutasi, P.O.Box 243, H-8601 Siofok, Hungary
• JA1KAW - Katsuhisa Kurose, 1864-6 Yamamiya Kofu, Yamanashi, 400-0075 Japan
• JL1UXH - Setsu Yoshimura, 6-13-14 Minami-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 140-0004, Japan
• LZ3RZ - Vasco Gechev, P.O. Box 1, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria
• M5AAV - Graham Ridgeway, 37 Highfield Gardens, Blackburn, Lancashire BB2 3SN, England
• NN5O - James Carmody, 15910 Congo Lane, Jersey Village, TX 77040, USA
• PA3GIO - Bert vd Berg, Parklaan 38, NL-3931 KK Woudenberg, The Netherlands
• PG5M - Gerben A. Menting, Waezenburglaan 104, 9351 HG Leek, The Netherlands
• RK3BR - Vladimir Eremeev, P.O. Box 26, Moscow, Russia
• SP9FIH - Janusz Wegrzyn, P.O. Box 480, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
• VK3DYL - Gwen Tilson, 3 Gould Court, Mt. Waverley, Victoria, 3149 Australia
• VK4FW - Bill Horner, P.O. Box 513, Nambour 4560, Australia
• W8LBZ - Sandusky Radio Experimental League, 2909 West Perkins Ave., Sandusky, Ohio 44870, USA

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