The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 238
BID: $OPDX.238 January 15, 1996
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 216-237-8208 14400/9600/2400/1200/300 8/N/1
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio
Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster
Network, AD1C, WB2DND, K8YSE, WB8LFO, K9UWA, NS0B, DF4RD, DL9GOA
& DX News Letter, F6ARA, G4BUE & DX NEWS SHEET, PA0ABM,
PY7ZZ and VE9RHS the following DX information.
3A0IARU IS A PIRATE! Daniel, 3A2LZ, reports
his neighbour 3A2LU has been receiving QSLs for a station
claiming to be 3A0IARU. This is not a legal station and this
callsign has not been issued. 3A0 prefixes have not been issued
since the mid-70's and this block of prefixes has now been
"frozen". So, if you hear a 3A0 prefix, it is probably
a SLIM.
3D2, FIJI. JI3CEY will be active January 25th
through February 1st. His callsign is unknown at this time, but
he will be active on CW/SSB and 80-10 meters (including WARC
bands). QSL to home call.
3V, TUNISIA. Albert, F2KN, will be here until
January 21st and he will try to be active from 3V8BB on his
evening hours after his work. He will be active only on SSB.
3Y, PETER I ISLAND. The DX NEWS Sheet reports
that R0FL/3Y/MM was active at 2327z, January 8th, on 10101kHz
saying Peter 1st Island! It was reported last year that UA9OBO
and RW3GW (perhaps together with other operators) left St.
Petersburg in June to take part in a scientific expedition to the
Antarctic lasting several months. This may be the same group and
they were talking about going to Bouvet Island which was
scheduled for the beginning of November, 1995. Maybe the
expedition is behind schedule.
4U/KC0PA AND KC0PA/S0 QSL UPDATE. Rudi,
VE9RHS, reports that 1800 QSLs to date have been mailed. He wants
everyone to have a little patience, they (cards) are on their
way, and all QSL cards received are now processed daily. Rudi
also reports that apparently a number (HUNDREDS) have been
sending their cards via the bureau to KC0PA. These are ending up
at the Zero QSL Bureau. Tim is not listed at the bureau and does
not have envelopes there. Rudi has arranged to have the QSLs on
hand at the Zero QSL Bureau shipped to him. This is expensive,
and hopefully they will not be all insurance cards. All cards not
addressed "via VE9RHS" from this date forward will
probably be placed in the burn bag. The Zero QSL Bureau and Rudi
do not have the funds to keep forwarding these cards. SO PLEASE
ADDRESS THEM CORRECTLY. Rudi has received approximately 50 QSL
CARDS that he cannot confirm. If you worked a station reporting
to be 4U/KC0PA during the period of 2nd May 1995 to 25th May
1995, "YOU WORKED A PIRATE ". Tim was stateside at that
time and not even in S0-land. Also, Rudi has received a number of
cards for different bands while Tim was active on 20 meters.
Unfortunately, Tim only has one radio, so he could not work two
bands at the same time.
5R, MADAGASCAR. Gerard, F2JD (S79JD, 5Z4JD,
etc...), is on the way to Malagasy, but due to his workload
waiting for him upon his arrival, he does not expect to be active
until next month. He will stay there probably until September.
Gerard hopes to active on all bands (WARC included) on CW, SSB
and RTTY after he gets the licence (of course!). QSL via F6AJA.
5R8KH AND 8P9CW QSL CARDS UPDATE. Jerry,
WB8LFO, QSL Manager for both station reports the following:
"Cards for 5R8KH (Karl), will go out as soon as he receives
more logs. Last logs recieved were at the end of 1994...... 8P9CW
(Dan, N8DCJ) operations in 1995. I (Jerry) have received nothing
in the way of logs or cards. This is inspite of the many phone
calls to Dan and promises to send the info to me. I know Dan has
moved so his callbook address is not good. If I can't get Dan to
send me the data, I will forward those cards I have received to
Dan. I will advise as to the outcome through the OPDX
Bulletin....."
ARE THE "/4U" CALLSIGNS ACCEPTABLE FOR DXCC
CREDITS? The people at the UN have requested the OPDX
Bulletin to print the following statement: "According to
Bill Kennamer, K5FUV, "Administrator of the DXCC",
operations using the United Nations calls (/4U) are accepted only
if officially authorized by the ONU H.Q. (NEW YORK)."
HK0, SAN ANDRES. Bob, K1WGM, plans to be
active as HK0/K1WGM for the ARRL DX Contest in February. This
will be mostly a low band operation. QSL direct to K1WGM, Bob
Annsell, 1 Archer St, Swampscott Ma. 01907.
KH9 DXPEDITION (Delayed one week). The
Dateline DX Association announced this week that due to
transportation difficulties out of Honolulu, the DXpedition team
has been forced to delay their trip by one week. They report that
their equipment was shipped to Wake Island and have already
arrived. They state, "We are definitely going". Start
looking for AL7EL/KH9 beginning February 1, 1996, through
February 7, 1996. A full announcement will appear this weekend
which will include their E-mail address on Wake Island and URL
address.
P4, ARUBA. John, K9UWA, and Jean, N9PXF, are
going to P4-land for the CQWW 160 CW Contest January 26-28th, as
a multi-operator entry. The contest callsign will be P40I. The
contest exchange should be "5NNARU". They should be
active from January 14th through January 29th. There will be lots
of low band activity before and after the contest. Outside the
contest, callsign may be P40/K9UWA. All QSLs may be sent direct
to K9UWA at 4836 Ranch Road, Leo IN 46765 USA or via the bureau.
Please send SASE or SAE plus IRC or green stamps for postage with
all direct cards. Please do not send QSLs to the P4 bureau.
Mike, K4PI, will also be active from Aruba. He
will once again be signing as P49I from January 22-29th. Mike
will participate in the 160m CQWW DX-CW-Contest. Outside the
contest, Mike plans to work the lowbands and the WARC bands.
PY0FZ QSL CARD UPDATE. Fred, PY7ZZ, reports
that WX9X informed him that PY0FZ cards were airmailed to him on
January 11th. So, Fred thinks that he will be answering cards in
15 days or so. He has already received a lot of cards most of
them with 1 greenstamp which he has recently found isn't
sufficient to pay return mail. A few guys sent extra-money with
their QSL, so he will use it to cover the red balance of QSLs. He
hopes the extra-money will be sufficient to cover the cards that
he received. He would like to ask you guys to consider sending
IRCs next time.
V3, BELIZE. Alan/NS0B, John/WC0W and
Robert/WG9L will be active during the ARRL DX CW Contest in
February. The three operators plan to be there (barring any
transportation problems) from February 14-19th. This mainly will
be a contest effort but there will be some operation outside the
contest, mainly on CW but perhaps a little SSB, probably starting
on February 15th after 1800z. Activity will be on 160-10 meters
but no WARC bands (no antennas). Call sign to be used for the
contest will be V31EV, but each operator will be using his own V3
call outside the contest. Look for NS0B signing V31EV, WC0W
signing V31TP, and WG9L's callsign has yet to be determined. QSLs
for the contest go to NS0B, for non-contest QSOs go to the
individual operators USA call.
WORLD-WIDE WEBCLUSTER. The OH2BUA WebCluster
is now capable of receiving input from the InterNet. The direct
URL address to the last 15 spots, 3 announcements, 3 WWV's and
the input form is: http://www.clinet.fi/~jukka/summ.html
ADDED NOTE: Jukka's OH2BUA WebCluster is now
linked to the NODXA's homepage (via K8YSE homepage,
http://www.en.com/users/k8yse/nodxa/html) which always has
the current OPDX Bulletin and at least 10 previous OPDX
Bulletins available.
XW8, LAOS. Adri, PA3BWS, will be traveling
January 16th, to Savanna Khet in Laos for a family visit. He will
try to obtain a licence for his NEXT trip to Laos (in 1997).
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Tedd Mirgliotta KB8NW
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