The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 407 BID: $OPDX.407 May 3, 1999 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1 (New Area Code!)
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern
Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AC4G,
AA5DX, N6HR, N6RT, N8BJQ, KE9KD & DX-Central, DJ5AV & DX
News Letter, DL4BQE, DL3APO, DL7VRO, G4BUE & DX News Sheet,
G0REP, GU0SUP, JA1WSX, JI3DST, LU3FCK, VK8PW, Lukasz Komsta and
Herb Blair for the following DX information.
3W, VIETNAM. 3W7TK was heard this past
weekend on 17 meters (18069 kHz) between 1600 and 1900z. QSL via
OK1HWB.
9N, NEPAL. The "DX News Letter"
reports that Sergio, IZ6BRN/AP2WAP, is going to sign 9N7RN from
Mirni near Pakhara. His activity should have started by the time
you read this. He intends to stay until the end of June 1999. QSL
via IK4ZGY. Meanwhile, the "DX News Sheet" states to
look for Fred, WF6Z, to be active until May 7th as 9N7ZA. The QTH
he will be operating from is at 24,000 feet. Activity will be SSB
on 7234, 14158 and 14175 kHz. QSL via home call.
CY9, ST PAUL ISLAND. From a press release:
Look for Doug/K4LT, Dan/K8RF, and Bob/W6RGG, Stan/AC8W and
Hank/K8DD to be active May 23-31th as CY9RF. The CY9RF team will
also be a Multi-Op/Multi Transmitter entry in the CQ WPX CW
Contest May 30-31st. Look for them to have four 24 hour station
and two part-time stations. Before the contest they will run 2 or
3 stations concentrating mostly on the WARC bands and on
difficult propagation areas of the world such as Asia, VK, ZL
etc. Also, all SSB operations will be before the contest period.
This operation is now a YASME DXpedition and QSOs count for the
YASME awards (for details check the Web site: http://www.cestro.com/myweb/yasme.html.
QSL via K8RF. All OPDX InterNet Subscribers will receive the
complete press release as an additional bulletin.
DAYTON HAMVENTION DX ACTIVITIES. Steve,
N8BJQ, informs us that the following events will take
place:
The DX Dinner Banquet program on May 14th will be
"ZL9CI, 96,000 QSOS, and Environmentally
Correct" by ZL2HU & ZL1CN. (There are
still some tickets left.)
The DX Forum programs are on Saturday, May 15th, at
Meadowdale High School again (1:00 - 5:00 PM). Guest
speakers are as follows:
"DXCC 2000" by Wayne Mills, N7NG
"AR Cluster Development" by Jim Moore,
WU3V
"ZL9CI" by Ken Holdom, ZL2HU, Murray
Woodfield, ZL1CN and Don Greenbaum, N1DG
"The DXpedition to St. Brandon, 3B7RF",
story and slides will be presented by George
Wagner, K5KG, Karl Gratezer, HB9JAI, Walter
Marshall, W7SE and Erik, HB9ADP
"Return to Vietnam after 30 years" by
3W6WE/K2WE & 3W6LK/W2LK
"3B9R" by Frank Smith, AH0W and Garry
Shapiro, NI6T
"Another day in Paradise, V7-Kwajalien
Atoll" by Tom Harrell, N4XP
FT5W, CROZET ISLAND (Update). Good news.
Reports indicate that Gil, FT5WH (F5NOD), has reportedly fixed
his radio and should be active again soon. Look for him on 20
meters.
FS, ST. MARTIN (and V4, St. Kitts & Nevis).
Hiroo, JA1WSX, informs OPDX that he will be going to FS and V4
after the Dayton HamVention. He will sign FS/KH0Y from St.
Martin, May 16-19th. After this operation he will go to St. Kitts
and will try to get a V4 license from the Telecommunication
Office there. He will be there May 19-21th. QSL to JA1WSX direct
or JARL.
IOTA NEWS...
AS-032. Takeshi, JI3DST, will operate
from Osumi Archipelago as JI3DST/6 from November 21-22nd.
Activity will be on 17/15/12/10 meters SSB. QSL via
JI3DST.
AS-041. Operators JE4CIL and JI3DST will
be active from Oki Archipelago (Oki-Gun Shimane) as
homecall/4 from 0800z June 4th through 2200z June 6th.
Activity will be on 80-10 meters (including the WARC
bands) CW/SSB. QSL JE4CIL/4 to P.O. Box 3, Hamamura,
Ketaka-Cho, Ketaka-Gun, Tottori 689-0331 Japan. QSL
JI3DST/4 to Takeshi Funaki, 2-18-26 Hannan-Cho Abeno-Ku,
Osaka-City Osaka 545-0021 Japan.
AS-117. Takeshi, JI3DST, will be active
from Honshu's Coastal Island (Awajishima Hyogo) as
JI3DST/3 between July and December. His schedule is as
follows: July 24-26th (IOTA Contest); September 4-6th;
September 23-26th; October 30th-November 1st and December
11-13th (10M Contest). Activity will be 17/15/12/10
meters SSB. QSL via JI3DST.
NA-169. A group of hams from the ICARC,
WWDXC and NCCC will activate Waadah Island (NA-169) of
the Makah Nation Tribal Lands during the IOTA contest
July 24-25th. NA-169 is one of the rarest of the IOTA
groups since these islands are the Makah Nation ancestral
burial grounds. Two kw stations will be on the air
before, during and after the IOTA contest to hand out
QSOs. This effort has already been coordinated with the
IOTA HQ Martin, G3ZAY. More to follow.
J28BS NOW QRT. Phil, J28BS/F5PHW, is now QRT
and is in Muscat at A45XR's home. He reports that his J28BS
DXpedition netted 5700 QSO IN 57 hours of activity. If you hear
J28BS on the air now, it is a pirate. QSL via F6KPQ, Bureau or
CBA.
LO1, ARGENTINA. LU4FM reports that he will be
active as LO1F in the ARI International DX Contest as Multi-Op
Single Transmitter entry.
MM, SHETLAND ISLANDS. Wolf/DL4BQE,
Helmut/DL5BUT, Thomas/DM4VDE and Arno/ DL1CW will go on an
Amateur Radio Expedition to the Shetland Islands (DXCC:
Scotland). They will be active with two 400 watts stations from
June 11-16th. They will operate from Muckle Roe Island (IOTA
EU-012, WAB HU 36). The team will use CEPT callsigns (MM/DL4BQE/p
and MM/DM4VDE/p). The first station will run on CW, while the
second station will run either on SSB or CW. They will be active
on 160-10 meters bands including the WARC bands with verticals
and wire antennas. The goal is to make as many QSOs as possible,
especially with stations outside of Europe. At the moment, Wolf
is trying to find a comfortable RTTY software, and they hope to
be able to satisfy some RTTY requests, too. QSL cards are
prefered via DARC-bureau. If you cannot wait, you may send your
cards direct to DL4BQE. For some further information, check out
the Web site at: http://privat.schlund.de/y/y36/shetl.htm.
QSL INFO AND NEWS...
Tony, G0REP, reports that he processed
and despatched all QSLs sent to him directly following
his recent operation from Mustique Island (NA-025).
Anyone having requested a QSL by this means and fails to
receive a card after a reasonable period of time, should
contact him via his E-mail address were he will try to
sort things out. His E-mail address is: Tony_Blackburn@otterburn2.freeserve.co.uk.
LOGS ON THE WEB. Doug, N6RT, informs
OPDX that the following logs are now available at the Web
Site: http://dx.qsl.net/logs.
FO0XUU (Marquesas - February 1999) 5R8FU (through April
6, 1999)
FO0XUU (Australs - January 1999) VK9YY (February 1999)
JW/SM7NAS (April 1999) VK9XX (February 1999)
YC0LOW (through April 25,1999)
5B4/EW1AR & 5B4/NP3D (October 1998)
Peter, DL3APO, states to look for the logs from the
FO0AWI operation to be added a little later because Wulf
wrote all his Qs on a paperlog.
GU2ENK is an INVALID callsign! Phil
Cooper, GU0SUP, GU and MU series QSL Sub-Manager informs
OPDX that the callsign GU2ENK appears to have been active
in the ARI contest (CW section) in 1997 and 1998. He has
made inquiries, and this callsign has NEVER been issued!
Please take note, as you will NOT get a QSL card.
QSL Manager, Fritz, DL7VRO, reports that
he has had some computer problems but was able to save
the data on his hard drive. Anyone who still needs a QSL
from the operations that Fritz is manager of and wants to
know the status of their cards, please send an E-mail to:
dl7vro@ibm.net.
SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL. From May 1st through
July 31st, special event station SN0APT will be active from
Lublin and Klementowice. The event is the 750th anniversary of
the first opening of a pharmacy in Poland. The "APT"
suffix is the abbreviation of the Polish word "Apteka"
which means "pharmacy". The first Polish pharmacy was
opened in Swidnica in 1248. The special event is organized by
radio club "Ariadna" (SP8YCB). For any questions about
this station, please send E-mail to: radioam@ariadna.pl. QSL via
the bureau or direct to: SP8YCB Club, Po Box 403, 20950 Lublin,
Poland.
SPECIAL PREFIXES. Just a quick reminder to
look for special prefixes being used by Scottish and Welsh
amateurs to celebrate the opening of their new parliments.
Activity will begin May 6th and last until July 31st. GM stations
(Scotland) will use 2A, 2S and 2T. GW stations (Wales) will use
2C, 2W and 2X.
USI NEWS. The Michigan DX Association (MDXA)
will be putting "Beaver Island" on the air September
10-17th. Beaver Island is USI MI032L and they will be using a 8
man team with the special callsign KC8MHX (Michigan Ham
Xpedition). The team will use the standard IOTA frequencies as
well as other frequencies. QSL via W8VOM at: MDXA-BEAVER, O-947
Lake Michigan DR, Grand Rapids, MI 49544.
V4, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS. The "DX News
Sheet" reports that Steve, G4JVG, will be active June 4-18th
while on holiday. His callsign will be allocated upon his
arrival. Activity will be SSB on 40-10 meters including the WARC
bands and possibly 80 meters with 400 watts and verticals. QSL
via home callsign.
V7, MARSHALL ISLANDS (possibly KH1, KH9 and maybe
others). Bruce, AC4G (ex-N4GAK), informs OPDX that he
will be active for at least 2 years from Kwajalein Island
beginning in mid-June, hopefully. Bruce expects to be active on
all bands unless it interferes with his work assignment. He will
be taking his Kenwood TS-850, a vertical Cushcraft R-7000, his
satellite rigs and antennas for AO10 Satellite QSOs, etc. Bruce
states that he hopes to be active from his residence as well as
from the club station on Kwaj. Many of you may remember Bruce as
QSL Manager for Ken Wells, V73C. Bruce hopes to pick up where Ken
left off and be active in many contests. He is applying for the
callsign of V73G. Bruce will continue to answer Ken's QSLs as
well as his own unless it becomes a problem. If so, he may ask
for a volunteer to help with the QSLing. Bruce adds that he also
hopes to be active from Baker-Howland, Wake, and a few other
islands nearby. Lastly, Bruce hopes to give out many QSOs on SSB
and CW. If you need a certain band QSO, let him know and he will
try to accomodate. He will not be taking RTTY gear in the hopes
that the club station has this setup already.
VK8, AUSTRALIA (Rare Area). Peter, will be
operating as VK8PW/p starting around May 14th from Arnhem Land,
an Aboriginal Land Trust, in the VK8 district some 350km east of
Darwin. This area is accessible by special permit only from the
Aboriginal land owners. This might be the first ever ham
operation from this part of VK8. Peter will be there until mid
October, 1999. Operations will be on 20-10 meters on SSB only.
QSLs for bureau requests go only to VE8RZ and for direct requests
to: Peter Wollenberg, Box 2142, Darwin, NT, 0801, Australia.
VQ9, CHAGOS ISLAND. Ron, VQ9DX (AA5DX),
reports from Diego Garcia that he is now dockside and can ride
his bike into the radio club at least 3 or 4 times a week
depending on his work load. Ron states to look for him on 1828
kHz starting around 2315z through 0130z (that is when he must QRT
to get back to the ship on time). He states that their offical
sunrise is now 0112z.
XZ, MYANMAR (New IOTA DXpedition). A few
different sources report that Mike/N7MB, Steve/G3VMW, Ray/G3NOM,
Darryl/AF7O, Warren/K7WX, Jouko/OH1RX, Robin/WA6CDR, Dan/NA7DB,
Sally/KM5EP (YL op), Paul/W8AEF, Martti/OH2BH, Rich/K7ZV and
EA5XX; N5IA and K6KRE of the Central Arizona DX Association
(CADXA) will be active in mid January of the year 2000 for two or
three full weekends as XZ0A. Operations will take place from
Thahtay Kyun Island (also known as Mergui Archipelago, 9 57' N,
98 32' E) located in the Andaman Sea. This will be the first IOTA
operation from XZ-land, which means it will be a new IOTA.
Planned operations will be CW/SSB/RTTY and SSTV on 160-6 meters.
More details are to follow.
ZC4, UK SOV. BASE AREA ON CYPRUS. The
"DX News Sheet" reports that Jeff, G0WSA, is active
until the year 2001 or 2002 as ZC4JP while stationed at the
Western Sovereign Base Area (WSBA) in Episkopi. No QSNs have been
reported as of yet, but activity will be on CW/SSB/RTTY and
Pactor three to four afternoons weekly. Jeff will use a TS-850S
100 watts and dipole. QSL via RSGB bureau to G0WSA. Meanwhile,
George, 5B4AGC (G3LNS), was active as ZC4ATC over the past
weekend on 40/30/20 meters between 2100 and 0400z. Check 14170,
10109 and 7052 kHz. QSL via 5B4YX.
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