The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 441 BID: $OPDX.441 December 27, 1999 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern
Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, K1BV,
KF2TI, N4GN, WB5KAU, N6RT, W6/G0AZT, W7KCN, K8RF, K8YSE, DJ5AV
& DX News Letter, ER1LW, F5RMY, F6IRA, FM5GU, G0REP, G0SAH,
HL0C, I2YSB, IK0FVC, IN3QBR, IN3ZNR, JM1LJS, PA3AXU, PA5BW,
PA5ET, UA0QBA, UT7ND, UU2JQ, VE3BW, YO3APJ, ZL2AL and ZS5IR for
the following DX information.
SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: My family (wife/OPDX's
chief proof-reader Linda, Tedd [TJ], Katie) and I (KB8NW) would
like to wish all DXers, Contesters and OPDX readers a very
"Happy New Year". Let's hope the new year brings the
DXers/Contesters another exciting year and great band conditions.
As always, I would like thank the many who have contributed
information over the year (there are too many to list). REMEMBER,
without them there would not be an OPDX Bulletin.
5H4/5H9, TANZANIA (Operation update). Chris,
ZS5IR, is in a small town called Geita about 80km west of Mwanza
on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. He orginally was issued
the Tanzanian amateur radio licence 5H4IR and made about 200 QSOs
before learning that the Tanzanian Communications Commision had
issued the wrong callsign for his operation. The Mwanza region
where he is located should have been a 5H9 prefix, not 5H4. Chris
is now signing 5H9IR and states, "All QSOs I have made
before 10:00 UTC on 24 December 1999, with my 5H4IR call will be
valid..... I apologise for any inconvenience caused."
5R, MADAGASCAR. A new resident is now active
from IOTA AF-013. Look for Michel, ex-F5LET, to sign now as
5R8GL. He will be active with a 2 element beam on 3 bands and has
antennas for the WARC bands. The low bands will come later.
Michel is active all days mainly on CW but can QSY to SSB if
requested. QSL only via direct because there is no QSL Bureau in
5R yet. Also, DO NOT send any mail to his old address in France
because the postal box is closed indefinitively. For any
information or QSL requests write to: Michel Bon, BP 342, (201)
Antsiranana, Madagascar. ADDED 5R INFORMATION: Ben Witvliet,
PA5BW (old call: PA3BXC), who worked for Radio Netherlands on the
shortwave radio station and was active as 5R8DS between
1993-1995, wanted to inform everyone that the QSL information for
5R8ET and 5R8FT are as follows:
5R8ET
5R8FT
Solofo Randrenjason
Eddy Rahamefy
B.P. 404
B.P. 404
Antananarivo-101
Antananarivo-101
Madagascar
Madagascar
Ben mentions that Solofo was the first local citizen to ever
become active with a 5R8-call. Before only foreigners held
licenses. There are currently about 10 locals holding callsigns,
although not all very active. However, they are preparing to
start a national amateur radio society, a dream Solofo and Ben
had back in 1995.
8Q, MALDIVES. Ronald/PA3EWP and Rob/PA5ET
will be active from the island of Kuramanthi (IOTA AS-013) from
January 12-18th, with 2 HF stations operating on 80-10 meter on
CW, SSB and RTTY. They requested the callsigns 8Q7ET and 8Q7WP
(The callsign are not confirmed yet). QSL via PA5ET: Rob Snieder,
Van Leeuwenstraat 137, 2273 VS Voorburg, The Netherlands. A
8Q-2000 Web site is now available and maintained by Alex, PA1AW,
who will also be a pilot station for the operation (E-mail - pa1aw@okdxc.cz ). Depending on
the availability of a telephone and/or Internet, the team will
try to upload the logs on a daily basis together with digital
photos and a diary of their activities. The Web site is: http://www.muurkrant.com/pi4com/Maldives/8q-2000.html.
A2, BOTSWANA. Look for A22EW to become active
February 6th for a 3 week period. Activity will be on all bands
depending on conditions. A planned schedule to work NA on 80
meters is currently set between 5:30 and 7:30 EST to take
advantage of greyline propogation. QSL via KB2MS.
C5, THE GAMBIA. Peter, G4MCK, will sign as
C56/G4MCK from here now through about January 5th. Activity will
be on SSB only on: 1860, 3780, 7070, 14185, 18160, 21260, 24950,
28490 and 50110 kHz. His equipment is an IC 706 Mk II w/100w into
G5RV at 7Mts AGL. QSL via bureau or direct to his home callsign,
G4MCK.
CE8/CE9/KC4/R1, ANTARCTICA. Nick, RK1PWA, who
is the QSL manager for R1ANF, reports that he has a weekly
schedule with Oleg every Sunday at 2000z, on 14010 kHz. Nick also
reports that Oleg will be returning home in March or April and is
planning to stop off in Germany where he is planning to have
color QSLs printed for his recent R1ANF/A operation. Oleg will be
replaced by Alex who will be active as R1ANF and R1ANF/A until
2002. Meanwhile, the "DX News Letter" reports that
Yuri/UA9OBA and Valery/RW3GW are team members of the
international Antarctic "Millenium Expedition" and are
expected to operate as CE8/R3CA and CE9/R3CA from the Antarctic
Base "Patriot Hills" and possibly from other bases as
R3CA/ant. They have regular skeds on 14135 kHz between 0500 and
0600z. Also, KC4AAA from the USN Mars Amundsen-Scott Base has
been active after 0200z on 14243 kHz. QSL via K1IED: Larry
F.Skilton, 72 Brook Street, South Windsor, CT 06074, USA.
DX AWARDS WEB SITE CHANGE. Ted, K1BV, informs
OPDX that he now has his own domain WEB site at: http://www.dxawards.com/.
The Web site lists all kinds of award hunting information,
concentrating mostly on short term (contacts during the current
year) awards. He has just added a small bunch of Milennium awards
requiring the contacts to have been made during the year 2000.
Other pages cover award hunting terms and links to
club/association awards pages all over the world. Ted plans to
increase the scope of coverage this winter.
HV0, VATICAN (Special Callsign). Francesco,
IK0FVC, reports that he has received the special callsign HV0A to
celebrate the Giubileo 2000, special holy year. Activity by
Francesco will be done from HV4NAC's shack. He was seen this past
weekend on 15/12/10 meters (21021, 24958, 28014 kHz) between
1530-1630z. QSL via IK0FVC.
IOTA NEWS...
AS-049. Takeshi "Take",
JI3DST/7N3UXO, plans to be active from Tokara Archipelago
(Kuchinoshima, Kogashima-Ken) between December 29th and
January 9th. Two callsigns (JI3DST/6 and 7N3UXO/6) will
be used (one for U.S. and S.A. stations and the other for
EU, AS, AF and OC). Activity will be on 40/17/15/12/10
meters SSB. QSL via the JARL Bureau (the BEST) or direct
to: Takeshi Funaki, 2-18-26 Hannan-Cho Abeno-Ku,
Osaka-City Osaka 545-0021, Japan.
AS-085. The Hanyang University Wave
Research Club (HL0C) will go to Soan Islands. They will
activate the Korean island between December 31, 1999, and
January 5, 2000. Activity will be on 80/40/20/15 meters
operating on CW/SSB/RTTY modes.
EU-070. Herve, F5RMY, and a few friends
will activate Porquerolles Island as TM5CRO from January
29th through February 5th. Their activity will be on
160-10 meters. Also, there will be activity on 2 meters
and 70cm from JN32 which is very rare. Skeds for 2m and
70cm are possible and can be taken via the InterNet at: clarenne@club-internet.fr
--or via -- f1mbm@wanadoo.fr.
QSL via F5RMY.
OC-176. If you are not an OPDX InterNet
Subscriber, you missed the announcement that the
Association des Radio Amateurs de Nouvelle Caledonie
(ARANC), the amateur radio society of New Caledonia,
plans an IOTA DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands which
may result in a new DXCC entity as well. Activity will
begin March 15th. The radio operating team consists of
FK8GM, FK8HC, JA1BK, N4GN, N7NG, OH1RY, OH2BC, OH2BH,
OH2RF (team doctor) and another ARANC representative who
will be named later.
MORE YEAR 2000 SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS...
Lysy "Slawa", ER1LW, informs
us that he will be active as ER2000L now through January
20th. QSL via ER1LW at: P.O.Box 112, Chisinau, MD2012,
Moldova.
Gene, UT7ND, reports that he is QSL
Manager for ER2000D, the special Millenium station.
Activity has been on 80/40/20/10 meters SSB. QSL via:
Gene Chumakov, P.O. Box 5235, Vinnitsa, 21018, Ukraine.
Gene is also QSL Manager for ER0N and ER4DX.
There has been a station active lately
signing Y2K from Berlin on 40 meters between 0400 and
0500z. Operator states to QSL to DK2OC.
The Romanian Amateur Radio Federation (FRR)
is planning to activate the callsign YR2OOO (Yankee Radio
Two Oscar Oscar Oscar), between December 27th and January
2nd, 2000. This will be a special callsign to celebrate
the Millennium, and the activity is supposed to include
operations on different modes on HF and VHF. QSL via YO
bureau.
The Hastings Branch Radio Club of the
NZART has been issued the callsign ZMY2K for three days
use on/around the New Year Millennium. Many of the club's
operators will activate the station on most bands and
most modes. QSL via Bureau.
PACIFIC OPERATION CHANGE. Hide, JM1LJS,
informs OPDX that he has changed his operation plans to Ponape,
Micronesia (V6), to included an operation from Palau (T8). By the
time you read this, Hide should be active as V63LJ until the
afternoon (12 PM local time) December 31, 1999, only. However, if
Hide can get a continuation on his license, he will be active
until January 4th. Activity will be on 80-10 meters CW/SBB. QSL
via JH8DEH. Hide will travel to Palau on January 4th and stay
until the 10th. However, he will only be active for about 24
hours as T88LJ. Activity will be on 80-6 meters CW/SSB. QSL via
JH8DEH: Akira Miyata, 4-28-5, Minami Nishi 23 Jyou, Obihiro
080-2473, Japan.
PACIFIC TOUR UPDATE (Refer to OPDX.439).
Adriano, IK2GNW, will start his operations on January 13, 2000,
from North Cook Islands for a week and the callsign will be
ZK1GNW. The exact dates for the other countries (A3, FO, FW, KH6)
all depend on local flights. For more complete details, check the
I2YSB Web Site at: http://digilander.iol.it/i2ysb.
QSL INFO AND NEWS...
Dennis, FM5GU, reports that he has
changed his QSL Manager. His QSLs are now being handled
by: KU9C, Steven M. Wheatley, P. O. box 5953, PARSIPPANY,
NJ 07054, USA. However, he states that his Martinique
station is still down (the tower fell some months ago).
He hopes to restore (and even improve) all aerials in 2/3
months and to put out one of the best signals of the
Caribbean for the next CQ WPX Phone Contest again. Dennis
also mentions that he spends half of his time in Italy
for his job and has a second station there and is very
active from there. He signs as FM5GU/I ( on DX segments,
SSB and CW). For more detailed information, frequencies
and operations, visit his Web site at: http://www.qsl.net/fm5gu.
QSL the recent KG4RF operation (November
23-30th) via K8RF at: Dan Flaig, 2101 Ronaldson Ave.,
Cincinnati, OH, 45230-1510
Eddie Schneider, W6/G0AZT, wants to
advise OPDX subscribers that he is NOT the general QSL
Manager for 3V8BB, TS8QI or TS8ZA. Eddie DOES QSL for his
own RTTY operation as 3V8BB, October 9-13th (1999) ONLY.
Everytime 3V8BB is very active, he receives a bunch of
QSL requests. Out of 35 QSL cards received this week in
his P.O. Box, 20 were for the last 3V8BB operation! Eddie
states, "From January 2000, any cards received for
which I am not the manager, will be destroyed. I don't
have time to respond to mis-directed cards as I manage
ZF1RY, TY1RY, P40RY, 8R1TT, (VK9LZ,VK9LX & VK9NM 1996
only), VP9/N1RCT, VP5/G0AZT, V2/G0AZT, VP2M/G0AZT,
VP9/G0AZT, C6A/G0AZT and GU0AZT, so I'm busy enough
:-)".
Doug, N6RT, reports that the following
new/updated logs are now online at: http://dx.qsl.net/logs.
9H0VRZ (thru October 10,1999)
KL7AC (thru December 20, 1999)
A61AJ (thru December 7,1999)
LX2AJ (thru December 19, 1999)
CO2WF (1999 ARRL 10m Contest)
NH0E (thru December 21, 1999)
JY4NE (thru December 21, 1999)
The logs for the special event station M2H
are being held by Stratford-upon-Avon District Radio
Society and are being dealt with by Tony, G0REP, who is
QTHR. Requests for cards can be sent direct (SASE) or via
the Bureau.
QSL UA0QBA via his new address:
Aleksandr Sinyakov (UA0QBA), Box 51, Vitebsk 210001,
Belarus. Please send your QSL + SASE (1 USD or 2 IRC)
only Direct.
Rusty, UU2JQ, informs OPDX that there is
a big mistake in the CBA-2000 CD! The correct DXCC
country of all stations with the "UU" prefix is
the UKRAINE, not RUSSIA!!! Another note: Since January 8,
1999, the Ukraine has a new "Zip Code System".
The new zip codes are 5 digits. Beginning January 1,
2000, letters with old 6 digits zip codes will be not
accepted! If you wish to send your QSLs direct for
Ukrainian amateurs make sure that you have addresses with
the new zip code.
R1, ANTARCTICA. Nick, RK1PWA, who is the QSL
manager for R1ANF, reports that he has a weekly schedule with
Oleg every Sunday, at 2000z, on 14010 kHz. Nick also reports that
Oleg will be returning home in March or April, and is planning to
stop off in Germany where he is planning to have color QSLs
printed for his recent R1ANF/A operation. Oleg will be replaced
by Alex who will be active as R1ANF and R1ANF/A until 2002.
Meanwhile, the "DX News Letter" reports that
Yuri/UA9OBA and Valery/RW3GW are team members of the
international Antarctic "Millenium Expedition" and are
expected to operate as CE8/R3CA and CE9/R3CA from the Antarctic
Base "Patriot Hills" and possibly from other bases as
R3CA/ant. They have regular skeds on 14135 kHz between 0500 and
0600z.
V4, St. KITTS. Joe, VE3BW, informs OPDX that
Julio/WD4JR, Bruce/W4OV and himself (possibly one or two more
operators) will be active here between February 14-24th. They
will be active as a Multi/Single in the ARRL DX CW Contest. Look
for them before the contest on all bands CW/SSB and especially on
6 meters. Joe states that his own callsign will be V47CA (QSL via
VE3BW), and the others will have their callsigns issued upon
arrival.
XU, CAMBODIA (Update). Mauro/IN3QBR and
Fabrizio/IN3ZNR are now in Phnom Phen where they got their
licence but orginally for only fixed frequencies on 20 and 15
meters SSB/CW. However, after several conversations with the
Ministry of Telecommunications, they were granted use of all
bands and modes (including RTTY), excluding the 160 meters which
is not permitted from Cambodian Government. So, look for Mauro to
be active as XU7AAZ and Fabrizio as XU7AAY until January 3rd.
ZK1, SOUTH COOK ISLANDS. Just, LA9DL, was
heard as ZK1DLL this past weekend on 10 meters SSB (around 28510
khz after 1900z). QSL via LA9DL.
ZK2, NIUE. Gerard, PA3AXU, reports to OPDX
that he had a nice stay on Fiji (3D2XU), Tonga (A35XU) and Samoa
(5W0GD), he is ready to announce his plans for the next Pacific
stop in July of 2000 on the Web page at: http://www.qsl.net/pa3axu.
He has applied for the callsign ZK2GD and plans to be active on
CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31.
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