The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 463 BID: $OPDX.463 May 29, 2000 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
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following DX information.
MORE ON DAYTON HAMVENTION 2000. As your
editor is almost fully recovered from the festive weekend, I have
to report a few errors in last week's bulletin. In my
hurried/fatigue state, I put the wrong date on OPDX.462 which
should have been May 22nd. Also, I mentioned that TX0CI cards
were being pasted out at the HamVention. This is wrong. They were
TX0DX QSLs. I am sorry, Martti, (OH2BH) for the mistake, but it
was great seeing you and Petri (OH2NB) at Dayton. Many enjoyed
seeing you for the first time and receiving their cards.
According to "QRZ DX" the duo provided 850 QSLs at the
Yaesu booth. Both operators are currently back in Finalnd. If you
missed getting your Chesterfield Island QSL card at Dayton, do
not worry. Cards will be coming out soon by mail. Also, in my
hurry to put the bulletin together last week, I forgot to mention
two indivduals were inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame at the
DX Dinner. They were: Chad Harris, WB2CHO/VP2ML (SK), and ARRL
Vice President John Kanode, N4MM.
8M2000, JAPAN. Look for the special event
JARL Millennium Amateur Radio Station "8M2000"
(Eight-Mike-Two-Thousand) to be active during two different
weekends in June. First operation will take place from
Tennouji-ku, Osaka city, OSAKA, starting 1000z June 2nd and
ending 0900z June 4th. The second operation will be from
Amagasaki-city, HYOGO, starting 0500z June 10th and ending 0300z
June 11th. Activity will be on 40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 meters
SSB/CW. The station will be operated by Takeshi/JI3DST and other
JA OPs. QSL via the JARL Bureau (BUREAU is the BEST), however,
don't send your QSL to the JARL. All 8M2000 QSOs will be sent to
you automatically via the bureau.
A52JS UPDATE. Jim, VK9NS, has informed OPDX
that he is currently in the U.K. visiting his son. He reports
that he has logged a total of 20,300 QSOs (Please note that this
is a page count and is sure to be reduced slightly). In Jim's
message, he would like, for the record, personal thanks to Dasho
Leki Dorji, Deputy Minister MOC, The Director, BTTB and Phub
Tshering of Frequency Management BTTB. He also states that any DX
group interested in visiting Bhutan (A5) for amateur radio
purposes, is requested to contact him as soon as possible. He is
willing to "personally assist you and guide you to a
successful conclusion". All OPDX InterNet Subscribers will
receive an edited version of Jim's press release as an additional
bulletin.
AP, PAKISTAN. Peter, ON6TT/5X1T, is on the
move again this time on a business trip through Asia. He was
active a few weekends ago as AP2ARS and is expected to return
again sometime this week after his vist to Afghanistan (YA). He
is not expected to operate from YA-land. Peter has visited and
operated a little over the past week in Katmandu (Nepal) and
Tajikistan. After his short return to Pakistan, Peter will go to
Hawaii for three weeks and then head back to Kosovo (YU0) for a
week. QSL via ON5NT.
AX, AUSTRALIA. The "Amateur Radio
Magazine" (dated May 2000, page 5, Vol. 68 No. 5, The
Journal of the Wireless Institute of Australia) states, "The
WIA Federal President, Peter Nash VK2BPN, has received
confirmation from the Australian Communication Authority that all
Australian radio amateurs may use the Optional "AX"
callsign prefix to commemorate the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic
Games. The period during which this may be used is 15 June 2000
to 2 November 2000 inclusive."
C6, BAHAMAS. Joe/W8GEX, Ron/WA8LOW, Mike/N9NS
and Mike/K9AJ will be active from Berry Island, Bahamas (NA-054)
from July 28-31st. Activity includes participation in the IOTA
Contest. Two stations will be active on 40-6 meters, CW/SSB. The
team will sign C6DX during the contest and C6AJR outside the
contest. QSL to W8GEX.
EM70, UKRAINE (Attention Prefix Hunter!). The
club station from the Lviv Branch of the UARL, UR4WWE, will
organize a special event DXpedition to Mt. Hoverla (Carpathians)
on June 2-4th. They will be active on all HF bands, CW, SSB and
probably on the digital modes. The special event callsign will be
EM70DXG to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first ever
amateur radio DXpedition in Europe organized by members of L.K.K.
(Lviv Shortwave Amateur Club) to Mt. Hoverla in 1930. QSL via
UT1WA, either the bureau or direct to: P.O. Box 5951, Lviv 79054,
Ukraine.
FR5/T, TROMELIN. Erwann, F6JJX, Lyon DX Gang
Secretary, reports that the dates for this operation are now set
for August 1-16th. He states, "All administrative papers
have been granted to us." However, the team is asking for
further financial support from individuals and associations. They
face a rise in the transportation costs and some of added costs
that require from them about 17000 USD. This is crucial for them
to find this amount of money to close the budget and make this
expedition happen. The Lyon DX Gang involved in this adventure
has used all of their budget, and they asked the operators to
contribute more money, but this would put them in big financial
troubles. So, if you want to help them again, please intercede
with your associations granting the Dxpedition to FR/T more
financial help. Erwann states, "We had to cope with a lot of
administrative problems before having the landing permission as
the weather station will be soon automatized and no more human
beings will be allowed to go on the island. This island is
already a total natural reserve. This clearly means that our
Dxpedition could be the last one before a long time, and another
Dxpedition could be impossible due to a new ambigious
administrative status over the island. If you wish to help them,
donations can be made to the Lyon DX Gang's Treasurer Eric
Blanchard, F5PXT, or you can send directed contributions to NCDXF
(note on the check for FR/T DXPEDITION). For more details, check
the Web page: http://perso.easynet.fr/~f6jjx/.
HOLYLAND AWARD. Amir, 4X6TT, has been very
active in his mobile lately and has activated rare grid squares
for the "Holyland Award" program. Details can be found
on: http://hamradio.iarc.org/awards/awards.html.
Over the past weekend, Amir had the opportunity to activate 37
squares. Look for him on the Holyland frequencies: 14265, 18165,
21265, 24965 and 28465 kHz. Also, check out Amir's Web page at: http://www.qsl.net/4x6tt.
IOTA NEWS...
EU-004. Carl, GW0VSW, will be active
from the Island of Minorca as EA6/GW0VSW from May 29th
until June 5th. He will use mainly CW on all bands from
40 to 10 meters and operate around 0700 and 1700 local
time, family permitting. His equipment will be an IC706
and dipole antennas. QSL via GW0VSW.
EU-017. The Eolian DX Team (IT9HLN,
IT9NGN, IT9FCC, IT9UHF) will be active from Lipari Island
from June 2-4th. They will operate on HF, 2 and 6 meters.
EU-098. NODXA's friends/members will be
on a small IOTA DXpedition between May 31st and June 5th
to Poel Island. They will use their club callsign DF0RR/p
or DF0RR/EU98 (CW). QSL via bureau is preffered. They
will have 2 stations with legal power active on 80-10
meters (CW, SSB, RTTY). Also, they will be training
students and will be active as DN1JC (training callsign).
The whole group (DL7VRO/Fritz, DL7UTM/Tom, DL7UBA/Roy,
DL7IQ/Birgit DL7IO/Holger) and many others with their
families are using this for a short holiday trip with Ham
Radio activity (all together 30 people including kids and
2 dogs, hi....).
EU-135. Hasse, SM3JBE/2, and Hans,
SM3TLG/2, will be active from Holmon Island on SSB and CW
from June 1-3rd. QSL to their homecalls direct or via
bureau.
NA-NEW. Operators Rick/KL7AK,
Blaine/KL7TG, Larry/KF6XC and Tom/W0GLG will activate the
Kudiakof Islands, part of the Northern Alaska Peninsula
West group; an unnumbered IOTA island group. They have
already sent maps to the IOTA Committee and they have
verified that these islands will count as a new IOTA
island. The team is projecting that they will be on the
island late in the evening on the 4th of August, UTC,
until early in the morning on the 9th of August, UTC.
They will use the callsign KL7AK. Their main station will
be a Kenwood TS-570S HF trans- ceiver with an Ameritron
AL-80A amp, using a Hy-Gain TH2Mk3 10-15-20 Yagi on a 30
foot mast. The backup antenna will be two G5RV antennas
mounted as Inverted-V's atop the 40 foot mast facing
east/west and north/south. Their backup radio will be a
Kenwood TS-50S. Rick/KL7AK reports that he has found
during his Alaska Island Dxpeditions, that 20 meters is
the optimum band there in Alaska. They normally have
propagation up to 20 hours a day. When stateside fades
out, Europe comes in. When Europe fades out, the South
Pacific comes in, etc. Since they will have only 1
station, their plans are to operate mainly on or near the
IOTA frequency of 14.260 MHz. They will make CW contacts
on request. QSL Manager is Fred Stenger, N6AWD, good in
the callbook/Internet databases.
NA-089. Frank, N5VT, will be active
daily on CW, 14025 kHz during the day until May 31st on
the Chandeleur Islands. During the evening he will look
for VK/JA/EU station.
SA-020. Remember to look for the French
operators to be active now through June 4th on Salut
Island. Activity will be on 80-10 meters (CW, SSB and
SSTV). Their web site for this operation is at: http://f8bxi.free.fr.
J3, GRENADA. Harry, W8KKF, will once again be
active as J37K from here. He plans to be active in the IARU HF
World Championship Contest. However, he is looking for extra
operators to join him. The contest runs 24 hours from 1200z
Saturday, July 8th, through 1200 Sunday, July 9th. If anyone is
seriously interested please reply directly to Harry at: hflasher@dayton.net or you
can call him at 937-434-9616 (most of the time except Wednesday
and Friday AM).
KH5K/KH5, KINGMAN REEF AND PALMYRA ATOLL.
According to the latest Kingman Reef/Palmyra DX Group (KR/PDXG)
press release, Chuck, N4BQW, has left Palmyra Atoll for Honolulu
after operating two weeks as N4BQW/KH5 and one day as N4BQW/KH5K.
Dave, WB4JTT, will remain on Palmyra for at least another week,
but they anticipate having at least one operator on Palmyra
through much of the summer. Chuck and Dave have erected a Force
12 C3 and a WARC beam, as well as an 80m inverted vee, while
assisting The Nature Conservancy's efforts to prepare Palmyra for
visits by potential contributors. Current operations are still
barefoot, but the antenna improvements should enable Dave to
reach a larger audience when he has time to operate. They stress
again that amateur operation is a secondary mission at this
stage, but they expect Dave to be active on the higher bands,
primarily on CW, with some lowband activity also planned. QSL all
KR/PDXG operations go to K4TSJ.
M0, ENGLAND (KH0AS QRT). Mike, KH0AS, has
shut down and is leaving Saipan after thirteen years on the
island. He and his family are moving to G-land where he expects
to reactivate his M0ALW callsign this fall. Jim, WB4UBD, holds
copies of Mike's logs starting with September 1997. Confirmations
of any contacts prior to that date will have to wait until Mike
gets unpacked and settled in.
PJ, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Bill, K5YG, will be
active as PJ4/K5YG from Boniare, June 4-9th. His main modes of
operation will be RTTY and PSK31 on 20 and 10 meters using wire
antennas (when XYL and Bill are not diving). QSL via K5YG.
QSL INFO AND NEWS...
XW2A CARDS. Murry, K3BEQ, informs OPDX
that he has been recently advised by the DXCC Desk that
they are "not" accepting XW2A cards for DXCC
credit at this time.
Marco, CE6TBN, QSL Manager for the CE0Z
Juan Fernandez Island DXpedition in Janury 2000, informs
OPDX that he has sent many direct QSL out since March and
via the bureau since May. He wants everyone to remember
that for direct QSL you need to send a SASE. Also, use
the CE0Z Web page for the bureau request at: http://www.qsl.net/ce6tbn/ce0z.htm.
Please use this because the Chilean Bureau is very very,
very slow.
Cards for RM0M, UE0LEZ, UE0LMF and
RA0LOM/0 should be sent (direct only) to Mike, UA0MF.
However, Mike's address is wrong in the Summer 2000
CallBook (Box 29). The correct address is: Mike Filippov,
Box 20, Vladivostok, 690021, Russia. Those who were
sending to the wrong Box 29, should resend cards to the
correct Box 20.
Johny, LZ1PJ, informs OPDX that he has
taken over the task to manage the QSLs for LZ1VP/AM.
Vlady, LZ1VP(/AM) is travelling a lot due to his
profession as a radio operator onboard an Antonov AN-12
cargo aircraft. Johny is in possession of his /AM log for
the period of July 27, 1999, through October 24, 1999.
The cards are being designed now, and will be ordered at
the printshop very soon. QSLs can be confirmed either
direct or by the bureau. For direct replies, please
include a SAE + postage to: Ivan Ivanoff 'Johny' - LZ1PJ,
P.O.Box 15, BG-1324 Sofia, Bulgaria.
ZL6QH was active this past weekend on
20/15/10 meters CW. This station was from the historical
sight "Quartz Hill" at Wellington, New Zealand.
It was reported that the sight has some amazing rhombic
and "V" beam antennas and is operated by all
sorts of different ZLs from time to time. QSL via ZL2WB
or the home call of the ZL that was operating at the
time.
The DX Summit provider, OH9W (OH2AQ),
was active in CQWW WPX CW Contest this past weekend. QSL
via bureau. The operator was Jukka, OH6LI.
QSL P49V via AI6V. Operator was Carl,
AI6V, in the CQ WPX CW Contest this past weekend.
QSL EO6F, active in this past week's
contest, via UX0FF: Nikolay Lavreka, P.O. Box 3, Izmail,
68600, UKRAINE
Caleb/AD7U and Hillar/N6HR with TF3DX,
TF3GB and others were active as TF3IRA during last
weekend's CQ WPX CW Contest. QSL to TF3GB. However,
before the contest Caleb signed TF/AD7U on RTTY and
Hillar signed TF/N6HR on the WARC bands.
Vlad, RV1CC, has provided the following
QSL routes for the special prefix callsigns
"RH1" during this year's World Hockey
Championship in St. Petersburg (April 24th through May
14th). QSLs should be sent via the bureau or direct to
operator's addresses:
RH1A -
Dmitriy Rajskiy (RU1AE), P.O.
Box 417, St.Petersburg,
191011 RUSSIA
RH1B -
Club station (RZ1AWO), Gor.
SYUT, ul. 6th Sovetskaja 3,
St.Petersburg, 193130 RUSSIA
RH1C -
Nick Sashenin (RV1AQ), P.O. Box
80, St.Petersburg, 193231
RUSSIA
RH1F -
Alex Pastchenko (RV1AC), P.O.
Box 104, St.Petersburg, 192241
RUSSIA
RH1H -
Vladimir Sidorov (RV1CC),
P.O.Box 7, St.Petersburg, 191011
RUSSIA
RH1J -
Slava Osipov (RA1ACJ), P.O. Box
1, St.Petersburg, 198261 RUSSIA
QUEEN AMAZONA 2000 DXPEDITION. A Colombian
team will activate 5K9AQ in celebrating the "Queen Amazona
2000 DXpedition", a very long trip along the Amazona River
which will take place for 3-4 months. For further information,
check the Web page at: http://www.amazonqueen2000.com.
ZD9, TRISTAN DA CUNHA. "THE 59(9) DX
REPORT" reports that Bob, G3ZEM, has been issued the sign
ZD9ZM for his September operation from here.
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