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30 December 2006 A.R.I. DX
Bulletin
No 817
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**** DX INFORMATION ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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1A - The forthcoming 1A4A operation from the Sovereing Military Order
of
Malta [425DXN 815] will include MS activity (sked requests can
be
sent to to ms@1a4a.org). The team is arranging a 2m station for
WSJT
that will be active on 6-7 January. Further details will
be
available at http://www.1a4a.org
3V - Alex, GM0DHZ reports he will be active from 3V8SS for five
weeks
starting on 7 January. He plans to operate SSB and CW on
10-80
metres.
6W - Bert, PA3GIO will be active (on 160-10 metres SSB) as PA3GIO/6W
from
the 6W7RV DX Shack in Somone (http://www.le-calao.com/), Senegal
on
3-10 January. QSL via home call, direct or bureau (please use
the
QSL request form at http://www.pa3gio.nl/ for bureau cards).
[TNX
PA3GIO]
7X - Mike, DB1JAW and Nichael, DK5MH will be active from the
northern
part of the Sahara as 7W0JAW and 7W0MH on 2-10 February. They
will
operate 24 hours a day on 80-10 metres, but their main
frequencies
will be +/- 14185, 14290, 18120, 18150, 24950 and 24980 kHz. QSL
for
both calls direct only to DB1JAW. [TNX NG3K]
9M6 - Saty, JE1JKL will be active again as 9M6NA from Labuan
Island
(OC-133), East Malaysia on 4-7 January. He will concentrate on
80
and 160 metres. QSL via home call (e-mail requests for bureau
cards
can be sent to 9m6na@jsfc.org). [TNX NG3K]
A3 - Nag, JA7GAX (A35TN) has been active from Niauatoputapu
(OC-191)
since 26 December and will remain there until 2 January. He
will
then move to Vava'u (OC-064) until 4 January. After that, he
will
return to Fiji (3D2CX) on his way back home (15 January). QSL
via
home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
CE - Carlos, CE6AMN and other six operators (namely CE3HDI,
CE6UFF,
CE6UFY, CE6UZL, LU1EJ and XQ3SA) will be active as XR7C from
the
lighthouse at Punta Corona (ARLHS CHI-013) on Chiloe Island
(SA-018)
from 29 January until 5 February. They plan to operate SSB and CW
on
80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres. QSL via CE6AMN. [TNX CE6AMN]
CE0_eas- Nao, JK1FNL will be active as CE0Y/JK1FNL from Easter
Island
(SA-001) on 4-7 January. He will operate CW, SSB and RTTY on 40,
20,
and 17 metres. If he can get a licence, he might also be active
as
FO/NA8O from French Polynesia on 3 and 8 January. QSL via home
call.
[TNX JK1FNL]
DU - Francisco, CT1EAT will be active as DU1/CT1EAT from Romblon
Island
(OC-244) on 1-17 January (but on 10 January he will move to a
new
location on the same island, and he says he might not be able
to
operate from there). He plans to operate holiday style SSB and
RTTY
on 10-80 metres. QSL direct to home call (logs will be uploaded
to
LOtW). After 17 January he might go and be active from a rarer
IOTA
group, but he cannot give more details for the time being. The
web
page for the operation is at http://ct1eat.no.sapo.pt [TNX CT1EAT]
HI - Norm, W1BYH reports he will be active from the Dominican
Republic
(HI3) on 6-12 January. He plans to operate holiday style on
all
bands, with an emphasis on the WARC bands, RTTY and PSK31. QSL
via
home call, direct or bureau. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW.
HL - HL22 is a very special callsign issued to Kim, DS5SWL to
support
PyeongChang as the candidate city of South Korea for
the
organization of the XXII Olympic Winter Games to be held in
2014
(http://www.pyeongchang2014.org/). HL22 will be aired on
80-10
metres SSB and CW until 30 June 2007. QSL via DS5SWL, direct
or
bureau.
HL - Han/DS2GOO, Jeong/6K2ABX, Lee/6K2CEW and possibily a few others
will
be active as either HL0GHQ/2 and homecall/2 from Paengnyong
Island
(AS-122) between 31 December and 2 January (length of stay
may
change depending on weather conditions and transport). They plan
to
operate CW, SSB, RTTY and some PSK31 on 10-80 metres. QSLs
via
DS2GOO, direct or bureau. [TNX HL1VAU]
JT - Ken, K4ZW will return to Mongolia on 15-25 January and will
be
active (possibly as JT1/K4ZW) along with Chak, JT1CO. They plan
to
concentrate on the low bands, with a special emphasis on 160
metres,
especially to those areas most difficult to work from Zone 23.
[TNX
K4ZW]
LX - Luxemburg and the Greater Region will be the European Capital
of
Culture 2007 (www.luxembourg2007.org). Special event
stations
LX2007L (district of Luxembourg) LX2007G (district of
Grevenmacher)
and LX2007D (district of Diekirch) will be active from 1
January
through 31 December to celebrate this event. All of the QSOs will
be
confirmed automatically via the bureau. Information on the
relevant
award, issued by the Reseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs
d'Ondes
Courtes, can be found in the Awards section at http://www.rlx.lu
PJ4 - Kelly, N0VD will be active as PJ4/N0VD from Bonaire (SA-006) on
6-13
January. This is a business trip so activity will be as time
allows.
QSL via home call. [TNX N0VD]
PJ4 - Jeff, KU8E and John, K4BAI will operate (mostly CW on 160-10
metres
and possibly CW and SSB on 6 metres) as PJ4/homecall from
the
K2NG/PJ4G rental QTH on Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on
13-20
February. During the ARRL DX CW Contest John will be QRV as
PJ4A
(SOAB HP) full time and Jeff will be QRV as PJ4/KU8E part time.
QSL
for all via K4BAI. [TNX K4BAI]
ST - Slavko, S57DX will be in Sudan from January through April and
will
try to be active on the amateur radio bands as much as he can.
His
callsign will be ST2R, QSL via home call. Please note that Slavko
is
also the QSL manager for ST2T: "don't worry", he says, "all
requests
will be answered for sure" once he returns home. [TNX S57DX]
TA - Charlie, GI4FUE will operate holiday style as TA4/GI4FUE
from
Marmaris, Turkey from 30 December until 11 January. He will
be
active on 17 and 20 meters CW with some SSB, and he also hopes
to
have a dipole ready to take for possible 30m operation. [TNX
GI4FUE]
VE - John, VE7JZ will be active on 20 and 40 metres from IOTA
group
NA-061 on 7-20 January. QSL direct or via the bureau.
[TNX
www.islandchaser.com]
VK9_nor- A group of operators from the Bavarian Contest Club
(namely
Markus/DJ7EO, Heye/DJ9RR, Christian/DL1MGB,
Dietmar/DL3DXX,
Tom/DL5LYM and Dieter/DL8OH) will be active as VK9DNX from
Norfolk
Island (OC-005) from 15 February to 3 March. They will operate
CW,
SSB and RTTY on 160-10 metres, with a focus on the low bands.
QSL
via DJ2MX, direct or bureau (an Online QSL Request System
service
will be available for bureau cards). Further information and
on-line
logs can be found at http://www.df3cb.com/vk9dnx/ [TNX DL1MGB]
W - Special event station K1Y will be active on 1-31 January
to
celebrate the first anniversary of the Straight Key Century
Club
(www.skccgroup.com). All special event operators will be
using
straight keys and bugs. QSL via K4VD.
XE - In 2007 the Federacion Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores
(FMRE,
formerly known as Liga Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores)
will
celebrate its 75th anniversary. Amateur radio stations from
Mexico
have been allowed to replace their ordinary prefixes with
the
following ones: 6H1 for XE1, 6I2 for XE2, 6J3 for XE3, 6E4 for
XF4
(Revillagigedo). In addition, expect 6G1LM (FMRE club station)
and
6F75A (FMRE contest station) to be aired from 1 January through
31
December. Next year Mexico is also likely to establish ten
call
areas (from XE1 through XE0) to replace the current four. TNX K1XN]
XU - Peter, NO2R will operate CW and SSB as XU7ACY from
Sihanoukville,
Cambodia on 7-30 January. He plans to concentrate on the low
bands
and to participate in the CQ WW 160-Meter DX CW Contest. QSL
via
K2NJ. Doug, W2EN will act as his pilot station. [TNX NG3K]
YB - Club station YC2ZBM will celebrate the 71st anniversary of
Kebumen
Regency in Central Java on 6-10 January with a special activity
on
40 and 15 metres. A large QSL certificate will be available
from
YC2TJV (P.O. Box 123, Kebumen 54300, Indonesia), details can
be
found at www.qrz.com [TNX YC2TJV]
YS - Roberto, I2JIN will operate CW only from El Salvador on
10-31
January. [TNX I2FUG]
TRIP TO AFRICA ---> Sid/DM2AYO, Mel/DL6CT and Hans/DL7CM will be active
from
Senegal (Cap Skirring, IK12pi) and Guinea Bissau (north of Varela,
IK12qh)
between 3 and 23 March. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK as
6W/DM2AYO,
6W/DL6CT and 6W/DL7CM (QSL via home calls, direct or bureau) 160-6
metres,
and as J5UAR (QSL via DL7CM, direct or bureau) on 160-10 metres.
Further
information on their trip can be found at
http://www.qsl.net/dl7cm/6W/6W.htm
[TNX DL7CM]
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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
HK3W ---> This is the new callsign issued to Francisco "Siso"
Hennessey,
HK3SGP. QSL to Siso Hennessey, P.O. Box 02-5242, Miami, FL 33102, USA.
[TNX
HK3W]
QSL 8Q7GL ---> Gianluca, IK0XIH reports that the QSL cards will not be
ready
before early February at the earliest.
QSL JX9NOA ---> Ole Martin Pedersen, LA9NOA (JX9NOA) has been very busy
since
he left Jan Mayen in October. In a note sent to Tom, NU2W he says that he
has
"now processed all the QSLs sent to me" and that the actual cards will
be
mailed when he comes back from his 5-week business trip to Africa (first
week
of February).
QSL NH6P ---> Petr, OK1DOT reports that effective 1 January he is the new
QSL
manager for NH6P.
SJDXA ---> The 2007 officers for the South Jersey DX
Association
(http://sjdxa.org) are Bob Schenck, N2OO (President); Bob Tomkovich,
K2RET
(Vice President); Arnie Oberson, W2OB (Secretary) and Bob Pantazes,
W2ARP
(Treasurer). [TNX N2OO]
VU7LD ---> The ARSI operation from Kavaratti, Lakshadweep
Islands
(http://www.arsi.info/vu7/index.html) went QRT at 13 UTC on 27 December,
a
few days earlier than originally planned. On-line logs currently cover
the
entire period of the DXpedition: if you do not find yourself in the log
and
believe you have a valid QSO, please send a message to vu7ld@arsi.info
with
your detailed log entry (including the VU7LD/operator you worked) for
the
team to verify if a mistake was made while entering the log.
VU7RG ---> The following table shows the Operating Frequencies
(source
http://www.vu7.in/, latest update 24 December) for the 15-25 January
VU7RG
activity for the Lakshadweeps. "As announced earlier we have made
clear
agreements with all involved VU7 stations how we are going to share
the
frequency band to avoid chaos because of overlapping frequencies", the
team
says. Please note that:
- all sites will operate exclusively within their frequency slots and
- always at the beginning of their slot;
- split window never will exceed upper slot boundary;
- stations calling VU7RG outside the slot windows will not get logged -
for
example, Site 1 operates on 1821 kc and the upper split window boundary
is
1832 kc: call on 1830 kc and will get your chance, call on 1833 kc and
you
will not be considered at all.
BAND SITE 1 SITE 2 SITE 3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
160m 1820-1832 CW - 1832-1845 CW
1820-1832 SSB - 1845-1860 SSB
- - 1905-1915 QSX
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80m 3500-3520 CW - 3520-3540 CW
3640-3670 SSB - 3670-3700 SSB
- - 3775-3825 QSX
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40m 7020-7030 CW 7010-7020 CW 7000-7010 CW
- - 7040-7050 DIGI
7050-7060 SSB 7070-7080 SSB 7080-7090 SSB
7225-7250 QSX 7250-7275 QSX 7175-7225 QSX
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30m 10100-10110 CW 10120-10130 CW 10130-10140 CW
10100-10110 DIGI - 10140-10150 DIGI
-------------------------------------------------------------------
20m 14000-14015 CW 14030-14045 CW 14015-14030 CW
14070-14085 DIGI - 14085-14100 DIGI
14200-14230 SSB 14235-14265 SSB 14150-14180 SSB
14230 SSTV - 14233 SSTV
14313-14331 SSB 14331-14350 SSB 14295-14313 SSB
-------------------------------------------------------------------
17m 18088-18098 CW 18068-18078 CW 18078-18088 CW
18158-18168 DIGI - 18108-18118 DIGI
18148-18158 SSB 18128-18138 SSB 18118-18128 SSB
-------------------------------------------------------------------
15m 21000-21015 CW 21030-21045 CW 21015-21030 CW
21070-21085 DIGI - 21085-21100 DIGI
21230-21260 SSB 21320-21350 SSB 21290-21320 SSB
-------------------------------------------------------------------
12m 24910-24920 CW 24890-24900 CW 24900-24910 CW
24976-24990 DIGI - 24930-24940 DIGI
24976-24990 SSB 24940-24952 SSB 24964-24976 SSB
-------------------------------------------------------------------
10m 28045-28060 CW 28015-28030 CW 28000-28015 CW
28070-28085 DIGI - 28085-28100 DIGI
28475-28500 SSB 28500-28550 SSB 28450-28500 SSB
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
LOGS: On-line logs for 5V7SE are now available
at
http://www.ik3ges.it/iv3fsg.htm; the QSL cards will not be
printed
before the end of January at the earliest. Direct requests
with
expired IRCs will be processed via the bureau. [TNX IK3GES]
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3V6T, 4J6ZZ, 4O3T, 4U1UN,
7P8JF,
9H3MR, 9K2HN, 9L1MS, 9Q1D, 9Y4AA, A22/JA4ATV, C4M, C6AQC, C6AQQ,
C94KF
(AF-103), CT9L, CX6VM, D2DX, ES5RY, EZ8AQ, FG5FR, FK8GM, J28JA, J3A,
KG6DX,
KH8SI, KP2D, OY9JD, PJ7TM, R1MVW, R2/OZ5IPA, RU2FO, S9SS, ST2BF,
SU8IOTA
(AF-099), T32GW, TK5MH, TM5F (EU-095), TY5LEO, TY5MR, TZ6LF, TZ6MF,
UA2DC,
UA2FCB, V26K, VP2MDY, VU4AN/VU3TLY, YN2EJ, YX0LIX, Z35T, ZB2FK.
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