425 DX News issue #731
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425 DX News #731
07 May 2005
Edited by I1JQJ &IK1ADH
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
3V - Jeno/HA5FA (mostly CW), Miklos/HA5VZ (mostly SSB) and Miklos HA5GO
(mostly BPSK with some CW and SSB) will operate as 3V8SM from the
club stationon Djerba Island (AF-083) on 5-10 May. QSL for this
operation only via HA5FA, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW]
3V - Giovanni, I5JHW will enter the ARI DX Contest (7-8 May) as 3V8BB
(SSB only) from the club station in Bir-el-Bey, Tunisia. QSL for
this activity via I5JHW, direct (Giovanni Bini, Via Garibaldi 38/B,
51031 Agliana - PT, Italy) or bureau. [TNX I5JHW]
3V - Canary Islands DX Society's members Dunia/EC8ADU, Javi/EC4DX and
Edu/EC8AUA, plus other local operators, will be active as 3V8SM
from the club station on Djerba Island (AF-083) in July. On 26-29
July they will concentrate on the WARC bands SSB, PSK31 and RTTY,
while on the 30-31st they will operate SSB during the IOTA Contest.
The team will in be in contact with Oscar, EA4TD, who will publish
updates on http://www.ea4td.com [TNX EC8AUA and EA4TD]
7Q - Bill, KC4D will be in Malawi for about four weeks starting on 13
May. He will operate as 7Q7WW in his spare time, mostly during his
evenings on 40 and 80 metres and possibly 160m. He plans to be
active during the CQ WPX CW Contest. QSL via KC4D. [TNX The Daily
DX]
9M8 - Operators are being sought to join a DXpedition to Jagoi Gunung, a
Dayak village in Sarawak (9M8) located at 1,000 metres a.s.l. It is
proposed to operate from 3 to 5 June 2005 and Australian and DX
operators are being encouraged to join the group. A call sign has
been requested (TBA, QSL direct to VK4AAR) and interested parties
should contact Sengchai Chan, 9M8SC (chansc44@yahoo.com) for more
details. [TNX VK4AAR]
CE - Ricardo, CE3HDI is currently stationed on Mocha Island (SA-061) and
will be active (mainly on 20 amd 40 metres, SSB and CW) as CE5R
until 20 May. QSL via home call (Ricardo Velasquez, P.O. Box 15,
International Airport, Santiago, Chile). [TNX CE3HDI]
DL - Helmut, DL7VOX will operate (on 80-10 metres mainly CW) as DL7VOX/p
from Usedom Island (EU-129, O-013 for the German Islands Award) on
16-25 May. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX DL7VOX]
DL - Gerold, DH6GD will operate (on 10-80 metres SSB, CW and PSK31) as
DH6GD/p from Fehmarn Island (EU-128) from 25 July to 10 August,
IOTA Contest included. QSL via bureau to home call. [TNX DL2VFR]
DL - DL2SWW, DH7NO, DH1LA, DG1RUG, DF9TM, DL2VFR and DL2RTK will operate
as DL0KWH/p from Usedom Island (EU-129) on 28-31 July, IOTA Contest
included. QSL via bureau. [TNX DL2VFR]
EA8 - Juan, EA8CAC will be active (on 15-80 metres mostly SSB) as
EA8CAC/p from El Hierro Island (AF-004) on 17-23 May. He plans to
operate from six lighthouses located on the island; daily updates
will be posted on http://www.grupodxgc.com/; real time position at
http://www.canaprs.net/locate.php?stn=EA8CAC-9 [TNX EA8CAC]
EA8 - EA8GL, EA8BYG, EA8AAG, EA8AMY, EB8CTK and EC8ADU, plus some local
operators, will be active as ED8MPJ from Fuerteventura Island
(AF-004, DIE S-06) on 23-29 May. QSL via EA8BYG. [TNX EC8ADU]
ER - Special event station ER60V will be active until 15 May from
Moldova to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War
II. QSL via ER1DA (Valery Metaxa, P.O. Box 3000, Chisinau, MD -
2071, Moldova). [TNX ER1DA]
F - Special call TM5KD will be aired on all bands and modes from 27 May
to 11 June to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Radio Club de
Sevran (F5KKD). QSL via F5KKD. [TNX F5SLD]
GD - The Scarlett Point Radio Group will operate special station GB5MOB
from The Old Nunnery, Isle of Man (EU-116) on 30-31 July, IOTA
Contest included. This activity is part of the celebrations for the
Isle of Man's 175th Maritime Anniversary Year. QSL via MD0IOM. For
further information on this event, including real time Internet
video and audio streaming of all stations and operators, please
visit www.scarlettpoint.com [TNX MD0IOM]
GM - The amateur radio aspects of the 14-21 June Rockall adventure are
covered at http://www.rockallisland.co.uk/. David/MM0ALM and
James/MM0CWJ (plus other 7 people) will attempt a landing from an
inflatable dingy onto this lonely outcrop. This will be far from
easy even with favorable conditions, due to the ever present
Atlantic swell and the steep near vertical nature of the rock.
Weather permitting, David and James will overnight on Rockall.
Owing to the limited space available, they will use vertical and
wire antennas, and power will be from a small generator/battery.
While on the island they will operate as MS0IRC/p. QSL via G0HXN.
Please visit www.therockalltimes.co.uk/rockall-ho/what-we-need.html
for information on how to donate to the Rockall Ho! 2005 charity
appeal and to help offsetting the costs of the operation.
GU - Look for Johannes, DF5AU to operate SSB and CW on 160-10 metres
(WARC bands excluded) as MU/homecall from Guernsey (EU-114) on
14-15 May. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX DF5AU]
I - Pippo/IT9PPG, Pino/IT9WDC, Giuseppe/IT9RZU, Gianni/IT9ORA,
Raffaello/IT9ATF and Renato/IT9NPR will participate in the ARI DX
Contest (7-8 May) as IF9A from Favignana Island (EU-054). [TNX
IT9ORA]
I - I8JOQ and IZ8EDG will operate from Scoglio Vervece (EU-031, IIA
NA-010) on 8 May. [TNX I8JOQ]
I - Special station II1TPG (the official amateur radio station for the
IX Paralympic Winter Games, http://www.ii1tpg.it/eng/index.html)
will be activated again on 14-15 May. QSL via IZ1CCE, direct or
bureau. [TNX IZ1CCE]
I - Club station IQ0MA will be active starting around 16 May for the
Ham Meeting that will take place at Cassino on the 21-22nd. QSL via
I0NZK (Umberto Picano, Via Montello 22, 03043 Cassino - FR, Italy).
[TNX Info Radio by I1SCL]
I - Special station II8RM will be activated by ARI Salerno on 2-5 June
for the 50th annual Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics,
which this year will take place off Amalfi. QSL via operator's
instructions. [TNX IK8WCQ]
IS0 - Massimo, IZ0EJQ reports he will operate as IM0/IZ0EJQ from San
Pietro Island (EU-165 ) during the ARI DX Contest (7-8 May).
JA - Look for JN2TZB/2 to operate from Oki Island (AS-117, JIIA
AS-117-006), Aichi prefecture on 8 May. QSL via home call, direct
or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR]
JA - Look for JR2RKK/6 to operate from Izena Island (AS-017, JIIA
AS-017-016) on 28-29 May. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
JI6KVR]
JA - Look for JI1PLF/1, JA1UNS/1, 7N1GMK/1 and 7L4PVR/1 to be active
from Hachijo Island (AS-043, JIIA AS-043-003) on 27-30 May. They
plan to operate on 160-6 metres SSB, CW and PSK31. QSL via home
calls, direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR]
LA - LA6IMA, LA3LJ, LA8PV, LA2FKA, LA9SN, LB2DF and LA6LDA will operate
(on 160-10 metres CW, SSB and digital modes) as LA9M/p from Sandoy
Island (EU-056) on 13-16 May. QSL via LA9M. [TNX VA3RJ]
LA - Look for Ric, DL2VFR to operate mostly CW as LA/DL2VFR from
Hellesoy Island (EU-055) from 28 May to 3 June, and from Otroy
Island (EU-056) on 4-11 June. QSL via bureau to home call. [TNX
DL2VFR]
LA & SM - Rosel, DL3KWR and Hardy, DL3KWF will be active as LG5LG and SJ9WL
respectively from the Morokulien station on the border between
Norway and Sweden from 23 May to 1 June, CQ WW WPX CW Contest
included. Outside the contest they plan to operate mostly CW during
their evenings. QSLs via SM5DJZ. [TNX DL3KWF]
OZ - A group of German Scouts will be active on 2-80 metres CW and SSB
as OZ1RDP from a camp site on Romo Island (EU-125) on 13-16 May.
QSL via DL9BCP. [TNX The Daily DX]
PA - Special call PH60L will be aired from 20 May to 6 June to celebrate
the 60th anniversary of liberation. On 21-22 May activity will take
place from "The Bunker" (near the village of Valkenswaard), used by
the Germans as a sophisticated listening post that tapped into
Allied transatlantic telephone conversations. [TNX PB0P]
SM - Look for Bernd, DL8AAV to operate SSB as SM7/DL8AAV/p from Aspo
Island (EU-138) on 11-24 June. QSL via bureau to home call. [TNX
DL2VFR]
SV - Hellmut, DF7XE will be active on 10-80 metres SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and
CW as SV8/DF7XE/p from Thasos Island (EU-174) on 12-24 May. QSL via
home call. [TNX VA3RJ]
SV - Feco, HA8KW will operate (mainly CW with some SSB) as SV8/HA8KW/P
from Zakynthos Island (EU-052) from 24 July to 1 August. He will
participate in the IOTA Contest as J48KW (12-hour Low Power CW
only). QSL via home call, direct (Provics Ferenc, P.O. Box 620,
Szeged-1, H-6701, Hungary) or bureau. [TNX HA8KW]
SV5 - Ermanno, IK2WZD will be active again from Lipsi Island (EU-001)
from 10 May to October. He plans to operate as SV0XAN/5 on all
bands and modes. QSL via home call. [TNX IZ2ABN]
UR - Special call EO60JS will be aired on all bands until 15 May from
Ukraine to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War
II. QSL direct to KD5RBU, e-mail requests for bureau cards can be
sent to uu9cw@mail.ru [TNX UT5JDS]
UR - Special call EM60QWW will be used on all bands until 15 May to
commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. On
13-15 May the call will be aired from the island of Khortica in
river Dniepr during the 15th convention of the Ukrainian Contest
Club. QSL via UY5ZZ, direct (Vladimir Latyshenko, P.O. Box 4850,
Zaporozhye, 69118, Ukraine) or bureau. [TNX UY5ZZ]
UR - Special event station EO60W will be active until 15 May from
Ukraine to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War
II. QSL via UT7WZ, direct (Miroslav Lupiy, P.O. Box 94, Lviv 79000,
Ukraine) or bureau. The rules for the "Victory-60" Award can be
found at www.islands.org.ua/index_e.php?topic=eng&page=vic [TNX
UR5WCW]
VE - Linda, VE9GLF and Len, VE9MY will operate from a "new" Canadian
island in NA-081 (VE1) for the IOTA contest. They will have 100
watts, a vertical for 15-20 metres and a dipole for 40 metres. QSL
via home calls. [TNX VE9MY]
VK - Sixteen operators from Amateur Radio Victoria will activate special
event callsign AX3ITU on 17 May to mark the 140th anniversary of
the International Telecommunications Union. QSL via VK3WI, direct
or bureau. [TNX VK3EW]
W - Ed, W4YO (palaver@islc.net), the only permanent resident amateur on
Harbor Island (NA-110), reports he will participate in this year's
IOTA Contest. He is also available for skeds on 10-40 metres, SSB
and CW.
W - Dave, AH6HY will be active as AH6HY/W3 from Smith Island (NA-140)
on 16-18 September and as AH6HY/W4 from Tangier Island (NA-083) on
19-21 September. He will operate SSB only on 10-20 metres. QSL via
home call. [TNX AH6HY and www.islandchaser.com]
XU - Look for Yuki, JH1NBN be active as XU7ADJ from Cambodia on 8-13
May. This will be a business trip, and Yuki expects to operate
mostly during his evening hours. QSL via JH1NBN. [TNX The Daily DX]
YI - Korey, YI9VCQ/KA5VCQ plans to participate in the CQ WW WPX CW
Contest as a SOAB LP entry. He also say that they "are trying to
organize a club effort under the auspices of the Iraqi Amateur
Radio Society in Baghdad. The contest may include both Iraqi and
American radio operators. Details will be finalized and posted on
the Hamurabi Hams group page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/hamurabihams". QSL YI9VCQ via N3ST.
[TNX NG3K]
YO - Jean-Michel, F6AJA, Editor of Les Nouvelles DX, reports he will be
once again active in his spare time as YO/F6AJA from the QTH of
YO8FZ in Suceava, Romania on 16-21 May. QSL via F6AJA.
IOTA TOUR ---> Patrick, F5MQW will be touring northern Europe between 15 May
and 20 June. He plans to operate CW and SSB as either xx/F5MQW (QSL via home
call, direct or bureau) and xx/F8UFT/p (club call of the Union Francaise des
Telegraphistes: QSL via F6ICG, direct or bureau) from a few IOTAs in Germany
(EU-128), Sweden (EU-084, EU-037, EU-138) and Denmark (to be decided). [TNX
F5NQL]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
60TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS ---> Right now, there are 7 different awards from
England, Russia and Ukraine available for contacting special event stations
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Most of the
activity centers around 5-15 May. Complete details of these awards are
available on Ted Melinosky's (K1BV) website at
http://www.dxawards.com/REALSHORT.htm [TNX K1BV]
AWA ---> The Arctic World Award, sponsored by ARI Cassino, is issued for QSOs
made with amateur radio stations located north of 60 degrees North latitude.
For information please visit http://www.arcticworldaward.net/il%20diploma.htm
or e-mail the Award Manager, Nuccio Meoli (I7YKN, nucciomeoli@libero.it).
BI4Q ---> A group of Chinese operators was active as BI4Q from Cheniu Shan
Island (AS-135) starting on 2 May. QSL via BA4RD.
EXPEDITIONER FOR PEACE ---> ARI Sala Consilina sponsors an award in memory of
the late Pope John Paul II, "DXpeditioner for Peace". It is available to
either licenced amateurs and SWLs for contacts made/heard with amateur radio
stations located in the 120+ countries visited by Karol Wojtyla during his
pontificate. For further information please contact Erminio, IZ8AJQ
(iz8ajq@amsat.org). [TNX IZ7AUH]
II0ESA ---> A free of charge certificate is available to either licenced
amateurs and SWLs for contacts made/heard with the II0ESA special event
station [425DXN 724]. Full details can be found at
http://www.qsl.net/i0wtd/ii0esa.html [TNX IK0ZCW]
QSL VIA VK4AAR ---> Alan's mailing address changed at the end of March
[425DXN 725], but many people are still sending their QSL requests to the old
address. "The post office will not redirect my mail forever", he says, so you
must use the following address: Alan Roocroft, 376 Old Toowoomba Road, Placid
Hills 4343, Australia.
T77CD ---> Tony, T77C operates only CW and SSB, but he is receiving QSL
requests for RTTY QSOs. Please note that currently the only San Marino
station operating RTTY (including contests) is John, T77CD (QSL direct to
I0MWI: Stefano Cipriani, Via Taranto 60, 00055 Ladispoli- RN, Italy). On-line
logs for T77CD can be found at www.qsl.net/i0mwi/ (a list of direct cards
received and waiting to be processed is also available). [TNX I0MWI]
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile IK8MRA
DX SPOTS: Rod Elliott, VE3UW has collected the DX spots from the OH2AQ Web
Cluster since January 1997. The collection - from January 1997
up to April 2005 - is available at www.425dxn.org/dxspots/, as
well the software (DXINFO v2.0) which will enable you to handle
the files (instructions at the URL above).
F6BUM: Jack's web pages (http://www.f6bum.net) are now available also
in English language. Give a look to the QSL gallery and to his
several expeditions around the world.
MIA: Rules and full details about the Mediterranean Islands Award,
sponsored by the Meditarraneo DX Club, can be found at
http://www.mdxc.org/mia/
SOUND CLIPS: "My DX sound clips for 2004 are now complete", Tom, K8CX
reports. There are 154 streaming Real Audio DX clips at
http://hamgallery.com/dx2004/ ; they covers all the major
DXpeditions, rare and semi-rare DX.
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3D2RR, 3D2XA, 4U1UN, 5B4AGN, 5R8FL,
5R8GZ, 5T0CW, 5Z4RL, 6F1IHF (NA-183), 6O0CW, 7Q7LA, 7X2LR, 7X2LS, 8P9NX,
8Q7DV, 9G5OO, 9H3LEO, 9J2BO, 9J80IARU, 9M2/PA0RRS (AS-015), 9M2AX,
9M6/PA0RRS, 9M6/PA0RRS/2 (AS-015), 9M6/PA0RRS/8, 9V4/CX6VM, A22/JA4ATV,
A92GR, AY1ZA, BA1DW, C56C, CN2R, CP6/DL9FGR, D88S, EK3SA, FO/F6GNZ, FR1HZ,
FS/K9EL, FT5XO (AF-048), HP3XUG, HS72B, HV0A, J41V, JT1CO, JT1DA, KB2FB/DU7,
LO7H, NH8/KD1N, P29KPH, P29ZAD, P49MR, PJ5NA, PZ5RA, R1ANF (AN-016; AA UA-04)
RI0L, RW2F, S21BI (AS-140), S9A, S9BB, S9SS, ST2BF, SU9BN, SU9NC, SZ5Z,
T30NN, T77C, TI8CBT, TO4E, TR8DF, TR8FC, TT8DX, TX9, V31JZ/P, V5/SP6IXF,
V51LK, V73KJ, V73NS, V8ASV, VK0MT, VK9XD, VP2MLA, VP5VAC, VP9V, VR2MY,
VR2PX, VU2HFR (AS-153), VU4NRO, VU4RBI, XF3T (NA-200), YB0DPO, YI9WRV,
YI9ZF, YW6P (SA-090), YZ1E, ZA1A, ZA1DX, ZB2/PA3EWP, ZB2FK, ZD7VC, ZK1APX,
ZK1GNZ, ZK1JD.
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