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29 December 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 869
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Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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3Y0 - According to the latest update, dated 24 December, Petrus, 3Y0E
(ZS6GCM) on Bouvet Island is currently active between 15-17 UTC
(these times can change without notice). He did call CQ on 20
metres, but he could not hear any stations reply to him and
therefore his logbook is still empty. "We need to remember that
Petrus has got limited HF experience", Rhy, ZS6DXB says, "and we all
will need to assist him as far as possible". Bookmark www.3y0e.com
for regular updates.
5Z - Ben, DL7UCX will be active as 5Z4/DL7UCX from Kenya from 31 December
through 12 January. He plans to operate mainly CW on 160-17 metres,
with an emphasis on the low bands. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
CN - Russell, G5XW will be active as CN2XW on 13-23 February from various
parts of Morocco, from the Atlas Mountains across to the coast. Ho
hopes to manage to get to IOTA group AF-065 during this time.
Equipment will be mininum as this is a backpacking holiday. QSL
direct to home call. [TNX G5XW]
DL_ant - Felix, DL5XL is currently active from DP0GVN, the club station at
German Antarctic station Neumayer II. He prefers CW, while Mirko
(DG9BHQ) likes SSB and PSK31. Next year another operator (Torsten,
DD1TG) will arrive at the station. QSL via DL5EBE. [TNX DL5XL]
EA8 - Niels, OZ7FOC reports he will be active as EA8/OZ7FOC from Tenerife,
Canary Islands (AF-004) on 14-26 January.
F - The French Department "Ville de Paris" was created on 1 January
1968. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, the Radio-Club de Paris
(F6KVP) will be active under five special event callsigns between 1
January and 7 June as follows:
1-15 January TM8P
26 January-9 February TM4A
16 February-2 March TM1R
29 March-12 April TM2I
24 May-7 June TM7S
QSL via F6KVP. Information on the relevant award can be found at
http://arp75.free.fr/
F - Herve, F5RMY will be active as F5RMY/P from Porquerolles Island
(EU-070) on 19-25 January. He plans to operate CW and SSB on 40-10
metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX F5RMY]
FH - Georg, DK7LX will be active holiday style as FH/DK7LX from Mayotte
(AF-027) on 11-23 June. He will operate CW on all bands, with an
emphasis on 30, 40 and 80 metres, using vertical arrays as well as
dipoles. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. Further information
will be available at http://www.dk7lx.mayotte.2008.ms/ [TNX DK7LX]
FJ - The Association des Radio-amateurs de Saint-Barthelemy, FJ5KH has
been active since 22 December to celebrate the new DXCC Entity. The
operators are club members DK6ST, FJ1CM, FJ5AB, FJ5BC and FJ5DX, and
activity will continue until 29 December. QSL via FJ5DX. [TNX F5NQL]
GJ - Flo/F5CWU, Sylvain/F4EGD, Thierry/F5MOO and Tom/GM4FDM will be
active as MJ/F5CWU, MJ/F4EGD, MJ/F5MOO and GJ4FDM from Jersey
(EU-013) from 28 December to 6 January. They plan to have three
stations for the HF bands and one station for 2 metres, and to
concentrate on the low bands, on 12, 17 and 30 metres, and on RTTY.
QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. Further information at
http://jersey2008.f5cwu.net [TNX F5CWU]
HB0 - Tom, DL2OBO (www.dl2obo.de) will be active once again from
Liechtenstein on 1-9 January. He plans to operate mostly CW and to
concentrate on the low bands, with 2-element wire beams for 80m and
160m to North America and a vertical for Asia. [TNX K1XN]
HL - Han, DS2GOO will be active as DS2GOO/5 from Saryang Island (AS-081)
from 30 December to 1 January. He plans to operate on 80-17 metres
mainly RTTY and PSK31. QSL via home call. [TNX HL1VAU]
HL - Chae, HL5YI will be active as HL5YI/4 from Sorok Island (AS-060) on
18-21 January. He plans to operate CW, RTTY and SSB on 80, 40, 20
and 10 metres, and to participate in the UK DX RTTY Contest (19-20
January, http://www.ukdx.srars.org/). QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX HL5YI]
I - Special event station II9CAR is active until 14 March from Trapani
for the exibition "Caravaggio. Images of the Divine", celebrating
the 400th anniversary of the artist's visit to Sicily. QSL via
bureau or direct to IW9FRA. [TNX IW9FRA]
J5 - The J5C [425DXN 861] team of operators (F2JD, F2VX, F4AJQ, F5JSD,
F5PED, F5TVG, F5VHQ, F8BJI, F8BUI, F8IXZ, F8PDR, F9IE, FM5CD,
OE8KDK, N2WB and N6OX) expect to reach Bubaque Island (AF-020) late
in the afternoon of 11 January, and they are unlikely to be QRV
before 15 UTC on the 12th. Thierry/F4TTR and Bruno/F5AGB will be the
pilot stations, to be contacted using a specific e-mail address
(pilots@j5c.eu). Complete information on the DXpedition can be found
at http://www.j5c.eu/. QSL via F5TVG. [TNX F5NQL]
KH2 - Hiro, JA0SC will operate as KH2/JA0SC from Guam (OC-026) on 2-3
January. He expects to be active mostly on the digital modes on
20-10 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
ON - Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Belgian Air Force Amateur
Radio Association (BAFARA) will be active on all bands and modes as
ON40BAF from 1 January through 31 December 2008. QSL via ON6KN,
direct or bureau. [TNX ON6KN]
PY - Rolf/PY1RO, Joe/PY2EJ, Luiz/PY2OC, Alex/PY2WAS, Fred/PY2XB,
Junior/PY2ZA and possibly others will be active as PW2M from Moela
Island (SA-071, on of the most wanted IOTA groups in South America)
on 1-8 February. QSL via AI4U and PY2AA (for Brazilian stations).
[TNX PY2WAS]
V6 - Kazu, JA0VSH and his wife Miyuki, JG0PBJ will be active from
Pohnpei, Micronesia (OC-010) from 28 December to 3 January. They
will operate V63KZ (Kazu), V63MP (Miyuki) and V63BBQ (club call) on
160-10 metres CW and SSB. QSLs via JA0VSH, direct or bureau. [TNX
JA0VSH]
V7 - Randy, V73RY has been regularly active from Kwajalein (OC-028),
Marshall Islands since May 2005 and will be returning to the US in
May 2008. SSB is his preferred mode, but he also operates little
PSK31, CW and other digital modes. See qrz.com for information on
his operating habits. QSL via N7RO. Logs are uploaded to LoTW.
VE - Richard, VA7MJR will be active from Entrance Island (NA-075) on 9-20
January. He plans to operate SSB on 80-6 metres during his spare
time. [TNX VA3RJ]
YS - Bob, I2JIN will be active again as YS3/I2JIN from El Salvador on
13-27 January. He plans to operate on all bands CW ony. [TNX I2FUG]
ZD7 - Tom, ZD7X (KC0W) moved to St. Helena in early September 2007, and
expected to remain there for several years [425DXN 852] However he
now reports he will be departing the island in April 2008. He plans
to spend the majority of his last few months as ZD7X on 75/80
meters, CW and SSB. Look for him around 3502 kHz CW and in the DX
window on SSB (plus minus QRM). QSL via W0MM, direct or bureau.
PACIFIC TOUR ---> JA1PBV operated as H44V from the Solomon Islands; he is now
expected to be on Tuvalu (T2) from 28 December to 4 January and to be active
again as H44V starting on 5 January. QSL via JA1PBV. [TNX JA1HGY]
VK & ZL TOUR ---> Andrea, IK1PMR (VK7AAP) and Claudia, IZ1GLO/K2LEO (VK7CLA)
are touring Australia and New Zealand through January. Andrea says that their
tentative schedule is as follows:
28 December-6 January VK7AAP/4 and VK7CLA/4 Bribie Island (OC-001)
7-13 January ZL/IK1PMR and ZL/IZ1GLO Auckland, New Zealand (OC-036)
14-16 January ZL/IK1PMR and ZL/IZ1GLO Waiheke Island (OC-201)
17-20 January VK7AAP/3 and VK7CLA/3 Australia
21-31 January VK7AAP and VK7CLA Tasmania (OC-006)
1 February-??? VK7AAP/3 and VK7CLA/3 Australia
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Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
4S7DXG ---> Radio Society of Sri Lanka's Secretary Victor Goonetilleke, 4S7VK
says that 4S7DXG (UR9IDX) "is operating without a valid licence". He used
that callsign in the past and "has applied for renewal", which "has not yet
been granted by the Ministry of Defense". He also claimed "to operate from
IOTA AS-171, Barbaryn Island, which needs special clearance from the Harbour
Master which he hasn't received". [TNX www. islandchaser.com]
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA ---> In August [425DXN 849] the ITU granted a request from
the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
to replace T9A-T9Z with E7A-E7Z. The change was made initially on a
provisional basis under authority of the ITU Secretary General and was
confirmed by the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference to be effective 17
November 2007. A press conference was held in Sarajevo on 18 December to
formally announce the change. Amateur Radio station licences bearing E7
prefixes will be issued beginning in January 2008, and the use of other
prefixes will be phased out. [TNX www.arrl.org]
E4/OM2DX ---> Mike/OM2DX, Steve/OM3JW, Rudy/OM3PC and Miro/OM5RW made nearly
30,000 QSOs during their recent 7-day operation from Bethlehem, Palestine.
Their final statistics are as follows:
SSB CW RTTY TOT
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160 39 2050 0 2089
80 0 4866 0 4866
40 493 6775 0 7268
30 0 3033 0 3033
20 3151 2220 1048 6419
17 2298 1365 0 3661
15 672 1385 0 2057
12 0 55 0 55
10 0 0 0 0
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TOT 6653 21749 1048 29450
Why did not they work more SSB? "The answer is easy", Mike, OM2DX says.
"Doors to Palestine are pretty much opened for anybody and we are sure that
every other expedition will spend much more time on SSB than on CW. There are
also some local licensed operators but once they will come on air it will be
again SSB only". The complete log and a few pictures can be found at
www.om2dx.com/. QSL via OM3JW, direct or bureau.
QSL 3V8SS ---> The QSL cards for 3V8SS operated by RW4WM (2-10 October 2007)
have been printed. Requests can be sent direct (Dmitry Zakharov, P.O. Box
5991, Izhevsk, 426075, Russia) or via the Russian bureau. [TNX RW4WM]
QSL VIA SM6CVX ---> All of the direct QSL requests for P29VCX and P29VLR
(OC-153, OC-240, OC-256, OC-284) received up to 21 December have been
processed and mailed, Hans, SM6CVX says. Requests with unsufficient return
postage will be cleared through the bureau system.
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B7C, 3B8FQ, 3C7Y, 4L8A, 4O3A,
5L2MS, 5N47NDP, 5X1NH, 6W1SJ, 7Q7BP, 7X5ST, 8Q7GS, 9G5ZZ, 9M4SDX, 9M6XRO,
9U0A, A61AD, C6AGY, C6AKQ, C6AKX, C6APR, C6AQO, C91KDJ, CO6XN, D88S, E51NOU,
EP3HF, ER0WW, EX2M, F5KAQ/P (EU-156), FM5BH, FS5KA, H40MY (OC-178), HK0/N0AT,
HL8KSJ, HQ2A, HQ9R, IE9/IQ9PA, J3A, J43J, J79CO, JW/G3SXW, K3B, K6VVA/KL7
(NA-041), KH0O, KH6ZM, KH7XS, LT1F, N8S, NH7O, OD5/F5PTM, OF0Z, OJ0B, OX3XR,
P29VCX (OC-240), P29VCX (OC-284), P29VLR (OC-256), P40W, PJ4/K4BAI, PJ5NA,
PY0FF, RA0ALM, RK1B/p, RV9FQ, SV2ASP/A, T32RD, TA3J/0 (AS-115), TC2K4J,
TI5/K2PLF, TI5N, TM6X, UA0SC, UK8OA, UR0MC, V26H, V26K, V31DF, V31KO, V47NT,
VK1ANU/5 (OC-139), VK6CHI (OC-193), VK6YS/p (OC-164), VK9WWI, VP6TD,
VP9/W6PH, VR2C, VY0/KH0PR, VY2ZM, XW1A, Z36A, ZB2X, ZD7BG, ZD7X.
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