425 DX News issue #1030
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No 1030
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
1A0 - A group of operators has been active as 1A0KM, the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta, since 27 January. They will operate SSB,
CW, RTTY and PSK31 on 80-10 metres with three stations until aroun
15 UTC on 30 January. QSL direct to IK0FTA, and LoTW. [TNX I0JBL]
4X - Special callsigns 4X20HC and 4Z20HC will be in use from Israel
between 1 February to 30 April to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the Holyland Contest. QSL via 4Z4TL. This year's contest will
be held on 15-16 April; rules can be found on the Israel Amateur
Radio Club's website (www.iarc.org).
8Q - Andy, G7COD will be active again as 8Q7AK from the Maldives
(AS-013) from 5 to approximately 18 February. He will operate CW
and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
G7COD]
C6 - Randy, W6SJ will be active as C6AWS from Grand Bahama (NA-001) on
3-9 February. He will operate holiday style "when not fishing",
with a focus on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K]
D4 - John/IK5BCM, Beppe/IK5CBE and Giovanni/IK5CRH will be active as
D44TBE from Sal Island (AF-086), Cabo Verde on 2-9 February. They
will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on 80-10 metres, with 160m
depending on the space available to them. QSL via IK5CBE, direct
or bureau, and LoTW. They have a website at http://d44tbe.xoom.it/
[TNX I5NXH]
FS - George, W4LW and Fred, K4FMD will be active as FS/K4UP from St.
Martin (NA-105) from 28 January to 5 February. They will operate
SSB on 20, 15, 12 and 10 metres. QSL direct to K4UP. [TNX OPDX
Bulletin]
HA - Special event stations HG2011A, HG2011E, HG2011EU, HG2011I,
HG2011N, HG2011O, HG2011P, HG2011R and HG2011U are active until 30
June to celebrate the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the
European Union. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically
via the bureau. Information on the relevant award (free of charge)
can be found at qrz.com and www.mrasz.hu
HI - The Radio Club Dominicano will celebrate the Homeland Month
between 26 January (birthday of Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the
founding fathers of the Dominican Republic) and 27 February (167th
anniversary of the declaration of indipendence). Look for HI1RCD,
HI2RCD, HI3RCD, HI4RCD, HI5RCD, HI6RCD, HI7RCD, HI8RCD, HI9RCD and
HI0RCD to be active on 160-10 metres SSB, CW and digital modes.
QSL via bureau.
I - Celebrating the club's 65th anniversary, as well as the 150th
anniversary of the unification of Italy, operators from ARI Torino
use special callsign II1TO until 31 December. QSL via bureau. [TNX
IK1MTX]
J7 - J79AT (QSL via WG0AT), J79AVO (QSL via KB9AVO), J79EA (QSL via
K8EAB), J79FF (QSL via W3FF), J79HFP (QSL via W6HFP), J79UN (QSL
via N7UN), J79VG (QSL via KC4VG) and J79ZP (QSL via WZ1P) are the
callsigns issued to the Buddies in the Caribbean DXpedition group
for their 1-9 February activity from Dominica [425DXN 1027]. The
group specializes in 100 watt or less low power radios and the
Buddipole portable antenna systems. There will be three fixed
stations active at various times on 160-10 metres CW, SSB, and
RTTY. During the day, several teams will be battery-only, field
portable from either Dominica beaches or mountain tops.
JW - Look for Jon LA8HGA and Andreas LA8AJA to be active as JW8HGA (QSL
via LA8HGA, direct or bureau) and JW8AJA (QSL via LA9VDA, direct
or bureau, and LoTW) from the JW5E club station at Longyearbyen
(EU-026), Svalbard on 4-8 February. They plan to be QRV as
conditions and time permit on 160-10 metres mainly CW, with some
RTTY and "very little SSB". Logsearch and QSLling instructions at
http://la8aja.com/expeditions/jw2011/
LA - Special callsign LM11SKI will be used between 1 February and 31
March, in conjunction with the Nordic World Ski Championships to
be held in Holmenkollen, Oslo (23 February-6 March). QSL via LA4O.
[TNX QRZ-DX]
P2 - Allan, VK2GR and his wife Josette, VK2FXGR will be active again as
P29CW from Kiunga, in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea
(OC-034), from early February to early September. This will be a
low power operation on 80-10 metres CW, RTTY and SSB conducted on
spare time basis while doing volunteer medical work for Australian
Doctors International. QSL via VK2IR and eQSL; logs will be
available on http://www.p29cw.blogspot.com/. [TNX NG3K]
TJ - TJ9PF is the callsign issued to the 10-20 February expedition to
Cameroon [425DXN 1027]. Eighteen operators (F1HRE, F1NGP, F2JD,
F4AJQ, F5EOT, F5PED, F5UFX, F5VHQ, F6BIV, F6ENO, F8BJI, FM5CD,
I2VGW, K4SV, N2WB, N6OX, ON7RN and DJ7JC, who has replaced F2VX)
expect to be active with six stations around the clock and a focus
on 160-30 metres and the digital modes. QSL via F5OGL. [TNX F5NQL]
V5 - A team from the Lufthansa Amateur Radio Club in Frankfurt
(http://wp.larc.ws/) will be active as V55DLH from Omaruru,
Namibia on 5-12 February. Seven operators (namely Georg/DD8ZX,
Bernd/DF1FF, Juergen/DH0RAK, Juergen/DH6ICE, Frank/DJ3FK,
Rudi/DK7PE and Bernhard/DK7TF) plan to operate SSB, CW and digital
modes on 160-10 metres. QSL via DK8ZZ. [TNX DK8ZZ]
VE - Amateur radio operators in the Provice of Nova Scotia will be
permitted to use special prefixes CJ1 and CK1 during the entire
month of February to celebrate the 2011 Canada Games to be held in
Halifax. VA1 stations will be allowed to use the special prefix
CJ1, while VE1 stations will use the special prefix CK1. [TNX
VA3RJ]
VP5 - Karol, G0UNU will be active holiday style as VP5/G0UNU from Grand
Turk (NA-003) between 31 January and 6 February. He plans to be
QRV around 12-14 UTC, and at other times depending on conditions.
QSL via home call. [TNX DX World]
W - Dennis, WA2USA plans to be active as WA2USA/4 from St. George
Island (NA-085) between 3 February and 3 March. He will be QRV on
160-10 metres RTTY, CW and SSB. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX rsgbiota.org]
W - Two special event stations willbe active from California to
commemorate the centennial of former US president Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004): the Ventura County ARS will operate N6R (QSL direct
to N6ZE) between 5 and 8 February, while the Santa Barbara ARC
will operate W6R on 4-7 February (QSL to SBARC, P.O. Box 3907,
Santa Barbara CA 93130-3907, USA). [TNX WorldRadio]
AFRICAN TOUR ---> Laci, HA0NAR will be active from Senegal (6W/HA0NAR)and
Guinea-Bissau (J5NAR) between 5 and 26 February, with side trips to IOTA
groups AF-078 (6W/HA0NAR/p) and AF-093 (J5NAR/p). He plans to concentrate on
160-30 metres, with a special focus on 160m from J5. QSL via home call. [TNX
OPDX Bulletin]
PACIFIC TRIP ---> Bob, 5B4AGN will be active as T88ZM from Palau (OC-009)
on 2-8 February and as KH0/G3ZEM from Saipan (OC-086) on 9-16 February.
He will operate CW only. QSL via M0URX. [TNX DX World]
CQ WW 160-METER DX CONTEST (CW) ---> Object of the contest is for amateurs
around the world to work as many US States, Canadian provinces and countries
as possible on 160 metres CW (http://cq160.com/rules.htm). The following
stations have announced their partecipation in this year's event (from 22.00
UTC on 28 January through 22.00 UTC on the 30th):
Call Country QSL via
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3V8SS Tunisia LoTW
4L0A Georgia EA7FTR
4L8A Georgia K1BV
4S7LRG Sri Lanka SM6LRR
C6ANM Bahamas LoTW
CE1/K7CA Chile NW7O
CR2X Azores OH2BH
EE1R Spain EA4RCH
EF8M Canary Islands UA3DX
ER4A Moldova RA4LW
HS8JYX Thailand HS8JYX
IT9/LY5W Sicily LY5W
JT5DX Mongolia JT1CO
LS1D Argentina LW9EOC
LX7I Luxembourg LX2A
OH1VR/VP9 Bermuda OH1VR
OH5Z Finland LoTW
PJ2T Curacao N9AG
RW2F Kaliningrad DK4VW
SV5DKL Dodecanese SV5DKL
T70A San Marino T70A
TF4X Iceland G3SWH
UA2FW Kaliningrad UA2FW
UT5A Ukraine UR5AS
UU7J Ukraine UU0JM
V31YN Belize DJ4KW
WP3C Puerto Rico W3HNK
XT2RJA Burkina Faso K3QF
YE1C Indonesia YE1C
Do not forget to give a look at the Announced Operations listing
maintained by Bill, NG3K at www.ng3k.com/Misc/cq160c2011.html - good contest
to you all!
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
BLACK SEA CUP ---> The Black Sea Contest Club sponsors the Black Sea
Cup International Contest, which will be held from 12 UTC on 5 February
through 11.59 UTC on the 6th. For further information please visit
http://bscc.in/ [TNX UR5EAW]
MOST WANTED SURVEY ---> The DX Magazine's annual Most Wanted Survey
was conducted in September-October 2010 [425DXN 1010]. The top 10 DXCC
Entities are North Korea (P5), Navassa (KP1), Bouvet (3Y), Yemen (7O),
Heard Island (VK0), Amsterdam & St. Paul (FT5Z), Marion Island (ZS8), South
Sandwich Islands (VP8), Crozet (FT5W) and Scarborough Reef (BS7). Give a
look at the 100 Most Wanted listing, which also shows the results of the
2009 survey for comparison, at www.dxpub.com/dx_news.html. The complete
breakdown by continent is available in the January/February 2011 issue of
"The DX Magazine"; a breakdown by mode will be published in the March/April
issue.
QSL A25XX ---> Lorenzo, IK1MDF says that the A25XX cards arrived from the
printer on 21 January. Owing to the recent major postal rates increase
[425DXN 1027], 2 USD do not cover return postage any longer to the vast
majority of international destinations. At all events, he says, all of the
QSOs will be confirmed through the bureau and will be uploaded to LoTW as
soon as possible.
QSL HH2/PA5M ---> The QSL cards have arrived from the printer, after the
first batch got lost in the mail. Direct requests with sufficient return
postage will be processed "soon", PA5N says, while "all buro cards will be
answered soon after".
QSL ZL8X ---> Hopefully the QSL cards will be ready by early March: "as we
will have a special QSL card, the design also takes a little bit more time
than usual", DL1MGB says. "Please be patient, it is worth waiting!".
QSLling policy, including LoTW, is detailed at www.kermadec.de
SPFF ---> The website for the Polish Flora and Fauna Award (SPFF) can be
found at http://spff.eham.pl/ [TNX SP2FAP]
+ SILENT KEYS + Recently reported Silent Keys include W.P. "Paddy"
Gunasekera (4S7PB, past president of the Radio Society of Sri Lanka), Drago
Grabner (E73F, ex YU4VGD and T94GB), Willy Fiallo (HI8MWF), Alberto Di
Pietra (IW9FC) and William B. "Bill" Wilson (WA8YTM).
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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1A0KM IK0FTA CR2X OH2BH OY4TN M0URX
3B8/EA3BT EA3BT CR5WFF CT1EJB OY6FRA OY1JD
3B8/EA3WL EA3BT CR6A CT1GFK P29CS M0URX
4J8VHF RW6HS CU2KG OH2BH P40CG W2CG
4L5O N3SL CU6NS EA5KB P40YL AI6YL
4S7BRG LZ3HI CX7OV EA5KB PJ2/DF7DQ EA5GVH
4S7KKG DC0KK DQ1175E DL5DCL PP5EG K3IRV
4S7LRG SM6LRR E51KJD KE6KJD PR150PLM PR7AYE
5B4AIF EB7DX E51SC G4KIU PR5S PR7JP
5B4AJC UA3DX E76MB E77E PY7ZBK HB9BEI
5H1Z F6AML E79D E77E RI1ANC RN1ON
5H3EE DL4ME EA8OM DJ1OJ RI1ANR RK1PWA
5N7M OM3CGN EK6LP RN4LP RI1FJ UA2FM
5R8FL G3SWH EK6TA DJ0MCZ RL3A W3HNK
5R8HL SM1ALH EM44U UT7UT SI9AM SM3CVM
5R8PR IK2QPR EP3PK IK2DUW SP9YFF SQ9IDG
5R8UI IZ8CCW ER4KAA RA4LW SV0XCA/5 LZ1WL
5W8A YT1AD EX8VZ RW6HS T30HC DL9HCU
7P8JW N6JW FH/DH1BL DL7BC T88ME 7N1RTO
8P9ME N3ME FM4LV W3HNK T88RX JE1RXJ
8P9UR W3UR FM5WD W3HNK T88TF JA1VND
8Q7VR UR9IDX FO8RZ F8BPN TG9NX N4FKZ
9A3BSL N2RIT GB0LB G0BRC TT8FC EA4AHK
9J2KK JK1NSR GB2HLS M0HFC TY5ZR IK2IQD
9K50UU 9K2UU GX4KPT M0DOL V31BD K5WW
9M2/R6AF R6AF H2E 5B4AGE V44KAI W5TFW
9M2ADX JH8PHT H44DX VK4FEAT V85AVE EA7FTR
9M6RHM NI5DX H44MS DL2GAC V85RY EA7FTR
9M6TMT NI5DX HG3DX HA1DAE VK6ANC VK6IR
9M6XRO M0URX HI0UD ON4IQ VK8NSB M0URX
A41OF NI5DX HK1MW K4AMW VK9XA JA3BZO
A61Q EA7FTR HK3JCL DK8LRF VK9XL JH3PBL
A73A EA7FTR HP3AK W4JS VP8ORK VE3XN
AX6IR VK6IR HV0A IK0FVC VU3DJQ EA7FTR
C6AGN W1DIG HZ1ZH EA7FTR VY2NU YT6W
C6AGU HA7RY JW7QIA LA7QIA XT2RJA K3QF
C6AKQ N4BP JY4NE K3IRV XU7KOH ON7PP
C6ANM WA2IYO KH0WW JP1IOF XX9LT XX9AH
CN2DJ F8AEJ KL5DX N5XZ YB0AKM EA7FTR
CN8KD EA5XX KP2M AI4U YI1RZ IK2DUW
CN8NK EA5XX KP4BD EA7FTR YS3CW I2JIN
CN8QN EA7FTR LZ12EYAC LZ1BJ ZF2LC W2SM
CO6WD 8P9NX NP3CW EB7DX ZL9BI pirate
CO8LY EA7ADH NP4A W3HNK ZL9BS pirate
CP4BT EA5KB OY1OF M0URX ZP5KO PY4KL
4S7NE Nelson Ranasinghe, 140 Armitage Drive, Glendenning NSW 2761,
Australia
7X4AN Mohamed Boukhiar, P.O. Box 30133, 08080 Barcelona, Spain
8R1Z Lennox O'Brian Smith, Lot 74 D'Urban Street, Wortmanville,
Georgetown, Guyana
9Y4VU Franklyn Brooker, 45 Sea View Drive, Battoo Lands, Marabella,
Trinidad and Tobago
A45XR Krzysztof Dabrowski, P.O. Box 2038, CPO 111, Oman
A92IO Dave Court, P.O. Box 31183, Budaiya, Bahrain
EA3NT Christian Cabre, P.O. Box 1243, 43080 Tarragona, Spain
IK0FTA Sergio Roca, Ufficio Roma Nomentano, Casella Postale 7132, 00162
Roma RM, Italy
TC2011EWU P.O. Box 76, 16105 Gencosman / Bursa, Turkey
VE3XN Garry Vernon Hammond, 5 McLaren Avenue, Listowel ON N4W 3K1,
Canada
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