425 DX News issue #1067
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No 1067
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3DA - Subject to licence approval, Gert ZS6AYU (as 3DA0GF on CW) and
Hannes, ZS6BZP (as 3DA0HC on SSB) will be active from Swaziland on
21-24 October. They will be QRV on 40-10 metres. QSL via home
calls. [TNX NG3K]
5B - Members of Pafos Radio Club will be QRV as 5B4PRC/p for the WFF
Programme from Lara Bay, Akamas Peninsula, on 20 October (5-14
UTC). [TNX 5B4AHJ]
6W - Seb, F8IJV will be active once again as 6V7Q from Senegal from 22
October to 11 November, including an entry in the CQ WW DX SSB
Contest. He will operate mainly SSB, possibly with some CW and
digital modes, on 160-6 metres. QSL via F8IJV, direct or bureau,
and LoTW. [TNX NG3K]
C2 - Joe, LA5UF plans to be active as C21UF from Nauru (OC-031) on
17-24 October, and as CE0Y/LA5UF from Easter Island (SA-001) on
3-11 November. He will operate mainly CW and PSK31 from both
locations. QSL via home call.
E5 - Bill, N7OU will be active as E51NOU from Rarotonga (OC-013, South
Cook Islands) between 17 October and 7 November. He will operate
CW only on 80-10 metres during his spare time. On 8-22 November he
will go and operate CW only on 160-10 metres from Manihiki Atoll
(OC-014, North Cook Islands), with a focus on Europe and a
callsign TBA. QSL via N7OU. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
EA6 - Mike, DL4ABO will be active as EA6/DL4ABO from the Balearic
Islands (EU-004) on 19-24 October. He will operate QRP mainly on
30 metres CW. QSL via home call, bureau preferred. [TNX
rsgbiota.org]
EA6 - Adrian, AA5UK will be active as EA6/AA5UK from Ibiza, Balearic
Islands from 20 October to 3 November, including an entry in the
CQ WW DX SSB Contest. He will operate holiday style on 80-10
metres mostly SSB and digital modes, with 100 watts and wire
antennas. QSL via home call, direct or bureau, plus LoTW and eQSL.
[TNX NG3K]
EA8 - Members of the Teide DX Group will be active as EG8FBN from the
lighthouse "Buenavista del Norte", Tenerife (AF-004) on 22-23
October. They will operate SSB, CW and digital modes on the HF,
VHF and UHF bands. All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically
via the bureau; direct cards should be sent to EA8NQ. Further
information can be found at www.ea8ay.com/EG8FBN/ [TNX EA8NQ]
F - The Radio Club Havrais (F8KHN) will be active as TM2TJV on 24-30
October for the Transat Jacques Vabre, the yachting race on the
coffee trading route between Le Havre (France) and Puerto Limon
(Costa Rica). [TNX F8REF]
F - F5IL, F5IRC, F5THW, F5UBH and F5UPO will be active as TM5HT from
Houat Island (EU-048) on 28-30 October. They plan to operate CW,
SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on 80-10 metres. QSL via F5THW, direct or
bureau. [TNX F8REF]
G - Kev, M0TNX and Martin, M3POG will be active again as GB2HI from
Hilbre Island (EU-120) on 21-23 October. They plan to operate SSB,
CW and RTTY on 160-10 metres, with an emphasis on the lower bands.
QSL via M0OXO, LoTW and eQSL. [TNX DX World]
HR - Rick, AI5P will operate holiday style as HR9/AI5P from Roatan
Island (NA-057), Honduras from 22 October to 5 November. QSL via
home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
KH2 - JA1OZK will be active as KH2KY from Guam (OC-026) on 22-29
October. He will operate on the HF bands. QSL via JA1OZK.[TNX NG3K]
KL - Subject to a few final details and weather, Rick K6VVA will be
active as K6VVA/KL7 from the Bethel County group (NA-240, new one
for IOTA) on 28-30 June 2012. Bookmark www.k6vva.com/iota/na240
for updates. [TNX islandchaser.com]
LU - Special callsign L90AA will be in use on 21-31 October to
celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Radio Club Argentino (RCA),
one of the oldest amateur radio societies in the world and IARU
founding member in 1925. Look for activity on all bands and modes.
QSL via LU4AA. [TNX LU1ARG]
FS, PJ7- Jean-Pierre, F5AHO will be active as either FS/F5AHO from Saint
Martin (NA-105) and PJ7/F5AHO from Sint Maarten (NA-105) between
17 and 30 November. During the weekends (19-20 and 26-27 November)
he plans to operate as FS/F5AHO/p from Tintamarre Island (NA-199).
He will operate SSB, RTTY and PSk31 on 20 and 17 metres. QSL via
F5AHO. [TNX Les Nouvelles DX]
PZ - Stefan, DK1MM will be active as PZ5MM from Suriname from 25
October to 1 November, including a SOAB entry in the CQ WW SSB
Contest. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX NG3K]
TL - Rudi, DK7PE will be active as TL0CW from Bangui, Central African
Republic from 26 October to 3 November. He plans to operate CW on
160-10 metres, with an emphasis on 160 and 80 metres. QSL via
DK7PE.
VE - Once again Noel VE2BR and Gregg VE3ZZ will operate M/S in the CQ WW
DX SSB Contest with the special call VC2Z from Mercier, Quebec
(Zone 5). QSL via VE2BR. [TNX VE3ZZ]
VK - Laurie, VK7ZE and others plan to be active as VK7ZX from King
Island (OC-233) on 3-7 November, weather permitting. They will be
on air as much as possible, mainly on 20 and 40 metres. "This is
not a DXpedition", he says, "just a few friends on holiday
participating in the Cape Wickham lighthouse 150th Anniversary
celebrations". QSL via VK7ZE.
XE - XE2HUQ, XE2HQI and XE2HVF will be active as XF1C from Coronados
Island (NA-165) on 7-12 November. They plan to operate SSB and CW
on 80-10 metres. QSL via XE2HUQ.
ZA - Steve HA0DU, Joe HA0LC, Imi HA0MK, Laci HA0NAR and Fatos ZA1G will
be active as ZA20QA from Vlore, Albania from 25 October to 1
November. They will operate CW, AAB and RTTY on 160-2 metres, and
will participate in the CQWW SSB Contest. The special callsigns is
in remembrance of HA0NNN and HA0MM, who back in 1991 were the
leaders of the ZA1QA team. QSL via HA0NAR.
ZF - OE2ATN, OE2SNL and OE2WNL will be active as ZF2OE from the Cayman
Islands (NA-016) from 21 October to 2 November. They plan to
operate on various bands, 160 amd 80 metres included, CW, RTTY and
SSB. QSL via OE2WNL, bureau preferred (QSLling policy can be found
at www.zf2oe.net).
ZK2 - Chris, GM3WOJ will be active again as ZK2V from Niue (OC-040) from
21 October to 20 December. QSL via N3SL and LoTW. Keith, GM4YXI
will join him for the first two weeks and will be participate in
the CQWW DX SSB Contest (29-30 October) as ZK2X. Further
information and updates can be found at www.zk2v.com
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3D2RI ---> This is the callsign of the new Rotuma Island High School Club
Station, established thanks to the equipment donated by the 3D2R DXpedition
team. The new Club Station has been active since 6 October. QSL via KH6CG.
425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The September 2011 issue is now available for
download at www.425dxn.org/monthly/index.html. [TNX IZ3EBA]
FUNDING FOR OPERATIONS FROM RARE IOTA GROUPS ---> "With the 50th
Anniversary IOTA Marathon [425DXN 1042, ed.] starting in January it would
be great if we could get together a list of organisations who would be
prepared in principle to help fund operations from the rarer IOTA groups
during this two year period. Without lots of operations from this tier of
IOTA groups the marathon will not achieve the success it deserves. For this
purpose we have decided that "rarer IOTA groups" means groups worked by
less than 33% of record-holders at the start of day 1 of the operation.
Would DX funding bodies and individuals who are prepared to contribute to
this two year IOTA initiative please let me know on g3kma[@]dsl.pipex.com.
The intention is that grants would be made directly by contributors to the
operation involved as is current usual practice, not through the IOTA
Committee. However if we get a good response, we will consider providing
some additional funding from a source of funds available to the IOTA
Committee." Full details on the 50th Anniversary Marathon can be found at
(www.rsgbiota.org). [TNX G3KMA]
MS0INT (ROCKALL 2012) POSTPONED ---> "With careful consideration and much
deliberation, we have decided to postpone our intended activation of the
islet for at least one year", Col MM0NDX says (see www.eu189.com for the
complete release issued on 8 October). "This decision was not taken easily
considering our planning and organisational aspects were going extremely
well. Suffice to say, we believe an activation so soon after the Belgian
effort [MM0RAI/p, ed.] now makes Rockall a less attractive target - that is
the crux of our decision. It is not lost on us that the majority of the
world, outwith a proportion of Europe, still require EU-189 for their IOTA
scores. With that in mind, this planned activity will not be cancelled,
only postponed".
Instead of Rockall, MM0NDX and his team are organizing an operation from
"another excellent location", which "involves a rare DXCC and IOTA".
Further information will be released "one week before departure, sometime
in mid-2012".
Wolf Harranth, OE1WHC reports that "a comprehensive Rockall web page from
early plans in the mid-60's (with hinterto unpublished documents) to
MM0RAI/p including an interview with Patrick, ON4HIL" has been compiled by
Documentary Archives Radio Communications and can be found at
www.dokufunk.org/rockall
QSL AT0ULH ---> The QSL cards for the 19-21 August operation from the
lighthouse at Uttan Point have been printed and Deepak, VU2CDP is mailing
them out. Email requests for bureau cards can be sent to
vu2cdp[@]yahoo.co.in. He plans to send out the bureau cards "as part of my
annual dispatch to the VU buro in December". [TNX VU2CDP]
SPRINT CONTEST ---> The Michurinsk Contest Group and Tambov division of SRR
organize an Autumn Sprint Contest that will be held on 21 October, from 14
to 18 UTC, on 160,80 and 40 metres CW and SSB. Complete details can be
found at http://rw3rq.tamb.ru/sprint_eng.htm [TNX RN3RQ]
T32C ---> "We have been asked to be more precise about our 80/160m
scheduling at European sunrise", the T32C team wrote on 14 October.
"Starting today (Friday 14 October), we will operate CW on 80m for two days
at European sunrise, then we will operate 1 day on SSB. The pattern will be
repeated, so CW days will be 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24 October. SSB
days will be 16, 19, 22, 25 October. On 160m we are always on CW from our
sunset to Western European sunrise".
T32C now has over 131,000 QSOs in the log, including 70k with North
America, 25k with Asia and 30k with Europe: "as the JA and US pile-ups
continue to diminish", the team reported on 10 October, "we hope the
percentage of EU will increase. However, the decline in solar activity
since we first started has not helped. That said, we are on track to set at
least a few new records".
They continue "to cover as many band/mode openings as we can, with the
equipment we carried here. We are currently able to operate two stations
simultaneously on 10, 15 and 20 and are looking at being able to do the
same on 12 and 17 to make the most of the main band openings, but with
limited coaxial cable
(it's heavy to hand carry!) we are having trouble
achieving the antenna separation we ideally need". Read the latest news
from the island at www.t32c.com
+ SILENT KEYS + Jose Castejon Lara (YV5ANT) passed away at 70 years of age.
He was one of the best CW operators and contestmen in Venezuela, and took
part in several expeditions to YV islands, including four operations from
Aves between 1979 and 2006.
Other recently reported Silent Keys include Vladimir I. Shamalo (RX6AV),
Stojan Cvetkovic (YU1SW), Metodija Najceski (Z31VL), Craig "Tex" B. Kennedy
(N5TX, President Emeritus and Co-founder of Six Meter International Radio
Klub) and Paul Zrobok (G0UZP), who died suddenly on 6 October at 57 years
of age.
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3A2LF, 3B8FQ, 4L1BR, 4L1MA,
4M5CW, 4O/G3SXW, 4O3ANT, 5B50J, 5J0T, 5W0NU, 6Y1LZ, 7Z1SJ, 8P9AA, 8R1A,
9H0HSJ, 9K2HN, 9K50UU, 9L0W, 9L5VT, 9M2CQC, 9M6XRO, 9Y4LAS, A35KL, A71BU,
A92GE, BA1KW, BU2AQ, C31CT, C6ABR, CP4BT, CS2W (EU-150), EA9EU, EH9AI,
EP3PTT, ER1LW, ES3AX, FG/F6AUS, FG5FR, FG8AR, FK8IL, FO/HA5G/p, FP/W6HGF,
GB5TI (EU-108), HB60RF, HC1HC, HC2AQ, HH2/PY1ZV, HH7/N3BNA, J38A, J79WE,
KH6SH, KP2B, LX1NO, MN0VFW/p, NP2X, NP3CW, OX6YL, P43A, PJ4D, PJ6D, PJ7ROJ,
R1ANB, R1FJT, RA2FF, RI1FJ, S21YZ, ST0R, SU9VB, SV9GPV, T31A, T32JB, T6AF,
T6JC, TA3DD, TG7WW, TG9/DL5RMH, TG9NX, TI5/N3KS, TL0A, TO4IPA, TS8P, UA2F,
UA9FQY, V31RN, VK0KEV, VK6DXI, VK9HR, VK9IR, VP50V, VP8ORK, VP9NI, VU2PHD,
VU4PB, XU7ACY, XX9LT, YL2BJ, YN2ER, YV4DYJ, ZB2FK, ZB3B, ZK3OU, ZP6CW, ZS8M.
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