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23 August 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 903
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**** DX INFORMATION ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3A - Patrice, F5RBB says he will be active as 3A/F5RBB from Monaco on
1-10 September. He will operate on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres. QSL
via home call, direct or bureau.
7Q - Once again Ely, IN3VZE will be active holiday style as 7Q7CE from
Malawi from 29 August to 11 September. He plans to operate SSB and
digital modes on all bands depending on propagation. QSL via home
call, direct or bureau. [TNX IN3VZE]
8Q - Werner, DL1BKK and his wife Brigitte, DL1BKI will celebrate their
40th wedding anniversary and 30 years of amateur radio operating
holiday style as 8Q7KK from Kuramathi Island, Maldives (AS-013)
from 29 August to 17 September. QSL via DL1BKK, direct or bureau
(please note that 8Q7KK has been reissued, and Werner will be able
to confirm contacts made only in 2008). [TNX DL1BKK]
9A - Jan/OK1JK, Jiri/OK1JST, Jarda/OK1JIM, Standa/OK1AGE, Tom/OK1JRA,
Vojta/OK1JKV and Radek/OK1MRK will be active as 9A/homecall from
Porer Island (EU-110) and lighthouse on 6-13 September. They will
operate CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK on 80-10 and 2 metres. QSL via
OK1JST. Further information can be found at http://jan.kepic.cz/
[TNX OK1JK]
9V - Special event station 9V1F1 (9V1 Formula One) will be active
between 26 August and 30 September for the Formula 1 Grand Prix
(http://www.singaporegp.sg/) that will be held in downtown
Singapore on 28 September. The QSL cards will be sent via the
bureau starting in October. Direct cards should be sent to either
the Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (Robinson Road,
P.O. Box 2728, Singapore 904728, Singapore) or the individual
operator's callsign.
EI - Dave/EI4BZ, Jeremy/EI5GM, Dave/EI9FBB and Mark/G4AXX will be
active as EJ3HB from Great Blasket Island (EU-007) on 10-14
September. They will operate SSB and CW on 80-10 metres. QSL via
EI9FBB, direct or bureau. Further information can be found at
http://blasketisland2008.blogspot.com/ [TNX G4AXX]
F - Gerd, DK8NT will be active as F/DK8NT from Oleron Island (EU-032)
from 24 August to 5 September. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org]
F - Benoit/F8PDR, Jean-Jacques/F5NKX, Denis/F5RJM, Rolf/F9ZG, Alain/
F5HVI, Rene/F6CMC and Alain/F6ACH will be active on all bands and
modes as F5KAQ/p from Brehat Island (EU-074) on 1-8 September.
QSL via F5RJM, direct or bureau. [TNX VA3RJ]
F - Special event callsign TM2NN will be aired on 15-28 September for
the 20th edition of Les Nuits de Nacre, the annual accordion
festival that takes place in the city of Tulle. QSL via F5KTU.
[TNX F5RBB]
GM - Special event station GS8R will be activated on 80-10 metres SSB
and CW by the Orkney Amateur Radio Club (http://www.eu009.com/) on
22-24 and 29-31 August to commemorate the 850th anniversary of the
death of St. Rognvald, the Norse Earl who founded St. Magnus
Cathedral in Kirkwall. QSL direct to GM0WED. A sister special
event station (LA8EARL) is expected to operate from Bringsvaerd
(Norway), which is where Rognvald was born in 1100.
GM - Four members of the Cambridge University Wireless Society (namely
G3ZAY, M0ERY, M0FFX and M0SCH) hope to be active as GM6UW/p from
the Monach Islands (EU-111) from mid-afternoon on 27 August until
mid-morning on the 28th. The operation will take place only if the
wind and sea conditions improve. [TNX G3ZAY]
HL - A group of eight Korean operators (namely Kim/HL2CFY, Lim/DS2HRE,
Kweon/DS2GXU, Han/DS2GOO, Seok/6K2GDT, Cho/6K2FNN, Song/6K2BWA and
Jeong/6K2ABX) will be active as either D9D and homecall/5 from Tok
Island (AS-045) on 13-18 September. They will operate CW, SSB, FSK
and PSK31 on 80-10 metres with four trasnceivers, two amplifers
and various vertical and wire antenna systems. QSL D9D via 6K2BWA,
others via home call. [TNX DS2GOO]
PZ - Rich/OM2TW, Joe/OM5AW, Steve/OM5AA, David/OK1RK and Vlada/OK1NY
will be active as PZ5Z from Suriname on 21-30 October, including
an entry in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. They will operate SSB and CW
on 160-10 metres, plus 6 and 2 metres, with an emphasis on the low
bands and 2m EME. QSL via OM2FY, direct or bureau. Further
information (logsearch included) can be found at
http://www.om0c.com/suriname/ [TNX NG3K]
SV - Laci, HA0HW will be active as J48HW and SV8/HA0HW from Thassos
Island (EU-174) from 30 August to 10 September. He will operate
mainly CW, with some SSB, RTTY and PSK31 as well, on the HF bands
(mainly on 40, 30, 20 and 17 metres) and on 6 metres. QSL via home
call, direct or bureau. [TNX HA0HW] bureau or direct.
UA - Celebrating the 65th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation
during World War II, special event station R65BO will be active
from Bryansk and its surroundings between 25 August and 25
September. QSL via UA3YY. [TNX RV3YR]
V4 - Dave, AH6HY will be active as V4/AH6HY from St. Kitts (NA-104)
from 26 September to 3 October. He will operate SSB on 10-40
metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX NG3K]
VE - George, K3GV, will be active as K3GV/VY2 from Prince Edward Island
(NA-029) on 1-22 September. Activity will be on 15 and 20 metres
around the usual IOTA frequencies. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau. [TNX K3GV]
XU - Yuichi, 7K3BKY will be active as XU7YYY from Cambodia on 3-8
September. He will operate mainly CW, but will also give the All
Asian DX SSB Contest a try. QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
[TNX NG3K]
ZP - Jan, DL7UFN and Rolf, DL7VEE plan to operate as ZP6/DL7UFN and
ZP6/DL7VEE from the QTH of Tom, ZP5AZL in Asuncion, Paraguay on
4-14 September. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY on 160-10 metres.
QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX DL7VEE]
ARCTIC ---> Serge, RZ6MF and Oleg, UA6LP are participating in the
"Arktika-2008" expedition (17 August-30 September) to the Arctic basin
region, and are active as UE6MAC/mm while on board the research vessel
"Akamik Fedorov". In early September they expect to be signing UE6MAC/0
from the new Russian drifting station "North Pole-36". Depending on weather
and sea conditions, they might also operate from Wrangel Island (AS-027)
and/or Franz Josef Land (EU-019). QSL via RZ6MF. [TNX UA6LP]
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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
CANADA ---> At it July 2008 meeting the Board of Directors of Radio
Amateurs of Canada (RAC) adopted a new HF Band Plan, which can be found at
http://www.rac.ca/service/bandplans/hfband_e.php [TNX VA3RJ]
QSL VIA LA5YJ ---> Over the past few years Hugo, LA5YJ operated as 9N7YJ,
JW5YJ, MI0YJR, S21XF, ST2YJ and XU7ACW. The QSL route for ST2YJ is still
via LA4YW, the other callsigns are handled by Hugo himself. The blank S21XF
cards were expected to arrive from the printer earlier this week. All of
the bureau cards for 9N7YJ and XU7ACW have been sent out. The 9N7YJ log
will be closed on 31 December 2008, if you still need a QSL card please go
direct (Hugo B. Ark, Rute 509, N-1766 Halden, Norway). [TNX LA5YJ]
SAC 2008 ---> Organized this year by SSA, the Swedish Amateur Radio
Society, the 50th edition of the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) will
take place on 20-21 September (CW) and 27-28 September (SSB). To celebrate
the Golden Jubilee, three special Anniversary Awards will be available for
contacts made with Scandinavian stations during the contest. Complete
information can be found at http://www.qrq.se/sac [TNX SM6LRR]
ZS8T ---> This is the latest press release posted by Rhynhardt Louw
(ZS6DXB) on http://zs8t.net/ (21 August):
"In April, Petrus ZS6GCM arrived on Marion Island to begin a year of work.
Sometime in May he erected the SteppIR vertical he took along and ran into
a few difficulties. He did make one contact during the month but efforts to
resolve these difficulties were unsuccessful and Petrus' work commitments
impeded our efforts to communicate via other methods with Petrus.
It has been over two months since we have heard from Petrus and are as much
in the dark as the DX Community as to his plans.
At this point we are at a loss why Petrus has not been able to find time to
put ZS8T on the air, he certainly made the efforts to obtain permissions
and training before leaving for the Island. We must assume his job as
administrator to the scientific community was much more than he
contemplated. Petrus is on Marion Island for 7 more months.
If and when Petrus surfaces we will inform the DX Community. We are as
disappointed as you".
+ SILENT KEYS + Famous Belgian sailor Willy de Roos (ON8RP and VK9XR/mm)
passed away on 4 August at 85 years of age. In 1977-78, aboard his ketch
"Williwaw", he sailed through the Northwest Passage, from Greenland to the
Bering Straight, and then went on to round Cape Horn and sail back to
Begium, thus becoming the first one to circumnavigate the Americas counter
clockwise.
Other recently reported Silent Keys include Doug M. Hill (G3ZWH), Pete
Weymouth (M1SOM), Vic Dubois (N4TO), Alan P. Burgstahler (N7BF) and Valery
F. Shishlov (RA1PAW).
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3D2VB, 3DA0VB, 3W2BMK, 4M5IR,
4O3A, 5H3VMB, 5R8VB, 5T5DC, 5X1VB, 5Z4/UA4WHX, 6W1SJ, 7Q7VB, 8Q7SH, 9J2M,
9J2VB, 9K2/SP4R, 9L0W, 9M6/N1UR, 9U0VB, 9X0R, 9X0VB, A25VB, A35RK, A35VB,
A45WD, A92GR, C91OK, C91TK, C91VB, CO8LY, D20VB, D60VB, DK6AO/TI7 (NA-191),
DL3VFN/J3, DP0GVN, DU5/ZL4PO, ET3JA, FH1LE, FJ/DJ2VO, FM5FJ, FO/KH0PR,
H7/K9NW, HB0/DL2SBY, HC1HC, HC5WW, HI8/AC4LN, HP2/JA5REX, J20VB, JT1SNY,
KG4WV, KL2R, KL7HBK (NA-004), KP2/W5IF, N1YC/VK9X, N6VR/p (NA-144),
OA4BHY/3 (SA-074), OH0/PA2A, OH0/PA3BAG, OH0/PB5A, P29VVB
(OC-025),PE7T/VK9X, PJ6/K2KW, PT5A, R1FJT, R35NP, S79JE, SD2O (EU-135),
ST2VB, T32Z, T88PR, TF/DL2VFR (EU-168), TM5B (EU-148), TX5C, TX7LX, UT0FT/p
(EU-182), V51VV, V73VV, VK6FAU (OC-206), VP5/WB2REM, VP6DX, VP6PR,
VP8/LZ1UQ, VQ9JC, VQ9LA, VR10XLN, VR2XLN, WH6R, WP4U, XR7W (SA-053), XW3DT,
YL3FT, YN2KDJ, Z2/UA4WHX, Z21BC, ZB3B, ZD8Z, ZK1/AC4LN (OC-082).
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