18 June 1999
No 424
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
3V - Latest information from Giovanni, I5JHW
is that the 3V8J team on Jerba Island [425DXN 424] is waiting for
the very final green light from the local authorities. The
operation, which was expected to start on 18 June, might be
delayed a bit, but Giovanni says he is quite optimistic. [TNX
I5JHW]
A9 - Regi, ON4CFI will be active (10-40
metres SSB) from as A9/ON4CFI from Bahrain (AS-002) until 7 July.
QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
BY - John, K2ZJ will be active from the BY1QH
club station between 26 June and 4 July. He plans to operate on
40-10 metres with emphasis on WARC bands. [TNX DX News Sheet]
EA - The Spanish bulletin "EA-DX"
reports that Sancti Petri Island (EU-143) will be activated on
25-27 June. No call given but the QSL manager will be EA7PY.
GW - The UK based International Short Wave
League club callsign (GX4BJC) will be used during the month of
June by GW3CNM. Frank will use the Welsh version of the callsign,
which is GC4BJC/P, from Holywell, North Wales on 40 metres CW
only. [TNX GW3CNM]
HB0 - OK2WO/Josef, OK2WY/Jiri and OK2ZR/Peter
will be active from Liechtenstein between 18 and 22 June.
Preffered modes will be PSK31, Feld-Hell and RTTY + 6 metres SSB
and CW. QSL via home calls. [TNX OK2WY]
HB0 - A team of operators from Hungary and
Germany including Tom/DL4OCM, Jo/DF6VI, Thomas/DL1FDH,
Tamas/HA4DX (ex HA4GDO), Feri/HA0ET and Laci/HA0HW will be active
from Mount Malbun (2200 metres above the sea level),
Liechtenstein between 19 and 26 June. They will operate as
HB0/home call/p with three stations on 160-6 metres SSB, CW and
RTTY. QSL HB0/HA0ET/p via HA0HW, the others via home call either
direct or through the bureau. [TNX HA0HW]
JA - Joe, JA4PXE will be active (40-10
metres, SSB and CW) as JA4PXE/4 from Yashiro Island (AS-117) on
25 and 26 June and again for the IOTA Contest in July. QSL via
JA4PXE. [TNX JI6KVR]
J6 - Bill, AA7X will be active (on 10-40
metres) as J6/AA7X from St. Lucia (NA-108) between 24 and 30
June. QSL via home call. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
JT - Laurence, GM4DMA is expected to operate
as JT1FCR from central Monogolia between 19 and 29 June. He plans
to be active on 160-6 metres (with 100 watts into a simple
antenna and solar power) while working for the "Youth
Development Charity Raleigh International". [TNX OPDX
Bulletin]
KH0 - Look for JI2IXA, JN3AHZ and JM3FUY to
be active (on 40-6 metres) as KH0/home call from Saipan (OC-086),
Northern Mariana between 24 and 28 June. QSL via home calls. [TNX
JA1ELY]
KL - KL7/DL1YMK is active from the Pribilof
Islands (NA-028).
SM - Special event station 8S1IG will be
active (SSB and CW) from Gotland Island (EU-020) between 26 June
and 2 July during the "Island Games". QSL via bureau or
direct to SM1TDE (Eric Wennstroem, Vasagatan 9-324, SE - 172 67
Sundbyberg, Sweden). Further information is available at http://www.grk.se.
[TNX SM1TDE]
SV5 - Vassilis, SV8CYV will be active (14260,
18128, 21260, 24950 and 28460 kHz) as SV5/SV8CYV/p from Patmos
Island (EU-001) between 25 and 30 June. QSL via home call. [TNX
DX News Sheet]
UA - Alex, RA0ZN and Vlad, RA0ZA are going to
the lighthouse located on Karaginskiy Island (AS-064) to do some
maintenance work. They plan to be active (on 20 metres only) in
their spare time as UE0XZZ for at least one week (dates not
given). QSL via RA0ZN either direct (P.O.Box 51, 683049
Petropavlowsk-Kamchatsky, Russia) or through the bureau. [TNX
UA0ZY]
UA - Alex, UA0FCD (and possibly Eugene, RA0FF
as well) will be active from Iturup Island (AS-025) between 26
and 30 June. [TNX RA0FF]
UA - Alex, UA0ZY and Serge, UA0ZAZ now plan
to be active from Kambalny (Toporkov) Island (Kamchatka
Oblast/Sea of Okhotsk Coast group, AS-???) [425DXN 421] starting
on 3 July for three days. They will operate as RY0Z on both CW
and SSB. QSL via 4Z5AV either direct (Michael Krimer, P.O. Box
2288, 88122 Eilat, Israel) or through the bureau. [TNX UA0ZY]
XU - Hiroo, XU2A (JA2EZD) reports that his
XUX0 (Xray Uniform Xray Zero) activity from AS-133 [425DXN 423]
is expected to start around 24 June. QSL via XU2C/7L1MFS (Yoh
Yoshida, 4-4-1 Arakawa, 116-0002 Japan). [TNX 3W6EZD]
YU - Club stations from Yugoslavia are
allowed to use the special prefix YZ75 until the end of June to
celebrate 75 years of amateur radio in their country. [TNX The
Daily DX]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
SOMALILAND ---> Tomo, JE9IKG has been
staying in Nairobi, Kenya on business. He plans to visit
Somaliland between 19 and 29 June and to operate (on SSB
with 50 watts, a long wire and a solar panel) as
6O/JE9IKG in his spare time. He might also be active from
either Uganda (5X) and Tanzania (5H) during the weekends
in July. QSL via home call. [TNX JA1ELY]
QSL 3W7CW ---> Please note that the
correct address for Tom, 3W7CW/SP5AUC [425DXN 417 and
418] is P.O. Box 11, 02-800 Warsaw 93, Poland. [TNX The
Daily DX]
QSL VR2KF ---> Kazu, VR2KF is likely
to be leaving Hong Kong in the near future. Do not send
cards to his P.O. Box in HK after 30 June. [TNX The Daily
DX]
QSL VIA IK6SNR ---> Luigi, YV5ENI
reports that at the end of July his QSL manager, IK6SNR
(Lucio Antonini, Contrada S. Biagio 11, 64010
Controguerra - TE, Italy) will send through the bureau
all of the outstanding 4M5I (SA-015 and SA-037) cards.
QSL VIA VK4AAR ---> Alan, VK4AAR
reports that, although his address has changed since 1
December 1998 [425DXN 394], "too many people are
blindly and thoughtlessly using ancient callbooks".
Once more, please note that cards for V63PD, VI0ANARE
(but *not* VK0ANARE), VK8AN, VK8AN/6, VK8AV/3 (Phillip
Island, OC-136 only), VK8MI, VU3RSB, YJ8AA, ZK2JJ and
ZK2PJ should be sent direct only to Alan Roocroft, P. O.
Box 421, Gatton 4343, Australia.
QSL VIA W1AF ---> The new QSL route
for all of Mike's (K3UOC) past operations is via W1AF
(Harvard Wireless Club, 6 Linden Street, Cambridge, MA
02138, USA). They include 4M4A (85-87), 4M5V (92-93),
7Z5OO (94-98), P46S (85), PJ1A (91), PJ2/K3UOC,
PJ3/K3UOC, PJ4/K3UOC, PJ5AA (96-98), PJ5/K3UOC,
PJ6/K3UOC, PJ7/K3UOC, PJ8H (94), US1A (90), YV4/K3UOC,
YV5/K3UOC, YV6/K3UOC, YV9/K3UOC. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
YASME AWARD MANAGER (NEW) ---> The
Yasme Foundation lost a long-time supporter and Director,
with the recent passing of the Award Program Manager Dick
McKercher, W0MLY [425DXN 423]. Effective immediately,
Randy Wright, W6CUA, is the new Yasme Award Manager.
Award applications and correspondence may be sent to
Randy Wright, 18432 Milmar Boulevard, Castro Valley, CA
94546, USA. His e-mail address is wrights@worldnet.att.net.
[TNX W6RGG]
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
LOGS (5N): Logs for 5N0/OK1JR, 5N99MSV
and 5N0MSV are available at www.qsl.net/ok1rr.
[TNX OK1JR]
UY5ZZ - Vladimir Latyshenko, P.O.Box
4850, Zaporozhye, 330118, Ukraine
TR8XX - Jean Claude Jupin, P.O.Box 4069,
Libreville, Gabon
VE7TLL - Terry Mitchell, P.O.Box 9,
Tlell, BC V0T 1Y0, Canada
VU3TOM - Tom Davis, U.S.Embassy - New
Delhi, Department of State Washington, D.C. 20521-9000,
U.S.A.
VY2SS - Robby Robertson, RR#2,
Bloomfield Stn., Prince Edward Island, C0B 1E0 Canada
WP3C - Alfredo Velez, Ramos, HC-02 Box
7455, Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641, USA
YB0CBI - Ferry Soedjana, P.O.Box 8075
JKSTB, Jakarta 12080, Indonesia
YB0ZDD - Club Station ORARI Lokal Pasar
Minggu, Box 7257/JKSPM, Jakarta 12072, Indonesia
YB2UU - P.O.Box 6223, Semarang 50063,
Central Java, Indonesia
YB4JIM - Akhmad Ferdinand Lubis,
Palembang 30126, South Sumatra, Indonesia
YB7VR - Pak Azwar, P.O.Box 455,
Balikpapan, Kamtim 76100, Indonesia
YC0GUO - Cucu Kurnia "Cucu"
P.O.Box 7257 / JKSPM, Jakarta 12072, Indonesia
YC0WPI - Itok Yudianto "Itok"
P.O.Box 7257 / JKSPM, Jakarta 12072, Indonesia
YV5/OH0XX - Olli Rissanen, PMB 599, 1313
So.Military Trail, Deerfield Beach, FL-33442, U.S.A.
ZD7BG - Gilbert legg, P.O.Box 157, Saint
Helena Island, South Pacific Ocean
ZS6NB - Ken Pickersgill, 60 Selborne
Ave., Lyttelton, 0157, Pretoria, South Africa
QSL ROUTES FROM PY2AA AT LABRE-SP - The
following QSL Routes list comes from Flavio "Al"
Archangelo, PY2ZX, editor of "QTC", the LABRE journal (qtc@labre-sp.org). The Liga
Brasileira de Radioamadores (LABRE) is the Brazilian IARU
society. There is one national confederation in Brasilia (http://www.labre.org)
and several statal federations, such as the LABRE-SP in Sao Paulo
(http://www.labre-sp.org).
The address for the PY2AA Bureau is either P. O. Box 22, Sao
Paulo, SP 01059-970, Brazil or R. Dr. Miguel Vieira Ferreira,
345A, Tatuape, Sao Paulo, SP 03071-080, Brazil.
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