3 July 1999
No 426
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
3D2 - Look for Joe, W8GEX to be active as
3D2EX during his 5-9 July operation [425DXN 425] from Fiji
(OC-016). QSL via W8GEX (Joe Pater, 1894 Old Oxford Rd.,
Hamilton, OH 45013, USA). [TNX The Daily DX]
8Q - Jacques, F6BEE will be active (SSB and
CW on 10-40 metres) as 8Q7TV from the Maldives (AS-013) between
10 and 16 July. He plans to participate (SOAB CW) in the IARU HF
World Championship. QSL via F6BEE. [TNX K1XN]
A3 - Look for Joe, W8GEX to be active as
A35EX during his 10-17 July operation [425DXN 425] from Tonga
(OC-049). QSL via W8GEX (Joe Pater, 1894 Old Oxford Rd.,
Hamilton, OH 45013, USA). [TNX The Daily DX]
CX - YL operator Mariana, CX1JJ is regularly
active (CW) on 17 metres between 22 and 1 UTC and during the
weekends on 10, 15, 17 and 40 metres. She plans to be
particularly active on 3-19 July. QSL via CX1JJ either direct
(Mariana Thevenet, P.O. Box 68164, 50000 Salto, Uruguay). [TNX
CX1JJ]
EA6 - Members of the Union of Radio Amateurs
of Palma, Balearic Islands (EU-006) will operate special event
stations AM6JMU, AN6JMU and AO6JMU between 3 and 13 July. [TNX
The Daily DX]
FO - Alain, F2HE/FO0CLA is now active from
Raiatea (OC-067), French Polynesia until 4 July, but "for
the rest of his trip", Jean-Michel, F6AJA reports, "he
will not have his equipment with him". Alain is expected to
be touring Polynesia until 13 August. QSL via F6LQJ.
FP - Mel, W8MV will be active (mainly CW on
WARC) as FP/W8MV from St. Pierre et Miquelon (NA-032) between 8
and 14 July. QSL via home call. [TNX ARRL DX Bulletin]
FT5W - Gilles, FT5WH is active on RTTY and
has been reported to be calling CQ around 12 UTC on +/- 14.087
MHz. QSL via F6KDF (Radio Club de la Gendarmerie, 292 route de
Genas, F-69677 Bron Cedex, France). Gil, F5NOD reports the cards
are being printed.
HL - Members of the Pusan ARC will be active
(10-40 metres, CW and SSB) as as DS0TO/5 from Mount WhaRyung
until 4 July. QSL via DS5AAQ. [TNX ARRL DX Bulletin]
IS0 - Luca, IK2AEQ will be active as
IM0/IK2AEQ from Maddalena Island (EU-041, IIA SS-001) between 9
and 24 July. He will operate on HF, 6 and possibly 2 metres from
JN41RF, and will participate in the IARU HF World Championship
and in the IOTA Contest (the first 12 hours). QSL via home call.
[TNX IK2AEQ]
JA - Takeshi, JI3DST will be active as
JI3DST/3 from Awaji Island (AS-117) on 9-11 July. QSL via home
call (Takeshi Fumaki, 2-18-26 Hannan-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka-City,
Osaka, 545-0021 Japan). [TNX JI6KVR]
JD_min - Ryo, JL1KFR will be again /JD1 from
Minami Torishima (OC-073) for two weeks starting on 5 July. He
will be looking for Europe during his evenings and for North
America during his early mornings. QSL via JL1KFR (Ryoichi Tojo,
1-102-5-37 Taeu Miyazaki 2 Chome, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-0806,
Japan). [TNX The Daily DX]
KP2 - Bob, N2OO and his wife Beth, KF2BQ are
active as KP2/N2OO and KP2/KF2BQ from the US Virgin Islands
(NA-106) until 7 July. QSL via home calls. [TNX The Daily DX]
KP2 - AG8L, K6RO and W6KK will be signing
KP2/home call (on all bands, 6 metres included, CW and SSB) from
St. Croix, Virgin Islands (NA-106) between 8 and 12 July. They
will participate in the IARU HF World Championship (10-11 July)
as WP2Z (QSL via KU9C). QSL KP2/AG8L via NN6C, QSL KP2/K6RO and
KP2/W6KK via home calls. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
OZ - EDR Vestfyn branch will participate in
the VHF Fielday (3-4 July) as OZ5VF/p from JO45XG near Ebberup.
Look for them on +/- 50.173, 144.173/144.273 and 432.173 MHz.
[TNX OZ6OM]
OZ - Jakob, OZ7AEI will be active as OZ7AEI/p
from the Danish island of Fur (NJ-003 for the Danish Islands
Award, it does not count for IOTA) on 5 July starting around 16
UTC. QSL via home call. Further information on the Danish Islands
Award is available at www.qsl.net/oz2zb. [TNX OZ2ZB and OZ7AEI]
PA - Martin, VE3MR will be active as operate
PA9MR from EU-146 starting on 6 July. He plans to participate in
the IOTA Contest. [TNX The Daily DX]
SP - Special station 3Z9DXC (QSL via SP9HWN)
is active until 5 July to celebrate the 40th anniversary of
Polish SPDXC Club. Other two stations - 3Z1DXC (QSL via SP1NQF)
and 3Z7DXC (QSL via SP7CVW) were also active. [TNX SP5EWY]
TK - Look for Serge, F6AUS to be active as
TK/F6AUS from Corsica in July. He plans to operate from EU-100
and EU-164 (the latter also during the IOTA Contest). QSL via
home call. [TNX F6AUS]
UT - UT6Y will be active on 144 and 432 MHz
from KN28FC on 2-4 July. QSL via US2YW (P.O. Box 59, Chernivtsi,
274000 Ukraine). [TNX US2YW]
V5 - Norbert, DH1NS expects to be active as
V5/DH1NS from Namibia until 19 July. Look for him between 21400
and 21415 kHz. QSL via DH1NS. [TNX DX News Letter]
VE - Calgary area amateurs are allowed to use
the special prefix CY6 between 1 and 14 July to promote the
Calgary Stampede (http://www.cara.ampr.org/stampede.html).
[TNX OPDX Bulletin]
VK - Frosty, K5LBU Will be visiting
Queensland (VK4) for about ten days starting from Brisbane on 2
July. Look for him to operate from OC-142 between 5 and 7 July.
[TNX K5LBU]
W - Nate, N8WNB should now be active from
Assateague Island (NA-139) [425DXN 425] from 5 July, starting
around 11 UTC on +/- 14.260 MHz. [TNX N8WNB and Islands On The
web]
IARU HF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ---> The
following stations are expected to participate in this year's
event:
IT9HLR as II9R from Sicily (EU-025). QSL
via home call (direct only). [TNX IT9HLR]
Javi, LU9HS as LR0H (SSB only). QSL via
LU9HS (Javier Omar Santillan, P.O. Box 6, 5022 Cordoba,
Argentina). [TNX LU9HS]
Juha, OH1JT as OH0Z (CW only) from the
Aland Islands (EU-002). QSL via OH1EH (Ari Korhonen,
Kreetalank. 9 As 1, FIN-29200 Harjavalta, Finland). [TNX
The Daily DX]
OL9HQ (the Czech Radio Club/CRC HQ
station) on all bands CW and SSB. QSL via OK1MD (Mlados
Doucha, Kodanska 87, CZ-10100 Praha 10, Czech Republic).
[TNX OK1MD]
The ARRL's HQ station as W1AW/9 (on all
bands CW and SSB) from the QTH of W0AIH/9. [TNX The Daily
DX]
WP3C (CW and SSB) from Puerto Rico
(NA-099). QSL direct to Alfredo Velez, HC-02 Box 7455,
Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641, USA. [TNX WP3C]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
ARRL W9 INCOMING QSL BUREAU ---> The
new address is Northern Illinois DX Association, W9
Incoming QSL Bureau, P.O. Box 273, Glenview, IL
60025-0273, USA. For more information contact Bill
Russin, N9BR at n9br@arrl.net.
[TNX The Daily DX]
P51BH ---> The ARRL DXCC Desk has
approved Martti Laine's P51BH operation from North Korea.
Martti was active for a couple of hours on 21 April (263
QSOs on 20 metres CW and SSB and 15 metres SSB) - it was
not a DXpedition, but hopefully this may lead to one.
PIRATE ---> Joe, W3HNK is *not* the
QSL manager for TG9ANG and the Club de Radioaficionados
de Guatemala, who are responsible for issuing licenses,
have no record of this station. [TNX The Daily DX]
QSL CU9AC ---> Joao, CU9AC (ex-CU3DR)
lives on Corvo Island (EU-089). Cards should be sent
either direct (Joao Medeiros da Camara, Rua da Matriz,
9980 Ilha do Corvo, Azores, Portugal) or through the
bureau. [TNX CT1ELP]
QSL HL5/JI6KVR ---> Cards for Yuki's
recent operation from Ullung Island (AS-045) should be
sent to EA5KB. The QSL manager for *Japan only* is
JJ6LXX. [TNX JI6JVR]
QSL KH4/IV3NVN ---> QSL Manager
Flavio Cian, IV3TMV reports the cards for KH4/IV3NVN
(February-March 1999) have arrived from the printer. He
will process direct requests first, followed by bureau
cards. Please do not send duplicates. For any problem
please contact Flavio at iv3tmv@silink.it.
QSL WA7ND ---> This is Rick,
ex-AH6HZ. QSL direct to Rick Conners, P.O. Box 4213,
Sunriver, OR 97707, USA
QSL ZL9CI ---> The Kermadec DX
Association are pleased to announce that most of the
reply cards are on their way. As of 30 June, they have
received some 11,250 envelopes containing approximately
40,000 QSOs; they have on hand approximately 200
envelopes which will be processed this week and mailed
out immediately they are completed. It is hoped that from
now on the turn around time for cards received directly
will be three days. Direct requests where insufficient
postage or no SAE was provided will go via the bureau.
Ordinary bureau cards will be processed as time permits.
QSL to ZL2HU (Ken Holdom, P.O. Box 56099, Tawa, New
Zealand). [TNX ZL2HU]
W6CUA - Randy Wright, 18432 Milmar
Boulevard, Castro Valley, CA-94546, U.S.A.
W8GEX - Joseph B.Pater, 1894 Old Oxford
Road, Hamilton, OH-45013, U.S.A.
XQ1IDM - Nicolas Herrera G., P.O.Box
345, Antofagasta, Chile
ZP99CA - Agrupacion de Radio Aficionados
del Interior, Casilla de Correos 22065, San Lorenzo,
Paraguay
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