25 December 1999
No 451
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
TO ALL OUR READERS WARMEST THOUGHTS AND BEST
WISHES FOR A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
CHESTERFIELD ISLANDS - The amateur radio
society of New Caledonia (Association des Radio Amateurs de
Nouvelle Caledonie, ARANC) is organizing a DXpedition to the
Chesterfield Islands (OC-176). Activity will start on 15 March
and, pending action on ARANC's application to the IARU for
membership, the second phase of the operation may turn out to be
the initial operation from a new DXCC entity, starting on 23
March. The radio operating team consists of FK8GM, FK8HC, JA1BK,
N4GN, N7NG, OH1RY, OH2BC, OH2BH, OH2RF and another ARANC
representative who will be named later. The Chesterfield
DXpedition web site will be launched on 1 January 2000 [TNX N4GN]
5H - Chris, ZS5IR is active as 5H9IR from
Geita, Tanzania, a small town about 80 kilometres west of Mwanza
on the southern shores of lake Victoria. He will try to operate
on most bands (3.5 MHz and above) on SSB and CW. The 5H4IR call
was issued to him by mistake: however, the QSOs he has made with
this call (some 200 contacts made before 10 UTC on 24 December)
will be valid. QSL via ZS6EZ. [TNX 5H9IR]
5R - Michel, F5LET has now moved to
Madagascar (AF-013) and is active as 5R8GL. He currently operates
(mostly CW, SSB on request) on 10, 15 and 20 metres with a beam,
hopefully antennas for WARC and low bands will follow. QSL direct
only to Michel Bon, BP 342, 201 Antsiranana, Madagascar (do not
use his old address in France!). [TNX F6IRA]
9A - Look for special Millennium station
9AY2K to be active between 1 January and 31 December 2000. QSL
via 9A1A (P. O. Box 108, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia). [TNX 9A9A]
C5 - Peter, G4MCK will be signing C56/G4MCK
from The Gambia starting on 24 December for twelve days. He plans
to be active on 80-10 metres SSB only (160 and 6 metres operaions
depend on the antenna). QSL via G4MCK either direct or through
the bureau. [TNX G0SAH]
CE0_ei - Willy, ON5AX will be active as as
CE0Y/ON5AX from Easter Island (SA-001) between 19 and 25
February. Look for him on 14.020 and 14.120 MHz during his
evening hours (other HF bands might be possible on request). QSL
via ON5AX (Willy Dellaert, Leemstraat 95, B 2910 Essen, Belgium).
[TNX ON5AX]
ER - Victor, ER1CW reports the following
special Millennium calls are being aired from Moldova until 20
January:
ER2000A (QSL via ER1DA: P.O. Box 3000, MD-2071 Chisinau,
Moldova)
ER2000B (QSL via ER1BF: P.O. Box 3250, MD-2044 Chisinau,
Moldova)
ER2000C (QSL via ER5AA: P.O. Box 10, MD-3903 Cahul-3,
Moldova)
ER2000D (QSL via ER4DX: P.O. Box 3351 MD2044, Chisinau,
Moldova
ER2000F (QSL via ER1FF: P.O. Box 270, MD-2043 Chisinau,
Moldova)
ER2000L (QSL via ER1LW: P.O. Box 112, MD-2012 Chisinau,
Moldova)
ER2000O (QSL via ER1OO: P.O. Box 328, MD-2002 Chisinau,
Moldova)
ER2000U (QSL via ER1AU: P.O. Box 270, MD-2043 Chisinau,
Moldova)
F - Herve, F5RMY and others will be active as
TM5CRO from Porquerolles Island (EU-070) between 29 January and 5
February. Plans are to operate on 10-160 metres, plus 2 metres
and 70 centimetres from rare JN32 (for skeds on the latter bands
please e-mail clarenne@club-internet.fr
or f1mbm@wanadoo.fr). QSL
via F5RMY. [TNX F5RMY]
FT5Y_ant - Philippe, FT5YG will going QRT in
January, but will be replaced by FT5YH at Dumont D'Urville (Les
Petrels, AN-017). [TNX DL5EBE]
HL - Look for operators from HL0C (http://www.qsl.net/hl0c)
to be active (on 80, 40, 20 and 15 metres CW, SSB and RTTY) from
the Soan Islands (AS-085) between 31 December and 5 January. QSL
via HL0C (Hanyang University Wave Research Club, CPO Box 4397,
100-643 Seoul, Korea). [TNX HL0C]
HR - Gerard, F2JD/HK3JBR is currently active
as HR5/F2JD from Honduras [425DXN 449] until 4 January. On 5
January he will leave for Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he expects to
remain for four months at least. [TNX F6AJA]
I - Special Millennium and Jubilee Year
station IU0PAW [425DXN 442] will now be active through 31 March
and possibly until the end of 2000. They will try to be active on
31 December on 40 metres SSB. QSL via IK0SHF. A web site is under
construction at at http://www.qsl.net/iu0paw. [TNX IK0SHF]
I - Special event station IR0MFP
("Millennium For Peace") will be active between 30
December and 2 January. QSL via IK0AZG either direct (Gian
Federico Madruzza, P.O. Box 197, 06126 Perugia - PG, Italy) or
through the bureau.
I - Special call II0CV will be aired on
January-December 2000 to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of the
town of Civitavecchia. QSL via IK0CNA. A certificate will be
available, for further information please contact Alberto, IK0CNA
at Alberto_Carli@port-of-rome.org.
[TNX IK0CNA]
JA - Takeshi, JI3DST/7N3UXO plans to operate
as JI3DST/6 and 7N3UXO/6 from Tokara Archipelago (AS-049) between
29 December and 9 January. QSL via JI3DST either direct (Takeshi
Funaki, 2-18-26 Hannan-Cho Abeno-Ku, Osaka-City Osaka 545-0021,
Japan) or through the bureau. [TNX JI3DST]
KP2 - Toshi, JA8RUZ will be active (on CW and
SSB moslty on WARC and 10 metres) as KH2Y/KP2 from St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands (NA-106) on 2-7 January. QSL via JA8RUZ (Toshi
Kawanishi, C.P.O. Box 166, Asahikawa, 070-8691 Japan). [TNX
JA8RUZ]
R1A_ant - According to Anna, US4LCW, Evgenij
(currently R1ANB/A) is expected to start operating as R1ANC from
Vostok base [425DXN 447] around 31 December. [TNX DL5EBE]
T8 & V6 - Hide, JM1LJS has had to change
his plans [425DXN 447] and will now be active as V63LJ from
Ponape (OC-010), Micronesia for a few hours only on 31 December,
before his licence expires. If he has it renewed he will operate
until 4 January. He will then move to Palau (OC-009) and operate
as T88LJ for some 24 hours on 4-5 January (however will be on the
island until 10 January). QSL via JH8DEH (Akira Miyata, 4-28-5,
Minami Nishi 23 Jyou, Obihiro 080-2473, Japan). [TNX JM1LJS]
T9 - Bob, G4YRZ will be active as T9/G4YRZ
from Bosnia between 26 December and 4 January. QSL via G4YRZ.
[TNX The Daily DX]
TZ - The Daily DX reports that Larry, TZ6VV
and Trish, TZ6YL will be going QRT from Mali around 1 April 2000
after serving as missionaries for over ten years. QSL until 1
March 2000 to Larry and Trish Erwin, BP 395, Segou, Mali; after
that date send the cards to KB0VV (Larry Erwin, 3850 Willomet
Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76133, USA).
UA - Igor, RW4HT will be active as UE4HNY
(CW) and UE4HNT (SSB and CW) between 25 December and 14 January
to celebrate the New Year. QSL via RW4HT (Igor A. Likhobabin,
P.O. Box 1220, Togliatti, 445032, Russia).
VE - Terry, VE2PJ he will be active as VC2K
from 31 December through 31 January. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
VK - The New South Wales Division of the
Wireless Institute of Australia will be running the special event
station VK2OOO between 1 January and 31 December to celebrate the
Olympic Games being held in Sydney. [TNX The Daily DX]
VK0_mac - Alan, VK0LD has announced that
"For various reasons, VK0LD will be permanently QRT from
Macquarie Island as of 1200z 31st December 1999". His
operating schedule for this coming week is as follows (see http://www.geocities.com/vk0ld/3.html):
27 Dec: 9-11 UTC tx 14003-rx 14008 kHz JA/HL/UA0/UA9 only
28 Dec: 9-11 UTC tx 14026-rx 14031 kHz USA/VE only
29 Dec: 9-11 UTC tx 14003-rx 14008 kHz EUROPE only
30 Dec: 5-7 UTC tx 14155-rx 14147 kHz EUROPE only
30 Dec: 9-11 UTC tx 14155-rx 14165 kHz VK/ZL/P2/H4/FK/YJ etc.
only
After suggestions from some EU stations, Alan will work Europe
(on both CW and SSB) by prefix number. "I will close down if
on-air protocol is not observed", Alan states. "I can
deal with unruly pile ups if necessary, I just don't see why I
should. Don't call me if I am not listening for your
area/country; you are wasting both my time & your own".
VK0LD's logs will NOT be available on line. QSL route to be
announced (Alan neither has nor needs a QSL manager and "QSL
cards are very unlikely to be issued before December 2000").
For further information, please refer to the URL above.
XU - Mauro, IN3QBR and Fabrizio, IN3ZNR
[425DXN 449] report from Phnom Phen they have been granted
permission to operate on all bands (160 metres excluded) CW, SSB
and RTTY. Look for them to be active as XU7AAZ and XU7AAY until 3
January. QSL via IN3ZNR (Fabrizio Vedovelli, Via Gramsci 27,
38100 Trento - TN, Italy).
W - Dick, K2ZR plans to be active from Key
West (NA-062) between 25 December and 15 April. [TNX The Daily
DX]
YO - Romanian Amateur Radio Federation (FRR)
will activate special Millennium station YR2OOO (Yankee Radio Two
Oscar Oscar Oscar) between 27 December and 2 January. QSL via
bureau. [TNX YO3APJ]
ZA - Stan, OK1JR will be working in Albania
for a few years and has just received his amateur radio licence.
He plans to operate on 2-160 metres. QSL direct to OK1JR (Stan
Matejicek, Moskevska 1464, CZ 10100 Praha 10, Czech Republic).
[TNX OPDX Bulletin]
ZL - QRZ-DX reports that Ed, K8VIR will be
active as ZM4IR from a mountain top location on 1 January to
celebrate the New Year. Special card via W8WC. Contacts made in
January with stations from New Zealand will score three points
towards IOTA 2000.
PACIFIC TRIP ---> Adriano, IK2GNW will
start his Pacific Tour [425DXN 449] earlier than expected. Look
for him signing ZK1GNW from the North Cook Islands for one week
starting on 13 January. One-week operations will then took place
from French Polynesia (FO0PRE, to be confirmed), Austral Islands
(ditto), Tonga (A35NW), Wallis & Futuna (FW/IK2GNW) and
Hawaii (KH6/IK2GNW). Actual dates depend on local flights.
Operating fequencies (CW, SSB and RTTY) are available at http://digilander.iol.it/i2ysb.
QSL via I2YSB either direct (Silvano Borsa, Viale Capettini 1,
27036 Mortara - PV, Italy) or through the bureau. [TNX I2YSB]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
IOTA 2000: RULE CHANGE ---> Neville
Cheadle, G3NUG reports that "following requests from
the IOTA community new IOTAs activated in both 1999 and
2000 will count for IOTA 2000 awards. The listing of
islands on the CDXC web site will be updated as new IOTAs
are activated". If you have downloaded the list
available at http://www.425dxn.org/iota/iota2000,
please add the following:
AF-080 E3 RED SEA COAST NORTH MAY
AF-081 E3 RED SEA COAST SOUTH MAY
AF-082 3C RIO MUNI PROVINCE JUN
AF-083 3V MED. COAST SOUTH JUN
AS-141 BY5 ZHEJIANG PROVINCE FEB
AS-142 UA0 SEA OF OKHOTSK COAST JAN
AS-143 BY7 XISHA ARCHIPELAGO MAR
OC-227 VK4 QLD. STATE (CARP. GULF) SOUTH FEB
OC-228 VK5 SA STATE EAST FEB
OC-229 VK8 NT (ARAFURA SEA COAST) CENTRE FEB
OC-230 VK9 WA OUTLIERS-ROWLEY SHOALS MAR
There will be two awards for individuals or teams
activating IOTA groups in 2000 - please refer to http://www.cdxc.org.uk
for detailed information. The full list of IOTA groups
falling into January activity month will be published in
425 DX News #452.
M2000A ---> This special call will be
aired between 31 December 1999 and 29 February 2000 to
celebrate the Millennium from the Greenwich Meridian
[425DXN 439]. QSL via G4DFI (SWLs via BRS-32525). Special
colour certificates will be available for working M2000A
on 5 or more bands and for working/hearing M2000A during
the first 24 hours of operation. For further information
please contact Clare, RS102891 at brs32525@compuserve.com
The web site is at www.qsl.net/m2000a. [TNX BRS-32525]
PIRATE ---> Amin, 9M2AA reports
someone has pirated his calls signing 9M2A/1S, 9M2AA/1S,
9M2A/MM and 9M2AA/MM on CW. "I never operated from
Spratly Islands (Layang-Layang) or maritime mobile as
claimed", Amin states. Malaysian stations do not use
/1S from Spratly.
PS8HF/p ---> He was active for 24
hours this past weekend from Pedra do Sal Lighthouse (DFB
PI-03) on Grande de Santa Isabel (SA-025, DIB 19). QSL
via home call. [TNX PP5SZ]
QSL 5B4/UT7QF ---> Cards are via
UA9AB or direct to UT7QF (Igor Serikov, P.O. Box 4597,
Zaporozhye 69006, Ukraine) [TNX UT7QF]
QSL FM5GU ---> Dennis, FM5GU (http://www.qsl.net/fm5gu)
reports his cards are now handled by KU9C (Steven M.
Wheatley, P.O. Box 5953, Parsippany, NJ 07054, USA).
Dennis' station in Martinique is still down, but he plans
to restore the antennas in time for the WPX Phone. He is
also active as FM5GU/I when working in Italy.
QSL LA8G & TY8G ---> The new
address for Radioamatorklubben P35 (LA8G and TY8G) is
Postboks 941, Sentrum, N-7409 Trondheim, Norway. [TNX
LA9GY]
QSL T32PO ---> Sean, AH6KG (ex-NH6PO)
used the call T32PO while on Christmas Island back in
1989 and some DX sources still list NH6PO as QSL manager
for T32PO. Please note that the correct route for
contacts made with T32PO in November 1999 is via N5PO
(Lee Ward, 203 Meandering Way, Weatherford, Texas
76086-2731, USA).
QSL TM5G ---> The QSL manager for
this IOTA operation (Glenan Islands, 1999 IOTA Contest)
is *not* F5LJA, but F5LMJ (Alain Tuduri, 25 rue de
Jussieu, 44300 Nantes, France). [TNX F5LMJ]
QSL ZF2AR ---> The QSL manager for
QSOs before 11 December 1998 is W4KA. For contacts made
from 11 December 1998 cards should be sen to N6KI (Dennis
Vernacchia, 8993 Covina St, San Diego, CA 92126, USA).
[TNX N6KI and The GoList]
QSL ZS6AOO ---> Jose Almeida,
ex-ZS6AOO is definitively back home in Portugal. Although
he still does not have a CT call, he will handle the
cards for the calls he used when in South Africa, namely
ZS6AOO,ZS66AOO, ZS88AOO, ZS500A, ZSM6A and ZSM9A. Cards
should not be sent to WA3HUP any longer. Please send your
requests (direct only) to Jose Manuel Almeida, Azinhaga
da Cidade, Lote A1 - 6 C, 1750 Lisboa, Portugal. [TNX
CT4NH]
WLH ---> Phil, F5OGG reports the
latest additions to the list of valid operations include
TX8LH (Amedee Lighthouse, LH 0147, 22-23 August 1999, QSL
via VK4FW) CT1BWW/p and CT1XI/p (Bugio Lighthouse, LH
0647, 22 August 1999, QSL via CT1BWW). For information on
the World Lighthouse Award (WLH) please visit http://www.infini.fr/~tquere.
The updated list of lighthouses is expected by the end of
January.
SILENT KEY - We are sad to report the
news of the sudden passing of Geppino Mauro, IB0JN (aka
I8JN, J28AZ, 9J2ML, FL0JN/P) on 21 December. He was the
only resident amateur on Ventotene Island and old timer
IOTA enthusiasts still remember his operation from AF-053
back in the Seventies. [TNX I8LEL]
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
LOGS: Logs for the 24-30 November T32PO
operation (CQWW CW Contest included) can be found at http://www.dx-central.com.
[TNX KE9KD]
LOGS: Doug, N6RT reports the following
new/updated logs are now available at http://dx.qsl.net/logs:
PERIOD CALL REF
===========================================================================
till 05/01 3F: special prefix (Panama) 445
till 04/01 3W6KM: Vietnam * by ES1AKM and ES1AX 443
till 25/12 4S7: Sri Lanka (AS-003) * by DL7FER 445
till 15/01 5H3MG: Tanzania * by IN3GNV 449
till 31/12 6W: Senegal * by F6BUM 450
till 26/12 7Q7BO: Malawi * by ZS5BBO 450
till 31/12 9A643KC: special event call 444
till 31/12 9A770N: special event station (Croatia) 422
till 04/01 DL2SCQ/C6A & DL1SCQ/C6A: North Bimini (NA-048) 449
till 31/12 DU67: special anniversary prefix 441
till 20/01 ER2000x: special Millennium stations (Moldova) 451
till 31/12 HB7OGR: special call 428
till 04/01 HR5/F2JD: Honduras 451
till 31/12 HS72A: special event call 443
till 31/03 IU0PAW: special event station 451
till April JD1BKR: Iwo-Jima (AS-030), Ogasawara 441
till 10/01 KH4/W4ZYV: Midway (OC-030) 445
till 29/02 LZ0A: South Shetlands (AN-010) * by LZ2UU 447
till 05/01 OT: special prefixes (Belgium) 449
till January P2OOOK: New Britain (OC-008) * by P29PB 441
till 01/01 P40AV: Aruba (SA-036) * by K4AVQ 450
till 28/12 PY0FT: Fernando de Noronha * by PY7FT & JA1WSK 449
till January PZ5DX: Suriname * by K3BYV 433
till ?? R1ANB/A, R1ANK, R1ANC: Russian Antarctic bases 447
till 03/01 TO2OOO: Guadeloupe (NA-102) * by ON4LCE 449
till 01/04 TZ6VV and TZ6YL: Mali 451
till ?? TZ6YV: Mali * by K7YV 446
till 01/04 V31JP: Belize * by K8JP 443
till 31/01 VR2K: special Millennium call (Hong Kong) 449
till January VQ9DX: Diego Garcia (AF-006), Chagos * by AA5DX 439
till 02/01 W1K: special station * by Old Barney ARC 449
till 07/01 W2M: special Millennium call (California) 450
till 10/01 XE1/G0JHC and XE1/G0ULN: Mexico 449
till 31/12 XW2A: Laos * by JA2EZD 438
till 26/12 XX9SAR: Macau * by JK2PNY/XX9TSS 449
till 21/01 YM21TA: special Millennium station * by TA3YJ & TA3J 450
till 12/01 YS: El Salvador * by HB9KNA 449
till May ZF2NT: Little Cayman (NA-016) * by N6NT 443
till March ZM: special Millennium prefix (New Zealand) 438
24/12-04/01 C56/G4MCK: The Gambia 451
from 24/12 HV0A: Vatican * by IK0FVC 450
25/12-08/01 8P9CW: Barbados (NA-021) * by N8DCJ 450
25/12-02/01 BT2000: special Millennium station (AS-137), China 450
25/12-15/04 K2ZR: Key West (NA-062) 451
25/12-14/01 UE4HNY and UE4HNT * by RW4HT 451
26/12-03/01 8Q7BX: Maldives (AS-013) * by I4ALU 445
26/12-04/01 T9/G4YRZ: Bosnia 451
26/12-03/01 XU7AAZ and XU7AAY: Cambodia * by IN3QBR and IN3ZNR 451
27/12-04/01 W2FXA/VP9: Devonshire Parish, Bermuda (NA-005) 449
27/12 W9DC/m: Cedar Key (NA-076) 450
27/12-02/01 YR2OOO: special Millennium call (Romania) 451
29/12-09/01 JI3DST/6: Tokara Archipelago (AS-049) 451
30/12-02/01 IR0MFP: special event station 451
31/12-14/01 3B8/I5JHW: Mauritius Island (AF-049) 449
31/12-05/01 HL0C/4: Soan Islands (AS-085) 451
31/12-29/02 M2000A: special call (England) * by Cray Valley RS 451
31/12 V63LJ: Ponape (OC-010), Micronesia * by JM1LJS 451
31/12-31/01 VC2K: special Millennium call * by VE2PJ 451
31/12-01/01 Happy New Year 2000 Contest 437
Dec-Jan CE8/ & CE9/R3CA: Antarctic base Patriot Hills 450
Dec-Apr P49MR: Aruba (SA-036) * by VE3MR 447
Dec -01/02 VP8NJS: Antarctic base Patriot Hills 446
01/01-31/12 2000 IOTA 2000 (http://www.cdxc.org.uk) ***
01/01-31/12 9AY2K: special Millennium station 451
01/01-31/12 II0CV: special call 451
01/01-15/01 N5T * by N5VT 449
01/01-31/12 SI75A & SIxSSA: SSA 75th anniversary stations (Sweden) 445
01/01-31/12 VK2OOO: special event station (Olympic Games) 451
01/01 ZM4IR * by K8VIR 451
02/01-07/01 KH2Y/KP2: Virgin Islands (NA-106) * by JA8RUZ 451
04/01-05/01 T88LJ: Palau (OC-009) * by JM1LJS 451
06/01-16/01 CE0Z: Juan Fernandez * by CE6TBN and others 443
10/01-10/04 9U5D: Burundi * by SM5DIC 450
13/01-06/02 XZ0A: Mergui Archipelago (AS-???) * by CADXA 447
13/01-Feb ZK1GNW, FO0PRE, A35NW, FW/IK2GNW, KH6/IK2GNW 451
21/01-22/01 6th International Contest/DX Meeting (Helsinki) 445
29/01-05/02 TM5CRO: Porquerolles (EU-070) * by F5RMY and others 451
31/01-03/03 ZM7ZB: Chatham Islands (OC-038) * by DJ4ZB 447
Jan-May VP6BR: Pitcairn (OC-044) * by OH2BR 449
January WY2OOO: special Millennium call 449
January /2K: Millennium suffix (British stations) 449
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