25 November 2000
No 499
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
4X - Riki, 4X4NJ will participate int The
ARRL 160 Meter CW Contest (1-3 December) as 4X3A. QSL via WA4WTG.
[TNX WA4WTG]
5R - The DX Newsletter reports that Sigi,
DJ4IJ has been active as 5R8GT from Madagascar since 17 November.
He will be there for another couple of weeks at least. QSL via
DK8ZD.
9M2 - Look for 9M2/JI1ETU to operate from
AS-058 (25-26 November), AS-074 (25-29 December) and AS-097 (on
29 December in his afternoon). [TNX JI6KVR]
9M6 - Hide/JH8KYU and Sei/JF1SQC are active
as 9M6SMT and 9M6HTT from Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia (OC-088)
until 27 November. They will participate in the CQ WW DX CW
Contest as 9M6SMT (M/S). QSL for both 9M6SMT and 9M6HTT via
JF1SQC. [TNX JH8KYU]
C5 - Peter, G2YT will be active (on all bands
80 to 10 metres SSB and possibly PSK31) as C56/G2YT from The
Gambia between 25 December and 5 January. Ron, G3NKO will have a
C56 callsign (not yet allocated) during approximately the same
dates but only on CW. [TNX G2YT]
D4 - Giorgio, I2VXJ is active from the QTH of
Angelo, D44BS (AF-005) until 27 November. He will participate in
the CQ WW DX CW Contest as D4A (SOAB). QSL D4A via I2MQP. [TNX
IV3TAN]
D6 - Josep, EA3BT and Nuria, EA3WL will be
active as D68BT and D68WL from the Comoros Islands (AF-007) from
13 through 28 January 2001. They will operate with two stations
on 10-80 metres (WARC bands included) SSB, RTTY with some CW.
QSLs via EA3BT (Josep Gibert, Col-legi 1, 08800 Vilanova i la
Geltru, Spain). Their web page is at http://www.qsl.net/ea3bt.
[TNX EA3BT]
DL - Club station call DL0KWH will be aired
on 1-31 December to celebrate the first radio broadcast
transmission in Germany which took place on 22 December 1920 from
Koenigs Wusterhausen. For further information please visit http://www.qsl.net/dl0kwh.
[TNX DL2VFR]
E4 - With deep regret Peter, E4/G3WQU reports
that "it has become impossible to continue operating from
Beit Jala, near Bethlehem in Palestine. My QTH was in the middle
of the gunfights and we have already moved away. I am expecting
to be reassigned in my job (UN) in the next couple of months, I
hope to another exotic prefix. Many thanks to everyone for the
great time, 23683 QSOs on CW (and 3 QSOs on SSB)".
EA - Pepe, EA5KB will operate from Isla
Baldovi (DIEI V-015, not IOTA) on 2 December and from Isla El
Campot (DIEI V-014, not IOTA) on the 3rd. [TNX EA5KB]
EN - Special station EN23RW will be activated
on 14-16 December from Slavutich, near Chernobyl. Logs will be
available at http://www.radio.cn.ua.
Special QSL via UX2RY either direct (Andre Asriyanz, P.O.Box 14,
Slavutich-3, Kiev obl., 07100, Ukraine) or through the buro. [TNX
UX2RY]
ER - Members of the Amateur Radio Society of
Moldova will use the special prefix ER2000 during December to
celebrate the end of the millennium. The following are expected
to operate on all bands and modes: ER2000A (QSL via ER1DA),
ER2000B (QSL via ER1BF), ER2000C (QSL via ER5AA), ER2000D (QSL
via ER4DX), ER2000F (QSL via ER1FF), ER2000O (QSL via ER1OO),
ER2000U (QSL via ER1AU), ER2000L (QSL via ER1LW), ER2000Z (QSL
via ER1ZZ). QSLs either direct or through the bureau. [TNX ER1BF]
ES - Jon Fredrik, LA7IL is active as ES/LA7IL
from Riga, where he works for the International Red Cross. QSL
via bureau to LA7IL. [TNX LA7RW]
FO - Alain, F2HE will be active (SSB and CW)
again as FO0CLA from early December for eight months at least. He
expectes to operate from Rangiroa (OC-066), French Polynesia and
possibly from Rurutu (OC-050), Austral Islands as well. [TNX
F6AJA and Les Nouvelles DX]
J8 - Gray, KQ6MW will operate as J8/KQ6MW
from Mustique Island (NA-025) starting on 3 December. He plans to
be active mainly during his evenings on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80
metres SSB and PSK31. [TNX The Daily DX]
JD1_oga - Eiji, JQ1SUO will operate (on
160-10 metres SSB and CW) as JQ1SUO/JD1 from Hahajima (AS-031),
Ogasawara starting on 30 December. [TNX JQ1SUO]
JW - Morten, LA9GY will be active as either
JW9GY and JW8G (during the ARRL 160 Meter Contest) on 1 and 4
December. More information at http://home.online.no/~antonsen.
[TNX LA9GY]
KH6 - Reportedly Jim, N6TJ has changed his
plans and will now participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as KH7R
from the Hawaiian Islands (not as ZD8Z from Ascension Ilsand,
425DXN 498). [TNX CX6VM]
P4 - Rob, W9RB will operate as P40RB from
Aruba (SA-036) between 27 November and 3 December, including an
entry in the ARRL 160 Meter CW Contest. QSL via W9RB. [TNX The
Daily DX]
PY0_fdn - Bill, W9VA will operate as PY0ZFO
from Fernando de Noronha (SA-003) on 6-13 December, including an
entry in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. Look for him on 160-6 metres
before and after the contest. QSL via W9VA. [TNX W9VA]
R1A_ssh - Oleg, UA1PBA is back to
Bellingshausen Base on King George Island, South Shetlands
(AN-010) for the current summer season and will operate from
R1ANF until mid March 2001. [TNX DL5EBE]
UR - Special station EO100UKB will be active
on all bands from Kiev region on 7-29 December. QSL via UR7UQ
either direct (P.O.Box 99, Kiev-10, 01010, Ukraine) or trough the
UARL bureau. [TNX UT2UB]
VK - Wally/VK6YS, Dan/VK8AN, Bruce/VK6CX,
Nigel/VK6KHD will operate as VK6BSI from Breaksea Island (Western
Australia State (South Coast) West Group, OC-???) between 18/19
and 22/23 January. Breaksea Island is a Class "A"
reserve and requires a special permit from the Conservation and
Land Management people in order to land and stay. QSL direct only
to VK4AAR (Alan Roocroft, P.O. Box 421, Gatton 4343, Australia).
VP2M - Graham, M0AEP will be active as VP2MDD
from Montserrat (NA-103) between 6 and 20 December. QSL via home
call. [TNX IK6FWJ]
W - Eight operators from the Southern
California DX Club (namely W6VX, KJ6Y, N6IC, N6FH, W8DX, WB9AWX,
K6FG and KG6OK) will be active (on 10-80 metres CW and SSB) from
Santa Catalina Island (NA-066) on 9-11 December. QSL via home
calls. [TNX W3UR]
ZL - Hans, SM3TLG will operate as ZL/SM3TLG
from Waiheke Island (OC-201) on 3-9 December. QSL to SM3TLG
either direct or through the bureau. [TNX SM3TLG]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
CQ WW DX CW CONTEST ---> Other
amateurs who have announced their participation in this
year's event include:
- Eduardo/CX1JK, Daniel/CX3JE and Mariana/CX1JJ as CX50.
QSL to P.O. Box 68.164, 50000 Salto, Uruguay.
- Dave/G3TBK, Nigel/G3TXF and Ian/G3WVG as J3G (M/S) from
Grenada (NA-024). QSL via G3TXF.
- Libor, OK2ZO as OL6R (SOAB). QSL via OK2ZR (bureau) or
direct to Radioclub OK2KLI, Trnkova 105, 62800 Brno,
Czech Republic.
- Fred, PY7ZZ as PY0FZ (SOSB, QSL via PY7ZZ or PY4KL) and
Andre, PY0FF (SOSB, QSL via W9VA) from Fernando de
Noronha (SA-003). [TNX CX1JJ, OK2ZO, The Daily DX]
IOTA ACTIVITY MONTH (DECEMBER) --->
Contacts made with the following IOTA island groups in
December will score three points towards the RSGB IOTA
Millennium Programme (IOTA 2000):
The CDXC web pages (http://www.cdxc.org.uk) contain the
full IOTA 2000 rules, island listings, the SM6DEC record
system and an FAQ page which is updated regularly. These
web pages also contain conversion tables between the new
IOTAs arising as a result of the publication of the IOTA
Directory 2000 and the old IOTAs that qualify for the
IOTA 2000 Programme.
D44CF ---> This was Henryk, SM0JHF,
who operated (CW only) from Mindelo, Sao Vicente Island
(AF-086) between 2 and 17 November. He has already sent a
copy of his licence to the ARRL DXCC Desk. QSL
(preferably direct) to SM0JHF. Do not send cards through
your bureau, as they will not be delivered: if you want a
bureau card, send an e-mail to sm0jhf@qsl.net and
Henryk will send the QSLs to the various national bureaux
as soon as he gathers a sufficient number of cards.
EP4PTT ---> This one-month old club
station [425DXN 493] is located in Shiraz and is
currently operated (on 20 metres SSB only) by Hamid,
EP3HR and Yar, EP3SP. The call has been pirated by
someone who gave RZ6LS as QSL manager [425DXN 498] -
please note that the QSL route for EP4PTT is the Iranian
bureau at the following address: C/O Directorate of
Telecommunications, P.O. Box 11365-931, Tehran, Iran.
[TNX EP3HR & W3HC]
FO0WEG & FO0POM ---> SP9FIH and
SQ9LR logged more than 15,000 QSOs in 11 days from Tubuai
(OC-152, Austral Islands) and some 5,300 QSOs in 4 days
from Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, OC-027). They operated
barefoot on 6-80 metres with a tribander, a vertical and
a 5-element beam for 50 MHz. QSLs are expected to be
mailed out at the end of December. QSL via SP9FIH (P.O.
Box 480, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland).
NORTH JERSEY DX ASSOCIATION --->
Newly elected officers of the North Jersey DX Association
(http://www.njdxa.org)
for the year 2001 are: Ron Levy, K2CO (President); Stefan
Kurylko, N2TN (Vice President); Steve Adell, KF2TI
(Secretary), Gene Ingraham, N2BIM (Treasurer). [TNX N2TN]
QSL 9M2/G3PMR ---> Alan, G3PMR
expects to have replied to all direct QSL requests for
his recent operation from Langkawi Island (AS-058) within
the next few days. E-mail requests for bureau cards are
welcome at g3pmr@shacklog.co.uk.
QSL BI2J ---> Mac, W3HC reports the
cards have arrived from the printers and expects to have
them done in a month. Requests are processed in the order
they are recived.
QSL IR4RCR ---> Gastone, I4GAS
reports all of the direct cards for IR4RCR (Rimini
Lighthouse, WAIL ER-002) have been mailed out, the rest
of the QSOs have been confirmed automatically through the
bureu.
QSL JD1BCK ---> Cards should be sent
(direct only) to the QSL manager, JM1TUK: Kazuyoshi Nasu,
3-12-11-201, Oda Kawasaki-Ku, Kawasaki 2100846, Japan.
Log search is available at http://www.vc-net.ne.jp/~nasuemon/jd1bck/jd1bck.html.
[TNX JM1TUK]
QSL UA1PAC/p & UA1PAO/p --->
Alan, UA1PAC reports the cards are finally expected to
arrive from the printer within a few days. He hopes to
process all the direct requests before Christmas, please
be patient and do not send duplicates. Alan and Serge,
UA1PAO plan to be active again from Vaygach Island
(EU-086) between 20 April and 7 May 2001. [TNX UA1PAC and
I5FLN]
QSL UA1QV/1 & UA1QM/1 ---> Yuri,
UA1RJ reports he has started processing direct requests
for UA1QV/1 and UA1QM/1 (EU-085, September 2000). It was
a 20-hour only operation (1806 QSOs), with bad weather
and bad propagation, and Mike, UA1QV is planning to
return there for 2-4 days. [TNX UA1RJ and UA1QV]
QSL VP6BR ---> Still waiting for your
direct VP6BR card? Jukka, OH2BR expects to process all
direct requests before Christmas (bureau cards will
follow), but if something is wrong with your request, you
will find it listed at http://www.qsl.net/oh2br/hospital.txt.
In that case you can send another request with SAE +
postage to OH2BR (P.O Box 37, FI-01361 Vantaa, Finland)
or e-mail Jukka (oh2br@kolumbus.fi)
to know what the problem is. [TNX OH2BR]
QSL ZB2CN ---> The correct QSL route
is via DJ9WH (not DJ9MH as mistyped in 425DXN 498). We
apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our
readers.
QSL ZK1YRE ---> Nando, IT9YRE expects
to start mailing out the cards for his recent operation
from Mangaia (OC-159) in early December. Direct cards
should be sent to Nando Rubino, P.O. Box 30, 96012 Avola
- SR, Italy (contributions welcome and to be used for
future IOTA activities).
QSL ZM8CW ---> Cards should be sent
to ZL3CW, whose CURRENT address is: Jacky Calvo, P.O. Box
593, Pukekohe 1800, New Zealand. Do not use the old POB
in Christchurch. [TNX ZL3CW]
QSL ZV7G ---> Cards should be sent to
either PT7AA (bureau cards accepted) or PY7MEU. ZV7G was
active from Santo Aleixo Island (SA-046) in September
1999. [TNX PT7WA]
RTTY CONTEST ---> The Mexican
International RTTY Contest, sponsored by the Federacion
Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores, will be held between
18 UTC on 3 February and 24 UTC on the 4th. For full
information please contact Jose Levy, XE1J (xe1j@ucol.mx) [TNX XE1J]
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
LOGS: Logs for all of FK8HC/p's
operations (DIFO FK-077, FK-078, FK-079, FK-083, FK-062)
are available at http://www.multimania.com/fk8hc,
as well as pictures from TX8EUT. [TNX FK8HC]
LOGS: Logs for the recent ZM8CW
operation by Jacky, ZL3CW/F2CW are now available at http://dx.qsl.net/logs.
[TNX N6RT]
LOOK425: This useful programme is for
searching for a string within your collection of 425DXN
bulletins. It is available in English (look425e.zip) and
other languages and can be downloaded at http://www.425dxn.org/software/.
PERIOD CALL REF
===========================================================================
01/01-31/12 IOTA 2000 (http://www.cdxc.org.uk) ***
till 27/11 3DA0NL: Swaziland 498
till 26/11 3W2AN: Vietnam * by CX3AN 497
till 26/11 3W2LWS: Vietnam * by WA1LWS 496
till 31/12 3Z: special prefix (Poland) 454
till February 4W6FK: East Timor * by CT1FKN 488
till 30/11 5B40: special prefix (Cyprus) 478
till end Nov 5C8M & CN8WW (CQ WW CW) * by DLs 497
till 26/11 8P9FX: Barbados (NA-021) * by G3RFX 497
till 29/11 8P9HT & 8P9Z: Barbados (NA-021) * by K4BAI 498
till 03/12 8Q7TX & 8Q7WW: Maldives (AS-013) * by DF4XX & DL5XAT 493
till 31/12 9AY2K: special Millennium station 451
till ?? A35TO & A35MO: Lifuka (OC-169) 497
till 29/11 C6AKP: South Bimini (NA-048) * by N4RP 498
till 28/11 K3TEJ/C6A & C6AKW: Abaco (NA-080) 495
till 28/11 C6A/WA3WSJ: Abaco Island (NA-080) 498
till 27/11 FO/TK5PB: Hao Atoll (OC-066), French Polynesia 497
till 01/12 GD4UOL: Isle of Man (EU-116) * by G4UOL 493
till 31/12 HB2: special Y2K prefix (Switzerland) 453
till December HF0POL: South Shetlands (AN-010) * by SP3GVX 490
till 31/12 HF70PZK: special event station (Poland) 453
till 03/12 HI3K: Dominican Republic * by AD4Z 497
till 30/11 DL2DXA/HI9: Dominican Republic 497
till end Nov HS0/G4UZN: Thailand 497
till 31/12 II0CV: special call 451
till 24/12 II0: special jubilee prefix 452
till 31/12 IR5ONU: special event station 485
till 31/12 IU0PAW: Jubilee Year special station 468
till 27/11 J75KG: Dominica (NA-101) * by K5AF and K5KG 498
till 28/11 J79GU: Dominica (NA-101) * by DL7VOG 497
till 03/12 KP2/OK5DX: Virgin Is. (NA-106) * by OK DX Foundation 498
till 27/11 NH0S, NH0V, KH0/KD6CJF, KH0/JQ1UKK: OC-086 493
till 27/11 P29VPY & P29VCR: Loloata (OC-240) * by K1XM and KQ1F 498
till end Nov W0CG, KU8E, W9EFL, KP2L/PJ2 + PJ2T: Curacao (SA-006) 497
till March R1ANF: South Shetlands (AN-010) 499
till 31/12 SI75A & SIxSSA: SSA 75th anniversary stations (Sweden) 445
till 31/12 SP2000S and SN2000C: special stations 496
till 31/12 SY2A: Mount Athos * by SV2ASP/A 459
till 28/11 TI5/K9NW & TI5N: Costa Rica 498
till 28/11 TS7N: Kerkennah Is (AF-073) * by DLs 493
till 2001 UA0QBA: Kotelny Island (AS-028) 477
till 30/11 UE4SMA: special event station 495
till 31/12 UE9XAB and UE9XAC: special stations 497
till 27/11 VE2IM: Zone 2 * by VA3UZ 497
till 30/11 VI5RAS: special event call 495
till 17/12 VK0MM: Macquarie Island 497
till 28/02 VQ9PO: Diego Garcia (AF-006) * by W3PO 495
till December VQ9QM: Chagos (AF-006) * by W4QM 482
till 02/12 XV9SW: Vietnam * by SM5MX 498
till 29/11 YJ0PD & YJ0V: Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu * by Prairie DXG 495
till 28/11 ZF2AM, ZF2RR, ZF2LA, ZF2YL: Cayman Isls (NA-016) 497
till 03/12 ZK1VVV: South Cook Islands * by W7VV 498
till 10/12 ZK2VF: Niue (OC-040) * by W7TVF 491
till 31/12 ZS0M: South Africa * by ZS6MG 477
16/11-12/12 J8/G0WHP or J8xx: St. Vincent 497
18/11-03/12 S92DX: Principe Island (AF-044) * by DA1MH 497
25/11-26/11 9M2/JI1ETU: AS-058 499
25/11-11/12 HC1MD & HC1MD/HCx: Ecuador * by NE8Z 493
25/11-26/11 CQ WW DX Contest (CW) ***
26/11 (???) KL7USI: IOTA new one 471
27/11-03/12 P40RB: Aruba (SA-036) * by W9RB 499
28/11-01/12 YC9BU/p: Timor Barat's Coastal Islands (OC-???) 498
Nov-Dec 5R8GT: Madagascar * by DJ4IJ 499
Nov-Jan JW3FL: Bear Is. (EU-027) * by LA3FL 497
November S21YD: Bangladesh * by SM6CPY 495
01/12-12/12 A52UD and A52AP: Bhutan * by K4VUD and 9M6US 498
01/12-31/12 DL0KWH: commemorative station 499
01/12-04/12 JW9GY and JW8G: Svalbard * by LA9GY 499
01/12-03/12 ARRL 160 Meter Contest ***
02/12 EA5KB: Isla Baldovi (DIEI V-015) 499
03/12 EA5KB Isla El Campot (DIEI V-014) 499
from 03/12 J8/KQ6MW: Mustique Island (NA-025) 499
03/12-09/12 ZL/SM3TLG: Waiheke Island (OC-201) 499
05/12-12/12 FS/W2JJ: St. Martin (NA-105) 495
06/12-20/12 VP2MDD: Montserrat (NA-103) * by M0AEP 499
07/12-29/12 EO100UKB: special station 499
08/12-12/12 AA1AC/VP9: Bermuda (NA-005) 495
09/12-10/12 PC50N: special event station (The Netherlands) 497
09/12-11/12 W6: Santa Catalina Island (NA-066) * by W6s 499
09/12-10/12 ARRL 10 Meter Contest ***
10/12-18/12 V47UY: St. Kitts (NA-104) * by KJ4UY 497
14/12-16/12 EN23RW: special station 499
15/12-25/12 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
18/12-02/01 Lighthouse Christmas Lights 497
19/12-05/01 DU7/G3IZM: Guimeras Island (OC-129) 495
25/12-29/12 9M2/JI1ETU: AS-074 499
25/12-05/01 C56/G2YT: The Gambia 499
29/12 9M2/JI1ETU: AS-097 499
from 30/12 JQ1SUO/JD1: Hahajima (AS-031), Ogasawara 499
December ER2000: special Millennium prefix 499
from December FO0CLA: French Polynesia and Australs (?) * by F2HE 499
02/01-05/01 T88DX: Palau (OC-009) * by JI3DLI 493
05/01-16/01 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
13/01-28/01 D68BT & D68WL: Comoros (AF-007) * by EA3BT & EA3WL 499
13/01-14/01 Hunting Lions in the Air Contest 498
18/01-22/01 VK6BSI: Breaksea Island (OC-???) * by VKs 499
January JW3FL: Hopen Is. (EU-063) Isls * by LA3FL 497
06/02-16/02 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
07/02-15/02 3D2: Conway Reef * by YT1AD and others 495
08/02-28/02 D68C: Comoros Islands (AF-007) 495
February CE0XT: San Ambrosio (SA-013) * by CE6TBN and others 495
20/03-30/03 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
05/04-24/04 3D2: Conway Reef * by SM6CAS, SM7PKK and others 493
from 05/05 3B6RF: Agalega (AF-001) 497
31/05-10/06 JW: Prins Karls Forland (EU-063) 495
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