23 December 2000
No 503
*** 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
3V - Antonio, IK7YZG reports he will be
operating from 3V8BB on 4-6 January. QSL for this operation
direct only to IK7YZG (Antonio Cicerale, Via Risorgimento 99,
71016 San Severo - FG, Italy).
3Y_bou - Chuck Brady, N4BQW has been active
as 3Y0C from Bouvet (AN-002) since 16 December. He will be on the
island with a group of scientists for four months; this is not a
DXpedition and Chuck will operate when time allows. He will have
access to a generator for approximately 12 hours a day and will
will use a large banks of batteries when the generator is not
available. Chuck is currently active on 10, 15 and 20 metres, but
in due course he expects to operate on other bands. His amateur
radio equipment includes an amplifier, vertical antennas for
160-40 metres and beams for 30-10 metres. Please note that Chuck
usually works SSB; he uses a hand key for his very limited CW
operations, so beware of pirates. QSL via WA4FFW, but please
refrain from sending cards until an address is posted in early
January. Logs will not be in hand until after Chuck's return to
the US sometime in April. Check http://www.qsl.net/zr1dq
for the latest information from the island. [TNX The Daily DX and
others]
7Q - Harry, G0JMU will be activating his
7Q7HB call again for a month in February. His past SSTV, PSK31
and WARC band operations proved very popular: "let me know
what your requirements are", Allan/G0IAS (g0ias@amsat.org) says,
"and if it is possible, we should be able to help".
A5 - Glenn (W0GJ/A52GJ) will be working at
the hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan from 29 December until early
February. Glenn, his son Mark (N0MJ/A52MJ) and other members of
the Johnson family - namely Vivien (KL7YL/A52VJ), Melissa
(N0MAJ/A52YL), Carrie (N0CMJ) and Paul (W0PRJ) - hope to be on
the air on all bands and modes, with an emphasis on the low bands
at sunrise and sunset. QSL via home calls. [TNX The Daily DX]
EI - The Emerald Isle Contest and DX Group
(EI9I) will operate the special millennium call EI2OOO on 25 and
31 December from the western part of Ireland. Activity is
expected on CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via the bureau. [TNX EI7IQ]
FO_fp - Wolfgang/DL1AWI, Matthias/DL5XU,
Peter/DL3APO and Birgit/DG0OBN will operate (on 10-160 metres CW,
SSB with some RTTY and possibly SSTV) from Rangiroa (OC-066),
French Polynesia between 27 January and 10 February. QSL via the
DARC bureau or direct to DL3APO (Peter Kohde, Wurgwitzer Str. 36,
01187 Dresden, Germany). Logs will be available after the
activity at http://www.radioklub.de/cgcg. [TNX DL3APO]
FO_mar - Wolfgang/DL1AWI and Matthias/DL5XU
will be active as FO0/home call from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas
(OC-027) between 11 and 28 February. QSL via the DARC bureau or
direct to DL1AWI (Wolfgang Ziegler, Arno-Schlothauer-Str. 15,
99842 Ruhla, Germany). [TNX DL3APO]
GW - WW2R, GW5NF and G4VXE will be active on
RTTY as MW2I for the ARRL RTTY Roundup (6-7 January). QSL via
WW2R. [TNX G4FRE]
LU_ant - Pavel, EM1KY is now active as
LU1Z/UT1KY from the "Refuego Naval Groussac" on
Peterman Island (AN-006). [TNX DL5EBE]
OA - Radio amateurs from Peru are using the
4T special prefix through 31 December to to celebrate the 70th
anniversary of Radio Club Peruano. The official club station uses
the special call OA70O. Look for 4T4AHW, 4T4AMN, 4T4BHY, 4T4DKC,
4T4DJW, 4T4CVT and others ito be active on all bands and modes.
QSL via operator's instruction or OA4O. [TNX OA4AHW]
OZ - Joe, M0AXP/OZ3CF plans to operate from
5P1ER (the European Radiocommunications Office ARC in Denmark, http://www.ero.dk/carc/)
probably on 28 December from around 11 UTC till 17 UTC on +/-
28040, 21040 and 14040 kHz. This will be the last operation as
5P1ER, as of 1 January 2001 the call will cease to exist and will
be assigned a new OZ0 call. QSL via M0AXP. [TNX G3PMR]
P2 - Steve, VK8AM/VK4EMS is now operating
from Bougainville Island (OC-135) as P29BI in his very limited
spare time. He will be QRV on all bands (except 160 metres) CW
and SSB till the end of January. QSL to VK4EJ (Bernie McIvor, 30
Brennan Parade, Strathpine QLD 4500, Australia). [TNX VK4EJ]
S2 - Look for Junji, JA7KXD to operate as
S21YT from Bangladesh between 27 December and 2 January. QSL via
JA7KXD (Junji Ogawa, 2-3-51, Kimachidori, Aoba-ku, Sendai-city
980-0801, Japan. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
SM - Kungalv Radio Club, SK6NL will be active
as SI900TKM from 1 January through 31 December. Further
information will be available at http://www.listen.to/sk6nl.
QSL via SK6NL. [TNX SM6VVT]
T8 - Koji, JK7TKE plans to operate as T88TU
from Belau (OC-009) between 27 and 31 December. QSL via JK7TKE
either direct (Koji Fukui 1840-5, Izumi-cho, Tokorozawa-city,
Saitama 359-1112, Japan) or through the JARL bureau. [TNX QRZ-DX]
TG - Special station TD0G will be activated
(on 80, 40, 20 and 25 metres) by several operators on 26-28
January from the ancient Maya town of Yasha, some 600 kilometres
north of Guatemala City. [TNX TG9AAK and EA5KB]
VE - Look for VE2DX to operate (on +/- 14260,
21260, 28450 and possibly 7070 and 50125 kHz) from Jesus Island
(CISA PQ-014) between 23 December and 3 January. Most operations
will be between 10 UTC and 15 UTC, but the station might operate
also around 20 UTC to 3 UTC. QSL via VE2STN (Richard G.
Desaulniers, 461, Romeo, Ste-Dorothee, Laval, Quebec, Canada H7X
1R2). [TNX VE2STN]
VU_ant - Look for Vic to operate as VU/R1AND
from Indian Antarctic base "Maitri" on 24 December. QSL
via DL5EBE (please note that cards for R1AND, VU/R1AND and
R1AND/A will be printed when Vic returns to Europe, ie not before
May 2001). [TNX DL5EBE]
W - Harry, AA2WN will operate from time to
time from Finns Point Rear Range Light during the Christmas
Lights Event, now through 2 January. [TNX AA2WN]
W - Special event call K1D will be aired (on
28400, 21310, 14270 and 7230 kHz) between 23 December and 6
January to celebrate Kid's Day (6 January) and Amateur Radio
Awareness. The operators will be Peter (W1DAD) and Jeanne (K1MOM)
Schipelliti, 7 Dearborn Ridge Rd, Atkinson, NH 03811, USA. [TNX
W1DAD].
W - The Marconi Radio Club, W1AA (http://personal.tmlp.com/k1vv/w1aa)
will operate from Cape Cod (Massachusetts) as W1AA/CC to
celebrate the 98th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first
transatlantic radio transmission between Cape Cod and England
("CC" was Marconi's first call sign for his
transatlantic Cape Cod Station). Operations will take place with
two stations (CW and SSB on 20-10 metres) from 12 through 22 UTC
on 18 January. QSL via the W1 Bureau (for DX stations) or direct
to the W1AA CBA (for US stations). [TNX K1VV]
ZC4 - The OPDX Bulletin reports that the ZC4
club station should be up and running as ZC4ESB (Eastern
Sovereign Base) on all bands and modes for the next three years
at least, most contests included. The operators are Steve/ZC4BS,
Des/ZC4DW and Graham/ZC4GK.
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
ACTIVITY POSTPONED ---> Dan, N6PEQ
has postponed his Fiji and South Cook Islands operation,
originally planned to take place from 16 December to 6
January [425DXN 502]. He now hopes to make the trip in
the spring or summer of 2001.
160 METRES ---> The Stew Perry
TopBand DX Challenge will be run from 15 UTC on 30
December to 15 UTC on the 31st. For further information
please visit http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html. [TNX
The Daily DX]
QSL 4K9C ---> Ben, PA3EPG reports he
is the new QSL manager for Boris and can confirm contacts
made from 30 October 2000. QSL to Ben van Leeuwen,
Zwolseweg 57, 8181 AC Heerde, The Netherlands.
QSL BA4DW ---> David reports that
some sources available on the Internet give an incorrect
address. Please note that his correct address is: David
Y. J. Zhou, P.O. Box 040-088, Shanghai, 200040, China.
QSL EU-165 ---> Elio, IS0AGY reports
the cards for the 18-20 August IM0/IS0BMU operation (logs
available at http://www.is0agy.org) from Isola dei
Cavoli will be ready at the end of the year.
QSL FO5RA ---> The QSL manager is
KM5M, who welcomes either direct and bureau cards. [TNX
KM5M]
QSL FS/W2JJ ---> If yu worked this
station between 5 and 12 December please note that the
correct address for W2JJ is P.O. Box 244, Allamuchy, NJ
07820, USA. Bureau cards are welcome. [TNX KF2HC]
QSL TS7N ---> The QSL cards for the
recent TS7N operation (some 46,500 QSOs, including a M/S
entry in the CQ WW CW Contest with a claimed score of
15,548,673 points) from the Kerkennah Islands (AF-073)
will be ready to be sent out in January. TS7N was
activated on all bands an modes by a group of 13
operators from Germany, Italy and Japan from 15 to 27
November. QSL via DL6BCF either direct (Britt Koester,
Putzstr. 9, 45144 Essen, Germany) or through the bureau.
The web site for the operation is at http://www.qsl.net/ts7n.
[TNX DJ7IK]
QSL VIA F6AUS ---> Serge reports he
has started processing the requests for his J8 trip to
Bequia Island (NA-025). Direct cards can be sent to
either Serge Soulet, Les Hautes Rivieres, F-79800
Sainte-Eanne, France or Serge Soulet, P.O. Box 54,
F-79402 Saint-Maixent-L'Ecole, France.
PERIOD CALL REF
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01/01-31/12 IOTA 2000 (http://www.cdxc.org.uk) ***
18/12-02/01 Lighthouse Christmas Lights 497
till April 3Y0C: Bouvet (AN-002) * by N4BQW 503
till 31/12 3Z: special prefix (Poland) 454
till February 4W6FK: East Timor * by CT1FKN 488
till 31/12 4T: special prefix (Peru) 503
till 31/12 9AY2K: special Millennium station 451
till 31/12 DL0KWH: commemorative station 499
till 29/12 EO100UKB: special station 499
till 23/12 HB0/DM2AUJ: Liechtenstein 501
till 31/12 HB2: special Y2K prefix (Switzerland) 453
till 31/12 HF70PZK: special event station (Poland) 453
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 28/12 J6/LA4LN: St. Lucia (NA-108) 501
till 25/12 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
till May JW3FL: Bear Is. (EU-027) * by LA3FL 497
till 31/01 P29BI: Bougainville Island (OC-135) * by VK4EMS 503
till March R1ANF: South Shetlands (AN-010) 499
till 26/12 S79OK: Seychelles (AF-024) * by OK1DTP 502
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 2001 UA0QBA: Kotelny Island (AS-028) 477
till 31/12 UE9XAB and UE9XAC: special stations 497
till 28/02 VQ9PO: Diego Garcia (AF-006) * by W3PO 495
till December VQ9QM: Chagos (AF-006) * by W4QM 482
till 31/12 ZS0M: South Africa * by ZS6MG 477
18/12-02/01 MM5PSL: Sumburgh Head Lighthouse (Shetland Isls) 502
19/12-05/01 DU7/G3IZM: Guimeras Island (OC-129) 495
22/12-06/01 9M8CC: East Malaysia * by PB4CC 502
22/12-06/01 V47SS: Nevis (NA-104) * by DF2SS 501
22/12-24/12 VU2HR2000: special event station 501
23/12-06/01 K1D: special event call 503
23/12-27/12 KH0/JA4GXS, KH0/JF4LNO, KH0/JN4AWW: OC-086 501
23/12-03/01 VE2DX: Jesus Island (CISA PQ-014) 503
23/12-30/12 VK9CEH: Cocos Keeling (OC-003) * by AA4EH 502
24/12 VU/R1AND: Antarctic base "Maitri" 503
25/12-29/12 9M2/JI1ETU: AS-074 499
25/12-05/01 C56/G2YT: The Gambia 499
25/12 EI2OOO: special millennium call 503
from 27/12 9A5ID: EU-136 501
27/12-02/01 S21YT: Bangladesh * by JA7KXD 503
27/12-31/12 T88TU: Belau (OC-009) * by JK7TKE 503
27/12-08/01 XW3QBR: Laos * by IN3QBR 502
27/12-05/01 XW3ZNR: Laos * by IN3ZNR 502
28/12 5P1ER: special ARC station (Denmark) * by M0AXP/OZ3CF 503
28/12-04/01 J7/LA4LN: Dominica (NA-101) 501
28/12-30/12 PA/ON5FP/P: Texel Island (EU-038) 501
28/12-08/01 T20CK: Tuvalu (OC-015) * by HB9BCK 501
29/12 9M2/JI1ETU: AS-097 499
from 29/12 A52GJ, A52MJ, A52VJ, A52YL: Bhutan 503
30/12-07/01 JI3DST/6: Daito Islands (AS-047) 501
30/12-03/01 JQ1SUO/JD1: Hahajima (AS-031), Ogasawara 499
30/12-03/01 T88HA & T88MY: Palau (OC-009) * by JK1FNN & 7L1MKM 501
30/12-31/12 The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge 503
31/12 EI2OOO: special millennium call 503
December ER2000: special Millennium prefix 499
from December FO0CLA: French Polynesia and Australs * by F2HE 501
Dec-Apr P40MR: Aruba (SA-036) * by VE3MR 500
01/01-21/12 SI900TKM: special call (Sweden) 503
02/01-05/01 T88DX: Palau (OC-009) * by JI3DLI 493
04/01-06/01 3V8BB: Tunisia * by IK7YZG 503
05/01-16/01 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
06/01-07/01 IB0/IK8VRH, IK8UHA, IK8OZZ, IK8YTF: EU-045 502
07/01-12/01 PS5J: special event station (Brazil) 501
12/01-27/01 8Q7RR: Maldives (AS-013) * by IZ1CRR 502
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
18/01 W1AA/CC: special event call 503
26/01-28/01 TD0G: special station (Guatemala) 503
27/01-10/02 FO: OC-066, Fr.Pol. * by DL1AWI,DL5XU,DL3APO,DG0OBN 503
January JW3FL: Hopen Is. (EU-063) Isls * by LA3FL 497
06/02-16/02 JA6GXK: Me-shima, Danjo Islands (AS-056) 495
08/02-28/02 D68C: Comoros Islands (AF-007) 501
11/02-28/02 FO: OC-027, Marquesas * by DL1AWI and DL5XU 503
18/02-27/02 3D2: Conway Reef * by YT1AD and others 501
February-March Pacific Trip by I6BQI (A35BQ, ZK2BQI, ecc) 502
February 7Q7HB: Malawi * by G0JMU 503
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
21/04-22/04 Holyland DX Contest 500
05/05-18/05 3B6RF: Agalega (AF-001) 502
31/05-10/06 JW: Prins Karls Forland (EU-063) 495
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