5 May 2001
No 522
*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION ****
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
DXCC Most Wanted Survey - The results of the
recent 425 DX News DXCC Most Wanted survey will be published in
425DXN #523. Many thanks to all those who participated.
3A - Look for 3A/IK5GQK (Fabrizio), 3A/IK5YOJ
(Giuseppe), 3A/IW5BZQ (Stefano), and 3A/IW5EDQ (Virginio) to
operate from Monaco (WWL JN33RR) on 1-3 June. They will be active
on 6 metres (SSB, RTTY, PSK31), 2 metres (SSB) and on the HF
bands (SSB, RTTY, PSK31, SSTV); skeds are welcome at 3a@mannelli.com also during the
operation. Latest information and on-line logs at http://www.mannelli.com/3a.
QSL direct to IW5BZQ for contacts made on 6 and 2 metres (Stefano
Mannelli, P.O. Box 569, 50123 Firenze Centro - FI, Italy) and to
IK5GQK for contacts made on HF (Fabrizio Vannini, Via Forlanini
68, 50127 Firenze - FI, Italy). [TNX IW5BZQ]
3B6 - There has been an unexpected change in
travel plans for the 3B6RF DXpedition, as the team had to take a
boat from the Seychelles to Agalega instead of flying. The voyage
(17-19 hours) was expected to start on 4 May around 17 local
time. Once on the island, they will immediately start assembling
the equipment in order to have the first station up and running
as soon as possible. [TNX K6GNX]
5V - Daniele, IV3TDM will operate from
Atakpame, Togo between 5 and 16 May (licence to be issued upon
arrival). He will be active in his spare time with 100 watts on
all bands SSB, with special attention to the low frequencies. QSL
via IV3TDM either direct or through the ARI bureau. [TNX IV3TDM]
8P & V2 - Conny, DL1DA will operate from
Antigua (NA-100) between 5 and 11 May. Then he will move to
Barbados (NA-021) and be active as 8P9BK between 12 and 17 May.
He plans to operate on 10-40 metres (and if he can install a
longwire on 80 and 160 metres as well) CW. QSL via DL1DA. [TNX
The Daily DX]
HK0_mal - Pedro, HK3JJH/HK0M is expected to
go QRT from Malpelo on 7 May. QSL via N4AA (Carl Smith, P.O. Box
249, Leicester, NC 28748-0249, USA).
JA - Haru, JA1CG will operate as 8J1SAI on
6-7 May from the newly created Saitama City, for which a new JCC
number (1344) has been issued by JARL. Look for him on +/- 21.330
kHz. QSL via JA1CG. [TNX N6VR]
KH2 - JA1RTG, JF1CPE, JI1EOP, JK1EBA, JR3OET,
JA5AGW and JI0PFJ will be active (on 40, 20, 17, 15, 10 and 6
metres CW and SSB) as KH2/JM1YGG from Guam (OC-026) between 8 UTC
on 10 May and 1 UTC on the 13th. QSL either via bureau to JM1YGG
or direct to JA1RTG. [TNX JH1BAM]
SV - Steve, G4EDG intends to operate from
Kythira Island (EU-113) as SV8/G4EDG and possibly from EU-158 as
SV3/G4EDG starting approximately on 7 May for 2 weeks. It will be
a backpacking trip and operation will be on 20 metres CW only
with 5 Watts to a dipole. QSL via home call. [TNX G4EDG]
TT8 - Eric, F5JKK will be back to Chad the
second or third week of May and hopes to operate on 6 metres and
HF (CW, RTTY, PSK31 and some SSTV) as TT8JE. He will concentrate
on 10, 12, 17, 30 and 6 metres (50200 kHz). QSL via F6FNU. [TNX
The Daily DX]
UA - Nick, RK1PWA reports that UA1PBP/9 will
be active from AS-089 for two weeks starting on 5 May. QSL via
RK1PWA. [TNX VA3RJ]
W - Operators from the United Radio Amateur
Club, N6UB will be active (on 10-40 metres CW, SSB and PSK31)
from Santa Catalina Island (NA-066) on 11-14 May. QSL via N6UB.
[TNX The Daily DX]
YB - Adi, YC3MM plans to be active during the
ARI International DX Contest (5-6 May) as YC3MM/5 from OC-075.
QSL via IZ8CCW. [TNX IZ8CCW]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
3W7D ---> The 3W7D operation from Tam
Island (AS-157) started on 26 April around 14 UTC on 20
and 15 metres SSB; Terry, BD7NQ reports the station
signing 3W7D on 21.040 MHz CW between 7 UTC and 15.30 UTC
was a pirate.
AS-154 ---> For those who asked:
YM0KG was a special call used during the recent operation
from Giresun Island (AS-154). This call belongs to TA7KG,
the Turkish Radio Amateur Club branch in the town of
Giresun. [TNX TA2DS - TRAC HQ Vice President]
DCI ---> For information on the newly
born Italian Castles Award (Diploma dei Castelli
d'Italia), sponsored by ARI Mondovi', please visit http://utenti.tripod.it/dci
or contact the Award Manager (Pier Giovanni Uberti,
IK1NPP) at dci_info@tin.it.
PATHFINDER ---> Pathfinder is a free
program that makes it easy to find QSL information from
more than 100 web-accessible sources. See http://www.qsl.net/pathfinder/
for additional information and download, or use the
Pathfinder Web Client, which requires no downloading or
installation (http://www.qsl.net/pathfinder/WebClient/).
[TNX AA6YQ]
QSL FW5ZL ---> Cards for contacts on
6 metres should be sent to JA3EMU (Toshiyuki Tanaka,
11-22 Higashi-kourishinmachi, Hirakata city, Osaka
573-0077, Japan). QSLs for contacts on HF bands should be
sent direct to FW5ZL (Guy Petit de la Rhodiere, B.P. 2,
F-98600 Mata-Utu, France) [TNX JA3AAW]
QSL H44NC ---> Norried, H44NC will be
leaving New Georgia (OC-149) shortly to return to the USA
for approximatey 12 months. He will be carrying the H44NC
logs from July 2000 onwards with him. As of 1 May 2001
QSL cards for H44NC should be sent (direct only) to:
Norried F. Chaisson, P.O. Box 2262, Springfield, MO
65801, USA. QSLs before July 2000 will still be answered
but only after returning to H4. [TNX VK2CA]
QSL PW0S ---> Steve, KU9C reports he
expects the cards to to arrive at his QTH on 11 May. If
this happens on schedule, he plans to issue all direct
QSL cards that are clean in the log by 15 May.
QSL R2/DK8LV ---> Stephan, DK8LV
reports he has still to process the requests received so
far for his operation from Kalinigrad last year. Cards
were received from the printer in December 2000, but the
call was wrong (R2/DL8LV!) and he is still waiting for
the new QSLs to arrive. If he does not receive the cards
by the end of April, he will look for a new printer.
Please be patient. [TNX IK4NQL]
QSL UT2VU/DU7 ---> Cards for Oleg's
recent activity from the Philippines should be sent to
US1VA (P.O. Box 23, Kirovograd-9, 25009, Ukraine). Please
note that according to Oleg cards are not likely to be
sent out before December-January. [TNX UT2VU]
QSL NOT VIA PA3EPG ---> Ben, PA3EPG
reports he is no longer the QSL manager for 4K5CW,4K9C
and 4J4K. He can confirm contacts made through 31 March
2001. Cards should be sent to Ben van Leeuwen, Zwolseweg
57, 8181 AC Heerde, The Netherlands.
WAIL ---> For information on the
Worked All Italian Lighthouses Award please visit http://www.425dxn.org/awards/wail/
or http://www.ari.it/wail.html,
or contact the Award Manager (Paolo Garavaglia, IK1NLZ)
at ik1nlz@425dxn.org.
The WAIL programme was created in 2000 and the first
certificates have been issued to the following amateurs
(their relevant score is between brackets) in the Italy,
Europe and Outside Europe sections: IS0JMA (24), I0SBA
(17), IK1WGX (16), IK8OZP (16), I4GAS (15), IZ1ANU (15),
IZ8DBJ (15); SP5PB (15); K2XF (6).
NEWS FROM THE WEB - Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
3B6RF: For the latest information on the
DXpedition to Agalega please visit http://www.agalega2000.ch.
LOGS: The logs for the recent operation
by IE9/IZ8AJQ and IE9/IZ8DBJ from Ustica (NA-051), and
its lighthouses Punta Omo Morto (WAIL SI-027) and Cavezzi
(WAIL SI-028), are available at http://go.to/ustica2001.
[TNX IZ8AJQ]
Most Needed DXCC Entities - Part 2/2. The
following survey is taken from the newly published ARRL DXCC
Yearbook 2000 and includes the other 50 of the top 100 entities
needed by DXers who participate in the DXCC programme (data taken
from the 21,000 Mixed DXCC records). Part 1/2 (positions from 1
to 50) was published in 425 DX News #520. [TNX The Daily DX]
Rank Prefix Country Rank Prefix Country
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51 S2 Bangladesh 76 R1M Malyy Vysotskiy Island
52 1S Spratly Isls 77 3D2R Rotuma
53 TI9 Cocos I. 78 YI Iraq
54 ZD9 Tristan da Cunha & Gough 79 CE0Z Juan Fernandez Isls
55 FO/C Clipperton Island 80 KP5 Desecheo Island
56 KH5 Palmyra & Jarvis Isls 81 D6 Comoros
57 Z3 Macedonia 82 ET Ethiopia
58 VP8/O South Orkney Isls 83 KH9 Wake Island
59 VK9/X Christmas Island 84 TY Benin
60 T5 Somalia 85 KH7K Kure Island
61 VK9/C Cocos-Keeling Isls 86 JD1/M Minami Torishima
62 T9 Bosnia-Herzegovina 87 CY0 Sable Island
63 TT Chad 88 OM Slovak Republic
64 ZK3 Tokelau Isls 89 KH4 Midway Islands
65 5R8 Madagascar 90 3W Vietnam
66 S0 Western Sahara 91 JX Jan Mayen
67 KP1 Navassa 92 3X Guinea
68 3V Tunisia 93 ZC4 UK Bases on Cyprus
69 3B9 Rodriguez Island 94 9N Nepal
70 3C Equatorial Guinea 95 T8 Palau
71 ST Sudan 96 VP8 South Shetlands
72 YK Syria 97 T2 Tuvalu
73 XU Cambodia 98 5X Uganda
74 OK Czech Republic 99 CY9 St. Paul Island
75 ZK1/N North Cook Islands 100 8Q Maldive Islands
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