14 December 2002
No 606
4 2 5 D X N E W S DX INFORMATION
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
4W - Dan Holloway, VK8AN will be active as
4W6AN from Dili, East Timor from around 19 December through the
end of the year. Due to limited notice and possible impermanence,
Dan will only be putting out about 15 watts and the antennas will
be a GP and a dipole to start with, but an amplifier is being
considered. Look for him on the usual DX and IOTA frequencies
from 40 to 10 metres. QSL direct only via VK4AAR (Alan Roocroft,
P.O. Box 421, Gatton 4343, Australia). [TNX VK4AAR]
7P - Andre, ZS6WPX will be active as 7P8ZZ
from Lesotho on 13-17 December, inluding an entry in the ARRL 10
Meter Contest. QSL direct only to Andre van Wyk, P.O. Box 1220,
JHB International Airport 1627, South Africa. Check http://www.kb2erj.com/zs6wpx/7p8zz/
for more informations. [TNX ZS6WPX]
D4 - Fabio, I4UFH reports he will be active
as D44TD on 12-16 December, ARRL 10 Meter Contest included. QSL
via CT1EKF.
FO - Ron, W6OM will be active (mostly on 40,
80 and 160 metres CW) as FO5VO from Bora Bora (OC-067), French
Polynesia on 16-20 December. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily
DX]
KH0 - Look for KH0/JA1HOD, KH0/JA1UII,
KH0/JJ1CDY and KH0/JA3MVI to be active from Saipan from around 6
UTC on 14 December through around 1 UTC on 17 December. They plan
to operate on 160-10 metres CW and SSB, with some activity on 6
metres if conditions are favourable. QSL via home calls. [TNX
JA3MVI/1]
KH3 - The Daily DX reports that Bert, V73GOD
will be on Johnston Atoll "on a frequent but unscheduled
basis". While there he will use the club station's call
KJ6BZ for which he is the trustee.
KH6 - W1HH/KH6 will be active from Hawaii on
18-31 December. This will be a QRP operation, look for him 5 KHz
up from band edge on 20 and 15 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX
W1HH]
LU_ant - The next schedule with LU1ZD,
operating from "General San Martin" base (AN-016, WABA
LU-11) is on 20 December at 22.30 UTC on 21365 kHz. [TNX WC6DX]
SP - The following twelve special event
station will be active from Poland from 15 December through 15
March to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the breaking of the
Enigma machine code by the Polish cryptographers (http://www.enigmahistory.org/enigma.html):
HF70E (QSL via SQ9AOJ)
SN70E (QSL via SP6CDP)
HF70N (QSL via SP7CVW)
SN70N (QSL via SP6JKH)
HF70I (QSL via SP6IHE)
SN70I (QSL via SP5PPK)
HF70G (QSL via SP2DNI)
SN70G (QSL via SP1PBT)
HF70M (QSL via SP2PI)
SN70M (QSL via SP5ZCC)
HF70A (QSL via SP9PRO)
SN70A (QSL via SP9EVP)
An Enigma Award, sponsored by the SP DX Club, is available for
working these stations, for further information please visit http://www.sp5zcc.waw.pl/en/enigma.html.
[TNX SP1DPA and SQ9MZ]
VU - The DX Newsletter reports that Bernhard,
DL2GAC (VU2BMS) will be staying in India until 30 December. He
will then move on to the Solomon Islands (H44MS).
W - John, W2AGN will operate as W2C during
the "Lighthouse Christmas Lights 2002" event (http://www.arlhs.com/xmas-guide.html).
He plans to to be active between 14 UTC on 21 December to 19 UTC
on the 22nd from Finn's Point Rear Range Light (USA-285), Salem
County, NJ. QSL via W2AGN (John L. Sielke, 1353 Samuel Dr,
Vineland, NJ 08360, USA). [TNX VA3RJ]
ZA - Look for ZA0IS (operated by ZA1FD,
ZA1FH, ZA1KP and ZA5G) and ZA0/IK7JWX to be active (SSB and CW on
HF) from Sazan Island (EU-169] and Lighthouse (ARLHS ALB-004, WLH
LH-0028) [425DXN 605] on 18-22 December. QSL via IK7JWX (Alfredo
De Nisi, P.O. Box 218, 73100 Lecce - LE, Italy). [TNX IK7JWX]
GOOD TO KNOW - Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
160 METRES ---> Bernie McClenny,
W3UR, editor of The Daily DX, wants Topband operators
outside North America to be reminded to stay clear of
1820 and 1830 if they wish to be heard in North America.
These two frequencies have harmonics that make it almost
impossible to copy weak signal DX. DX stations can listen
on 1820 and 1830, if it is clear, but please do not
transmit there.
9L1AB ---> Andy, G3AB arrived back
home on 6 December, after a 26-day activity (single
operator) from Freetown, Sierra Leone as 9L1AB. 40362
QSOs were logged on CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands 6-160m,
with 959 QSOs on 6m and 1265 QSOs on 160m. Only dipole
and inverted L antennas were used. A full report with
statistics and photos will appear on the website soon (http://www.g3ab.net/9l1ab.htm).
Direct QSL cards are already being mailed out.
ARRL 10 METER CONTEST ---> Other
operators who have announced their participation in this
year's event include:
Juan, CO8TW on both CW and SSB
low power. QSL via IZ8CCW. Logs will be available
at http://www.qsl.net/co8tw/.
Lee, DS4CNB as D88S (CW) from
"King Sejong Antarctic base on King George
Island, South Shetlands. QSL via home call.
Alfredo, HC1HC, with QSL via
NE8Z (Rick Dorsch, P.O. Box 616, Hamburg, MI
48139, USA)
Pavel, OD5/OK1MU as SO High
Power (CW only).
Kostas, SV1DPI and others as
SW1W (SSB and CW) from Greece. QSL via SV1CIB,
either direct or through the bureau.
K6LA as VY2TT (SO LP Mixed) from
Prince Edward Island.
[TNX CO8TW, NE8Z, NG3K, SV1DPI]
CCF MEETING ---> The 8th Contest Club
of Finland's Contest/DX Meeting will be held in Vantaa
(Helsinki) on 17-19 January 2003. For further information
and pre-registration please contact Ari, OH5DX (oh5dx@sral.fi). The CCF
web site is at www.qsl.net/ccf.
JARL BUREAU ---> Joe, JJ1BDX/3
reports that effective 7 July 2003 the JARL QSL Bureau
will charge JARL members an annual fee of JPY 3600
(approx. USD 28 to 30) for handling *each and all* non-JA
callsigns. This includes not only foreign stations with
JA QSL managers, but also JA callsigns with foreign
prefixes (e.g. KH2/JJ1BDX).
KB8NW ---> Our best wishes for a
prompt recovery to Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor fo the
Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin, who underwent heart bypass surgery
on 7 December. [TNX K8AV]
QSL 5N0W ---> David Klimosz, OK1RK
(ex 5N0/OK1AUT, 5N0ZKD and 5N0W) says the call 5N0W was
issued to him back in 1999. He left Nigeria on 30 June
2000 and can confirm contacts made before that date only.
QSL HH2PK ---> Kim Larson - Steve's
(N3SL) daughter - has been the QSL manager for Pat, HH2PK
for about six months [425DXN 572]. One month ago, nearly
7 kg (14 pounds) of QSLs were received from the bureau,
going back as much as ten years. On 2 Decemeber over 1000
QSLs were mailed to the ARRL bureau, answering all of the
QSOs Kim was able to confirm from Pat's logs. Pat has not
been active since January 1998 and has moved from Haiti
to Canada. Kim has Pat's logs from April 1989 to 29 Nov
1997 (the December 1997 and January 1998 logs were
corrupted and cannot be recovered). On-line log checking
is available at http://www.qsl.net/n3sl/manager.htm.
[TNX N3SL]
QSL LU6XQ ---> Patrick Stoddard,
WD9EWK is the new QSL manager for Alberto, LU6XQ. Cards
can be sent either direct or through the bureau. Other
stations Patrick handles QSL cards for can be found at http://www.qsl.net/wd9ewk/qsl-mgr.html.
QSL MANAGER OFFERED ---> Tim
Dickerson, N9NU has a slot open for a QSL manager to a
station in need. He currently handles KH6XT (online logs
at http://www.n9nu.net/n9nu_search/n9nu_search.html).
Interested parties should contact Tim at n9nu@n9nu.net.
QSL OC-050 ---> Silvano, I2YSB
reports that all of the direct requests received so far
for the recent FO/I2YSB and FO/IK2GNW operation from
Rurutu, Austral Islands have been processed and mailed.
QSL SA-060 ---> Luc, PY8AZT and Phil,
PT2PS made some 2000 QSOs from Cotijuba Island (SA-060)
in July and for reasons beyond their control have not
been able to have the QSL cards printed until now.
Requests received so far will be processed "just in
time for the IOTA HR and Annual Listing". [TNX
PY8AZT]
QSL VIA DK6CW ---> Alexander, DK6CW
is the QSL manager for the following stations: 4K6CD,
4K8DX, 4K8DM, 4K3MA, 4J3DGF, EK3AA, EK3AW, EK3KA, EK3SA,
EK3GM, EK1700A, EK6DM, 4L3Y, DL2BC, RA3SD, UK8FC,
ZA/UT7DW. QSL direct to Alexander Poliakov, P.O. Box
3552, D-49025 Osnabrueck, Germany. [TNX The Daily DX]
QSL VIA G3NKC ---> Dave, G3NKC
reports that in addition to MD4K, he will be handling
cards also for MD6V, but only for HF contests. Check http://www.md4k.com
for further announcements and remote QSL requests.
QSL VIA G3TEV ---> Please note that
the only station that Mike, G3TEV acts as QSL manager for
is 9J2BO and no others. "In future any cards I
receive for other stations will be disposed of", he
says, "I cannot afford the time and expense to
return them to the sender".
QSL VIA ON5NT ---> Michael, DJ5AV has
received his EL2WW and AP2ARS (2001 SSB QSO) from Ghis,
who apologizes for the delay. "Last year I was
confronted with serious health problems in my
family", Ghis says. "Things got back to normal
and I am cleaning up the backlog (also for buro cards).
Thank you very much for your patience and
understanding".
QSL VIA UA0LCZ ---> Vlado has
received from the printer the QSLs for his UA0LCZ/p and
RI0MP operations from Popov Island (AS-066) in
July-September 2001 and 25-30 July 2002. Direct requests
have been processed and mailed. His address is Vlado
Miroshnichenko, P.O. Box 41-21, Vladivostok, 690041,
Russia. [TNX UA0MF]
(a) CQWW CW 2002 and 28 November 2002
(b) from 28 November 2002
(c) through 27 November 2002
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