The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 247
BID: $OPDX.247 March 18, 1996
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 216-237-8208 14400/9600/2400/1200/300 8/N/1
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio
Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster
Network, N3AHA, WA6BXH, KF7AY, DL2OBF, DF4RD, F6AJA & LNDX,
HP2CWB, JA1QGT, OH2BDP, PT2BW, XE2CQ, ZR5DTS and ZS5IR/ZS6RI for
the following DX information.
3V, TUNISIA. Javier, XE2CQ, will be traveling
to 3V-land and will be there April 14-24th. He will be operating
as a guest operator at their club station as 3V8BB. He will be
there mainly on business, so as time permits, he will be active
on all bands, CW/SSB (CW QSX 1 kHz up and SSB 5 kHz up). He will
try to be looking for West Coast stations on the low bands when
propagation permits. He states you can only use 100 watts maximum
power in 3V-land. ADDED TRIPS: On Javier's return trip from 3V,
he will try to visit EA9 land and try to spend about 3 to 4 days
there. He may operate from there. Also he will be in ZB2 land for
couple days and try to do some operating. QSL via AA6BB.
3V8BB QSLS UPDATE. Hein, DL2OBF, reports
cards have not been sent out yet for the German operation that
took place November 22-29th (1995), due to problems with the
printer. The German team was active as 3V8BB in last year's CQWW
CW Contest. Hein states that as soon as the QSLs are printed,
anyone who contacted 3V8BB in that week of operation will
automatically get a confirmation, either direct or via bureau.
So, please be patient! The QSL delay is not the fault of the
operators!
FT5, CROZET ISLAND (UPDATE). Claude, F5GTW
(QSL manager for FT5WE), has received the first logs from FT5WE
at the end of February for the 28th December to January 8th
period (around 980 QSOs). The direct cards have been answered and
are in the mail. Sam, FT5WE, will be based on Crozet for about
one year. On 40 meters he only runs 100 watts to vertical
antenna, but in approximately two weeks (around the beginning of
April), he expects to be active on 80 meters running
approximately 500 watts to a dipole up about 10 meters (30 feet).
QSL via F5GTW.
H9, IGUANA ISLAND (IOTA NA-203).
Ricardo/HP2CTM, Jose/HP2CWB, Emilio/ HP2DFU and Manuel/HP2ECP,
operators from the Province of Colon (HP2), will be active April
5-6th. They will be active with the special callsign H99I with
operations on 10-40 meters and the common IOTA frequencies
CW/SSB. QSL via HP2CTM, Ricardo Lee, P.O.Box 152, Colon, Republic
of Panama. The team will leave early morning on the 7th, but they
plan to make brief stops (about an hour) in three Panamanian
Provinces to be active on the air. Look for the following special
callsigns and Provinces on 20 meters: H95H (Provinces of
Herrera), H88C (Cocle8) and HO1P (Panama). QSL routes for all
three callsigns (H95H, H88C, HO1P) is via HP2CWB, direct to Jose
NG Lee, Disney International, PTY-201, P.O. Box 02-5275, Miami,
FL 33102-5275, U.S.A. Include SAE and a green stamp (Please NO
U.S. postage because cards will be mailed out using the regular
Panamanian mail system).
OJ0, MARKET REEF. A group of Finnish
operators will be active during the weekend of March 19-24th
(weather permitting). Activity will be on all bands (on the usual
DX frequencies) CW/SSB. The following callsigns (and QSL routes)
will be used: OH0MB via OH0RJ, OJ0/OH1VR via OH1VR and OJ0/OH2KI
via OH2KI.
PW2, BRAZIL. PW2A will be the special
callsign of Ari, PT2BW, during the following contests: BARTG
Spring RTTY, CQ WW WPX (SSB/CW) and EA RTTY. QSL all operations
preferably via the bureau.
VK2, BROUGHTON ISLAND (NEW IOTA!). The
Japanese Amateur Radio in Australia (JARA) IOTA Group have
planned an operation to this island located in the New South
Wales State Centre Group (Australia). There has never been an
Amateur Radio Operation from this island and since this will be
the first time an operation will take place, the RSGB will issue
an IOTA number after this operation takes place. Permission for
the operation was given by the Australian National Parks and
Wildlife Service. Operation will take place April 6th (Approx.
0100z) to April 7th (Approx. 0400z), but if there is unacceptable
weather conditions on the 6th, they will start the following day.
Operator Atsu/VK2BEX, Chris/VK2FHY and Ken/VK2IAZ will be using
the special callsign VK2BRT. The suggested frequency: CW - 7030,
14030 and 21030 kHz // SSB - 7055, 14260 and 21260 kHz. QSL via
VK2BEX direct to Mr. Atsu Asahina, PO BOX 19, 5 Killara, NSW 2071
Australia or via the bureau.
VK8DX QSL INFO. This operation took place
March 1-3rd. Ace, N3AHA operated from the Northern Territory of
Australia, VK8DX, including the ARRL DX SSB contest March 2-3rd.
QSL via N3AHA, Ace Jansen, 42857 Hollywood Park Place, Ashburn,
VA 20147. This is for VK8DX operations in 1996-1997 only.
VK0/H, HEARD ISLAND (Update). In Bob's,
KK6EK, press release last week, Bob announced the complete team
which will travel to Heard Island. The team will consist of 20
operators representing 9 countries. Operators are: EA8AFJ (Michel
Sabatino), G0LMX (Vincent Denecker), HB9AHL (Willy Rusch), JH4RHF
(Junicho Tanaka), KA6W (Ted Algren), K0IR (Ralph Fedor), K4UEE
(Bob Allphin), K9AJ (Mike McGirr), KK6EK (Robert Schmieder), N6EK
(Bob Fabry), (NP4IW) Carlos Nascimento, ON6TT (Peter Casier),
PA3DUU (Arie Nugteren), RA3AUU (Igor "Harry" Booklan),
VK2TQM (David Muller), W6OTC (Glenn Vinson), W8FMG (Wes
Lamboley), WA0PUJ (Glenn Johnson), WA3YVN (Al Hernandez) and
9V1YC (James Brooks). Bob was also pleased to announce that the
Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF) has authorized a grant
of $20,000 to support the expedition. Remember to take a look at
the HI's Web pages: http://www.ccnet.com/~cordell/
XZ1N, 1996 DXPEDITION TO MYANMAR (Postponed).
Warren, KF7AY, reports the members of the Central Arizona DX
Association which were to conduct a large-scale DXpedition to the
Union of Myanmar from April 2nd through April 12, 1996, have
announced that the XZ1N DXpedition has been postponed. For the
immediate future, the door to amateur radio in the Union of
Myanmar will be closed. There have arisen a number of unsettled
regulatory matters between the military and several ministries
which must first be sorted out before any further amateur radio
activity can proceed. It would seem that the same regulatory
issues that resulted in the sudden and unexpected postponement of
the XZ1R operation have lead to the same action for XZ1N.
ATTENTION OPDX INTERNET SUBSCRIBERS: You will be receiving an
additional bulletin which will contain the whole press release by
Warren, KF7AY. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Your editor was channel
hopping on the family TV set (BOY does my wife hate when I do
this!) and came across "The Learning Channel (TLC)"
which had a program on Myanmar. If you have a listing of their
programing (which I do not), you may want to watch this
interesting program. If someone can find out the next showing, I
will be glad to publish it.
ZS8, MARION ISLAND (UPDATED DETAILS). Chris,
ZS5IR/ZS6RI, has announced that he will be accompanying the 53rd
Marion Island Relief Expedition as a Medical Officer. Marion
Island is a small (290km2)
island approximately halfway between Cape Town and Antarctica. It
must have one of the environments least interfered with by man.
This island only has a population of about ten people, each of
whom are there on a fourteen month contract. The team usually
consists of a diesel generator mechanic, three meteorolgists, a
radio technician, and a medical officer. The other team members
are made up of researchers who are interested in the wildlife
(Penguins, elephant seals, albatrosses and other bird life) or
plants on the island. Chris will be active from the beginning of
May 1996 until they leave the island in June or July 1997. He
will NOT be using the usual ZS8MI callsign, but he has been given
a special unique callsign ZS8IR. Marion Island is IOTA AF-021.
The base camp's Gridsquare locator is KE83WC. He will be active
on all bands (160 to 6 meters) on SSB, CW and RTTY. Chris will be
using mostly wire antennas (rhombics & V beams) due to very
strong wind gusts of up to 200 km/h!!!. He hopes to be active
during most large contests. All QSL requests go via Chris Burger,
ZS6EZ (ex-ZS6BCR). Chris will be sending logs to him every two
weeks.
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