The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 325
BID: $OPDX.325 October 6, 1997
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1 (New Area Code!)
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio
Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster
Network, The ARRL Letter, WB2YQH & WB2RAJ The 59(9) DXReport,
W3UR & The Daily DX, K4WJ, WC5P, KH6BZF REPORTS, NE8Z, 9K2HN,
CO3CL, DL5EBE, DU9RG, EA3BT, EI6FR, F6AJA, G4BUE & DX News
Sheet, HA0HW, IK1WVQ, IK1QBT, VK4AAR and VE3BW for the following
DX information.
5A, LIBYA (Update and Reminder!).
As mentioned in OPDX.312, a group of Germans will be active from
here November 24 through December 4th. The operators will be
Andy/DJ7IK, Dieter/DL3KDV, Felix/DL8OBC, and Thomas/ DL1GGT, of
the RRDXA. Activity will included the CQWW CW Contest as a
Multi-Single entry with two stations on the air from the 5A1A
club station. They will operate CW/SSB and RTTY on 160-10 meters
(including the WARC bands). An InterNet E-mail reflector has been
set up by K7ON. You can send a message to "libya@qth.net" with the
command "subscribe libya" in the message body, and they
will keep you up-to-date. Also, check out their WWW page at: http://www.afthd.th-
darmstadt.de/5a1a/ Donations can go to DL8OBC. QSL via
DL3KDV.
8P, BARBADOS. The "DX News
Sheet" reports David, VE3VET, will be active once again as
8P9IJ. Activity will be on SSB and RTTY all bands. His operations
will take place October 5-12th, from Warleigh Plantation in St.
Peter Parish (while on his honeymoon!). QSL via home call.
9K, KUWAIT (Special Event). Look
for 9K2BI to be active in the 40th World Scout JOTA, October
18-19th. This station will be on the air with the coordination of
the Kuwait Amateur Radio Society "KARS" (9K2RA) and
Kuwait Boy Scouts Association "KBSA" and will
participate in the above mentioned event for the first time. The
KARS helped established a Radio Station at the HQ of KBSA under
the callsign of 9K2BI and the station was provided with all
required pieces of equipment and their accessories. The station
will eventually become permanent. During the special event, the
station will be operated and administered by the members of KARS
with the participation of KBSA's members including ex-scouts.
CM/CO, CUBA. Do you need a card
from here? Jose, CO3CL, reports the following four stations are
very active from the island, even on the WARC bands. Look for:
CM3IP on 40 meters 0000-0400z on CW. QSL via WD4OIN.
CO3ET on 30 meters 2200-0400z on CW. QSL via WD4OIN.
CL3FL on 10 meters (check 28800-29000 kHz) 1900-2100z on
SSB.
QSL via CO3CL.
CO3CL on 12 meters (check 24900 KHz +/- QRM) 2300z +/-
0030z on SSB.
QSL via W3HNK.
DX1, PHILIPPINES. Look for DX1S
to be on the air for the CQWW SSB and CW Contests. This is the
callsign of the Filipinas DX Society recently organized by Roger,
DU1KT, and Robin, DU9RG, as founding president. Membership is
open to DXCC holders, both local and foreign. QSL via: 818 Acacia
Ave., Ayala Alabang Village, 1780 Muntinlupa City, Philippines.
EL LIBERIA. Joe, K3KN, currently
active from the U.S. Embassy, will be operating as EL/K3KN until
November 6 or 7th. He operates SSB (CW on request) on 40-10
meters with his IC-706 and log periodic. He was heard this past
weekend on 24954 kHz at 1330z, 10113 kHz at 2145z and 21264 kHz
at 1745z. QSL via KB3U.
EP, IRAN (Special Event). On
Friday, October 3rd, around 1225z, a station with the call
EP23TIE was active on 14200 kHz. This Iranian special event
station will be on the air until October 10th to mark the 23rd
Tehran International Exhibition. EP23TIE will be on the air from
0530 until 1330z daily. QSL to the Directorate General of
Telecommunications, Box 931, Tehran, Iran.
FJ, SAINT MARTIN. Jacques,
F6BUM, will be active as FJ/F6BUM from St. Barthelemy October
24-31st. Activity will be on SSB and CW with operations on 40-10
meters. This French island has an IOTA of NA-146.
HB0, LIECHTENSTEIN. A a
Hungarian team will once again be active from Triesen, on October
31st through November 8th. They will participate in the HA-QRP
Contest with HB0/HA5RT/p callsign. They will run a QRP station on
3511 kHz 24 hours a day between November 1 and 7th. The leader of
team is HA6NL/Laci, and the operators are HA0HW/Laci,
HA4GDO/Tomi, HA4XG /Geza, HA6PS/Zsolti, HA6PX/Csaba, HA6ZV/Tibi,
HA9AX/Imre and HA9RR/Pista. The operators will use their home
calls after HB0/ prefix. Activity will be on all bands 160-10
meters including the WARC bands, CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL cards for
HB0/HA5RT/p s QSOs should go to HA6NL and all others should go
via their home calls. Direct and bureau cards will be answered
the same way. They mentioned that they would like to work a few
days from 4U1ITU between November 3-6th. Suggested frequencies:
HP0, SOUTH SHETLANDS. "The
Daily DX" received a report that states Stan, SP3BGD, will
be leaving Poland on October 20th, to head for the Henryk
Arctowski Station located on King George Island in the South
Shetland Islands (VP8). He will be taking a boat trip to the
island which will take about 40 days to get to the Antarctic
base. Once on the island, Stan will relieve Marek (Mark), SP3GVX,
who has been operating the club station HF0POL. Stan will leave
the island and head back to Poland on December 15th. Since 1991
this club station has made over 25,000 QSOs.
HR6, ROATAN ISLAND (Honduras).
Joe, VE3BW, will be active from this Honduran island, February
1-22nd, as VE3BW/HR6. He will be active in the ARRL DX CW
Contest. Look for him on the WARC bands before and after the
contest. ADDED NOTE (Reminder!): Joe will also be active from St.
Kitts from November 17th through December 1st as V47CA. He will
be active in the CQWW CW Contest. QSL via Joe's homecall: Joe
Adams, 5 Romko Court, St Catharines, Ont. Canada L2N 7A1
IOTA NEWS. Tony/IK1QBT,
Nino/IK1ZOZ, Gigi/IK1WJI and Mauro/IK1CJO plan to be active from
Gallinara Island (rare island of Ligurian group) IOTA EU-083.
Depending on the weather, activity will be between October 11th
and 12th or 18th and 19th. Operators will sign IP1/homecall.
Their activity will be on CW/SSB with operations on all HF bands
(WARC bands included). Check around the standard IOTA
frequencies. There will also be activity on 6 meters and VHF in
SSB. The reference number for the Italian Island Award (I.I.A.)
is SV-01. QSL via their respectives home calls via bureau or
direct.
IOTA NEWS. Laci, HA6NL, will
spend his holidays on Corfu Island (EU-052) and will operate as
SV8/HA6NL/p between October 15-22nd. He will operate mainly CW
but some SSB and RTTY operation are also expected. Suggested
frequencies on CW: 1831, 3511, 7011, 7025, 10104, 14025, 18071,
21011, 21025, 24891, 28011 and 28025 kHz. QSL to his home call
via the bureau or direct.
KH5, PALMYRA (and KH5K Kingman Reef). The
South Sandwich Island Dxpedition Group (SSIDXG) announced that
one of their team members, Chuck, N4BQW, will go with the USFWS
to Palmyra Island in two weeks. Chuck will be flying to Christmas
Island where he will meet up with the USFWS. From there Chuck
will take a 3 day boat trip to Palmyra Island. Chuck will operate
as N4BQW/KH5 for 8 days. The dates of operations were not
announced. (ed. It sounds like the operation will take place
within a couple of weeks.) He will operate 80-10 meters including
WARC bands. He has managed to get permission to take a beam with
him this time but no amp. He will operate CW and SSB and possibly
RTTY. Chuck has spoken with the Ship's Captain, and he informed
him that barring unforeseen problems, there would also be a 48
hour operation from Kingman Reef after they leave Palmyra Island.
QSL via WA4FFW: Mac McIntyre Sr., 2903 Maple Ave., Burlington
N.C. 27215. Out of pocket cost of this operation for Chuck will
be $4000.00 USD. Support can be sent to the: SSIDXG DXPEDITION
FUND, 93787 Dorsely Lane, Junction City, OR 97448 -or- to WA4FFW
home address.
PACIFIC ISLAND HOPPING. Maurice,
ZL2MF, and Ken, JA3MVI, are currently island hopping in the
Pacific on a business tour. By the time you read this, they
probably have left Rarotonga (South Cook). Thanks to Alan,
VK4AAR, who talked to Maurice and has provided the following
schedule below. The information includes duration of operation,
callsigns to be used and QSL routes in the ( ) and bands
available.
Until Oct 5th - ZK1MJF (ZL2MF) and ZK1MVI (JA3MVI) -
15/20/40m
Oct 6-9th - ZK2MF (ZL2MF) and ZK2KY (JA3MVI) - 15/20/40m
Oct 10-16th - A35KY (JA3MVI) - 15/40m
Oct 12-16th - YJ0AMF (ZL2MF) - 20m
Oct 15-17th - 3D2MF (ZL2MF) and 3D2KY (JA3MVI) -
15/20/40m
They are travelling together, except Ken will be in Tonga
while Maurice is in Vanuatu. Ken has an inverted vee for 15/40m
and Maurice has the 20m dipole. When they are together, they will
be able to share antennas and visit different bands. (Alan..
"The last stop in Fiji starts on 15th which is the day
before they leave their previous locations. I suppose this has
something to do with the International Dateline?")
P4, ARUBA. Rick, NE8Z, will be
active as P4/NE8Z from here, October 25th through November 1st.
Activity will be mainly CW on the WARC bands. QSL via K8LJG.
QSL INFO AND NEWS....
Declan, EI6FR, reports that QSL cards for GI/EI7NET
Rathlin (EU-122) are back from the printers, and the
replies to all direct requests are starting to go out. A
bureau mailshot will be done in the coming month.
Dominik, DL5EBE, DX-editor of CQ DL-magazine, informed
OPDX on the status on the VP8CTR and R1ANF QSL cards. He
states Roman, VP8CTR, sent him an e-mail reporting that
he has already made about 13000 QSOs from Vernadsky Base.
Meanwhile, Dominik reports that he has received the
beautiful pictured QSL cards from the printer. The cards
where donated by Northern California DX Foundation
(NCDXF), FUNKAMATEUR-Magazine (printer) and the German DX
Foundation (GDXF). He currently has the logs up to the
IOTA-contest, and all cards until this date will be sent
out within the next couple of days. As soon as he
receives the next log-files via e-mail, he is ready to
continue QSLing as fast as possible. Dominik is also the
manager for Vic, R1ANF, who belongs to the current
wintering team of Bellingshausen Base, South Shetlands.
He reports that logs, so far have not arrived yet. Please
be patient. He also mentions that he is NOT managing
cards for the last operation of R1ANF, Op. Oleg (UA1PBA).
These cards are being handled by Nick, RK1PWA.
T32, CHRISTMAS ISLAND. Paul,
WC5P, reports to OPDX that he will be in Eastern Kiribati from
November 19th to Decmeber 2nd, operating as T32BE. Activity will
be on all HF bands, mostly CW. He will be active in the CQWW CW
Contest. QSL via WC5P.
TM5, FRANCE. Dominique, F5SJB,
will be using the callsign TM5CW from November 22nd to December
1st. This will include participation during the CQWW CW Contest.
V6, MICRONESIA. Aston, V63BR, is
reportedly now active on RTTY. There were no QSNs reported. QSL
via AA4US or direct to: Aston Nakayama, P.O. Box 305, Chuuk
Island, Micronesia.
XE, MEXICO. Josep, EA3BT, and
his wife Nuria, EA3AOK, who will be active from Cancun, on
October 12-18th, will be using the callsigns XF3/EA3BT and
XF3/EA3AOK, respectively and from Cozumel Island (NA-090),
October 19-26th, they will use the same callsigns. Their activity
will be on 40-10 meters, including WARC bands, possibly 80
meters. Operations will be on SSB and RTTY and some little CW if
needed. They will also take part in the CQWW SSB Contest. QSL via
EA3BT.
Z2, ZIMBABWE. "The 59(9)
DXReport" states that DF3XZ will be active from here October
15-30th, as Z2/DF3XZ from Z21HJ's QTH. QSL via homecall.
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