The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 350 BID: $OPDX.350 March 30, 1998 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
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Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio
Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster
Network, WB2RAJ/WB2YQH & The 59(9) DXReport, N4GN, N6VV,
W7TSQ, K8XP, 7N1GVB, F6AJA & LNDX, G4BUE & DX News Sheet,
I8NHJ, IT9JPK, ON4WW, PS7AB, SM5MX, SP2BIK, SP5ELA, SU1HM and
YC0FTD following DX information.
3B8 & 3B9, MAURITIUS AND RODRIGUEZ
ISLAND. The "DX News SHeet" reports that
Laurent, F5MUX, will be active sometime after April 1st from
Mauritius and also a brief operation from Rodriguez. He will only
use 100 watts in a R7 vertical. QSL via home call.
7X, ALGERIA (UPDATE). Mark,
ON4WW, reports that he will be leaving for 7X this week. His
license will be looked at or arranged upon arrival (TNX to info
provided by F6FNU). He is also thankful for the help provided by
EA5XX and S01M, that may make an operation from West Sahara
possible if Mark can cross the border. His possible callsigns
(but not vertified at this point in time) may be 7X0WW and S04WW.
His stay in 7X-land for QRL purposes is initially 6 months. Mark
will use a 100 watt rig (TNX to Yaesu of Europe) and a G5RV
antenna (TNX ON4MA). Activity will be mostly CW and low bands.
QSL via ON5NT. Mark mentions that for those of you who are still
waiting for 9X/ON4WW and 9X4WW cards, Ghis (ON5NT) has received a
new batch of 20,000 cards for those calls, and 5X1T. Bureau cards
should go out any time as well now.
EA8, CANARY ISLANDS. The German
group (DL7AU, DL7URB, DL7UBA, DF8XC and DL7VRO), who were active
as ED8CTM in the CQ WPX Contest this past weekend, will continue
to be active until April 6th. Operations will be on all bands,
CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via DL7VRO. Also, look for Ron, G4DIY, to
be active April 5-11th as EA8/G4DIY. Activity will be maninly CW
on 20, 17 and 10 meters. QSL via home call.
FT5/X/Y/Z, CROZET, KERGUELEN,
AMSTERDAM/ST. PAUL ISLANDS. The French DX bulletin
"LNDX" reports Rene, FR5HR, will start shortly for a
new trip around these rare island for one and one half months.
They are not sure if he will operate from each place. The QSLs
for his previous trip are still at the printer's. PLEASE be
patient. QSL via the following address: Rene Allegre, 56 rue
Leconte de Lisle, 97411 Bois de Nefle, France
H40, THE TEMOTU ISLANDS (Update).
Tim Totten, N4GN, sent out three press releases throughtout the
past weekend. OPDX InterNet Subscribers will receive ALL/COMPLETE
unedited press releases as an additional bulletin. The following
are excerpts from Tim's releases for our "Packet Radio"
readers..... Tim states, "All systems are 'go' for the
launch of the H40AA DXpedition." Team members over the past
week and weekend were very busy making final preparations.
Activity by team members, using H44RY, was heard this past
weekend. As the team did an all-band effort in the CQ WPX SSB
Contest. Remember, even though the contest effort will be taking
place from the DXpedition site in Temotu, QSOs will count for
Solomon Islands DXCC credit (H44) before 2359z on March 31st. At
that time, the H40AA call will make its debut, and QSOs will
begin counting for Temotu (H40) DXCC credit pending approval of
the new country application. Temotu will qualify for separate
DXCC status by reason of separation by water. The new DXCC rules,
which become effective at 2359z on March 31st, change the
separation criteria from 225 miles to 350 km. The Solomon Islands
Temotu Province includes the following islands: Santa Cruz
Islands, the Reef Islands, the Duff Islands, Tikopia Island,
Anuta Island, and Fatutaka Island. The DXpedition will take place
on the largest island in Temotu. The island is officially known
as Nendo and is more commonly referred to as Santa Cruz Island.
The H40AA operation will take place in a small village known as
Lata (provincial capital). The H40AA team is sad to report that
one of the original team members, Kari, OH2BC, will be unable to
make the journey to Temotu. Kari recently suffered a fall in
which he broke several bones in his hand. The team also reports
two changes have been made to the frequencies listed in the
original H40AA announcement (refer to OPDX.348). Please note the
following new transmit frequencies: 160 meters (SSB and CW) -
1824.5 kHz and 10 meters SSB - 28395 kHz. The team has received
another call sign, H44DX, to be used from Honiara, the Solomon
Islands' capital, as the DXpedition operators pass through on
their way to and from Temotu. This callsign (H44DX) may be heard
on the air before, after, and even during the H40AA operation.
H40AA will hit the air waves at 2359z, March 31st, and will
continue through the early hours (UTC) of April 13th. Normally,
three stations will be in service at any given time. For the
first several days, two stations will run almost exclusively
SSB--primarily on 20 and 15 meters. During this time, the third
station will concentrate on CW, emphasizing 40 meters at night
and 17 meters during the day. Beginning April 6th, the emphasis
will change to CW operation, paying more attention to the other
bands. RTTY operation will begin on April 8th, and will be
limited to 15 and 20 meters. The H40AA team would like to
emphasize that they intend to stick to the basic plan outlined
above. In this way, all DXers will be given the maximum
opportunity to make at least one QSO with this 'new one' during
the early days of the operation. Following is the complete,
updated list of H40AA transmit frequencies incorporating the
changes announced earlier:
Lastly, remember, H44RY and H44DX QSOs count for Solomon
Islands credit, while H40AA QSOs will count for the new Temotu
Islands DXCC entity, pending approval of the application. QSL
H44RY via OH1RY. QSL H40AA and H44DX via OH2BN. Also, the H40AA
DXpedition Web Site is now available at the following URL: http://www.iglou.com/n4gn/h40aa/
DX NEWS FLASH...... As your
editor was ready to hit the key to send out OPDX.350, a message
was received from Kaz, JH1ORA, stating well-known HIDXA DXer Jim
Smith, VK9NS, is in the Solomon Islands and will be active from
the Temotu Province Islands group. Jim was in Honiara and moved
to Santa Cruz Island on March 28th. After 3 hours of sailing by
canoe, Jim is now on Pigeon Island located in the Reef Island
group. He is currently signing H44/VK9NS and will change his
callsign on April 1st to H40AB. His operation should count as the
same entity as the H40AA operation. QSL via HIDXA (VK9NS).
JAPANESE ACTIVITY RARE IOTA. A
very large group of Japanese operators will activate an island in
the Honshu's coastal group (AS-117). Their activity will be from
Awashima (otherwise know as Awa Island) beginning 0900z on April
17th and lasting until 2100z April 18th. Operations will be on
CW/SSB on 80-6 meters including the WARC bands (check IOTA
frequencies). The operators callsigns and addresses were provided
to OPDX, but we suggest you listen for details by the operators.
Operator's callsign/address are:
JG1SZE/0 Kyoji Ota (QSL MGR), 2-27-12 Nakadai Itabashiku
Tokyo JAPAN 174
JJ1SLI/0 Masaji Sakakibara, 2-673-13 IzumiCho Sakado City
Saitama JAPAN 350-02
JP1TBG/0 Junichi Ninomiya, 284-1 Kodaya Moroyamamachi
IrumaGun Saitama JAPAN 350-04
JQ1ALQ/0 Tateo Tamura, 3-38-11 Toyoda Hino City Tokyo
JAPAN
JI3DST/0 Takeshi Funaki, 2-28-26 Hannanmachi Abenoku
Osaka JAPAN 545
JR9MAR/0 Toshiaki Ito, 113 Furuueno Syoukawamachi
HigashiTonamiGun Ishikawa JAPAN
7K4FGQ/0 Atsushi Murai, 1-37-1 Minami Ogikubo Suginamiku
Tokyo JAPAN 167
7K2MEZ/0 Katsurou Maeshima, 202 Niwata Kopo 2764-5
Ishioka Ishioka City Ibaraki JAPAN 315
JT1, MONGOLIA. A large group of
Italians will be active from Ulan Bator, Mongolia from April
7-14th. Operators will included I0SNY (leader), I1JQJ, I0TIC,
I8NHJ, IK0AEH, IK0FUX, IV3FSG, IK5/EA8AFJ, IK0SHF, IV3ZAC and
IZ0AZQ. The group will have two complete HF stations on the air
24 hours and a third station on the satellites plus 6 meters.
Their planned activity will be 160-6 meters which includes CW,
SSB and RTTY. The special callsign JT1Y will be used from the
Mongolian Radio Sports Federation Club station JT1KAA (located in
Zone 23). The team plans on leaving a 40 meters monobander behind
for the JT1KAA station. The following are the suggested
frequencies:
Log checking will be available on the 425 DX News WEB pages.
The team plans to upload the logs to the Web on a daily basis in
order to let amateurs check them while the activity is taking
place. Contributions and QSLs can be sent to I0SNY, Nicola Sanna,
Str. Gualtarella 8/M, 06132 S. Sisto - PG, ITALY. Visit the JT1Y
WEB site for updates at: http://www-dx.deis.unibo.it/htdx/jt1y/
QSL INFO AND NEWS.....
OPDX was advised that the ZK1ZZP cards were received from
the printers and that the process of sending them out has
begun. A large batch of cards has already been mailed
out, but we were told they will now be going out on an
almost daily basis.
Just before the contest weekend, Dimitris, SV1CIB,
informed OPDX that he received the special callsign,
J43PTR, for the CQ WPX SSB Contest. If you were lucky to
catch him, QSL to SV3AQN via the bureau or direct.
A group of Indonesian were active from Baturaden, in
Central Java, Indonesia, using the special callsign YE2B
during the CQ WPX SSB Contest. QSL to YC0FTD, via the
bureau or direct (with one green stamp) to: Mr. Andreas
Wisnu Widjaja, PO Box 6193 JATH, Jakarta 13061,
Indonesia.
OPDX has mentioned this once before, and we were asked to
do it again. QSLs for Paul, A35RK, ONLY (repeat only) go
to Bob, W7TSQ. Paul does not have QSL cards. DO NOT
EXPECT A RESPONSE IF CARDS ARE SENT TO THE A3 BUREAU AS
THOSE CARDS WILL NEVER REACH HIM. Also, PLEASE do not
send E-mail to Paul. He (Paul) has asked a particular
publication (ed. we choose not to list it) to delete his
E-mail address and block any updating. It costs Paul
about $1.00 per min as he has to pay for online time and
pay by the minute for a long distance call to
send/receive messages. If you have any questions etc. for
Paul, please send them through Bob, W7TSQ. He has ways to
get them to Paul which does not cost him money.
QSLs for II9ZZ, who was Gianni, IT9PKO, active during the
CQ WPX SSB Contest, should have cards sent to IT9PKO:
Gianni Casiraro, P.O.Box 10, 97015 Modica Bassa, Italy.
The new address for F6HMJ (specially for 3B8/F6HMJ) is:
Jacques Motte, Le soleil levant - B8, 4 avenue des rives,
06270 Villeneuve - Loubet, France.
SN0, POLAND (Special Event). A
special event station SN0JG will be active from Gdansk, from
April 3rd until June 30th. The station will be on the air to
celebrate the 500th anniversary of printing technology in Gdansk.
QSL via SP2BIK.
SPDX CONTEST REMINDER. Zygi,
SP5ELA, The President of Warsaw University of Technology RC
(SP5PBE), would like to inform/remind OPDX readers and contesters
that the 1998 SPDX Contest will be held on April 4-5th. Entries
can be all modes or single mode CW/SSB. The SPDX Club of PZK has
the honor to invite the radio amateurs from all over the world to
participate in the SPDX Contest. The object of the contest is to
establish as many contacts as possible between radio amateurs
around the world and radio amateurs in Poland. For more
information, the following E-mail and URL addresses were
provided:
SU8, EGYPT (Special Event).
Hossam, SU1HM, reports that for the first time ever, amateur
radio activity will take place in the ancient Egyptian city of
Luxor during the period of March 29th and April 4th. The event is
organized by the members of ERAA and the special callsign SU8LXR
was assigned for this occasion. Operators Ezzat/SU1ER,
Ahmed/SU1AH, Said/SU1SK, Sayed/SU1SA, Hisham/SU1HB and
Hossam/SU1HM will also be using their own callsigns/8 and the
ERAA's club station will sign SU0ERA/8. Look for SU8LXR on 20
meters (14220 kHz). Activity on other bands/modes will be
announced on the above QRG.
TM0, OLERON ISLAND. Jean Claude,
F5LEJ, will be active from this French island as TM0DX from
August 1-15th.
V63, MICRONESIA (New IOTA). Lew,
N6VV, announces that an operation from Mokil Atoll is scheduled
for June 1-7th. This will be a new IOTA island plus the first
time an operation will take place from Mokil Atoll. Mokil Atoll
is located in the State of Pohnpei (IOTA letter d.) in the
Federated States of Micronesia (V63). Before the activity on
Mokil Atoll, the team of Mike/NG7S, Lew/N6VV and Dan/W7DR will be
active from the former German Colonial City "Kolonia",
Pohnpei Micronesia (IOTA OC-010), May 24-31st. The team during
this time will also operate in the CQ WPX CW Contest (Multi-Op)
as V63VV. Lew, N6VV, has received the callsign V63VV. Dan and
Mike will also be receiving V63 callsigns. N6VV, W7DR and NG7S
have already received the permission to visit the remote
Micronesian island, Mokil Atoll. Callsigns to be used on Mokil
are V63VV/p and the other assigned callsigns by Dan and Mike.
Their equipment list includes: Yaesu FT-1000MP, FinnFet FF-1001
Solid State KW amplifer, Force/12 C3S Yagi, Monoband GP Verticals
for 40,20,15 meters, R-7000 Vertical and wires for 80 and 160
meters. QSLs for V63VV go to N6VV (CBA or Bureau). The V63
callsigns for W7DR and NG7S will go to their home callsigns. For
more information contact Lew, N6VV at: E-mail - lew@book.net, home phone
+1.925.945.6413 or fax +1.925.944.4989
XV7, VIETNAM. Right before going
to print, OPDX received the following from Rolf, SM5MX. He
reports that he is now in Hanoi, Vietnam, again, where he will
activate his dormant callsign XV7SW from the end of March until
the middle of May. As this is a private visit and Rolf is
travelling light, he is only bringing an IC-706 and a 5-band
vertical for 80-10 meters. Hence, no QRO, no beams and no Top
Band this time. Luckily though, upon arrival, Rolf was invited to
work from the QTH of fellow Sweden Torsten (XV7TH), so Rolf is
now active with a TH-5 triband Yagi; 80 and 40 meters may be
activated later with the vertical. Because of the rules in
Vietnam, he is restricted to operation on certain fixed
frequencies only. The designated frequencies for XV7SW are: 3506,
7007, 14016, 14021, 21016, 21019, 28016 and 28019 kHz. Rolf will
concentrate on CW as usual but may operate some SSB occasionally
on 7086, 14243, 14249, 21421, 21427 and 28661 kHz. Since
operation hours will be irregular, XV7SW cannot handle any skeds.
QSL via his home call SM5MX, either via the bureau or direct to:
Rolf T. Salme, SM5MX, Korpstigen 5 B, SE - 135 53 Tyreso, SWEDEN.
He will handle all incoming cards upon his return to Sweden in
May. While in Southeast Asia, Rolf is planning a DXpedition to
another country. More information later, KYFC. Also, just a quick
reminder that Steve/K2WE/3W6WE and Les/W2LK/3W6LK are still
active with their own 3W callsigns until March 31st (refer to
OPDX.347). Their activity will probably continue (not sure how
long) but under the Kasati Ham Club callsign 3W6KA.
ZK2, NIUE. Look for Frank,
DL7FT, to be active until about April 12th as ZK2FT. His activity
recently has been mainly on SSB 20-10 meters. QSL via his home
call.
ZV3, MARINHEIROS ISLAND (BRAZIL).
PY3ACC and PY3CKO will activate this Brazilian (DIB 49, not IOTA)
April 17-19th, ZV3A and ZV3C, respectively. Activity will be on
40 and 20 meters CW/SSB. QSL via bureau or direct to: Alberto V.
Christensen, R. Irmco Josi Otco 170/1302, 90035-060, Porto Alegre
(RS), Brazil.
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