The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 472 BID: $OPDX.472 July 31, 2000 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern
Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, ARRL, K1ZZ,
WB2YQH/WB2RAJ & THE 59(9) DX Report, W3UR & The Daily DX,
W4MPY, N6RT, W7WX, K8EP, K8IW, K8YSE, WB8BGY, CT1ETE, DJ5AV &
DX News Letter, DJ5JH, EA3EJI, EA5XX, EU1SA, F6AJA & Les
Nouvelles DX, HL0C, IK7JWX, JM1LJS, LU7BQ, SP2DX, SP2UKB, TA3J,
UR7GG and Ciprian Sufitchi for the following DX information.
EDITOR'S SPECIAL NOTE (by KB8NW): There will
"NOT" be an OPDX bulletin for August 14th and 21st. I
know, you heard this before, but it is true this time. My wife
(chief proof-reader) and I will be going to Las Vegas (without
the young adults) for our 25th wedding anniversary (How did she
put up with me all these years?) and to visit my Dad. I can
really use the break! However, PLEASE continue to send your DX
info to me.
3DA0, SWAZILAND. "The 59(9) DX
Report" states to look for Norbert, ZS6ANL, to be active
August 21-24th as 3DA0/ZS6ANL. His activity will be mostly CW.
QSL to: N. Taferner, P.O. Box 6282, Homestead 1412, Rep. of South
Africa.
4U1UN, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS. Fritz,
DL4TT, will be in New York from now through August 27th and plans
to operate from the club station 4U1UN. Operations will be mainly
on CW. QSL ONLY via 4U1UN, NOT via DL4TT.
4X & E4, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE. Hide,
JM1LJS/T88LJ, informs OPDX that he will be active between August
6-13th as 4X/JM1LJS and E4/JM1LJS. Activity will be on
40/30/15/10/6 meters. Sightseeing is his main goal on this trip.
QSL Manger for both 4X/JM1LJS and E4/JM1LJS are via JL2XUN.
7Q, MALAWI. The "DX News Letter"
reports that Harry, 7Q7HB, will be active again during the next
five months. He was spotted this past weekend on 21343 kHz around
1532z. It was also mentioned that he will do the first time ever
QSOs on SSTV from Malawi. QSL direct only to the CBA of G0IAS.
DXCC NEWS...
As of July 16th, there were 801
applications and 80,217 cards outstanding. The DXCC Desk was
processing mail received the third week of May. The DXCC Desk
had processed 1213 Millennium DXCC Awards processed as of
July 16th.
During the second meeting of the year by the ARRL Board of
Directors on July 21-22st, the following topics were
announced and discussed as per the minutes by David, K1ZZ and
a ARRL Bulletin:
The 12 and 17 meter DXCC's will be added in January
2001, thus rounding out the program.
An update on the "Electronic QSLing
Project" (EQSL) will proceed with written
specifications for an automated system incorporating
extensive electronic security measures.
DXCC Card Checking Program will be re-evaluated at
the next Board meeting.
The Membership Services Manager was tasked with
studying the possibilities for managing a QRP DXCC.
The MSC will be developing a set of goals and
criteria to send to the Contest Advisory Committee
for a study of the Club Contesting program.
A new DXAC Chairman will be appointed soon to replace
Wayne Mills, N7NG, who joined ARRL staff as the
Membership Services Manager.
The ARRL Board also okayed the expenditure of up to
$1,025,000 to develop a new information technology
platform for ARRL Headquarters. The new computer
software and hardware not only will enhance the
ARRL's e-commerce capabilities but update membership
information and accounting systems. It well also
eventually enable such services as electronic QSLing,
member Web access to DXCC records, nearly real-time
updates of DXCC listings, and expanded, detailed
contest results.
The Board also agreed to put the League's muscle
behind an international effort to secure a 300-kHz
exclusive as signment for Amateur Radio in the
vicinity of 7 MHz. The 40-meter realignment issue now
is on the agenda for World Radiocommunication
Conference 2003.
FM, MARTINIQUE (Change of plans). The
departure for Gerard, F2JD, is delayed for one month. He will
leave early in September for Martinique for 4 months. Please
refer to OPDX.470.
FR/T, TROMELIN ISLAND. Just a quick reminder
that the Lyon DX Group is expected to be on the air by August
1st. Operators Gil/F5NOD, Larry/F5PYI, Eric/F5PXT and
Erwann/F6JJX are expected to sign FR/F6KDF/T until August 16th.
Activity will be on 160-6 meters on CW, SSB and RTTY. Again,
suggested frequencies are as follows:
QSL via F6KDF, Radio Club de la Gendarmerie, 292 route de
Genas, 69677 Bron Cedex, FRANCE. For more information, check out
their Web site at: http://perso.easynet.fr/~f6jjx/menu.htm.
HR, HONDURAS. A group from Spain will be
active from here September 17-25th, transmitting on all HF bands,
SSB, CW and RTTY operation, while installing 9 new digipeaters.
This will be another DXpedition of the URE (Union de
Radioaficionados de Espanoles) "RADIOSOLIDARIDAD"
group. There will be 7 operators going to HR-land: Angel/EA1QF,
Chema/EB1ADG, Pere/EA3CUU, Paco/EA4BT, Tony/EA5RM, Julio/EA5XX
and Belinda/EA8NN (YL). They will operate from Tegucigalpa 24
hours day, while some of the operators will be travelling
throughout the country to install the new digipeaters for
packet-radio. TNCs, PCs, tranceivers, coaxial, antennas, etc,
will be carried from Spain and give to the HR radio amateurs in
Tegucigalpa who will be in charge to keep it working in the
future. No callsigns were mentioned in the press release. The
QSLs will be confirmed via EA4URE, URE's Headquarter, P.O. Box
220, Madrid 28080, Spain.
HU4, EL SALVADOR. A group of Spanish
operators will be active September 17-25th as HU4U. The team will
operate as time permits as they will be there to install a
communications network. Look for them on all bands CW/SSB/RTTY.
QSL via EA4URE.
IOTA NEWS...
AS-085. Stro, a representative of
"Hanyang University Wave Research Club" (HL0C),
informs OPDX that a group will go to So-An Island (under
Wan Island to the southwest of Korea) near Mokpo (Cholla
South Province of South Korea between August 3rd and 9th.
They will be active as HL0C/4 during their DXpedition on
40/20/15 meters CW/SSB. So-An Island also has a KDN
(Korea District Number) which is H30. QSL via: Hanyang
University Wave Research Club, CPO 4397, 100-643, SEOUL,
KOREA. They have a Web page at: http://hl0c.hihome.com.
EU-052. Look for Gerard, F2VX, to sign
SV8/F2VX from Keflonia Island now through August 13th.
After the contest they will be active on HF CW/SSB with
their individual callsigns (DH7NO, DL2RTK, DL2SWW,
DL2VFR). Pictures from last year and logs after the
contest will be available at: http://www.qsl.net/dl0kwh.
EU-070. Eric, F5SSM, will probably be
active from Les Embiez Island August 12-19th. Be careful,
this island was previously EU-095.
EU-179. Look for Oleg, UR3GA, to be
active from Orlov Island (UIA BS-13). He is a local
resident and will operate on all HF bands CW and SSB. QSL
via UR7GG, Victor Tkachenko, P.O.BOX 73, Kherson, 73000
Ukraine.
J43, GREECE. Wolff, DJ5JH, will be
active from Peloponnese with the special contest callsign
J43J during the WAE Contest (CW) August 12-13th. QSL via
the bureau to his home call DJ5JH.
J6, ST. LUCIA. "THE 59(9) DX
REPORT" reports that Juha, OH1HX, will be active
August 1-6th as J6/OH1HX. Activity will be on 20, 15 and
10 meters SSB, maybe CW.
PIRATE ALERT. Marcos, LU7BQ, informs OPDX
that the station signing XQ0X/LU7BQ on 20 CW, is a pirate. He has
worked only SSB for about 40 years and has never gone to XQ0. He
is currently receiving a lot of QSLs, and he is so sorry for the
guys wasting their geenstamps and IRCs...
QSL INFO AND NEWS...
TX0DX, 4W/N5KO and 4W/W3UR (QSL status
report by W3UR & The Daily DX): "As of Monday,
July 21, U.S direct requests covering (prefixes) letters
A and K0 up to K9Z were released. The next batch covering
KA0 thru N9Z will be released August 10 while the final
release from N0 thru WZ9 will be made August 25th. Since
the validity date and submission date of October 1, 2000
will be easily met, there is no reason for 2nd QSL nor
for any other action.
Each claimed QSO is being checked while QSLs containing
missing QSOs will be re-processed by early September,
still meeting the October 1 submission date.
During the week of July 21, the following other countries
were either released or will be released; EA, F, G, HB9,
I, LA, OH, OZ, SM, VE, VK, ZL. The team is currently busy
on sorting out Germany and Benelux followed by South
America, Russia and Eastern Europe. Everything will be
completed following the same schedule as U.S.
JA envelopes (HF) will be released during the first week
of August while 50MHz cards have been released by JA1BK.
Considerable extra work is experienced here since another
pirate was very active toward Japan - especially working
on 7 MHz and 10 MHz. Large numbers of requests on these
two bands will be returned........ The following team is
providing you the TX0DX/4W QSL service; OH2BN, OH2BAD,
OH2BH, OH2NB, OH2RF, OH3LQK, OH9MM, JA1BK, N4GN and
W3UR."
Please address QSL cards for EW5HQ only
to the following address: P.O.Box 469, Minsk 220050,
Belarus. This is the address of the Belarussian QSL
Bureau. Please DO NOT send cards to the official address
of BFRR.
W4MPY is "NOT" a QSL Manager for any
station! Wayne informs OPDX that in each bureau
mailing, 50% of the cards are for stations for which he
has printed cards in the past. He also mentions that
forwarding these QSLs gets to be expensive.
John, N7CQQ, states to "PLEASE be
patient" for the Clipperton FO0AAA QSL cards. He is
working on them every day.
The QSL Manager for last weekend's
activation of ED3IM on Medas Island (EU-078) is not
EA3CCN as announced, but was changed to Santi, EA3CKX.
They report that the activity had to stopped early on
Sunday morning because of bad weather predictions with
the possibility of strong winds which would hamper their
return.
Jean Michel, F6AJA, reports that all
PY0F/PY2ZDX direct requests are on their way.
F5TXM, F5TRO, FB1BON, F4BHZ were active
as F5TXM/P from Noirmoutier Island (EU-064) during the
IOTA Contest. QSL via FB1BON.
GM5C was activated by the Crocodile Rock
Amateur Group from the "Isle of Great Cumbrae"
(IOTA EU-123) during the IOTA Contest. QSL Manager is
GM0DEQ.
IK7LMX/P from Pedagna Island (EU-091)
was activated by the "Salento DX Team". QSL to
homecall via the bureau or direct via HCA (qrz.com).
Doug, N6RT, reports that the final 7P8AA
log is now available online at: http://dx.qsl.net/logs.
The PZK Headquarters Station SN0HQ,
which took part in the recent IARU Contest, will mail QSL
cards in approx. 2 months. QSL via SP2PI CBA or via the
PZK QSL Bureau. The PZK Headquarters will have a new
address starting August 1st. QSL cards to Poland should
be send to the following address: PZK Central QSL Bureau,
P.O. Box 54, 85-613 Bydgoszcz 13, Poland.
QSL cards for TA3J, on July 26, 2000,
were sent to the QSL bureaus of Bulgaria, Latvia, Brazil,
Luxembourg, Estonia, Belarus, Ireland, Lithuania, Israel,
Kuwait, Portugal, Finland, Croatia, Sweden, Norway,
Romania, Slovakia, Japan, Greece, Belgium, Slovenia,
Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland and Netherlands. QSL cards
were also sent on July 28, 2000, to the QSL bureaus of
the USA, Germany and United Kingdom.
Paulo, CT1ETE, reports to OPDX that a
new Web Site is available which displays QSLs in a photo
album (along with Database) for hams to view. He asks
hams worldwide to send him your QSL in JPEG format (about
360x250; 24/16 million colors; size between 20k and 35k).
The site also has a Ham Forum where individuals can start
discussion threads. The Web site is at: http://www.qsl.net/ct1ete.
Any suggestions are welcome via his E-mail address at: ct1ete@qsl.net.
SPECIAL EVENT. The Ukrainian special event
station EM500E will be active in August on all bands and modes to
celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the "Cossack's
Glory". QSL via UR4EYN or UR4EN.
SPECIAL EVENT. The Western New York DX
Association will operate special event callsign K2L during the
period August 7-20th in conjunction with the Buffalo (New York)
Harborfest and culminating with operations from the Buffalo
Lighthouse during the Lighthouse/Lightship Activity Weekend
August 19-20th. During the August 7-18 period, activity will be
on CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on all bands, including WARC. During
August 19-20th, activity will be on CW and SSB from the
lighthouse. A special photo QSL will be available for QSLs
requested direct. QSL via WB2YQH, P.O. Box 73, Spring Brook, NY
14140 with SAE/SASE. All DX QSOs will be QSLed automatically via
the bureau.
WORLD TRAVELER/DXER PETER. Peter, ON6TT,
currently 9A/ON6TT, informed the DX community that after being
based in Kosovo for the UNWFP since February, he is moving his
base to Pakistan. He plans to start setting up shop in Islamabad
as of November. Peter expects to stay there for probably the next
4 years and will try to build up a station again, as he did from
5X1T (Uganda). He is sure the location will be more challenging
than in Africa to work pileups. He states Mario, 5X1C, has
recently joined his team and will be based in Islamabad also.
Peter adds that his upcoming business trip is not only taking him
to Pakistan, but to Laos, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, East Timor,
Thailand, Bhutan, Cambodia and India. He is still looking for
E-mail contacts of active DXers in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Laos
(for the latter 2, any licensing information would be welcome).
If you can help, Peter's E-mail address is: Home.Peter.Casier@wfp.or.ug.
He will only stay a week "max" in each of those places,
so he will only be active after work but with no special activity
nor a large scale operation.
XX9, MACAU. Ed, K8EP, will be travelling here
and will operate as XX9TEP from August 17-21st. His operation
will be CW/SSB on 160-10 meters. He mentions that he will be in
the SEANET contest as well. QSLs to K8EP at his new Buckmaster
address: Ed Sawyer, 14 Greycrest Pl, Woodlands, TX 77382.
YO DX HF CONTEST. Romanian amateurs want to
remind everyone to not forget to try your skills operating in
YODX HF Contest 2000, on August 6th. It runs for 20 hours
(0000-2000 UTC) and it is recommended to work YO counties.
Activity will be on 3.5 to 28 MHz bands CW/SSB. An ITU exchange
will be used for DX stations and YO County for YO station. Logs
are sent to: Romanian Amateur Radio Federation, P.O. Box 22-50; R
- 71100 Bucuresti, Romania (or E-mail to: yo3kaa@pcnet.pcnet.ro ).
Full details on the rules are available on the Web at: http://www.qsl.net/yo3kaa.
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