The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 483 BID: $OPDX.483 October 30, 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,
WB2YQH/WB2RAJ & The 59(9) DX Report, K3MLA, K3TEJ, W3UR &
The Daily DX, WB4PVT, K8IW, K8YSE, N9PD, K0RX, NU0Q, BD7NQ,
CT1BWW, DJ5AV & DX News Letter, EA5RM, F5NOD, G3SWH, HK3JJH,
HR1ERL, IZ1DFI, JA3MZB, JF2MBF, JF6OJX, LA9XGA, PS7AB, PY2YP,
VK2GJH and VK4AAR for the following DX information.
1SL1A, SEALAND (Interesting report of the week! DX
IS). OPDX received a report this week from a person
named Jon stating that he along with some other hams are going to
be operating from the "Principality of Sealand"
sometime next month or in December. The callsign that they will
be using is 1SL1A. Sealand is currently being disputed worldwide
as being its own entity. More details on this operation is
forthcoming soon. You may have heard of Sealand, if not, here are
some links you may find useful for research: http://www.sealandgov.com/,
http://www.fruitsofthesea.demon.co.uk/sealand/index.html.
Here is an ABC News article on Sealand.. Click on the picture for
a video news story using realplayer video. http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/dailynews/sealand000606.html.
5T, MAURITANIA (possibly S0). Eight members
of the "International Amateur Radio Volunteers" (IARV)
led by Yoshi, JA1UT, will visit 5T-land for their NGO project.
They will operate as 5T5U, same as last December. In addition, if
allowed, they will try to enter the land of Sahara Occidental and
operate S07CRS. QSL for their operation will be handled by JA1UT.
9M6, EAST MALAYSIA. Members of the Borneo ARC
will be signing with the special callsign 9M6C from November
3-5th. Activity is expected to only be on 14195 and 21195 kHz.
C21, NAURU. Jack Haden, VK2GJH, will be
active as C21JH (RI-39) during the period December 10-22nd,
inclusive. A special focus will be on 50 MHz band with HF
activity on a limited basis. He will be monitoring 50.110 and
28.885 MHz using an IC-736 (100w) to a five element at 45 feet.
Jack states, "Any donations from the 50 MHz fans for this
operation would be appreciated due to travel costs incurred in
the HIGH SEASON." QSL via VK2GJH direct only.
C6, BAHAMAS. John, K3TEJ, will be active from
Treasure Cay (NA-080) from November 21-28th as K3TEJ/C6A.
Activity will be on 160-10 meters including the WARC bands. He
will participate in the CQWW CW Contest as C6AKW. QSL via K3TEJ
CQ2, PORTUGAL. Look for operators CT1BWW and
CT1DGK to activate CQ2K in comemorating the year 2000 on November
10-12th. Activity will be on all bands (no 160m), including the
WARC bands and an entry in the JIDXC Contest. A special QSL card
will be available via QSL Manager CT1BWW.
E30TA, ERITREA OPERATION. There are only a
few days left for this operation. Operations are expected to end
November 1st. This station was very active during last weekend's
contest. QSL via DL5NAM.
EIDXA 2001 OFFICERS. The Eastern Iowa DX
Association is pleased to announce its officers for the 2001
calendar year:
President - Heinz Blankenhagen, NR0X
Vice President - Rick Heinrich, N0YY
Secretary/Treasurer - Tom Kueny, K0DX
Congratulations and best of luck to these fine amateurs.
GD, ISLE OF MAN. Steve, G4UOL, is expected to
be active November 17th through December 1st as GD4UOL. Activity
will be on 160-10 meters CW only with an entry in the CQWW CW
Contest. QSL via G4UOL.
IOTA NEWS...
AS-056. Masa, JA6GXK, will be active
from Danjo Archipelago (Meshima Island) several times
during the next few months: November 14-24th, Decemeber
15-25th, January 5-16th, February 6-16th and March
20-30th. However, this is not a DXpedition and Masa will
only be active during his spare time. Suggested
frequencies are: 14260 (+/- 10 kHz) or 21260 (+/- 10
kHz). QSL only via the Bureau.
OC-129. John, G3IZM, will depart the UK
for Manila on December 17th, and will be operational as
DU7/G3IZM from Guimeras Island in the Visayan Group
between December 19th and January 5th, as swimming and
other holiday pursuits permit! His activity will be done
with an IC706 MK2G with dipoles over the sea on 20/15
meters CW/SSB. QSL to home callsign.
JW, SVALBARD. Tor, LA9XGA, will be operating
with the callsign JW9XGA from the JW5E Club hut in Longyearbyen
Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard. He will be active from November
2-8th. Activity will be on all bands, CW/SSB /RTTY/PSK31. QSL via
LA9XGA to the bureau or direct to: Tor-Atle Sandal, Hamnaflot 6,
N-4200 Sauda Norway. For more info, check the Web site at: http://www.qsl.net/jw9xga/.
KP2/WP2, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. Bill, NU0Q,
will operate WP2Z from St. Croix during the ARRL CW Sweepstakes
Contest November 4-6th. Before and after the contest, he will
sign KP2/NU0Q. IMPORTANT: QSL WP2Z via KU9C. QSL KP2/NU0Q via
NU0Q.
K5K, KINGMAN REEF OPERATION. There are only a
few days left for this operation. Operations are expected to end
November 1st. K5K was heard during the CQWW DX SSB Contest
begging for QSOs on 20 meters.
P5, NORTH KOREA. Rumors continue to be pass
around about a possible P5 operation to take place at the end of
October. However, according to "The Daily DX" a
multi-national team of operators who meet in Seoul, South Korea
"in preparation for trip and possible demonstration
operation of amateur Radio in North Korea", were informed by
authorites "that permission to operate Amateur Radio would
not be granted." The group was, however, given a new date of
January 7, 2001, for a possible Amateur Radio operations. Only a
few details are available because of the sensitive nature of this
operaion. More details are to follow. Let's hope that this
operation can tatke place, KYFC and stay tuned.
PV3, BRAZIL (Special Operation). Look for
PV3DC to be active from "Fort Duque de Caxias" from
November 2-5th. The will be valid for the "Brazilian
Historical Fortifications Award" (DFH) as RS-01. Activity
will be on CW/SSB on all bands 80-10 meters. QSL Manager is Ruy
Brasil (CBA/QRZ). E-mail address is: py3afe@sgnet-rs.com.br.
QSL INFO AND NEWS...
Logs for 3A/IZ1DFI (Gianni) and
3A/IK1QBT (Tony) for their October 21-22nd operation are
now available at: http://www.qsl.net/iz1dfi/, http://www.qsl.net/ik1qbt/.
If you are missing from the log file, send E-mails to:
IK1QBT/Tony - k1qbt@amsat.org
or Gianni/IZ1DFI iz1dfi@libero.it
with your callsign and log information, and they will do
a search for you.
Terry Liang, BD7NQ, informs OPDX that
QSLs for B7K go via W2AY, NOT BD7NQ.
Charlie, WB4PVT, has talked to Georgi,
LZ1ZF, and he reports that Georgi is the QSL Manager for
BT4ARDF. Georgi has just returned from China where he
took part in The 10th Amateur Radio Direction Finding
World Championship (were he took 4th on 2 meters band and
5th on 80 meters). He states that all logs (over 4000
QSO's) are at his disposal, and he is the QSL Manager for
all contacts regardless of the operator of BT4ARDF. QSL
cards will be printed in two weeks. Georgi will QSL 100%
via the bureau, but states that the LZ QSL bureau is
quite slow, so he will also confirm directly (please
SASE) via CBA or to: LZ1ZF, P.O.Box 11, 4300 KARLOVO,
BULGARIA.
Gil, F5NOD, reports that the FO0/F5JJW
log is now available on his Web site: http://f5nod.waika9.com/.
Pictures will also be available soon. The operation was
from Mangareva Island (Gambier). Reference number: OC-063
(IOTA) and FO-108 (DIFO). Gil states, unfortunatly, the
operation from Tikeau Island was cancelled and Joel
(F5JJW) is back home. Gil, F5NOD, also reports that the
FK-DX Group Wep page is now on-line at: http://www.multimania.com/fk8hc/.
Two members of the Radio Club GRAPA
(Grupo de Radioaficionaodoa al Packet) HR1AAB/Alberto and
Antonio/HR1ERL were active in this past weekend's CQWW DX
SSB Contest as HR1AAB. QSL via: P.O. BOX 1734,
Tegucigalpa Honduras, Central America, Zip Code 11101.
SV9/K7BV QSLS. Mike, K8IW, informed OPDX
that he talked to Steve, KU9C, and was told that the QSLs
would be ready in about a month. They are having a full
colored QSL card printed, but had some problems with the
picture. The picture was sent to the printer just
recently, and Steve thinks the turn around will be pretty
quick. He is sorry for the delay, but wanted to do a nice
card for this operaiton.
VK6BM QSLs. Alan, VK4AAR, advises that
after several unexpected holdups at the printer's, he has
been advised that he should be receiving the VK6BM
(OC-234) QSL cards very soon. All the envelopes are ready
with stamps on them, so as soon as he receives the cards,
they will be on their way to the DXers, progressively
over the following days. Alan will make sure such delays
do NOT occur on future operations. He thanks all for your
patience.
Toni, EA5RM, informs OPDX that the
XU7ABD log is now available at the Web site: http://www.qsl.net/xu7abd/.
Cesar, PY2YP, Chairman of the Grupo de
CW de Sao Paulo (CWSP), informs OPDX that the Grupo de CW
de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo CW Group) has a new URL address: http://www.cwsp.org.br.
The CWSP site hosts the logs for AX0LD (Macquarie Island)
and PS0S (Peter & Paul Rocks).
QSL cards for YC3ZMI (IOTA OC-237
operation) should be sent to IK8CCW at: Antonio
Cannataro, PO Box 360, 87100 Cosenza ITALY (he is not
member of ARI).
SPECIAL EVENT. Look for UA4SKW to operate the
special event station to commemorate 80th Anniversary of Mariy-El
Republic. The special event callsign UE4SMA will be used now
through November 30th. QSL to: 80 years of Mariy-El, P.O.Box 145,
Yoshkar-Ola, 424000, Mariy-El, Russia. A "Special
Commemorative QSL" card will be available. A donation of a
USD to defray printing would be appreciated. For more
information, contact Tom UA4SKW at: toms@mail.ru.
There will be a special award certificate "Mariy-El 80"
for those who made QSOs with Russian stations from
"UA4S"-oblast during year 2000 (foreign stations need 2
QSOs, CIS - 3, Russia - 5 QSO`s). UE4SMA counts for 2 QSOs for
everyone. The certificate fee is 4USD or 10 IRCs.
VK6, AUSTRALIA. Larry, K3MLA/KG4ML, will be
in Geraldton, Western Australia, from November 5-17th. However,
he states this will be a business trip and has been issued the
callsign VK6BRP. He will be taking his FT-100, along with a
rigblaster interface and laptop, and will be trying to hand out
some PSK31 contacts from Zone 29. Larry plans on operating 40-10
meters, including the WARC bands, operating CW and SSB. He is
hoping that the "Best Western" motel will be "HAM
Friendly" to antennas (this may be a problem). As a backup,
Larry is taking an ATAS-100 mobile HF antenna just in case he can
only operate from the rental car. Like his KG4 operations, if he
is not working, he will be operating the radio! QSL via his home
callsign, K3MLA.
VK9L, LORD HOWE ISLAND. "The 59(9) DX
Report" reports that Ed, AA4EH, will be active from October
31st through November 6th as VK9LEH, His activity will be on
20/15/10 meters and the WARC bands. QSL via AA4EH.
VQ9, CHAGOS ISLANDS. "The DX News
Letter" reports that Patrick, W3PO (ex F6DWY), will be
active as VQ9PO beginning October 30th. Activity will last until
next March. Look for him to be mostly on CW and on all bands. QSL
via W3PO.
YJ, VANUATU (DXpedition Update). "The
Prairie DX Group" has provided more details to their
DXpedition to Vanuatu November 19-29th. The group plans to not
only have real-time on-line logging, but also a live Web cam
active during the operation. They expect to be assigned the
callsigns YJ0PD for their general operating and YJ0V for the CQWW
CW Contest. The complete press release will be sent to all OPDX
InterNet Subscribers as an additional bulletin. The QSL route for
the DXpedition (including CQWW CW Contest) is via N9PD, direct
(please include SASE, IRC or USD) or via bureau. DO NOT SEND QSL
CARDS VIA "YJ VANUATU BUREAU". For further information,
please check their Web page: http://www.n9pd.com. Or contact them at: kf9zz@arrl.net.
ZK1, NORTH AND SOUTH COOK ISLANDS. Remember
to look for operators Yasu/JI1NJC and Yu/JR2KDN to be active from
Penrhyn Island (IOTA OC-082, Grid Locator BI11) now through
November 4th as ZK1NJC and ZK1NDK, respectively. Both are veteran
DXpeditioners. However, as this bulletin was being prepared
during the CQWW DX Contest Sunday morning, PacketCluster spots
show the duo is currently active from the South Cook. Hopefully
the team will be able to travel to the North Cook Islands.
Activity is expected to be on CW/SSB/RTTY on 160-6 meters. Please
refer to OPDX.478 for further details and QSL routes.
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