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20 January 2007 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 820 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 3W - Eddy, XV1X and Stan, 3W9JR will participate in the CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest (CW) as 3W3W from a location 15 km south east of Haiphong, Vietnam. The antenna will be a vertical feed Delta loop directly above sea water, with open sea towards Europe, Japan and North America. They will be running high power. QSL via OK1DOT, direct only. [TNX XV1X] 8Q - Andrew, G7COD will be active again as 8Q7AK from Embudu Island, Maldives (AS-013) from 21 January to 2 February. He plans to operate between 9-10 UTC (+/- 18133 and 21253 kHz), 13-15.15 UTC (+/- 14183, 18133 and 21253 kHz) and 16-17 UTC (+/- 10123 and 14183 kHz). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX K1XN] 9A - Members of the Amateur Radio Club Koprivnica (9A8K) will be active as 9A60K through the end of the year. The special callsign celebrates the 60th anniversary of of ARC Koprivnica. Information on the Koprivnica City Award can be found at http://www.9a7k.com. QSL via 9A7K. [TNX 9A6JYL] C6 - Randy, W6SJ (C6AWS) reports he will be active again from Bahamas from 28 January through 4 February, including the FOC Marathon event (http://www.firstclasscw.org.uk/). CN - Victor/RV2FW, Dmitri/UA2FB and Vladimir/ UA2FF will be active as CN2FW, CN2FB and CN2FF from Morocco starting on 25 January. They will participate in the CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest as CN2A. QSLs via DK4VW. [TNX F5NQL] GJ - Rich, K2WR will be active again as MJ0AWR from Jersey (EU-013) starting on 23 January. He will participate in the CQ 160-Meter CW Contest (27-28 January) as GJ2A. QSL via K2WR (USA) or GJ3DVC. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] LU - A group of ten operators from the Bahia Blanca DX Group (http://www.grupodxbb.com.ar) and the Mistongo DX group (http://www.lu2ee.org.ar) will be active as LQ0D from Trinidad Island (SA-021) on 2-4 February. They plan to operate SSB, CW and PSK31 on 80-10 metres with four stations. QSL via LU7DSY. [TNX LU3DR] T30 - Mike, KM9D has have been active for a few days as T32MO from Fanning Island (OC-084), Eastern Kiribati. He is running only 10-15 watts, but has managed to log some 2,600 QSOs so far . Mike and Jan, KF4TUG should remanin on Fanning possibly through this coming weekend. QSL via OM2SA. [TNX The Daily DX] T8 - QRZ-DX reports that a group of YL operators from Japan will be active from Palau on 25-30 January. Expect them to to be signing T88AI (JR6XIW), T88AO (JR6XIX), T88OP (7K3EOP) and T88CY (JA1EYL). VU - The Daily DX reports that in conjunction with the special permission granted to the current VU7 DXpedition to operate on 30 metres, all Indian amateurs have been authorized to operate on 30m (as well as on 3790-3800 KHz) through 22 January. YV0 - A survey form has been added to the YW0DX web site (http://yw0dx.4m5dx.org/poll.html) to let the expeditioners know on which bands/modes you need Aves Island. The team [425DXN 814] expects to be QRV on 8 February and to leave the island sometime between 15 and 18 February. [TNX IT9DAA] _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW MOST WANTED SURVEY ---> The DX Magazine's (http://www.dxpub.com) annual Most Wanted Survey was conducted in September-October 2006 [425DXN 800]. The top 10 Most Wanted DXCC Entities are Scarborough Reef, Lakshadweep Islands, North Korea, Yemen, Navassa Island, Glorioso Islands, Bouvet Island, Desecheo Island, Marion Island and Heard Island. Please note that Swains Island is not listed (it was not shown on the survey form by mistake), but editor Carl Smith, N4AA believes that Swains is the number one most wanted Entity. A noce QSL collection for the 10 Most Wanted Entities can be found at http://LesNouvellesDX.free.fr (click on "galerie de QSL" and then on "Les dix contrees DXCC les plus recherchees"). QSL YI9LZ ---> Bureau cards can be requested by sending an e-mail with the QSO details to Gosho, LZ1ZF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Gosho has sent out sone 12,000 cards so far, and needs to have another 2000-4000 printed. [TNX K1XN and The Golist] QSL VIA HA8IB ---> Please note that direct requests for the February-March activities by ZK3RE and 5W0RE [425DXN 819] should be accompanied by 2 USD. Incoming cards without sufficient return postage will be processed through the bureau "sooner or later". [TNX HA9RE] QSL VIA IK1RAE ---> Marco reports that all of the outstanding contacts made with V5/IK1RAE/p (10-22 November 2005) and SV8/IK1RAE/p (9-16 September 2006, EU-052) are being confirmed automatically via the bureau. QSL VIA N2OO ---> Bob, N2OO expects a large crush of QSL mail for VU7RG: "if you have been waiting to send for your 3Y0X, CE0Z, XR9A QSL (or any other QSL I handle)", he says, "right now is a good time to send for it. Once the VU7 mail starts coming in, all other QSLs I handle could be delayed a bit". VISALIA 2007 ---> Sponsored this year by the Northern California DX Club, the 58th Annual International DX Convention will take place on 27-29 April at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center in Visalia, California. Current information and registration forms are available at www.dxconvention.org; additional registration information can be obtained by contacting Convention Registration Chairman, Dick Letrich, W6KM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). [TNX W6YD] XT2C ---> The XT2C team in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso hit the 50,000 QSOs mark at 13.30 UTC on 18 January. They expect to go QRT on Saturady (20 January) around 12 UTC. On-line logs will be available at http://xt2c.free.fr/ after the end of the expedition. _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** *** NEWS FROM THE WEB *** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW ANTARCTICA AWARD: The Mediterraneo DX Club's Antarctica Award Directory is the official source of information for the IOTA Programme on stations active from Antarctic bases. It acts as an extension of the IOTA Directory and provides the IOTA reference number for each base. The updated edition of the Antarctica Award Directory is available for download at www.mdxc.org/antarctica/download.asp [YNX IZ8CGS] LOGS: S21XA went QRT around 00.00 UTC on 17 January with more than 17,000 QSOs. On-line logs are available at http://www.ea3bt.com/bangladesh/bangla-logs.php _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL INFO ******** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 4K5D K2PF DU9/N0NM W4DR ST2BF W3HNK 4K9W DL6KVA EA8OM DJ1OJ ST2R S57DX 4L1FP LZ1OT EW6GF DL8KAC SV1/SP5IXI/p VK6DXI 4L1MA ON4RU EX2X EA5KB SX100VAR SV1VS 4L4C DJ1CW FP5EJ K2RW T32MO OM2SA 4U1WB KK4HD HC2SL EA5KB T66T OH6MKL 5H1Z F6AML HI3TEJ ON4IQ TU2/F5LDY F1CGN 5H3VMB/3 UA4WHX HJ4OBA EA5KB U4MIR RN3DK 5N6EAM IK2IQD HK1X EA7FTR UA0AZ W3HNK 5Z4DZ PA1AW HL8KSJ HL2FDW UE1QSK UA1RJ 5Z4ES K3PD IQ5YL IK5MEQ V31AK AK7G 6H1YYD EA5KB J20SA ON7SAT V31YN DJ4KW 6I2YW XE2YW J79XBI SM0XBI V44KJ WB2TSL 6J3RBA XE3RBA JT1/K4ZW K4ZW W4BWZ KG4WNL 7Z1SJ EA7FTR JT1ZW K4ZW XT2C F9IE 9G5A DL4WK LU2ERA/Z LU4DXU XU7ACY K2NJ 9M6DXX M5AAV LU5FF EA7JX XU7ADI SM5GMZ 9Q1D SM5BFJ LU8XW WD9EWK XU7TZG ON7PP 9Q1EK SM5DQC LX2007D LX1KC XV9TH SK7AX 9Q1TB SM5DQC LX2007G LX1KC YC2ZBM YC2TJV A35RK W7TSQ LZ170VL LZ1KZA YI1DZ OM3JW A61TX W4JS MP1SWL/P G6XOU YI1RAZ IK2DUW BP100S BX4AN ON60NOK ON7YX YI9E WU5E BX0ZR W8UVZ ON60WRC ON4ON YI9KEE OK1EE C21HC DL9HCU OX3PJ OZ4MAX YI9SV N4JR C33IU G0OYH PA3GIO/6W PA3GIO YI9TU N2OO CN8SG EA7FTR R0UPOL RD1AL YU160SRS YU1SRS CN8YZ EA7FTR R1AND RU1ZC YU60BCD YU7BCD CT9F CS3MAD S01MZ EA1BT Z21FO K3PD CU1CB EA5KB S21XA EA3BT ZD7AFC ZD7CTO CX2AQ EA5KB SD3N SM3NXS ZS4U K3PD CX9AU KA5TUF SE50A SM4AIO ZS6CCY K3PD D2DX OH2BAD ST2A T93Y ZY7LUZ PR7AR LAKSHADWEEPS 2007: QSL ROUTES ---> There are three QSL routes, depending on your IARU Region. Please refer to the proper web page for the relevant QSLling policy. IARU Region 1: German DX Foundation (direct) DL4KQ (bureau) http://www.gdxf.de/vu7rg.html IARU Region 2: N2OO (direct and bureau) http://sjdxa.org/vu7rg.htm IARU Region 3: I-House Radio Club (direct) JA3UB (bureau) http://www.ja3.net/ihouse/html/vu7rg.html _____________________________________________________________________________ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* ADDRESSES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW EA3BT Josep Gibert, C/ Col-legi 1, 08800 Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain F9IE Bernard Chereau, P.O. Box 211, F- 85330 Noirmoutier en l'Ile, France GDXF German DX Foundation, Blumenstr. 25, 50126 Bergheim, Germany I-HRC I-House Radio Club/JA3UB, P.O. Box 73, Amagasaki, 660-8799 Japan IK2DUW Antonello Passarella, Via M. Gioia 6, 20051 Limbiate - MI, Italy N2OO Bob Schenck, P.O. Box 345, Tuckerton, NJ 08087-0345, USA OK1DRQ Pavel Pok, Sokolovska 59, 323 12 Plzen, Czech Republic S57DX Slavko Celarc, Ob Igriscu 8, 1360 Vrhnika, Slovenia SM5DQC Osten B. 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