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1 September 2007
A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 852
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**** DX INFORMATION ****
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Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3B7 - The 3B7C team expects to arrive on
Isle du Sud, St. Brandon (AF-015)
on 4 September. Operations are not
expected to commence until
midnight UTC on the 7th, by which time
all stations and antennas
will have been assembled (however, the
6m beacon will be activated
at the earliest opportunity, so that 6m
DXers can start to monitor
for possible openings).
Suggested frequencies are as follows:
Band CW SSB RTTY FM
PSK
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160m 1822 1842 - - -
80m 3502 3795 3570 -
3580
40m 7002 7052 7035 -
7037
30m 10102 - 10137 -
10140
20m 14022 14145 14085 -
14071
17m 18072 18145 18100 -
18100
15m 21022 21295 21085 -
21071
12m 24892 24945 24920 -
24920
10m 28022 28495 28075
29580 28071
6m 50102 50145 - - -
6m Beacon 50090 - - - -
There will be 12 stations (one on every
band from 160 to 6 metres,
with second stations on 80 and 20 metres
so that they can operate on
CW and SSB at the same time) with big
monoband antennas on all bands
from 30 to 6 metres and verticals on the
remaining bands.
Feedback messages can be sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: John, G3WGV will
read them and send a daily digest of key
information to the team.
Logs will be uploaded to the 3B7C
website on a daily basis. The
online log lookup will feature a lookup for
your zone, showing what
times you, or others in your
country/zone, have made contact with
3B7C on each band.
QSL via G3NUG, direct or bureau
(bureau cards can be requested via
the webpage). The QSL manager for
SWLs is Bob Treacher, BRS32525.
Bookmark http://3b7c.com for full
information on the expedition.
5H - Scott, AC3A will be in Tanzania with
ORBIS International (a
nonprofit humanitarian organization
dedicated to blindness
prevention and treatment in developing
countries) on 7-17 September.
He plans to be active as 5H3EYE during
his local evening hours. QSL
via AC3A. [TNX The Daily DX]
9A - Mladen, 9A2NA will operate SSB on
the HF bands from Korcula Island
(EU-016) on 1-10 September. Side trips
to the nearby islands of
Cerin and Prznjak Mali are being
planned. [TNX F5NQL]
9H - A large group of Dutch amateurs will
be going to Qawra, Malta
(EU-023) for their 20th
holiday/DXpedition. They will operate on
80-6 metres CW, SSB and digital modes
between 9 and 30 September
using a very special callsign, 9H20 (Nine
Hotel Twenty, no suffix;
QSL via PB9ZR). The operators will be
PE1NGF (9H3X), PA0BEA
(9H3IE), PG9W (9H3ON), PE1OFJ
(9H3YM), PB9ZR (9H3ZR), PA1SL
(9H3AB), PA3HGP (9H3S), PA5W
(9H3WX), PD5W (9H3WY), PA1GR (9H3ZF),
PA3AVS (9H3AVS), PA3GUU
(9H3YT) and PE2EMS (9H3EM). [TNX
http://www.vrza.nl/]
9M - Celebrating the 50th anniversary of
Malaysian indipendence, a large
number of 9M50M special event
callsigns (the first letter of the
suffix stands for "Merdeka", which
means "independence" in Malay
language) will be aired from all over that
Country between 30 August
and 1 September. Expect 9M50MA,
9M50MB, 9M50MC, 9M50MD, 9M50ME,
9M50MF, 9M50MJ, 9M50MK, 9M50MM,
9M50MN, 9M50MP, 9M50MR, 9M50MT and
9M50MW from West Malaysia, while
9M50MS and 9M50MQ will be active
from East Malaysia. QSL via the
MARTS (Malaysian Amateur Radio
Transmitters' Society) bureau. [TNX
9M2TO and 9W6RAY]
CT - Carlos Mauricio, CT4HA will be active
as CT4HA/p from Berlenga
Island (EU-040) on 7-9 September. He
plans to operate SSB on 10, 15,
17, 20, 40 and 80 metres. QSL via
CT4HA, direct or bureau. [TNX
CT1END]
EA - The ITU was founded in Paris in 1865
as the International Telegraph
Union. The current name (International
Telecommunication Union) was
decided by the Madrid Plenipotentiary
Conference in 1932. To mark
this 75th anniversary, amateur radio
operators from Spain are
allowed to replace their EA, EB and EC
prefixes with AO, AN and AM
respectively between 3 September and 9
December.
EA - Adolfo, EA7TV will be active as
EA1/EA7TV from Arosa Island (EU-080)
on 5-7 September. He plans to operate
on 10-40 and 6 metres. QSL via
home call, direct or bureau. [TNX EA7TV]
F - Bernardo, HB9ASZ will be active
holiday style as F/HB9ASZ/P from
Brehat Island (EU-074) on 1-22
September. He will operate CW only
with 100 watts into a multiband-dipole.
His favourite band is 30m.
[TNX IZ8EDJ]
F - Dani, EB1BOA and his brother Javier,
EC1KV plan to be active as
F/EB1BOA/P from several French
lighthouses between 6 and 24
September. Further information at
http://ea1cs.blogspot.com/. QSL
via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
EA1WX]
F - The Rugby World Cup 2007
(www.rugbyworldcup.com) will take place
from 7 September to 20 October and ten
Frech special event stations
will be active from the cities that will host
the matches: TM0RWC
(Saint-Denis), TM1RWC (Paris),
TM2RWC (Bordeaux), TM3RWC (Lens),
TM4RWC (Lyon), TM5RWC (Marseille),
TM6RWC (Montpellier), TM7RWC
(Nantes), TM8RWC (Saint-Etienne) and
TM9RWC (Toulouse). QSL via
operator's instructions. Full information
on the relevant award,
sponsored by the REF and the
Association des Radioamateurs de
Loire-Atlantique, can be found at
http://arala.44.free.fr [TNX
F8REF]
GD - Lars, DF1LON will operate SSB, CW
and RTTY as MD0LON from the Isle
of Man (EU-116) on 6-10 September.
The main focus will be on the
WAE SSB Contest. QSL via home call.
[TNX www.rsgbiota.org]
GM - Jim, MM0BQI reports that due to
illness and possible bad weather
over the weekend he has had to cancel
his IOTA trip to the Treshnish
Islands [425DXN 851]. He will still be
active in SSB field day using
MM0BQI/p, but he will be operating from
EU-005 (UK mainland).
GM - The Orkney Wireless Museum
(www.owm.org.uk) at Kirkwall, Orkney
(EU-009) will be on the air as GB2OWM
during the 17th Orkney Science
Festival, to be held from 30 August to 5
September. [TNX VA3RJ]
I - Elio, IK8TPE and possibly other
operators plan to be active from
Scoglio del Gabbiano (not IOTA, IIA KR-
002) on 2 September. [TNX
IK8TPE]
J6 - Bill, K9HZ expects to operate mostly
SSB on 10-20 metres as either
J69HZ or J6/K9HZ from St. Lucia (NA-
108) from 31 August to 2
September. [TNX W1AW]
OA - Dane Novarlic, S57CQ is currently in
Lima, Peru with the UN World
Food Program. He says he will be
active as OA4/S57CQ until 3
September.
OH - Markus, OH1MN plans to operate as
OF10TA from Luonnonmaa Island (not
IOTA) on 1-2 September. QSL via home
call. [TNX F5NQL]
OH - Finnish amateur radio stations are
allowed to replace their OH
prefix with OF between 1 September and
31 December to celebrate the
90th anniversary of the independence of
Finland. [TNX OH2HSJ]
SP - Special event station 3Z0MSPO will be
active from Kielce, Poland on
3-6 September for the 15th
Miedzynarodowym Salonie Przemyslu
Obronnego (International Defence
Industry Exhibition). QSL via
SP7PKI, direct or bureau. [TNX SP7HT]
UA - Memorial radio station RC150KTS will
be active on 1-30 September to
commemorate the 150 anniversary of
the birth of Konstantin E.
Tsiolkovsky, the Russian rocket scientist
and pioneer of astronautic
theory. On 17-23 September the
sation will be active from
Tsiolkovsky's house-museum in the
village of Izhevskoe (Ryazan
oblast). QSL via RU3SD. [TNX UA3FDX]
UA - Special event station R450KB from 1
September through 30 November
commemorating the 450th anniversary
of the the association of
Kabardino-Balkaria with Russia. QSL via
UA6XT, direct or bureau.
Information on the relevant award can be
found at http://www.r6x.ru
[TNX RA6XTD]
VE - Steve, VE2TKH will be active as
VO2ZT from Labrador City (Zone 2)
from 31 August to 4 September. He
plans to operate mainly CW, with
some SSB depending on band
conditions, from the VO2WL club station.
QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX
VE2TKH]
VP8_fi - Chris, GM0TQJ will be active as
VP8CXV from East Falkland (SA-002)
between 8 September and 15 January
2008. He plans to operate mainly
SSB, with some RTTY and PSK31, in his
spare time. QSL via home call.
[TNX www.rsgbiota.org]
YB - Hans, PA0HOP will be active again as
YB9AQH from his QTH on Bali
Island (OC-022) during the months of
September and October. He plans
to operate CW, PSK31 and RTTY. QSL
via PA0HOP, direct or bureau.
[TNX PA0HOP]
ZD7 - Tom, KC0W will be moving to St.
Helena Island on 5 September for
several years. His new callsign is ZD7X
and he plans to be on the
air by 15 September. He expects to
operate on 160-6 metres CW, SSB,
RTTY and PSK, and to participate in all
major contests. QSL via
W0MM. [TNX The Daily DX]
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*** 4 2 5 D X N E W S ***
**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
QSL 9M2/G4VGO ---> Petr, OK1DOT reports
he is now the QSL manager for Bob,
9M2/G4VGO. QSL direct only to Petr Gustab,
P.O. Box 52, Cesky Brod 282 01,
Czech Republic.
QSL ER5DX ---> Apparently some source of
information lists RW6HS as the QSL
manager for ER5DX. "I have never had a QSL
manager", Victor says, and adds
that cards can be sent to him direct (Victor M.
Rudenco, P.O. Box 7, 6103
Chadyr-Lunga, Moldova) or through the
bureau.
QSL EU-169 ---> If you still need a ZA0IS or
ZA0/IK7JWX card for the December
2002 operations from Sazan Island (EU-169),
please e-mail the QSO data to
Alfredo, IK7JWX ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). [TNX
IK7JWX]
QSL RK3DZJ/1 ---> All of the contacts made by
RK3DZJ/1 from IOTA group EU-147
(August 2007) will be confirmed automatically
via the bureau. Requests for
direct cards should be sent to RA3DEJ
(Dmitry Ognistyj, Sovetskaya 18-23,
Zarya, Balashikhinsky r-n, Moskovskaya obl.,
143922, Russia). [TNX UA3DNR]
QSL ROUTES: Paul, ON6DP maintains a QSL
Manager database that now contains
about 75,100 QSL routes
(http://www.dd3kf.de/on6dp.htm), and Josef
Rohner,
HB9CIC has developed a simple freeware tool
to handle this database. It can
be found at http://www.qslnet.de/hb9cic [TNX
HB9CIC]
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******* QSL INFO ********
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Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER
CALL MANAGER
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3D2MT LY1F (a) CO2HQ EB7AEY
ON100SCOUT ON7IG
3D2MT VK2CCC (b) CO2JD AD4Z
ON14CS ON4RSX
3W2TXR JA2TXR CO2NB EA5KB
ON60AF ON6KN
3W9R OK1JN CO2VQ EA5KB
ON60HRT ON7IG
3Z0LH SP1PBW CO6XN N3ZOM
ON60NLB ON3AD
4K9W DL6KVA CQ0ODX CT2GZE
ON60SNW ON7KO
4S7BRG HB9BRM CQ5N CT6ARL
ON60TWS ON8RH
4S7HIG ON4HIL CQ7C CT2GZB
OX/PA3EXX/p PA3EXX
4S7NNG JA4AVP CT7GIL CS1AAM
OY3QN OZ1ACB
4S7VK DJ9ZB CU8AS HB9CRV
OZ50JOTA OZ4ADP
4U1UN HB9BOU CV7FARO CX1FA
R1000LE UA3DDA
5P1DX OZ6B CV9T CX1TA
R1FJT UA4RC
5R8FL G3SWH CX3CCC CX2ABC
RK3DZJ/1 RA3DEJ
5R8FU SM5DJZ CX5UR EA5KB
SD3N SM3NXS
5R8UO DF8UO CX7CO KA5TUF
SE2T SM2YIZ
6W1SE JR2KDN DK2007EKT DJ6SI
SG3U SM3CXS
7Q7BJ G4AHK ED6URB EA6ZX
SN100S SP9ZHR
7S0SFJ SM0BYD EG3MED EA3GM
SN10IPA SP9PZU (a)
7S100ALA SK7CN EH1LSI EA1AUO
SN10IPA SQ9ZM (b)
7S6LGT SK6NL EI75IRTS EI6HB
SN1LH SP3VT
7X2EB EA7FTR EK3GM IK2QPR
SN750C SP9PKZ
7Z1HL DJ9ZB EM15B UT1BC
SO1EKO DL1EKO
7Z1SJ EA7FTR EM50ARDF US0VA
ST100S ST2M
7Z1UG DG1XG F5KAQ/P F5RJM
SV0XAO DJ5JH
8S20OTC SM7BHM GB0CBE G5XV
T32GW WB6NOA
8S3SYL SM3CVM GB0GRA M0JHW
TC1LHW TA1FR
8S6IL SM6TUW GB0SH MW0JZE
TC25SG TA1HZ
8S6LGT SK6GX GB1SL GW0VML
TC4LHW TA2RX
8S6LL SM6PVB GB2BML M0CNP
TJ3SL F5PSA
8S6VAN SM6JSM GB2LBN GM4UYZ
TL8CK F6EWM
9A/VE3ZIK DL3PS GB2SCA G4SSH
TM4CR F4ELJ
9A0LH 9A7K GB5BIG GI2BX
TM4ST F4ELJ
9A5LO/P OK1LO GC4BRS/p
GW0ANA TT8FC EA4AHK
9G1CL WD4KZK GM0ANA/p
GW0ANA UA0IDZ/p RW0IZ
9H5LB 9H1EI HB9LH HB9DLO
UE0LLL RU0LM
9J2BO G3TEV HL0LPM/3 6K2BWA
UE0QDA/0 RX3RC
9J2CA G3SWH HZ1AN DJ9ZB
UE1RSM UA1RJ
9M2/G4VGO OK1DOT HZ1IK DK7YY
UE6MAC RZ6MF
9M2CP 9V1CP HZ1ZH EA7FTR
UE6UFO RZ6AU
9M6QQ DF5UG II4GOR IK3MZS
UQ8GU UN8GU
9M8QQ DF5UG IR8DX IK8VRH
V5/DJ8VC DJ8VC
9Q1EK SM5DQC J3/DL7VOG
DL7VOG VE1OTA/P VE1VOX
9Q1TB SM5DQC JD1BMM JA6GXK
VP8LGT VP8ON
A25MC G4RCD K4L W4MOT
VP8ROT GM0HCQ
A35EA ZL1AMO K8E N8MR
VR10NN WA4WTG
A61AB IZ8CLM LR3DX LU7DSY
VU2PEP KF9TC
A61C W4JS LU1ECZ EA5KB
W2T N2OO
A61HH A61AV LU3DXG LU7DSY
W5P WC5C
A61M A61AV LU6XA LU7DSY
W8L K8PT
A61R EA7FTR LZ130SV LZ2LE
WH2D K3UOC
A61TX W4JS LZ170VL LZ1KZA
XR1H HA1AG
AT60MY VU2NRO LZ50DX LZ1AF
XR4C CE6AMN
AY7X WD9EWK MM0BNN/P M0BNN
XU7TZG ON7PP
C31CT EA3QS MM0XAU DJ6AU
YB9/PA0RRS PA0RRS
CN8KD EA5XX OH1AV/2 OH1BOI
YW5AS DM4TI
CN8YE EA7FTR ON1000B ON5LL
ZL6LH ZL1VK
(a) bureau (b) direct
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******* ADDRESSES *******
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Edited by IK1ADH & I1JQJ
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
6K2BWA Song Jang Woon, 104-1004 Daewoo
Apt, Dangwang Dong, Anseong, Gyeonggi
456-705, Korea
7X4AN Mohamed Boukhiar, P.O. Box 30133,
Barcelona 08080, Spain
9N7JO Stig Lindblom, Jum Changphimai,
147/1 Moo 3, Tambon Boot, Ban Ta
Bong, Phimai, TH-30110 Nakhon
Ratchashima, Thailand
DM4TI Udo Soeldner, Grenzweg 10, 99610
Wundersleben, Germany
EA6ZX P.O. Box 240, 07080, Palma de
Mallorca, Spain
F5RJM Denis Villemin, 4 Le Flaquet, F-50470
Tollevast, France
LU7DSY Carlos Alberto Almiron, P.O. Box
709, 8000 Bahia Blanca - Buenos
Aires, Argentina
OH1BOI Jari Talkara, Lylykatu 16, 24280 Salo,
Finland
PA3EXX Johan Willemsen, Belmolendijk 12,
1693 DJ Wervershoof, The
Netherlands
RW0IZ Rudolf A. Yanson, P.O. Box 183,
685000 Magadan, Russia
SM3CXS Jorgen Svensson, Berghemsvagen
11, SE-86336 Sundsbruk, Sweden
SM3NXS Sten Holmgren, Centrumgatan 22,
SE-864 31 Matfors, Sweden
VK2CCC Tomas Magyla, 7 Churchill Avenue,
Wahroonga, NSW 2076, Australia
VP8ON Donald Betts, P.O. Box 809, Stanley,
Falkland Islands, FIQQ-1ZZ,
South Atlantic
WD9EWK Patrick Stoddard, 4031 E. Aster
Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85032-7417, USA
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