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425 DX News is available in the following languages: English * Italian * Japanese * Portuguese * Russian * Spanish _____________________________________________________________________________ 22 November 2008 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 916 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 8Q - Andy, UN8GU and Mike, UN8GC will be active as 8Q7GU and 8Q7GC from the Maldives (AS-013) between 30 November and 7 December. They plan to operate CW, SSB and digital modes on 80-10 metres. More information will be available at http://www.8q7gc.com and http://www.8q7gu.com after 29 November. [TNX UN8GC] 9M6 - 9M4SEA, the SEANET Convention station, is QRV until 23 November from Kota Kinabalu (OC-088), Sabah, East Malaysia. Please note that the callsign has been re-issued: the first time it was issued was for the 2003 SEANET Convention in Johor Bahru, West Malaysia. "This is another example of 9M4 prefix confusion", Steve, 9M6DXX says, as nowadays 9M4 callsigns are issued for special event or club stations in West Malaysia (9M2), Sabah (9M6) and Sarawak (9M8). 9M6 - Steve, 9M6DXX and John, 9M6XRO will be active as 9M6DXX/p and 9M6XRO/p from Labuan Island (OC-133) on 24-28 November. They plan to operate CW and SSB on 160-10 metres, hopefully with two stations. QSL for both via M0URX. [TNX MM0NDX] 9M6 - Saty, JE1JKL will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as 9M6NA from Labuan Island (OC-133), East Malaysia. It will be a SOSB entry on 80 metres. QSL via home call. Saty welcomes e-mail requests for bureau cards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). [TNX NG3K] CT3 - A large team of operators from the Rhein Ruhr DX Association will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as CT9L (QSL via DJ6QT) from Madeira (AF-014), in the Multi-Multi category. Outside the contest, between 25 November and 3 December, they will be active as CS95A (QSL via CT3EE). [TNX NG3K] DL_ant - Torsten, DL1TOG and Felix, DL5XL are working at the German Antarctic station "Neumayer II" and may be active as DP0GVN during their spare time. QSL via DL5EBE. In February 2009 the base will be replaced by the new "Neumayer Station III" (http://tinyurl.com/69m5sd), and Felix will be a member of the first team overwintering there. He plans to operate as DP1POL (QSL via DL1ZBO) from the new station until early 2010. [TNX DXNL] FM - Lee, K5UN will be active as TO5X from Martinique (NA-107) from 24 November to 2 December, including an entry in the CQ WW CW DX Contest. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX] FT5_ant- Nicolas, FT5YI [425DXN 912] expects to be QRV again for a couple of hours on 22 November, from 15 to 17 UTC (1-3 a.m. local time), presumably around 14267 kHz. He operates from Dumont d'Urville Base on Petrel Island (AN-017), Antarctica. QSL via F4EGX (Nicolas' home call). Pictures and further information can be found at http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/photos.php and http://f4egx.homelinux.net FT5W - Florentin, F4DYW expects to arrive at Crozet [42DXN 913] around 8 December, and to start amateur radio activities sometime between 10 and 15 December. He will operate as FT5WO in his spare time, using 100 watts and dipoles on 40-10 metres SSB. QSL via F4DYW (be prepared to be patient, as he will be back home in early 2010). [TNX F6AJA] HB0 - Chris, DK9TN and Matthias, DK4YJ will be active as HB0/homecall from Liechtenstein on 27-30 November. They will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as single operators on 40m (HB0/DK4YJ) and 80m (HB0/DK9TN). QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. The website for the operation is at http://www.dk9tn.de/2008-hb0-cqww-cw [TNX DK9TN] HK0_sa - The 5K0T team have changed their plans [425DXN 914]. They were unable to operate from Roncador Bank because of lack of a suitable location, and are now supposed to be QRV from Serrana Bank (NA-133) until 1 December, including the CQ WW DX CW Contest. However, the latest information from the team (19 November) was that strong winds and heavy rain were preventing them from setting up. On 2 December they expect to relocate to Bajo Nuevo (NA-132) and operate from there until the 6th. They intend to be active on all HF bands and 6 metres, with two stations and a focus on low band operation at night. QSL 5K0T via HA7RY. Bookmark http://www.5k0t.com for updates. J3 - Ulf, DL5AXX will be active as as J3/homecall from Grenada (NA-024) from 25 November to 9 December, including participation in the CQ WW DX Contest (SOAB) and the ARRL 160 Meter Contest (5-6 December). QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K] JA - Look for JS6RRR, JI3DST/JS6 and/or JI3DST/6 to be QRV from the Miyako Islands (AS-079) between 27 November and 2 December, CQ WW DX CW Contest included. QSL via bureau. [TNX JS6RRR] KP2 - K3CT, K3VA and K3TEJ will be active from the US Virgin Islands (NA-106) from 25 November to 3 December. They will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as KP2M (QSL via AI4U), while outside the contest they will operate as KP2/homecall with an emphasis on 160, 30, 12 and 17 metres. [TNX NG3K] OX - Ian, G3WVG and Nigel, G3TXF plan to operate Multi-Two as OX5AA during the CQ WW DX CW Contest from the club station in Kangerlussuaq on the west coast of Greenland (NA-018). QSL via G3TXF. See http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/OX5AA/OX5AA.html [TNX G3TXF] PZ - Yuri, VE3DZ will be active as PZ5TT from Suriname between 25 November and 1 December. He will operate CW, SSB and RTTY on all bands, and will take part in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via VE3DZ. [TNX NG3K] S2 - The expedition to St. Martin's Island (AS-127) [425DXN 911] has been delayed and is now scheduled to take place sometime in late December. Hopefully a special callsign will be issued by then. Please visit http://s2iota.eb7dx.com/ for updates. T3 - The Daily DX reports that Toshi, JA8BMK (T30XX) was due to leave Tarawa, Western Kiribati [425DXN 914] on 21 November. The voyage to Canton Island, Central Kiribati takes 6-7 days. Toshi is expected to operate SSB and CW on 160-10 metres as T31DX for about one week. QSL direct to JA8BMK. T8 - Gary Shirk, KE1AT (CN2US, ex-S92AT) has moved to Palau; he has just obtained the callsign T88SS and expects to be on the air as soon as he can get an antenna up. QSL route TBA. [TNX QRZ-DX] TA - Ozer, TA2RC will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest as YM0T on 160 metres from Kefken Island (AS-159). QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K] VU - Sara/VU3RSB, Frank/VU3FRK (DL4KQ) and a couple of other Indian operators will be active as AT2RS from Nachugunta Island in the Andhra Pradesh South State Group (AS-199, new one) between 4 and 7 December. They plan to operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres (30m excluded) with 2-3 stations, with yagis, dipoles and verticals. QSL via W3HNK (North and South America) and DL4KQ (rest of the world), direct or bureau. [TNX www.islandchaser.com and W3UR] YS - Eric, K9GY will be active as YS4RR or YS/K9GY from El Salvador from 26 November to 2 December, including ane entry in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. Before and after the contest he will operate mostly CW with some SSB on 10, 15, 20, 40, 80 and 160 metres. QSL via K9GY. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX] Z2 - Herbert, 7Z1HB will be active as Z21LS from Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 November to 9 December. He plans to operate SSB, plus PSK and RTTY if he can fix his computer. QSL via DE1ZHB (bureau) or direct to 7Z1HB. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW DXTELNET ---> Fabrizio, IK4VYX has announced that a new version of DXTelnet32 (5.5) is ready for download (http://golist.net/dldxt.cfm). This new version provides full support to the new DXSummit through DXPlorer32. For more info, you can contact Fabrizio at [EMAIL PROTECTED] FUTURE PLANS ---> Future operations being planned by the 4M5DX Group include YW0A (Aves Island, February-March 2009) and 7P8YV (Lesotho, July-August 2009), plus the usual activities from Venezuelan IOTA groups and - hopefully - an operation from a DXCC Entity that ranks within the first 60 in the latest Most Wanted Survey. [TNX IT9DAA] IPARC ---> A new Hungarian IPARC (International Police Association Radio Club) Award is now available from Gab, HA3JB. Complete details can be found at www.ha3jb.com/award.html [TNX HA3JB] LOGS ---> A log search for OJ0B and OJ0J (Market Reef 2005, 2007 and 2008) and a short recap can be found at http://df3cb.com/logsearch/oj0/ QSLing for the 2008 operation is happening right now. Additionally, all 2005 QSLs were sent to the bureau network some six months ago. All logs are open for QSLing. [TNX OH2BH] LOGS ---> A log search and pictures for the recent VU7NRO operation from the Lakshadweep Islands can be found at http://www.vu2nis.org/vu7nro/vu7nro.htm NCDXF ---> At its Board of Directors meeting on 18 November, the Northern California DX Foundation elected the following officers and directors: Len Geraldi/K6ANP (President), Al Burnham/K6RIM (Vice President), Tom McShane/NW6P (Secretary), Bruce Butler/W6OSP (Trasurer), Dave Pugatch/KI6WF, Chuck Ternes/N6OJ, Glenn Vinson/W6OTC, Steve Merchant/K6AW, Ken Anderson/K6TA, Tim Totten/N4GN and Glenn Johnson/W0GJ (Directors). After 35 years of dedicated service, Rusty Epps (W6OAT) chose to retire from the board. Information pertaining to the Northern California DX Foundation is available at http://www.ncdxf.org/ QSL ZF1WD ---> Ken, G4RWD is not the QSL manager for this recent operation. "Whilst I have operated several times as ZF1WD", Ken says, "I have not been active from the Caymans since 2002". He did not renew his license, so "it may well have been re-issued but there may be a possibility of this being a pirate". + SILENT KEYS + Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society's (ARLHS) co-founder and former Vice President Thomas C. Jednacz (W7QF) passed away on 17 November at 68 years of age. Other recently reported Silent Keys include Francis D. Hurlbut III (KL7FH) and Robert S. Wruble (W7GG). =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL ROUTES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3B8FQ K5XK DL2008BY DF6JF S79MV JA0UMV 3D2YA JA1NLX DP4P DC8RE S79NS DL2RNS 3DA0VM ZS6AVM DT0IP/2 6K2EJJ S79UH JA0UH 3Z0PAM SP9PTA DU1MGA K3IRV SF0L SM0LQB 3Z2008PR SP4KHM E51QQQ JA1KAJ SN90SN SP7PKI 4K9W DL6KVA E74AW E77E SN95ZHPOW SP3FYX 4L6DL LZ1OT E760FDE E73FDE SP2008PR SP7KWW 4L7O DL7BO EG0VRB EA2URV SQ2008PR SP7KKZ 4M5RY EA5KB EG8CBN EA8CBN SU9HP SC6A 4X/DL3PS HB9EHQ EG8RCP EA8RCP SX1L DL1JCZ 4X6HP EA7FTR EK3GM IK2QPR T6AC DL4ST 4X6HP EA7FTR EO0UD UR7UT TC70ATA TA1HZ 5B4AGM W3HNK ER4ER RA4LW TM5TUR F6KTW 5B4AIZ G3SWH ET3JA OK3AA TM7X F6KEH 5N9NDP IK5JAN FR1AN NI5DX TM8TEG F5MDF 5R8FL G3SWH FT5YI F4EGX TM90AA F4FIU [a] 5R8GZ G3SWH GB60PW GW0ANA TM90AA F5SPW [b] 5R8IC F6ICX GM5XW G5XW TN5SN IZ1BZV 5Z4ES K3IRV H44MY OM2SA TO2HI F6AUS 5Z4LS G3RWF H44TO OM2SA UN7AB DL8KAC 6W1SE JR2KDN HF90MWRP SP2PMW UN7MMM EA7FTR 7P8BA ZS6BQI HF90POL SP6ZDA UN9PQ IK2QPR 9A70LPC 9A7KM II1ADV IW1RLR V55SRT IZ8EDJ 9M2MRS PA0RRS II2PJ IQ2DN V73NS WD8CRT 9M4SEA 9M6TW J28KO F4FUD V8FKT G3YBY 9M8DXX DL2QT J42ARET SV2GWY VK0BP VK2CA 9M8XXW DJ8XW J5UAP HA3AUI VK6ANC VK6NE A35AU JA2AAU J88DR G3TBK VK6BN EA7FTR A35IC JA2AIC JX4JLK pirate VU2PEP KF9TC A35SS JA2LSS K8V W8JWN XV4BX EB7DX A35TE JA2ATE KH0ABT 7L1FPU YR90U YO8AXP A35ZS JA2ZS KH6BB K1ER Z21BC NI5DX A5100A F9DK LW9DX EA5KB Z21FO K3IRV A61Q EA7FTR LY70W LY5W Z22JE K3IRV AM5MSV EA5URR LZ08IPY LZ3SM ZB2CN DJ9WH C31CT EA3QS LZ1195IR LZ1KZA ZD8B K1CA C4EURO 5B4AHO LZ8A LZ2BE ZF2DR K5RQ C91LW UY5LW OA4BHY/2 DL2JRM ZL1CT N3SL CU1CB EA5KB ON1708M ON5TN ZP4KFX IK2DUW CU3HQ EA3GHZ ON4PTC ON7YB ZS4U K3IRV D2QMN RZ3EC ON58EXPO ON7XY ZS6FJM CT1ABE [a] bureau [b] direct 3DA0TM Andy Cory, P. O. Box 1033, Mbabane, Swaziland 4S7NE Nelson Ranasinghe, 18 Katana Housing Scheme, Demanhandiya 11270, Sri Lanka 7X0RY Frantisek Pubal, c/o Zuzana Rybarova, P.O. Box 109, 11121 Praha 1, Czech Republic DL2JRM Rene Matthes, Wiesenstr. 3, 09328 Lunzenau, Germany F4EGX Nicolas Chatelain, 1D rue des Vosges, 67800 Hoenheim, France HS0ZEE Sheridon Keith Street, P. O. Box 107, Chiang Mai Post Office, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand IV3YIM Salvo Vitale, P.O. Box 52, 34170 Gorizia - GO, Italy IZ1BZV Giorgio Tabilio, Casella Postale 95 - SP Centro, 19100 La Spezia - SP, Italy JA0UH Iwao Iijima, Tomitake 900, Nagano 381-0006, Japan JA0UMV Tohru Kataoka, 15-9 Sakae-cho, Kamo 959-1382, Japan OM2SAA Juraj Sipos, P.O. Box 29, 94603 Kolarovo, Slovak Republic UY5LW Igor Pyzh, P.O. Box 1770, Kharkov - 176, 61176 Ukraine VQ9LA Larry Arneson, PSC 466 Box 24 (DG-21 Annex 30), FPO AP 96595-0024, USA ZS6AVM Dave Scully, P.O. 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