I.C.P.O. Calendar (November 04 - 12, 2004) Islands, Castles & Portable Operations Operations are listed by start date (Day/Month/Year) ===================================================== 04/11/2004: Miki, YT1CS, currently active as 5Z4YT1CS from Nairobi, has arranged a side trip to Lamu Island (IOTA AF-040) between the period of November 4-11th. He will be active on 80 through 10 meter SSB only, using 100W into an inverted Vee for 40/80 meters and verticals for the higher bands. The call to be used in this operation will be 5Z4YT1CS/m. Look for him on the usual IOTA frequencies. He will stay in Kenya until November 18th. QSL via YT1CS, by the bureau or direct. [Tnx OPDX]
04/11/2004: Look for BA4DW to be active November 4-9th as BA4DW/4 from Changdao Island (IOTA AS-146). QSL via home call (QRZ.com). [Tnx BA4DW] 04/11/2004: Masayoshi, JF1UIO, will be QRV November 4-8th as FK/JF1UIO from Loyalty Islands (OC-033, Difo to be given in time). He will be active on 40 through 10 meters on SSB and CW. QSL via JARL bureau or QRZ.com [Tnx F5NQL] 05/11/2004: Dov (4Z4DX) and 4Z5NB will be QRV November 5th from various Holyland grid squares, operating mobile. The travel plans are as follows: Starting at 09:00 UTC (14265 kHz) from R-10-HD on road 65 and will activate H-09-HD, J-09-HD, J-O9-JN, J-09-YZ, J-08-YZ, K-08-YZ, K-09-YZ, K-09-JN, L-09-YZ, L-10-YZ, M-10-YZ and M-09-YZ. QSL via home calls (QRZ.com). [Tnx 4X4JU] 05/11/2004: Bill, W5SJ, will be QRV November 5-11th as VP2EJ from Anguilla (NA-022). Activity will be on 80-6 meters, mostly CW, with an emphasis to be placed on 6 meters. QSL via W5FO. [TNX 425DXN] 06/11/2004: Francois, F5JNE, will be QRV November 6th as F5JNE/p from the Castle of Champoulet (Department Loiret/45, City of Champoulet, Zip Code 45420, Canton DDCF 4505). QSL via home call, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx F5NQL] 06/11/2004: JA5BEX/5 and JE5HXJ/5 plan to be QRV November 6th and 7th from the Odesima Island (AS-076) (JIIA AS-076 new one for the Japanese IOTA Islands Award) Kagawa Pre. QSL via home calls, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx F5NQL] 06/11/2004: Nick, NH6ON, will be back to Antarctica between November 6th and December 15th for his annual communications engineering trip. He hopes to operate from KC4AAA at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station (K-08 for the Antarctica Award, IOTA AN-016). QSL direct to K1IED. [Tnx 425DXN] 06/11/2004: Vlady, RU3HD, will be active for about four months starting November 6, 2004, as R1ANN and RU3HD/ANT from Saam Novolazarevskaya base, Antarctica (IOTA AN-016, WAP RS-13, WABA UA-08, WW Loc: JB59VF, CQ-38, ITU-67). Operation is planned for all HF bands. QSL via RZ3DJ (QRZ.com). [Tnx RZ3DJ] 06/11/2004: Stan, RA9HDM, will be active November 6-7th as RA9HDM/p from the Molchanovsky Area (RDA reference TO-19, for the Russian Districts Award), the Verhneketsky Area (RDA TO-13), the Pervomajsky Area (RDA TO-21) and the Asinovsky Area (RDA TO-11), Tomskaya oblast (TO). QSL via home call, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx RDA news] 06/11/2004: Mike, RA3ZOM, will be active November 6-8th as RK3ZZB/p from the following references for the Russian Districts Award - November 6: county-line of Vejdelevsky Area (RDA BO-12) and Roven'sky Area (RDA BO-24); November 7: county-line of Volokonovsky Area (RDA BO-13) and Krasnogvardejsky Area (RDA BO-19); November 8: county-line of BO-08/BO-18 Alekseevsky Area (RDA BO-08) and Krasnensky Area (RDA BO-18), Belgorodskaya oblast (BO). QSL via RA3ZOM, direct or bureau. [Tnx RDA news] 08/11/2004: Johan, PA3EXX will operate as VK4WWI/P from Marion Reef in the Coral Sea Islands Territory North Group (OC-new) between November 8th and 12th. QSL via PA3EXX. [Tnx 425DXN] 11/11/2004: Shalom, 4X1UN, will be QRV November 11-16th as CX/4X1UN from the islands of Gorriti and Lobos (IOTA SA-039). Activity will be on 20 and 15 meter CW and SSB. QSL via home call (QRZ.com) [Tnx 4X1UN] 11/11/2004: Jean Pierre, F5AHO, will be active November 11-24th as FY/F5AHO from French Guyana. Look for him to be active from the Salut Islands (IOTA SA-020, DIFO FY-008) November 13th and 14th. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx F5NQL] 11/11/2004: Look for Jeff, VA3QSL/W4, to be QRV on IOTA NA-069 between November 11 - 13, 2004. He plans to activate Estero (USI FL-035S, Lee county) and possibly Sanibel (USI FL-021S, Lee county) and Captiva (USI FL-020S, Lee county) Islands, Florida. Activity will likely be on 14.260 +/- SSB. QSL via home call, bureau or direct with 1 greenstamp or 1 IRC. [Tnx VA3QSL] 11/11/2004: ZX0ECF (PT2HF) and ZX0GTI (PT2GTI) are the calls to be used in November from the Brazilian station "Comandante Ferraz" (PY-01 for the Antarctica Award) on King George Island, South Shetlands (IOTA AN-010). The activity is expected to take place November 11-19th on 160 through 6 meter SSB, RTTY, PSK31, CW and SSTV. PT2DX/MM might be aired from the "Ary Rongel" during the voyage; weather permitting, there might be also some activity from Elephant Island (AN-010) on November 7-8th. QSL via PT2GTI. [Tnx 425DXN] 12/11/2004: Bob, N4BP, and Nelson, NE4LS, will be QRV November 12-14th as homecall/p from Garden Key, (USI FL-013S), Dry Tortugas (IOTA NA-079, Monroe county), Florida. They will also activate the Dry Tortugas lighthouse (TWLH reference K-066, WLH LH-0274, ARLHS USA-316).Activity will be QRP CW on 14.060 (+/-), 14.007 - 14.020 and 10.103 - 10.120 MHz. QSL via home calls (QRZ.com). [Tnx NE4LS] ===================================================== LOOKING AHEAD - 13/11/2004: Wood Island (IOTA SA-021) will be activated for the first time November 12-14th. This Island comprises The Reserve of multiple resourses of Bahia Blanca, False Bahia and Green Bahia, created by the Legislature of Buenos Aires Province. It's located at 5 Hours of Navigation from the Ingeniero White Port. Everything is ready to start the expedition. A vessel has been hired to set off on Friday morning so as to arrive at daylight and immediately transfer the materials to a high area where water would not creep up the camping place. They will work in all bands and modes (including WARC bands and digimodes) depending on propagation. As usual, Special Callsigns will not used, only Personal Calls "/D" (Buenos Aires Province) and special FULL COLOUR QSL CARDS will be printed. QSL Manager: LU7DSY Carlos Almiron P.O. Box 709 8000 Bahia Blanca Argentina. For a direct QSL please send 2 U$S or 2 IRC. For further information e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tnx LU7DSY] 20/11/2004: Four Japanese operators, Toshi JA1ELY, Taki JH3QFL, Nob JA6WIF, and Yasu JA6WJL will be QRV from Majuro Island (OC-029) between November 20 and 24. For Taki, Nob, and Yasu, this will be the first DXpedition and they expect to be welcomed by many Europe and East Coast stations. They already applied their callsign V73EY, V73B, V73IF and V73WJ. They will be active on all HF bands and all modes with three stations. Toshi will concentrate on low bands include 160m with 500W amplifier. Yasu will concentrate on 15m, 12m, 10m, RTTY, SSTV and 10 meter FM. Nob will mainly operate CW on any band. Taki likes 20m and WARC, either SSB and CW. QSL information: V73EY via JA1ELY (Toshikazu Kisano, Box 8, Kamata, Tokyo, 144-8691 Japan); V73B via JH3QFL (Takio Hata, 921-25 Rokujyo, Yasu, Shiga, 520-2412 Japan); V73IF via JA6WIF (Nobutaka Nagaishi, Box 9, Omura, Nagasaki, 856-8691 Japan); V73WJ via JA6WJL (Yasumasa Maeda, Box 9, Omura, Nagasaki, 856-8691 Japan). [Tnx JA1ELY] ===================================================== SPECIAL EVENTS - 10/11/2004: Memorial signal Radio club A.N.Tupoleva special event station UE3IAT will be active November 10-20th from Kimry City (RDA reference TV-09 for the Russian Districts Award, WW Loc: KO86QV), Tverskaya oblast (TV). QSL via UA3AGY, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx RDA news] 14/11/2004: 60th anniversary of the liberation of Strasbourg: The Haut Rhin department and F6KQV's ARS members will air the special callsign TM6OST between November 14th and 28th. HF CW/digit/SSB - will also try on 144/SSB and also on FM through the close F, DL, LX, ON and HB repeaters. QSL via Gerard F5PWH. Each QSO will be confirmed by a special card. [Tnx F5NQL] ===================================================== 73 and Good Hunting! Dave Raycroft - VA3RJ ===================================================== Home of ICPO: http://www.qsl.net/va3rj/ Mirror: http://webhome.idirect.com/~va3rj/ Contest Calendar: http://www.qsl.net/va3rj/contest.html DX Calendar: http://www.qsl.net/va3rj/dx.html E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------
