I.C.P.O. Calendar (Aug 25 - Sep 01, 2005) Islands, Castles & Portable Operations Operations are listed by start date (Day/Month/Year) ===================================================== 25/08/2005: Dino, IZ4AKV, plans to be active as 5R8HS from Nosy Be Island (IOTA AF-057) between August 25th and September 8th. Look for activity on all HF bands. QSL via IZ4AKV (QRZ.com). [Tnx IZ4AKV]
25/08/2005: Jacques, F6BVB, plans to activate the Louche Castle (DFCF 77-096) as F6BVB/p during the morning of August 25th. Look for activity on 40 and 20 meters. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx F6FNA] 25/08/2005: Look for Jean Pierre F6FNA/p to be QRV August 25th, in the morning (08:00z), from the Sannois Castle (DFCF reference 77-094). In the afternoon, Jean Pierre will activate the Etry Castle (DFCF 77-095). Activity will be on 40 and 20 meters, propagation permitting. QSL via home call, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx F6FNA]</p> 25/08/2005: Peter, GM3OFT, plans to operate as GM3OFT/P on 80-15 meters from a few Scottish islands as follows: August 25-26th Eileen Horrisdale (IOSA CN-27, SCOTIA SC-12); August 26-27th Longa (IOTA EU-123, IOSA CN-28, SCOTIA SC-13); August 27-28th Gruinard (IOTA EU-123, IOSA CN-30, SCOTIA SC-09); August 28-29th Isle Martin (IOSA CN-31, SCOTIA SC-14); August 29-30th Isle of Ewe (IOSA CN-29, SCOTIA SC-29); and August 30-31st Ristol (IOSA CN-34, SCOTIA SC-20). In general he expects to be QRV mid or late afternoon of day 1 and QRT late morning or early afternoon of day 2. QSL via home call. [Tnx 425 DX News] 25/08/2005: Howard, G6LVB, will be travelling to Svalbard (JW, IOTA EU-026), current plans August 26-28th, to do some minor upgrades to a satellite station at: http://www.svalsat.com. He is intending to take some LEO satellite gear with him, so if you'd like to add JW to your DXCC list let him know at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howard states, "Despite its northerly location, it has coverage to Canada and the North Eastern U.S. as well as Japan. I will definitely be active on AO-51, SO-50, AO-27, PO-28 (let's hope) and if I have room for SSB equipment I will operate FO-29, VO-52 and possibly AO-7. The ISS never travels far enough North for me to take a shot at it. There are no plans to take any HF gear, whatever that is ;-)". [Tnx OPDX] 25/08/2005: Ten Swedish amateurs from SM0/5-area will be active on Aland Island (OH0, IOTA EU-002) August 25-28th as OH0/homecalls. All bands from 160m up to 6 meters will be activated with CW, SSB, digital modes as well as some experiments on 6m WSJT, with emphasis on WSJT for EME. The team will consist of: Jonas/SM5HJZ, Ingemar/SM5AJV, Anders/SM0HPL, Peder/SM0GNS, Magnus/SM0NJO, Erik/SM0EEH, Olle/SM0IEA, Anders/SM0IHR, Torgny/SM5TXT, and Jan (John)/SM5DJZ. QSL via the bureau to the amateurs respective home call. Further information is available at http://www.mistra.se/oh0/ [Tnx SM5DJZ] 25/08/2005: Martti, OH2BH (T88BH) and Tim, N4GN (T88GG) at it again! Tim, N4GN and Martti, OH2BH have decided to put two T88 signals on the air at the same time; T88GG mostly on CW and digital modes and T88BH on SSB. The activity begins on August 25th and continues until September 5th, including the All Asian DX Contest during the first weekend of September. QSL cards featuring this newly independent Republic of Palau can be obtained via Jarmo Jaakola, OH2BN (Kiiletie 5 C 30, Helsinki FIN-00710, Finland). This DXpedition is supported by Vertex Standard (Yaesu) both in radio and manpower terms. Yuichi, JN1WTK/T88YK will be on the team to make sure that you can hear the cleanest audio on the bands from the latest lineup of state-of-the-art Yaesu gear. But not around the clock as ladies are involved, too--Joana and Leena, OH2BE/T88BE expect to establish a reasonable routine between radio and beach time while still guaranteeing that peak hours in both activities will not overlap as the path can be critical during these days of low sunspots. Additional information can be found at http://www.api-japan.com/palau/radio/english/radio1-e.htm [Tnx JN1WTK] 26/08/2005: The Barry Amateur Radio Society will be QRV August 26-30th as GB5FI from Flatholm Island (EU-124). Activity will be on all bands, 160-6 meters, and modes. QSL via GW0ANA, direct or bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News] 26/08/2005: Members of the Pyongtaek DX Club (D90HE) will be active from Saok Island AS-060 (KDN H32) August 26-28th. Operators mentioned are: Han DS2GOO, Lee 6K2CEW, Kim DS4PAI and Kim 6K2CSD. Operators will be active as homecall/4 on 80-10 meter SSB, RTTY and BPSK31. QSL via operator's home call, by the bureau or direct. Visit the Web page at: http://myhome.naver.com/dxer2han/as060 [Tnx JI6KVR] 26/08/2005: After the successful 2003 event, the Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (www.sarts.org.sg) will organize another local field day to be held August 26-29th on St. John's Island (AS-019). A fairly large group of local operators will be active as S61FD with 2-3 stations on 40-15 metres all modes. If time and available hardware permits they will also try 80 and maybe 160 metres. QSL via PA0KHS, direct (Henk van Hensbergen, Smaragdstraat 53, 6534WN Nijmegen, The Netherlands) or via the bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News] 26/08/2005: Alex RN1NA, Oleg RK3FA, Alek RA4HTX and Igor RZ4HF will be QRV August 26-28th as UE1NLO. They plan to activate some new islands in Ladoga Lake for the Russian Robinson Award (RRA RR-19-13 and RR-19-14, Not IOTA). Activity will be on all HF bands and also on VHF. QSL via operator's instructions. [Tnx RRC News] 27/08/2005: Look for 4X0AI to be active August 27th starting around 15:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC August 28th from Akhziv Island (IOTA AS-100). Activity will be on 7005, 10105-120, 14005-040 kHz CW and 14260 kHz SSB. QSL via operator's instructions. [Tnx 4Z4DX] 27/08/2005: Roger, ON4TX, will be QRV as 9A/ON4TX from Prezba Island (IOTA EU-016, ACIA IC-881, IOCA CI-092, MIA MC-317) from August 27th to September 11th. Activity will mainly be on 40 and 20 meter CW and SSB. Please note that this will be a holiday style operation. [Tnx 9A6AA] 27/08/2005: Roberto, EA2RY, and Inigo, EA2BXV, will be active as EA2RY/HI7 and EA2BXV/HI7 from the Dominican Republic (IOTA NA-096) between August 27th and September 8th. They plan to put an emphasis on PSK31 and RTTY. QSL via EA2RY. [Tnx 425 DX News] 27/08/2005: Nick, UU4JO, will be active August 27th to September 4th as EO60JF/p from the Ilinskij Lighthouse. QSL via UU4JO. [Tnx 425 DX News] 27/08/2005: Franco, IK4DCS, will be active August 27-28th from the following Castles for the Italian Castles Award: Forte Interrotto di Camporovere ad Asiago (DCI reference VI-029) and Forte Tagliata d'Assa di Comporovere ad Asiago (DCI VI-030), Region of Veneto, Province of Vicenza (VI). Look for main activity on 40 and 20 meters. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx IK4DCS] 27/08/2005: Look for SM7/DL5ME and SM7/DG3HWO to operate CW and SSB on 40, 30, 20, 17 and 15 metres from Hasslo Island (IOTA EU-138) between August 27th and 31st. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News] 27/08/2005: W1AA will activate Dumpling Rocks Lighthouse [Historic] (ARLHS USA-247, WLOTA 0531) on Saturday August 27, 2005, from 11:00 UTC (7:00 AM EDT) until 19:00 UTC (3:00 PM EDT). Operation will on 40 and 20 meters CW and SSB. CW - 7035.0 14035.0 kHZ, SSB - 7270.0 14270.0 kHz. Frequencies are plus or minus QRM. CW will be on the half hour. We have a packet station in the truck and will attempt to spot ourselves on the worldwide DX packet cluster so watch for the W1AA spots. DX QSLs are via the W1 bureau and stateside are via W1AA please with an SASE. A photo rendering QSL of the light will be furnished. Operators will be Don N1DT ARLHS member #963 and Whitey K1VV ARLHS member #957. We believe that this is the first time that this historic light has been activated. [Tnx K1VV] 28/08/2005: Ely, IN3VZE, will be active as 7Q7CE from the southwest shore of Lake Malawi, "Club Makokola", between August 28th and September 16th. Activity will be limited because this is a DX holiday style operation. QSL via IN3VZE, by the bureau or direct to: Ely Camin, Corso 3 Novembre 136/2, 38100 Trento, Italy. [Tnx OPDX] 28/08/2005: Russell, G5XW, plans to be QRV August 28th to September 4th as F/G5XW/p from the Pays de la Loire Region group (IOTA EU-064). Activity will be on HF phone only, including some lighthouses from Department 85. QSL via home call (QRZ.com). [Tnx G5XW] 28/08/2005: Look for Bob, N2OML, to be QRV from Mustang Island (IOTA NA-092, USI TX-011S, Nueces County), Texas, between August 28th and September 4th. Activity will be mainly on 20 and 17 meters. QSL via home call. [Tnx rsgbiota.org] 28/08/2005: Ric, DL2VFR, will be visiting a few islands in the EU-172 IOTA group between August 28th and September 1st. He plans to operate CW and SSB as OZ/DL2VFR during his evenings. QSL via home call, direct or through the bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News] 29/08/2005: Alberto, IW1RLF, will operate on 6 and 2 metres as IW1RLF/IA5 from Capo Sant'Andrea (JN52BT) located on Isola d'Elba (IOTA EU-028, IIA LI-001, MIA MI-022) from August 29th to September 4th. QSL via bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News] 29/08/2005: UA0LQJ, UA0LG, UA0LDY, RA0LHK and RA0LGG will operate as RK0LXD/p August 29-30th from Lisiy Island (IOTA EU-133). QSL via IK2DUW. [Tnx 425 DX News] 29/08/2005: Look for Hot, YC0IEM, to be QRV August 29th to September 15th as YC0IEM/9 from Timor Island (IOTA OC-148). QSL via IZ8CCW, direct or bureau. [Tnx IZ8CCW] 30/08/2005: Vince, IZ0FKE, plans to be QRV August 30 to September 2, 2005, from Texel Island (IOTA EU-038). He will use the call PA/IZ0FKE on all HF bands, including 6 meters, SSB only. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx rsgbiota.org] 01/09/2005: Dov 4Z4DX/p and Alex 4Z5KJ/p and group will be active from Akhziv Island (IOTA AS-100) during the month of September. Further information to follow. [Tnx 4Z4DX] 01/09/2005: Paul, WN6K, and Juan, W6NOW, will be going to Panama. They leave San Diego August 31st and will arrive there the same day but in the evening. After some rest they should be heading up the coast about an hour from Panama Thursday, September 1st. They will be staying at a place on the Pacific Ocean side on the beach. Their intention is to primarily set up a station there to work the All Asian SSB test that weekend. If things get setup quickly however, they should have G5RVs and other wires up well before the contest period. After the AA test, we will be doing some visiting with locals but should have some time to check out 160-10 propagation allowing. W6NOW is from Panama but is a new US Ham so his experience is limited. This is my first time operating out of the US so we are testing the waters but I have a number of years experience at low power contesting. So simply put WN6K and W6NOW will be operating while on vacation as HP1/WN6K from September 1-13th. The will try 160-10m, with an emphasis on WARC CW bands. Watch the clusters. QSL via home call. [Tnx WN6K] 01/09/2005: An Egyptian team consisting of Karim SU1KA, Mohammed SU1KM, Ezzat SU1ER, with the co-operation of guest operators from Italy with the call SU/???? will be active from Gifton Island (AF-New), with the permitted / licensed call SU8GFTN, during September. Details will be following via SU1KA and IZ8CCW. QSL direct to SU1ER (Ezzat Sayed Ramadan, PO Box 11 El-Thanaweyya Al-Gaweyya, Almaza 11391, Egypt) [Tnx F5NQL] 01/09/2005: Rex, VK7MO, will activate Christmas Island (IOTA OC-002) as VK9XMO on 2 meter EME using digital modes (no HF) September 1-22nd. QSL via VK7MO direct. [Tnx OPDX] 01/09/2005: Mike, VY0/K9AJ, and Bruce, VY0/KD6WW, plan to attempt to activate Nunavut (Kitimeot region) West (IOTA NA-new) and West Central (IOTA NA-175) between September 1st and September 7th with the exact dates for each group dependent of weather and solar conditions. QSL via home calls (QRZ.com). [Tnx KD6WW] 01/09/2005: Phil, WA2ART/1, will be on the air from Johnson Island belonging to The Thimbles (IOTA NA-136, USI CT-New!), Connecticut, mostly at the weekends throughout September. He will work with QRP power since there is no power supply. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx DXNL] 01/09/2005: Members of "Team YE1P" will be going to Karimata Island (IOTA OC-New, WW Loc. OI48NJ) and be active as YE7P between September 1-5th. The team consists of: YB5QZ, YB5NOF, YB2MTA, YB0A, YB0DPO, YB0ECT, YB0JS, YB0KLI and YB1TC (Team Leader and QSL Manager). It is requested that all EU chasers please send donations and QSL requests to IZ8CCW. For Japan please send to JN6RZM, and for NA & SA please send donations and QSL requests to Al-K6SIX. For more information and the online log, please visit the Web page at: http://www.orari.web.set [Tnx OPDX] ===================================================== LOOKING AHEAD - 06/09/2005: Ewald, 9A5ID/p, plans to activate the following IOTA EU-136 islands on September 6th: Rab (ACIA 168, CIA-38, IOCA CI-096, MIA MC-330), Maman (ACIA 164, IOCA CI-514, MIA MC-227) and Dolin (ACIA 157, IOCA CI-015, MIA MC-068). QSL via home call. [Tnx 9A6AA] 06/09/2005: Tony, KQ2I, plans to be active September 6-15th from the Republic of Palau (T88, IOTA OC-009). Further information and updates to follow. [Tnx JN1WTK] 26/09/2005: Ado, W4ADO made two-years contract with Doctors Without Borders - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-USA) for work (technical support) in The Republic of the Sudan. He will arrive in Sudan on 26th September 2005 and will try to get amateur radio licence. In the positive case Ado will work on the radio (SSB and CW) from time to time. He says "My first goal is to help people in Sudan and after that work on the radio". QSL will be via 9A6AA. [Tnx F5NQL] 15/10/2005: Tom, DL4VM, plans to be active from Fanoe Island (IOTA EU-125, DIA NS-002 for the Danish Islands Award) October 15-31st. He will be signing OZ/DL4VM on 40, 20 and 15 meter QRP CW only. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx rsgbiota.org] 01/11/2005: We now have more details on the Korea DX Club (KDXC) DXpedition later this year to the Solomon Islands (H44) and Temotu Province (H40). In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Korea Amateur Radio League (KARL) team members from KDXC will be active from the Solomon Islands (IOTA OC-047) as H44HL and then Nendo Island (IOTA OC-100) as H40HL for about 7 days. Activity will be on 160 through 6 meters on CW, SSB, RTTY and other digital modes. Team members will include Choi HL5FUA, Kang DS2AGH, Lee DS2BGV, Yoon 6K2AVL, Yoo 6K2DJM and Scott N1PW (ex HL1PW). Equipment will include two IC-775DSP, FT-1000MP, FT-MARK-5, IC-765, and two IC-706. They expect to have 6 amps, which will be powered by multiply generators. A web page is being constructed at http://kdxc.net/h40hl_2005/ . Further details to follow. [Tnx OZ6OM] ===================================================== SPECIAL EVENTS - 25/08/2005: Special event station DR30RADIO of the district Wuerttemberg will be active until May 31st, 2006. This station celebrates the 30 year jubilee of the Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen and has the sonder-DOK "30HR" until December 31, 2005, afterwards the sonder-DOK "DVP" will be used. Activity will be on all bands and modes of operation except echo link and packet radio. The station is on air during the period between June 2nd, 2005 and May 31st, 2006. QSL via the bureau, or direct to DH8BM (Burgmaier Michael, Heudorfer Str. 9, 88521 Ertingen, Germany). Please include SAE and 1 IRC or 2 US-$ for direct replies. [Tnx DARC Wuerttemberg] 25/08/2005: Look for special event station DR50BUND to be active until May 31, 2006, celebrating 50 years of the German Armed Forces. QSL via DL1WH, direct or bureau. [Tnx DARC Wuerttemberg] 01/09/2005: Special event station PS113QB will be on the air, in SSB, CW and DIGITAL modes during September 2005 to comemorate the 113 years of birth of the first LABRE RN President and first amateur radio (1939), in the State of Rio Grande do Norte Brazil, Sr. Jose Bezerra Marinho, ex-PY7QB. QSL via bureau or direct to: Labre RN, Caixa Postal 251, 59010-970 Natal, RN, Brasil. For more information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tnx PS7AB] 10/09/2005: The Metropolitan 222 Amateur Radio Society (K2MET) will sponsor a September 11th Memorial Station on Governors Island, NY (IOTA NA-026 USI NY-012 - new one for USI), September 10, 2005. Operations will take place between 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM EDT (1500-2000z) on 21340 kHz, 14250 kHz and 7250 kHz (+/- QRM). QSL via W2SN. 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