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Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 575 (Part 2)
The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 575 (Part 2)
BID: $OPDX.575.p2
August 26, 2002
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
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LIGHTHOUSE/LIGHTSHIP NEWS AND ACTIVITY.............
Mike, GM4SUC, reports the International Lighthouse/lightship Weekend
for 2002 is over with over 318 stations at lighthouses and lightships
in 45 countries. A list of stations that were active can be found at:
http://vk2ce.com/illw/2002.htm
Next year's weekend is 0001 UTC on Saturday 16th August until 2359
UTC on Sunday 17th August 2003.
NEWS RELEASE - Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society Meeting! Members of
the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) will head to Georgia in
October for the organization's first-ever meeting. It will take place
on Saturday, October 19, 2002, at St. Simons Lighthouse on St. Simons
Island, near Brunswick, Georgia. Spokesman Jim Buffington, K5JIM, said
those attending will have an opportunity to activate St. Simons Light,
portable or mobile, climb the lighthouse, tour the lighthouse museum
and meet many of their fellow ARLHS members. Reg, W3REG, will introduce
his new lighthouse tracking and logging software, and present each
member present with a free copy. Also, on the agenda for discussion is
a proposed ARLHS QSL bureau. Attendees are being encouraged to arrive
on Friday, October 18th, in time to join the group for an informal
dinner at one of St. Simons Island's restaurants. Another dinner is
planned for Saturday night (Oct. 19th) featuring a speaker. Meetings
will take place Saturday beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the Coastal Georgia
Heritage Center, located adjacent to the lighthouse and museum. The
10.00 USD registration fee (5.00 USD for additional family members who
are members of ARLHS) may be sent to Lee Graves, WA7OBH, at:
4341 Southeast Satinleaf Place, Stuart, FL 34997 USA. Include name,
address, call sign, E-mail address and ARLHS member number. Buffington
noted that registrants will receive frequent updates on plans for the
meeting via E-mail. Talk-in frequency, he explained, will be 146.73,
minus offset, no tones. Information on St. Simons Island hotels and
motels may be obtained by contacting Buffington at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Radio Amateur Society of Norwich, N1NW, will be active between
1000z September 7th to 1600z September 8th, from New London Ledge
Lighthouse (ARLHS USA-542). The lighthouse is located in New London
County, New London harbor, New London, CT. Suggested frequencies are:
7270, 14270, 21370 and 28370 kHz. QSL via Radio Amateur Society of
Norwich, PO Box 329, Norwich, CT 06360.
Kostas/SV1DPI and Tony/SV1ENG will be active as SW8LH from Lighthouse
Skinari (GRE-119) on Zakynthos Island (EU-052) until about September
1st. Activity will be mainly CW. QSL via SV1ENG.
Michael, VE3WMB (ARLHS # 428), will be activating five lighthouses on
the Island of Grand Manan N.B. during the week of September 1-6th.
Operation will be on or about 14071 kHz as VE3WMB/VE9. PLEASE NOTE:
This will be a 20m PSK31 (QRP) only operation. The list of lighthouses
to be activated are :
Gannet Rock (ARLHS# CAN 192)
Swallowtail (ARLHS # CAN 491)
Southwest Head (ARLHS# CAN 469)
Long Eddy Point (ARLHS# CAN 283)
Long Point (Whitehead Island ARLHS# CAN 644)
Also note that Grand Manan is also an IOTA entity (South New Brunswick
Group NA-014), so contacts will also count toward IOTA Awards. This will
be a very casual operation, and the hours may be a bit sporadic as this
is not the primary activity of the trip. Michael hopes to operate
daily from about 11:00-13:00 EST (1500-1700z) activating a different
Lighthouse each day, then perhaps again a bit later 20:00-21:00 EST
(0000-0100z) activating Gannet Rock (He has a clear view of the light
from his cottage). QSL to VE3WMB for a special card (Callbook/QRZ.com
address), via the bureau, or direct [#10 SASE ($0.65 Canadian Stamp
for U.S. addresses) or #10 SAE with 1 IRC appreciated].
SOME QSL ROUTES FOR STATIONS ACTIVE IN THE ILLW.
F5OGG/P via LX1NO -- Grand Charpentier Lighthouse, LH-0533.
F5LRC/P via CBA or Bureau -- Grand Charpentier Lighthouse, LH-0533
RZ4HWF via RW4HW -- Damba-48 Island Lighthouse, WLH-0551, ARLHS
ERU-081 and RR-26-new.
UE1CLH via the bureau or direct via VE3LYC -- Stirsudden Lighthouse
(RLE-011 for the Russian Lighthouse Award, ARLHS
ERU-008).
VP8LGT via VP8ON -- Cape Pembroke Lighthouse, ARLHS FAL-001, Falkland
Islands. QSL address: Donald Betts, PO Box 233,
Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic.
LX, LUXEMBOURG. Dutch operators Peter/PA2PKZ, Arend/PA2AWU, Herman/PA0TEN,
Roel/PA1DYK, Harry/PA3HEP, Frans/PA5CA and Jan PA5RA will be active from
Wiltz using the callsign LX/PA6Z from September 21-28th. Operation will
be 24/7 on 160-10 meters and possibly also 6m (if local TVI permits), on
SSB, CW and RTTY. They will concentrate on the WARC bands and RTTY. QSL
via PA1KW (via the bureau or direct: Bert van Holst, Ien Dalessingel 357,
7207 LJ Zutphen, The Netherlands).
MOST WANTED SURVEY (2002). Here is your chance to parrticipate in the DX
Magazine's annual "2002 Most Wanted Survey". The survey will be conducted
between September 1st through October 15th. The survey's results will be
posted on the following web page in mid-January. For survey forms, go
to the Web page at: http://www.dxpub.com
OH0, ALAND ISLAND. Ari, OH5DX, will be active as OH0/OH5DX from August
29-31st. Activity will be on all bands CW/SSB. QSL via OH5DX:
Ari Korhonen, Kreetalank. 9A1, FIN29200 Harjavalta, Finland.
PIRATE OPERATION. Stations identifying as HE0A and HB0A have been reported
on the bands in recent months. Fred Tinner, HB9AAQ, the President of USKA,
has checked with both the Switzerland and Liechtenstein licensing
authorities, and has verified that the callsign's HE0A and HB0A have
never been issued. Therefore these stations are pirates, and please do
not send any QSL cards to the reported manager or to the Bureaus.
QSL INFO AND NEWS.............
Mart, DL6UAA, informs OPDX for 3B6-9 QSLing, "DO NOT SEND QSLs via
the 3B8-Bureau." The 3B8-Bureau is ONLY a "one-way-bureau". Only
incoming but not outgoing. Send the cards DIRECT to the operators in
3B8. Exception: Cards for 3B8MM go via DL6UAA (direct or bureau).
The other resident stations have NO QSL Managers!! Also, RW6HS is NOT
the QSL Manager for any 3B8/9 station!! REMEMBER: DL6UAA is NOT the
QSL Manager for 3B8CF, 3B8GF or 3B8GL.
Online logs are available for the IOTA Contest operation DL0KWH/p on
EU-129 (as well pictures of the operation) at the Web page:
http://www.qsl.net/dl0kwh
QSL DL0KWH via the Bureau or direct to DL2VFR: Enrico Stumpf-Siering,
Gruene Trift 19, D-15754 Bindow, Fed. Rep. of Germany
Online logs are available for OY/DL2VFR, TF7/DL2VFR and TF1/DL2VFR
(also pictures available) at: http://www.iota-expedition.com
Keith, W7KEU, informs OPDX that North American hams that have worked
Vit Dotsenko in Turkmenistan can get QSLs by using a stateside mail
drop. Callsigns used by Vit include, EZ8CW, EZ8CW/3, EZ3A, EZ9A, EZ10A,
EZ21A, EZ56V and EZ75R. Mail is sent from stateside via registered mail
to Russia, and then into Turkmenistan. Return mail also comes register
to the USA. If you have worked Vit and have had trouble getting your
EZ QSLs, this is his preferred route. The success rate for the mail drop
off is over 99 percent received. To use the mail drop, send your SASE
with 37 cents postage, and two green stamps to KJ6OW. Turn around takes
30 to 60 days. For multiple QSL cards, including additional funds will
help speed the process. Individual QSOs and QSLs are tracked via E-mail
and radio contacts which accounts in large part for the high success
rate.
QSL FO/JJ8DEN (activity from Maupiti Island (OC-067) and Maupihaa
Groupe (OC-057) to: Yoshitake Izumi, Minami-24-7, Nishi-1, Obihiro-City,
Hokkaido, 080-0011, JAPAN.
Pete, NN9K, informs OPDX that he will handle the QSLs ONLY for the
contacts made by FP/K9WM. Sending cards for the FP/KB9LIE or FP/K9OT
operation to him will only lengthen the turnaround time for those
confirmations.
Andy Chadwick (ex-G4ZVJ) has been issued the callsign G3AB (The
callsign of Andy's late Uncle from 1937-1983). The G4ZVJ QSL route
will remain active for DXpeditions. New E-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MORE ON GERMAN STAMPS (Addition to OPDX.574). Wolff, DJ5JH, states,
"Regarding the warnings of DL1YFF as of the changes of the German stamps
into EUR-currency, it should be added that this relates only to such
(older) German stamps which show only one value, e.g. 110 or 300, without
denomination of the currency, which means that it were Pfennig. For a
long time the German stamps also showed their value, however, the Euro
stamp shows a much smaller print/value (e.g. 110/0, 56 EUR or 300/1,
53 EUR). These are still valid and do not expire. If anybody has a
greater amount of old German stamps without EUR on them, they should
send these to a German ham friend who can exchange them at his post
office into new stamps, but only until the end of September."
Effective immediately, Patrick, WD9EWK, will be the QSL Manager for
Oscar, LU5EVK (also L20E in contests). His address information is
current on the various callsign databases, and he is OK with the W9
QSL bureau. LU5EVK's entries on the QRZ.com and Buckmaster Web sites
now show Patrick's callsign as the QSL manager. Patrick has added
information about LU5EVK (and other stations and callsigns he handles
QSL cards for) on his QSL VIA WD9EWK Web page at:
http://www.qsl.net/wd9ewk/qsl-mgr.html along with the
Rod, EA7JX, informs OPDX that he is now the QSL Manager for Javi, LU5FF,
and his special callsigns: L24FF, L45FF, LQ0F, AY5FF and L73F. Send QSLs
via direct to: Rodrigo Herrera, P.O. Box 47, 41310, Brenes, Sevilla,
Spain.
Ron, AC7DX, informs OPDX that he is now the QSL Manager for LW9DA.
Ari, OH5DX (ex OH1EH), is the QSL Manager for OH0Z and has recently
picked up a new callsign, OH5DX. The updated QSL info for OH0Z is as
follows: Ari Korhonen, OH5DX, Kreetalank. 9A1, FIN29200 Harjavalta,
Finland.
QSL MANAGER CHANGES. Jay, W2IJ (ex-WA2FIJ), informs OPDX that he is
no longer the manager for the following operations:
V5/AH9B October 25-31 (1994)
V5/N0AFW October 25th-November 5th (1994)
V5/N9NS October 25th-November 5th (1994)
V5/NH6UY October 27th-November 2th (1994)
V5/WA0PUJ October 25th-November 2th (1994)
V59T October 29-30th (1994)
N0AFW/KH5 March 13-16th (1993)
Also included in the transition are the following operations for the
period of December 1994 to January 1995: DL/N0AFW, OH0/N0AFW and
SM0/N0AFW. The QSLs and logs for all of the above are now with NAFW
who should be contacted for those QSLs. His address is: Peter Meyer,
3049 New London Road, Hamilton, OH 45013.
Alex, RW3RN, informs OPDX that he is now the new QSL Manager for the
following stations: 5B4/R3CC, 5B4/RW3QC, 9H3QC, OJ6C, R1MVC, R3CC,
RK3QWA and RW3QC. His address is: Alex Kuznetsov, Box 57, Tambov-23,
392023 Russia. His E-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More details of RW3RN's QSL-Service can be found at:
http://www.tmb.ru/~i011f/service.html
SN6F/1 QSL STATUS. Andy, SP6ECA, informs OPDX that cards for SN6F/1
(EU-132) in IOTA Contest activities for 1998, 1999, 2000 (QSL via
SP6ECA) have been all confirmed. All cards were sent automatically
via the bureau. If anyone still needs a card please E-mail requests
to SP6ECA: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As for QSL cards for the SN6F/1 IOTA Contest 2002 (aprox. 1600 QSOs),
Andy will reply to every bureau card or E-mail requests using the same
address as above. For direct cards QSL via SP6ECA CBA. Cards will be
ready in September.
Martin, N1FOC, reported that cards for the late VP6VI are still being
handled by his QSL Manager W6RKC.
RTTY SURVEY. Don, AA5AU, is conducting a "RTTY Most Needed DXCC Entities
Survey". Instructions on completing and submitting the survey form are at:
http://www.aa5au.com/rttysurvey.html
This is more of a "digital" mode survey than just RTTY mode since the RTTY
DXCC Award includes all digital modes. The entities listed on the form are
nearly exact as from the ARRL DXCC list on their website with only a few
exceptions. The more entries received, the more accurate the results. Anyone
who has operated RTTY (or digital) is asked to participate. It doesn't
matter how many countries you need on RTTY, please take the time to include
your input. Please make sure your data is complete and accurate. As of
August 22nd, with 170 submissions, here are the top "10 Most Needed
Entities" on RTTY so far:
1) BS7 Scarborough Reef 6) FT5X Kerguelen Is.
2) VU Andaman & Nicobar Is. 7) 3Y Bouvet (tie)
3) 7O Yemen 7) FT5W Crozet I. (tie)
4) 3C0 Annobon I. (tie) 8) ST Sudan (tie)
4) VU Lakshadweep Is. (tie) 8) PP0-PY0S St. Peter/St. Paul Rocks (tie)
5) VK0 Macquarie I. 9) HK0 Malpelo I.
10) KP5 Desecheo I.
S7, SEYCHELLES. Look for Lorenzo, IK6PTH, to be active as S79TH from Mahe
(AF-024) from September 7-16th. Activity will be on SSB. QSL via his home
callsign either direct or through the bureau.
SPECIAL EVENT. The "14th Busan Asian Games" special event stations will
be operating from August 10th through October 23rd, 2002. The special
event station are:
HL14AG (Operating 23rd September 23rd October 2002)
DT14AG (Operating 10th August 23rd October 2002)
Activity will be on 80-10 meters, including the WARC bands and VHF/UHF on
SSB, CW, FM, RTTY and SSTV. QSL Manager is HL0BHQ. QSL either direct or
via KARL Bureau. Four special awards will be available. For more details,
please send E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SPECIAL EVENT. Special event station JU840C is expected to be active from
October 21-31st to celebrate the 840th anniversary of Gengis Khan, the
founder of the Mongolian empire. The Mongolian Radio Sport Federation is
organizing an international DXpedition to Gengis Khan's birthplace in the
Khentii Province.
SPECIAL EVENT. The Chatelleraud Radio Club is currently active with the
special event callsign TM2CMM until September 1st to celebrate the World
Championships for hot-air balloons. Suggested frequencies are:
1846, 3786, 7086, 14186, 18146, 21286, 24946, 28486, 50216 and 144286
kHz (+/- QRM). QSL to F5KOK via bureau.
SPECIAL EVENT. Look for special event station UM9AA to be active August
27th through September 5th to celebrate Uzbekistan's 11 years of
independence. The 1st of September is the Independence Day of the Republic
of Uzbekistan. Activity will be on all bands. QSL via UK9AA: Petrov Fedor,
P.O. Box 58, Tashkent 700000, Uzbekistan.
TK, CORSICA. W. Rainer, Lotsch, DL2RVL, will be active as TK/DL2RVL until
September 14th. He is expected to be running QRP. QSL via his home callsign.
V6, MICRONESIA. Kazu/JA0VSH and his wife Miyuki/JG0PBJ will be active as
V63KZ and V63MP, respectively, from Pohnpei (OC-010), September 9-15th.
Activity is expected to be on 80-10 meters CW/SSB. QSL via their home
callsign either through the JARL bureau or direct to:
Kazuhide and Miyuki Maruyama, 2-16-8-206 Kinuta, Tokyo, 157-0073 Japan
VK9C, COCOS-KEELING ISLAND. Remember to look for Hirotada, JA0SC, to be
active this week as VK9CI until August 29th. He plans to operate mainly
on 15 meters SSTV and RTTY with 200 watts into a mono-bander. QSL via
JA0SC: Hirotada Yoshiike, 722-1 Shiba Matsushiro-cyo, Nagano-city 381-1214,
Japan.
VP2, MONTSERRAT. Eugene/WA3IOU and his XYL, Marlene/N3LGY, will be going
on a vacation/DX here October 10-25th. Their callsigns will be VP2MEB
and VP2MAB, respectively. Their pilot station will be Ron, K3MI, (E-mail
address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). Activity will be on 160-10 meters SSB only.
QSL via CBA.
XU, CAMBODIA (Possibly an IOTA Op). Karel, ON5TN, informs OPDX that
Max/ON5UR, Wim ON6NP and himself will be active from Cambodia, September
12-26th, with the callsigns XU7ACJ and XU7ACN. QSL via ON6NP. During the
period of September 21-23rd, they will try to activate Koh Poah Island
(AS-133) with the callsign XU7AUR. QSL via ON5UR. Their activity will be
on 160-6 meters on all modes. Their Web site for this adventure can be
found at: http://home2.pi.be/on5ur/cambodia/index.htm
YJ, VANUATU. Arthur, ZL2HE, will be active as YJ0HE until September 2nd.
Activity will be on 160-10 meters. QSL via ZL2HE.
YO CONTEST. This year's International Short Wave Championship of Romania,
"YO DX HF Contest", is scheduled for next weekend, August 31st-September
1st. For more details and the contest's new rules, please check the Web
page at: http://www.qsl.net/yo3kaa/contests/yodx_eng.htm
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