> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < _____________________________________________________________________________ 26 September 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 960 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 4W - Al, 4W6AL (CT1GPQ) will go QRT from East Timor on 27 September and return home the next day. A log search can be found at http://algarvedx.com (latest update at 15.48 UTC on 24 September). [TNX CT1GFK] 5B - 5B4AHE, 5B4MF, 5B4XF, 5B4ZN and 5B8AP will operate as homecall/p from Agios Georgios Island (AS-120) on 26 September, from around 6 UTC until around 16 UTC. They will have two stations active on 10, 15 and 20 metres SSB. QSL via home calls. [TNX The Daily DX] 7Q - Once again Ely, IN3VZE will be active holiday style as 7Q7CE from Malawi on 2-20 October. He plans to operate SSB and RTTY on all bands depending on propagation. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX IN3VZE] A5 - JA1FJJ will be active as A52FJJ from Thimpu, Bhutan on 8-20 October. He plans to operate SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via JA1FJJ. [TNX NG3K] BY - David, BA4DW will be active as BA4DW/4 from Dongxilian Island (AS-135) for 4-5 days between 1 and 8 October. He will operate holiday style on 20 metres with 100 watts and a dipole. QSL via home call. [TNX BA4DW] I - Several operations from Italian lighthouses are scheduled to take place on 27 September for the Lighthouse Activity Special Event organized by the Strange Radio Team. Information on the event and the relevant award can be found at http://www.strangeradioteam.com J6 - Bill, WB5ZAM will be active as J68WI from St. Lucia (NA-108) from 28 September to 11 October. He will operate SSB and CW, possibly also on 160 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K] JW - Erling/LA6VM (JW6VM), Halvard/LA7XK (JW7XK) and Just/LA9DL (JW9DL) will operate CW, SSB and digital modes from Longyearbyen (EU-026), Svalbard on 26-30 September. They will participate in the SSB leg of the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) as JW5X. [TNX The Daily DX] KL - Hugh, K6HFA says that the tentative dates for his operations from Alaskan islands [425DXN 959] are as follows: until 25 September from IOTA group NA-087, 26-30 September from NA-236 (new one), then from NA-216 or NA-222 until 3 October. He plans to operate as K7A on 20, 30 and 40 metres CW and SSB. QSL via K6HFA. [TNX K6HFA] OH - Anne, OH2YL will be celebrating her 20th anniversary in amateur radio using a special callsign (OG20YL) on 25-27 September. She will operate CW on the HF bands. QSl via home call. [TNX OH2YL] OH0 - Martti/OH2BH, Ville/OH2MM and Pekka/OH2TA will travel to the Aland Islands to compete head-to-head as OG0A with the OJ0B team (see below) in the Scandinavian Activity Contest. QSL via OH2BH. [TNX OH2BN] OJ0 - Pekka (OH1TV), Ilmo (OH2BO), Pertti (OH2PM) and Lars (OH0RJ) will be active as OJ0B and OJ0J from Market Reef (EU-053) on 25-29 September, including an entry in the Scandinavian Activity Contest on SSB as OJ0B. Most of the time from Friday evening to Monday evening two stations will be on the air, with a focus on the low bands, especially on 160 metres (1815 kHz). QSL OJ0B via OH2BH, QSL OJ0J via OH0RJ [TNX The Daily DX] PY - Jim/PY7XC, Ciro/PY7ZY, Andre/PY0FF, Renner/PY7RP, Leo/PP1CZ and Mike/K9AJ will be active as PW6C from Coroa Vermelha (SA-062, the 8th most wanted IOTA group in South America) on 11-16 November. They plan to run three stations 24/7 from two operating sites, and to operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL via K9AJ. Further information can be found on the expedition's website (http://www.pw6c.com). [TNX PY7XC] ST - Robert, S53R is now working in Sudan and expects to be QRV (requested call ST2X) in late September-early October. He plans to operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSl via home call. VE - Special event callsign VC3COPP will be activated from various parts of the province of Ontario on 2-31 October to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Ontario Provincial Police Force. QSL direct to via VE3BDB. [TNX The Daily DX] XV - The Russian team in Vietnam [425DXN 958] are facing a "crazy typhoon" in the area of Ngu Island (XV6RRC, AS-185). The weather forecast is bad for the next five days, and the operation has been postponed. They are now travelling to the Cham Island (XV7RRC, AS-162) area and see what's the weather like over there. Their original plan also included activity from Tam Island (XV3RRC, AS-157). Please visit http://xv6rrc.com/ for the regular updates provided by the team through Twitter. PACIFIC TOUR ---> Rick, AI5P will be active holiday style from four Pacific entities during October and early November: 1-8 October FK/AI5P New Caledonia 10-18 October YJ0PX Vanuatu 22-31 October AI5P/VK9N Norfolk Island 1-6 November ZL/AI5P New Zealand He will operate mainly CW. QSL via home call. [TNX MM0NDX] CQ WW DX RTTY CONTEST ---> The following stations have announced their participation in this year's event (26-27 September): ZONE CALL CATEGORY DXCC QSL VIA ------------------------------------------------------------ 07 TI5/NP3D SOSB 40m Costa Rica W3HNK 07 TI5/WW4LL SOSB 20m Costa Rica WW4LL 08 WP4I SOSB 80m Puerto Rico W3HNK 08 ZF2SX M/? Cayman Isls K4SX 09 YV5VD M/S Venezuela EA5KB 13 LS1D M/S Argentina LW9EOC 14 C37URE M/M Andorra EA4URE 14 GB50ATG SO Wales M5AEX 14 LX7I M/2 Luxembourg LX2A 15 ES5Q M/? Estonia ES5RY 15 OM8A M/S Slovakia OM2VL 15 T70A M/? San Marino T70A 15 Z37M M/? Macedonia Z37M 16 ER0FEO SOAB LP Moldova UU0JM 20 5B/HG3IPA SO Cyprus HA3JB 20 SX5R SOAB 20m HP Dodecanese SV5DKL 20 SY1RY M/? Greece SV1JMO 28 YB0ECT SOSB 20m LP Indonesia K3AIR 33 3V8SS SOAB LP Tunisia IZ8CCW 33 EF8M Canary Isls UA3DX 39 FT5GA M/S Glorioso Isls F5OGL Do not forget to give a look at the Announced Operations listing maintained by Bill, NG3K at http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqr2009.html - good contest to you all! =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW CLIPPERTON DX CLUB ---> The Clipperton DX Club (http://www.cdxc.org/) elected the following officers to serve for 2009/10: Flo/F5CWU (President), Frank/F4AJQ, Sylvain/F4EGD, Didier/F5OGL and John/F5VHQ (Vice-Presidents), Laurent/F8BBL (Treasurer), Gerard/F2JD (Assistant Treasurer), Sebastien/F8IJV (Secretary) and Laurent/F1JKJ (Assistant Secretary). [TNX F5NQL] DIAMOND JUBILEE WAZ ---> The Worked All Zones (WAZ) award was introduced in the November 1934 issue of R/9 magazine, a predecessor of today's CQ. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of WAZ, CQ is offering a special, limited-time version of the award. The Diamond Jubilee Worked All Zones will be issued upon presentation of log extracts showing twoway contacts with each of the 40 CQ zones of the world during the period from 1 November 2009 to 31 December 2010. Details can be found at http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/DiamondWAOct09.pdf DXCC NEWS ---> The following operations have been approved for DXCC credit: T6AB (Afghanistan, 2008-09 operation), T6AF (Afghanistan, current operation) and TX3A (Chesterfield Islands, 2009 operation). [TNX NC1L] FT5GA ---> The on-line log (http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5GA) now contains 20330 QSOs (latest QSO made at 13.56 UTC on 24 September). It has been confirmed that FT5GA is being pirated: "if your QSO is not online", F5CQ says, "it will be quite sure you have been cheated", and you had better try work them again. Bookmark http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/ for updates. LOGS ---> A log search for Florentin, FT5WO is now up and running on the Nouvelles DX's website (http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/voirlogs.php). [TNX F6AJA] PIRATE ---> The station R1FJA/p, which was repeatedly spotted on the DX Cluster over the past few days, is a pirate. The genuine R1FJA is now RL3DS, and has not been active from Franz Josef Land for many years. The only station currently active from FJL is Victor, R1FJM. [TNX RZ1OM] QSL 7P8AO ---> Pista, HA5AO has received the 7P8AO cards from the printer, and will process QSL requests as follows: first, those who donated to the charity project [425DXN 955]; second, those who QSLled direct with sufficient funds; third, those who QSLled direct with IRCs; fourth, bureau cards (including direct requests with 1 USD only). Pista has uploaded (and will upload) to LoTW the QSOs with those stations who have already sent (or will send) a donation; remaining contacts will be uploaded "at least a year later on". QSLling instructions can be found at http://ha5ao.novolab.hu/ [TNX HA0HW] =========================== *** 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 HK1X EA7FTR SF6DX SM6FUD 3Z0ILQ SP5DDJ HK4CZE EA7FTR SF7WT SM7WT 3Z70IIWW SP6OPZ HR9/WQ7R AI4U SI6T SM7LZQ 3Z70OWG SP9PSB HV0A IK0FVC SI9AM SM3CVM 4L0A EA7FTR HZ1FS EA7FTR SJ6A SM6JSM 4L2M EA7FTR J28KO F6DKI SK2T SK2AT 4L4WW EA7FTR JD1BLY JI5RPT SK3W SM5DJZ 4L5O N3SL JD1BNA JL1UTS SK7DX SM7DXQ 4L6DL LZ1OT K4C K4EU SM0S SM5BAX 4U30VIC 4U1VIC K4P WP4NND SM0Y SM0OY 4W6AL CT1GFK K6P KM6HB SM2T SM2EZT 4X0T 4Z5FI K7A K6HFA SM5J SM5PHU 5H3EE DL4ME KL7J N3SL SM5R SM5AQD 5R8UO DF8UO LN3Z LA9VDA SM6A SM6BGA 6W7RV F8CMT LN8W LA9VDA SM6C SM6CTQ 7S5Q SM5COP LP2F LU1FDU SM6Q SK6AW 7Z1HL DJ9ZB LT0H EA7FTR SM6X SM6CLU 7Z1SJ EA7FTR LX30AK LX1CC SM6Z SM6BZE 8R8USA 8R1AK LX7I LX2A SN12IPA SP9PZU 8S0W SM0NJO LZ17ARDF LZ1ZF SN2009B SP2PBY 9G1YE PA3ERA N4H W4NSC SN2009EM SP7PGK 9G1YK PA3ERA OE4XRC OE4RGC SN2009K SP9PNB 9H3ZW OK1CDJ OF200AD OH5AD SN2009L SP7PAC 9J2BO G3TEV OG1M OH1VR SN2009W SP6PRT 9J2FM JA4ATV OG4X OH1MA SN40DVP SP6DVP 9K2AI NI5DX OG5B OH5BM SQ80SPDE SP9PKZ 9K2YM EA5KB OG6N OH6NIO SY2G SV2JAO 9N7IIU JH3IIU OG7X OH4XX T2G PG5M A41KJ NI5DX OG9W OH2BCI T31AA N3BQR A41MO EA5KB OH0R OH2PM T88ZS JA2ZS A45WH/p A45WH OH0X OH2TA TA4CW F8CVR A61BK NI5DX OH0Z W0MM TC3BLH TA1HZ A61Q EA7FTR OH1N OH1BOI TF8GX KT6YL A65BB S57DX OH2T OH2KW TI4CF W3HNK A65BG PA7FM OH2U OH2IW TK2Y F5MZN A65BI SM5DJZ OH3I OH3BHL TM0RPC F5KEB A7/M0FGA NN1N OH4A OH6LI TM100VDF F6BDE A71BX EA7FTR OH4E OH2MM TM2NN F5KTU A71EM EA7FTR OH5Z OH5LIZ TM5FKB F6GVH AO5WSP EA5RKB OH8X OH2UA TM85NI F4ASQ AY4D EA5KB OH9W OH2NRV TO7RJ DJ7RJ C4I LZ2HM ON30NTM ON6KN TR8CA F6CBC C4N W3HNK ON65POL ON3CYV TY5ZR IK2IQD CN8YR EA7FTR OQ5M ON5ZO UE1CDX/1 RN1CW CO8LY EA7ADH OR4A ON4BW UE1RFF UA1RJ DP1POL DL1ZBO OV5A OZ5DL UE1RLH/1 RA1QY DR09ANT DL5MHQ OY3AA OZ1ACB UE3KFF RN3QN DT09KSE HL5FXP OZ0MF DH1LAO UE3QRP UA3LMR DX1J JA1HGY P29CW VK2IR UE3RFF/3 RK3RB EG9CCL EA9CE P49X W0YK UE670LS RK3FWI EH1DAA EA1WS PA09MONUMENT PA7DA UE6FFF RK6FZ EH1OSM EB1RD PD6MILL PD7BZ UE6GFF UA6HPR EH1PAZ EA1RCM PH60PH PA7HPH UE6LPP UA6MM EH3SDC EA1AUM PJ7MF IZ1MHY UE6RK UA6IC EH5VE EA7URD PX5B PP5BZ UE6UFF RW3RN EK3SA DJ1CW R1ANB RN1ON UN5J W3HNK EK6LP DL8KAC R1ANC RN1ON UN7DA EA5KB EK6TA DJ0MCZ R1AND RU1ZC UN7MMM EA7FTR EN500I/p DM5BB R1FJM RX3MM UN9LW DL8KAC EV1R EU1PA R50K RW4HB US0KFF/p US0KW EV2A EW2AA R73SRR UA3DX VQ9JC ND9M EY8MM K1BV RC3W RW3WWW VR2009EAG VR2XMT F5KAQ/p F5RJM RG9A UA9XC XT2HLV HB9HLV FK8GX W3HNK RL3A W3HNK XU7TZG ON7PP FO8RZ F8BPN RN9S RN9SXX YB0AZ W7TSQ FT5GA F5OGL RU1A RU1AE YR550BU YO3KSR FT5WO F4DYW RW2F DK4VW YY7MAE EB7DX GB0BSR G2BKZ SA0A SM0AIG Z23MS UA3DX GB2ADU GW4XKE SA1A SM1TDE Z29KM EA7FTR GB2TX M0CNP SA3C SM3CZS ZK2BJ G3BJ GB50ATG M5AEX SA6G SM6CUK ZK2NX JM1CAX GM0HIK G0HIK SC3N EA8CN ZL30MDG ZL3RG GM3IZD G3IZD SD3D SM3DXC ZL7/N7OU N7OU GM7MRL G7MRL SE0X SM0MDG ZP6CW ZP6CU H2E 5B4AGE SE4U SM4EXP ZP8VAO K2DER HF65PW SP5KCR SE5E SM5AJV ZS3Y SQ8X HF70SIP SP9HTY SE6W SM6XKB ZX2B PY2MNL HI3TEJ ON4IQ SE6Y SM6DED ZY7C PT7WA A45WH Sangeeth Musaliar, P.O Box 1889, 111 Seeb Airport, Oman CT1GFK Antonio Jose Rebelo Guerreiro, Apartado 1111 - Zona Industrial, P-8700 240 Olhao, Portugal F4DYW Florentin Bard, 5 rue Frederic Mistral, 07300 Tournon-sur-Rhone, France F5OGL Didier Senmartin, P.O. 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