> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < _____________________________________________________________________________ 31 October 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 965 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 5H - Harald, DL7VSN (5H1HS) will be touring Tanzania in November, and will operate mainly CW and RTTY on the HF bands with 100 watts and various dipoles. He will be QRV probably from 1 November from the Kilimanjaro area, and from 18 November from Serengeti and Tarangire National Park. If flight/boat plans go well, he will also try to go and operate from an IOTA group for one or two days. QSL via home call. [TNX dx-hamspirit.com] 9J - Niko, S53A will be active again as 9J3A from Zambia on 25-30 November, CQ WW DX CW Contest included. QSL direct to S57S. [TNX NG3K] CE_ant - Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the indipendence of Chile, the Radio Club de Concepcion (http://www.ce5ja.cl/) will operate as XR9JA from the Chilean Navy Base "Arturo Prat" on Greenwich Island, South Shetlands (AN-010) on 10-25 January 2010. The operators will be Dago/CE5COX, Carlos/CE6UFF, Luis/XQ5CIE and Didier/F6DXE. They plan to operate on all bands SSB, CW and PSK31, plus Satellite AO-51. QSL via CE5JA, direct or bureau. [TNX CE1KR] CE0Y - Announced frequencies for the 31 October-15 November XR0Y DXpedition to Easter Island [425DXN 957] are as follows: CW 1826, 3505, 7005, 10120, 14005, 18073, 21005, 24893, 28023 RTTY 3580, 7034, 14091, 18102, 21083, 24923, 28085 SSB 1843, 3725, 7075, 14200, 18140, 21295, 24935, 28480 There are three QSL routes. [1] Stan, SQ8X will handle cards for Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania (direct and bureau). [2] The Radio Club de Chile will handle cards for North, Central and South America (direct and bureau). [3] An Online QSL Request System (OQRS) will be activated on the expedition's website when XR0Y gets on the air. In addition, the XR0Y logs will be uploaded to LoTW and eQSL sometime in 2010. Please visit http://rapanui2009.org/ for updates, further information and details on QSLling policy. ES - Ben, OZ5AAH will operate CW and SSB as ES1/OZ5IPA from Estonia for the International Police Association Contest (7-8 November, rules at http://www.ipa-rc.de). QSL via OZ5AAH. [TNX The Daily DX] F - The Radio Club Havrais (F8KHN) will be active as TM1TJV will be activated on 4-8 November for the Transat Jacques Vabre, the yachting race on the coffee trading route between Le Havre (France) and Puerto Limon (Costa Rica). [TNX F8REF] F - Look for Didier, F4ELJ/p to be active from Wrac'h Island (not IOTA) and lighthouse on 7-8 November. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX F4ELJ] FK/C - The TX3A license for the Chesterfield DXpedition [425DXN 962] has been extended, and AA7JV and HA7RY will be able to use that callsign from 2 November until 6 December. George and Tomi left Gladstone (Queensland) on 26 October and reached Suamarez Reef the day after. They had to stop there to wait for the weather to improve; hopefully the voyage will be resumed on Saturday with TX3A being expected to be QRV by 3 November in the local evening hours. QSL via HA7RY. Bookmark http://tx3a.com/ for regular updates. GD - Tom, GM4FDM and Ronald, PA3EWP will be active as GD4FDM and MD/PA3EWP from the Isle of Man (EU-116) on 6-9 November. They will concentrate on the low bands CW, and Tom will do some RTTY as well. QSL GD4FDM via GM4FDM, QSL MD/PA3EWP via PA7FM. [TNX The Daily DX] HB0 - Kazik (DL2SBY), Tomi (HA4DX) and Laci (HA0HW) will be active as HB0/homecall from Masessa, Liechtenstein on 6-13 November. They plan to operate CW and some SSB with three stations, and to concentrate on 160, 80 and 40 metres. QSL via home calls, bureau preferred. [TNX HA0HW] KP2 - Look for KP2/K1ZE, KP2/N3XF and KP2/W1EQ to be active from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands on 4-11 November. QSL via home calls and LoTW. They will operate CW, SSB and possibly RTTY on 160-10 metres, and will participate in the ARRL CW Sweepstakes (7-9 November) as KP2M (QSL via AI4U). [TNX NG3K] LY - Orlando, PY2TJ, will be active on the HF bands as LU/PY2TJ from Tierra del Fuego (SA-008) on 1-7 November. QSL via PT2OP. [TNX www.dx-hamspirit.com] PY - Special callsign PW2SIDC will be in use from several Brazilian States, including Fernando de Noronha, until 22 November to celebrate the V Seminario Internacional de Defesa Civil to be held in Sao Paulo. QSL via PS7YL, direct or bureau. [TNX PS7YL] PY - Fred, PY2XB and Alex, PY2WAS will be active as PW2IO and PW2TA respectively from Cabras Island (SA-071) on 19-23 November. They will operate SSB and CW with two separate stations, mainly on 15, 17, 20, 30 and 40 metres. Landing on the island is difficult and the operation may be postponed in case of bad weather. QSL PW2IO via PT7WA, QSL PW2TA via PY2WAS. [TNX PT7WA] SM - Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in physiscs awarded to Guglielmo Marconi, eight special callsigns (SI0GM, SI1GM, SI2GM, SI3GM, SI4GM, SI5GM, SI6GM and SI7GM) will be aired from Sweden between 9 November and 10 December. Details on the relevant award offered by the Swedish Amateur Radio Society can be found at http://awardmanager.se/ T8 - Pista, HA5AO will be active as T88CI from Koror (OC-009), Palau between 25 November and 10 December. He plans to operate holiday style mainly CW on 80-10 metres, and to participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest. QSL via home call, direct or bureau, and LoTW. Logsearch will be available at http://ha5ao.novolab.hu/ [TNX HA0HW] UA_ant - Mike, RW1AI expects to depart St. Petersburg aboard the oceanographic research ship "Akademik Fedorov" on on 1 November and to reach Progress station (Antarctica) around 16 December. He plans to be active from the local club station (R1ANP) throughout 2010. [TNX The Daily DX] VK - Special event callsign VI50LZ will be in use on the HF bands between 31 October and 8 November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club. QSL via VK5LZ, direct or bureau. [TNX W1AW] VP2M - Tom/DL2RUM (VP2MUM), Rudi/DM2XO (VP2MXO) and Jan/DJ8NK (VP2MNK) will be active from Montserrat (NA-103) on 3-15 November. They will operate CW, SSB and RTTY on 160-10 metres. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX OPDX Bulletin] VP9 - Look for Paul, VP9KF to operate CW only from Hamilton Parish, Bermuda (NA-005) on 4-18 November. QSL direct only to W4/VP9KF (Paul Evans, 6809 River Road, Tampa, FL 33615, USA). Further information can be found at http://vp9kf.com XV - Manfred/DK1BT, Wolf/DL4WK, Andy/DL5CW, Sigi/DL7DF and Frank/DL7UFR will be active as XV4D from Phu Quoc (AS-128), Vietnam on 4-17 November. They will operate on 160-10 metres with two stations for CW and SSB, and a third station for RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. Bernd, DF3CB will be the pilot for the expedition. QSL via DL7DF, direct or bureau. Further information and updates at http://www.dl7df.com/ YU - Alex/HA7JJS (YU9JJS), Laci/HA6NL (YU9NL), Laci/HA7PL (YU9PL) and Zsolt/HA6PS (YU9PS) will be active from Serbia from 30 October to 8 November. Special callsign YT36QRP will be used during the HA-QRP Contest on 80 meters CW (1-7 November). QSL YT36QRP via YU7CM, others via home calls (direct or bureau). [TNX HA0HW] Z2 - Fernando, EA4BB has been active as Z21BB from Harare, Zimbabwe for a few days and expects to remain there for the next couple of years. "For the time being I have only dipoles and delta loops for 10, 15 and 20", he says. "I plan to build new antennas for WARC bands as well as two loops for 40 and 80, and maybe to increase power (for the time being I am limited to 100W). Also, later in the year I hope I will put up a 3-element beam for 10, 15 and 20. For now I am mostly on CW, but I will scale up SSB operations as I improve my antenna system". QSL via W3HNK. [TNX Z21BB] =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW DXCC NEWS ---> 3D20CR and 3D2CV (Conway Reef, 2009 operations) and K4M (Midway Island, 2009 operation) have been approved for DXCC credit. [TNX NC1L] MONGOLIAN DX CONTEST ---> The Mongolian Amateur Radio Society (MARS) invites licensed amateurs and SWLs to participate in the Mongolian DX Contest, to be held on 160-10 metres CW, SSB and RTTY on 21-22 November (from 00.00 UTC on Saturday through 23.59 UTC on Sunday). Please e-mail jt1...@gmail.com fro further information. [TNX JT1CD] PIRATE ---> The station signing TL8/IZ2EVL on 26 October was a pirate. The genuine Emanuela, IZ2ELV was in Italy and she does not operate CW. QSL VIA F4EFI ---> Gwenael, TU5KG operated from France as TM0C and TM0T during this year's CQWW RTTY and CQWW SSB respectively. The QSL manager for both these activities is F4EFI, direct or bureau. [TNX TU5KG] QSL VIA W3HNK ---> W3HNK is taking over as QSL manager for either CR3E (to be QRV during the CQ WW DX CW Contest) and CT3NT. [TNX CT1BOH] + SILENT KEYS + Recently reported Silent Keys include Tito Livio Esteves Xavier (CT1VM), Odoardo Tiberi (I0TIC), Dorando Guidotti (I5BKB), Raffaele Cafaro (IZ8CET), George Hanna Hakim (OD5RL), Boleslaw R Stolkowski (SP2CCO), Viktor I. Mudrenko (UA0LDX) and Paul Vydareny (WB2VUK). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QSLs received direct or through managers: 4S7NE, 5B/AJ2O, 5B4AIF, 5B4AII, 5C5W, 5H3EE, 5K0T, 5Q1A, 5W0JT, 5X1VB, 6W/DL4SJ, 7P8R, 9H3QC, 9N7JO, 9Y4W, A71A, AM8IL, C31PP, C52C, CC0Y, EP3PTT, EP3UN, FP/G3ZAY, FP/M0TDG, FY5PO, HI3/LY3UM, KG4NL, KL7J, N7RO/p (NA-169), NH8/K3LP, OD5NJ, OF200AD (EU-140), OH0R, OY2J, PY0FF, PZ5TT, R7HQ, RW2F, T6AB, T77NM, T88ZS, TO3R, TO5AA, TO5AA, TO8YY, UM8LA, V31XX, V51AS, VK9DWX, VK9GMW, VO2/NF6J, VP2MSJ, VQ9LA, XU7TZG, XU7XXX, YB0DJ, YI1RZ, YL2BJ, YL2KO, YT5W, ZF1A, ZK2V, ZP8VAO. ***************************************************************************** 425 DX NEWS HOME PAGE: http://www.425dxn.org 425 DX NEWS ARCHIVES: http://list.425dxn.org 425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE: http://www.425dxn.org/monthly ***************************************************************************** 425 DX News is a free of charge weekly bulletin edited by Valeria Pregliasco, IK1ADH and Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ Its contents may be used, reproduced and distributed in part or full provided that "425 DX News" or "425DXN" receive proper credit Contributors are invited to send their DX information to Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ (i1...@425dxn.org) The deadline is 12 UTC on Fridays ***************************************************************************** MAILING LIST Please visit the "Mailing List" page at http://www.425dxn.org and follow the step by step subscribe/unsubscribe instructions or contact the Mailing List Administrator Stefano Turci, IK4WMH (ik4...@425dxn.org) ***************************************************************************** Direttore Responsabile Gabriele Villa, I2VGW Giornalista Professionista - Tessera n. 057216 Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti Roma, Italia ***************************************************************************** <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> *** The PacketCluster network 425 DX News search tool commands *** SH/425 CAL shows the 425DXN Calendar "current" activities; SH/425 BULL [num] where [num] is the bulletin issue number; SH/425 [text] where [text] should be replaced with a callsign, an IOTA reference number, an island name, an Antarctic base, a lighthouse, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. 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