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5Z -
Enrico, IV3SBE is returning to Kenya and will remain there
through 2007. He
plans to operate as 5Z4ES mainly during the weekends.
QSL via the
Kenyan bureau. [TNX IV3SBE] 9A - UBA-DST
members ON4AZP, ON4CAQ, ON6KL, ON6KN, ON6VP, ON7FH
and ON7UZ will
operate (mainly on 80 and 40 metres SSB) as
9A8DST/P from
Losinj Island (EU-136) on 4-9 May. Activity
from
nearby islands
will depend on the availability of a boat. QSL via
ON4DST (bureau)
or ON4AMM (direct). [TNX ON4BBA] 9A -
Zik, VE3ZIK (4N1DX) will be active as
9A/VE3ZIK from
Bilice, Croatia
on 7-17 May. He plans to operate on all HF bands CW
and SSB, plus
10m FM on 29610 kHz. QSL via DL3PS, direct or
bureau (please
do not send cards to the VE3 bureau as Zik has moved
to Germany).
Logs will be available at http://www.qslnet.de/ve3zik
[TNX VE3ZIK] 9H - Karl, OE3JAG will
be active (requested call 9H3JAG) from
Malta (EU-023)
on 2-6 May. He plans to operate QRP mainly CW, PSK
and RTTY. QSL
via home call. [TNX K1XN and The
Golist] 9H - Mathias, DL4ZJ will operate
CW and SSB as 9H3ZJ from Gozo
Island, Malta
(EU-023) on 3-13 May. QSL via home call. [TNX OPDX
Bulletin] C6 - Gerd, DL7VOG
will operate as C6AKA from Long Island
(NA-001),
Bahamas on 1-15 May. He plans to be active on 10-80 metres CW
and RTTY, and
possibly on 6 and 160 metres as well. QSL via
DL7VOG (e-mail
requests for bureau cards can be sent to c6aka@dl7vog.de).
[TNX The Daily DX] CX - Jorge, CX6VM says
he will operate on 12, 17 and 30 metres for
the coming two
weeks. Look for him on +/- 24911, 18081 and 10111
kHz. QSL via
W3HNK. DL - Ralf, DH7NO and Ric, DL2VFR
will be active as homecall/p and
DA0GLH from
Usedom Island (EU-129, GIA O-13) and the Karnin lighthouse
on 7-8 May. QSL
via DL2VFR, direct or bureau. [TNX VA3RJ] EA6 -
Christian, DL6KAC will be active again as EA6/DL6KAC from
Mallorca (DIE
E-021), Balearic Islands (EU-004) on 4-24 May. He will
operate holiday
style on 10-40 metres mostly SSB. QRZ via home call,
direct or
bureau. His web site is at http://www.dl6kac.de
[TNX DL6KAC] EU - Four special
event calls - namely EV6ZK from Orsha, EV7DP
from Mogilev,
EV8DP from Gomel and EV60BR form Baranovichi - will
be aired from
Belarus on 1-15 May to commemorate the 60th
anniversary of
the end of World War II. QSL via UA3FDX. [TNX
UA3FDX] F - The TM380 special event
station [425DXN 729] has been active
since 27 April
and will close down operations (80, 40, 30, 20, 15 and
10 metres) on 9
May. QSL via F5GNY. [TNX F5NQL] F -
Special event station TM6PIE (Peace In Europe) will be active
on 1-14 May. QSL
via F6KTW, direct or bureau. [TNX
F8REF] F - The F6KIF Radio
Club will be active as TM8MAY on 3-17 May
to commemorate
the 60th anniversary of the treaty signed in Reims
(7 May 1945)
ending Worl War II. QSL via F4DRC. [TNX
F8REF] F - The F5KCQ Radio Club
will operate from Houat Island (EU-048) on
4-8 May. Plans
are to operate on 80, 40, 20 and 15 metres SSB.
[TNX
F8REF] GJ & GU - The British Channel Islands of Jersey and the
Bailiwick of
Guernsey will
celebrate 60 years of peace and freedom on 9 May. To mark
this historic
event, Guernsey will be using the callsign GU60LIB
and Jersey will
use GJ60LIB. The callsigns are valid for the month
of May, although
operations are likely to be between the 7th and
the 15th, with
particular emphasis on the 9th. QSL GU60LIB via
GU3HFN, QSL
GJ60LIB via GJ3XZE. [TNX GU0SUP] I
- Michele, IF9ZWA will operate from a few islands and lighthouses
in the Egadi
group (EU-054) between 12 and 18 May. He plans to
be active
as IF9ZWA/p from Levanzo (IIA TP-009, MIA
MI-050),
Il Faraglione
(TP-013, MI-277), Galeotta (TP-005, MI-031),
Prevedo (TP-007,
MI-079), Favignana (TP-011, MI-025) and Galera
(TP-014,
MI-032). [TNX IT9DAA] JA - Special event
station 8N5SAIT will be active from 1 May to 31
July for
the Shikoku Information Telecommunication Month. The
suffix letters
stand for Sanuki, Awa, Iyo and Tosa, the ancient names
for the four
Prefectures on the island of Shikoku (Kagawa,
Tokushima, Ehime
and Kouchi). QSL via the JARL bureau. [TNX
JI6KVR] JA - Look for
JA6PNR/6 and JQ6KJA/6 to operate from Azuchi
Island (AS-012,
JIIA AS-012-006) on 30 April and 1 May. QSL via hoe
calls, direct or
bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] JA - Look for
JA5BEX/5 to be active from Honjima Island (AS-076,
JIIA new),
Kagawa prefecture on 29-30 April. QSL via home call,
direct or
bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] JA - JN2TZB
plans to be active from Take
Island (AS-117,
JIIA
AS-117-021), Aichi prefecture on 30 April. QSL via
home call,
direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] JA -
JE4YAR, JJ4VQU and JN4BBM plan to operate as homecall/4 Miya
Island (AS-117,
JIIA AS-117-021), Hiroshima prefecture on 4-5 May. QSL
via home calls,
direct or bureau. [TNX JI6KVR] JA - Look
for JR5DPB/5 and JE5HXL/5 plan to be active
from
Teshima Island
(AS-076, JIIA new) on 8 May. QSL via home calls, direct
or bureau. [TNX
JI6KVR] LZ - Special station LZ05KM will
be active on 1-31 May to celebrate
St. Kiril and
Methodius' Day. QSL via LZ1PJ, direct (Ivan Ivanov,
P.O. Box 15,
BG-1324 Sofia, Bulgaria) or bureau (e-mail requests
for bureau
cards can be sent to j@1pj@...).
[TNX K1XN and
The
Golist] OZ - Stefan, DB3LSP will operate
mainly CW as OZ/DB3LSP from
Sjaelland Island
(EU-029, DIA SJ-001) on 1-14 May. QSL via home call.
[TNX OPDX
Bulletin] PA - Martin, VE3MR
(P49MR) will be active again as PA9MR from
EU-146 until 16
May. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily
DX] PA - The Netherlands Amateur
Radio league (VRZA) will operate
special event
calls PI25BEA and PI25TRIX from 30 April to 31 May as part
of the
celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Beatrix. QSL
via PE2HSB (Hans
Sneeboer, Els van Roodenstraat 50, 2036 AE
Haarlem, The
Netherlands). [TNX PB9ZR] R1A_ant - Dmitry, RZ3DJ
reports that Vlady, RU3HD will
remain
at
Novolazarevskaya (UA-08 for the Antarctica Award, IOTA
AN-016),
Antractica until around April 2006. Vlady operates as either
R1ANN and
RU3HD/ANT on all bands, mainly CW with some SSB, in its
spare time. More
than 7000 QSOs have been logged so far. QSL via
RZ3DJ (Dmitry
Tsyplakov, P.O. Box 5/3, Pushkino - 5, 141205,
Russia). SM - Amateur radio stations in
Sweden are allowed to use the
following
special prefixes from 17 May to 7 June to commemorate
the 100th
anniversary of the end of the union with Norway: SE (SM
stations), SF
(SA stations), SJ (SK stations) and SG (SL stations). [TNX
The Daily
DX] SP - A number of special event
stations will be aired from Poland
on 1-15 May to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the "Victory
Day". Callsigns
will include 3Z#VD, HF#VD, HF60VD, SN60VD and
SQ60VD, plus
possibly 3Z60VD and SP60VD. Details on the relevant
"Victory Day
Award" at http://www.ot25.pzk.org.pl/htm/Victory%20_Day.htm SU
- The Navy forces in control of the area prevented the SU8IOTA
team [425DXN
721] from landing on Nelson Island (AF-NEW) on 23 April
and asked for
additional permissions from the Army headquarters.
The expedition
has been postponed "to an indefinite date", as
Said, SU1SK and
his friends do not know how long it will take for
these
authorizations to be issued to them. Updates will be
posted at http://www.qrz.com/su8iota SV5
- Wolfgang, DL3DRN and Joachim, DJ5AA will be active
from
Rhodes (EU-001)
on 2-16 May. QSL via operators' instructions. [TNX
OPDX
Bulletin] SV5 - Look for Andrea,
SV5/IK1PMR and Claudia, SV5/K2LEO to operate
on 80-10
metres CW and RTTY from Rhodes
(EU-001) on 5-19
May,
including ARI International DX and Volta RTTY Contests.
QSL for both
callsigns via IK1PMR (www.ik1pmr.com). [TNX
IK1PMR] SV8 - Look for SV8/IK7JWX/p,
SV8/IZ8EZP/p, SV8/IZ7AVU/p and
SV8/IZ7ATN/p to
operate from Corfu Island (EU-052) and a few lighthouses on
6-9 May,
including and entry in the ARI International DX Contest.
QSL via home
calls. [TNX IK7JWX] UA - Special station
RP3XMV will be active (on 10-160 metres CW, SSB
and digital
modes) on 5-9 and 14-15 May (CQ-M Contest) to
commemorate the
60th anniversary of the end of World War II. The station
will be
located at Strelkovka,
birthplace of marshal
Georgi
Konstantinovich Zhukov, known as "the man who did
not lose
a battle". QSL
via UA3XAC. [TNX RK3XWD] UN - A group
of operators (namely UN6P, UN5PR, UN7PBY, UN4PG,
UN8PO, UN8PIM,
UN7PYL and UN9P) from Temirtau, Kazakhstan will be
active on all
bands and modes as UP60P on 5-12 May to commemorate the
60th anniversary
of the end of World War II. QSL via UN5PR (Romeo
Y. Loparev, P.O.
Box 73, Temirtau, 472300, Kazakhstan). [TNX
UN5PR] UR - Slava/US7IGF,
Roman/UR7IJQ, Alexandr/UR7IKV and Roman/UY7IQ
will operate on
40-17 metres SSB and CW from Slavian'skyi Island
(SD-09 for the
UIA programme) on 2-3 May. QSL via home calls. [TNX
US7IGF] UR - Special call EM60IG
will be aired on all bands on 5-10 May
from Ukraine to
commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World
War II.
QSL via UR7IA, direct (Leonid V. Aniskin,
P.O. Box
1901,
Gorlovka-46, Donetsk reg. 84646, Ukraine) or bureau. [TNX
UR7IA] UR - Igor, UR3GM and Andy,
UR5GAR will operate special event
station EO60G on
5-15 May to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end
of World
War II. QSL via UR3GM, direct (Igor Pulin, P.O.
Box 23,
Kherson 73022, Ukraine) or bureau (e-mail requests for bureau
cards can be
sent to ur3gm@...).
[TNX UR3GM] VE - Canadian radio amateurs
are authorized to use the following
special event
prefixes during the perdiod 1-31 May to mark the opening
of the new
Canadian War Museum in Ottawa (8 May), coincident with
the 60th
anniversary of Victory in Europe Day: CF for VA stations,
CG for VE
stations, CH for VO stations, CI0 for VY0 stations, CI1
for VY1 stations
and CI2 for VY2 stations. [TNX OPDX
Bulletin] VE - Special event station
CF3VEDAY will be active on 5-11 May to
mark the
official opening of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa
and,
coincidentally, the 60th anniversary of the end of WW II in
Europe. The
station will be operated by members of The Wireless Set No.
19 Group,
a Canada-based world-wide group of radio
amateurs
who collect,
restore and/or operate vintage military
communications
gear. QSL direct only to VE3BDB. Full details can
be found
at www.qsl.net/vc3vday/
[TNX VA3RJ] VE - James, VE3TPZ and Mark,
VA3MAH plan to operate on 10-40 metres
as CG3TPZ and
CF3MAH from a "new" Ontario island on 8 May (15-20
UTC). In case
of poor weather, they will try again on 14-15, 21-23
or 28-29
May. QSL via operator's instructions. Information
on the
Canadian Island Awards and the Maple Leaf Awards programmes can
be found at
http://www.qsl.net/ve3tpz
[TNX VE3TPZ] ZA - Alfredo, IK7JWX will
operate (SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on the HF
bands) as
ZA2/IK7JWX/p from Fier and the Cape Durres lighthouse
(ALB-002) on 1-4
May. QSL via home call. [TNX
IK7JWX] _____________________________________________________________________________
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ARI DX CONTEST ---> The
A.R.I. International DX Contest, sponsored by the Italian
amateur radio IARU Society, is open to either licenced amateurs
and SWLs. This year's event will take place from 20 UTC on 7 May to 19.59
UTC on the 8th. Full rules and
information, including a brand new
software downloadable for free, are available at http://www.qsl.net/contest_ari
[TNX IK2HKT]
DIGITAL PENTATHLON ---> The first edition will
take place on 6 May (PSK31), 13 May (MFSK), 20 May (MT63),
27 May (Hellschreiber) and 3 June (THROB). Details
can be found on the Digital QSO Club's
(D-QSO-C) web site at http://dqso.net/text/penrules-en.html
[TNX F8REF]
IIA SUMMER ACTIVITY 2005 ---> This award
is available to either licenced amateurs and SWLs for
contacting stations operating from Italian islands between
21 June and 21 September. For full information
please visit the Strange Radio Team's web site
(http://www.strangeradioteam.com/)
or e-mail the Award Manager, Simone Bizzarri, IZ0BTV ().
MOST
WANTED SURVEY ---> The DX Magazine's (http://www.dxpub.com)
annual Most Wanted Survey was conducted between
mid-September and late October 2004 [425DXN 698], when the
VU4RBI & VU4NRO DXpedition to the Andamans was still to take
place. The top 20 Most Wanted DXCC Entities are North Korea,
Andaman & Nicobar Is., Scarborough Reef, Lakshadweep
Is., Yemen, Peter I Island, Navassa I., Desecheo I., Bouvet I.,
Kure I., Crozet I., Kerguelen Is., Prince Edward & Marion Is., Glorioso
Is., Amsterdam & St. Paul Is., Heard I., Mount Athos, Aves I.,
Palmyra & Jarvis Is., South Orkney Islands.
QSL EX8AB --->
Cards for Bek, EX8AB should be sent to DF9FXK (mail
drop), whose new address is:
Alexander Koenig, Don-Bosco Str.7,
D-63500 Seligenstadt, Germany. [TNX EX8AB]
QSL R1ANL ---> Nikolaj,
RW6ACS operated as R1ANL from Novolazarevskaya Base (UA-08
for the Antarctica Award, IOTA AN-016) back in 1997-98.
There are problems in getting the card from the QSL manager
(UA6AH), and a new QSL route was arranged a few days
ago. Nikolaj will send his original logs to Dominik,
DL5EBE, who will have a new QSL printed. Dominik will handle
also the cards for Nikolaj's activity as R1ANB from Mirny
Base (UA-07; AN-016). [TNX DL5EBE]
SVERIGE 1905 --->
This award will be issued by the Swedish Amateur
Radio Society (SSA) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the
end of the union between Norway and Sweden (7 June 1905). The
award, which will be available to either licenced amateurs and
SWLs, is for working amateur radio stations from Sweden between
00.00 UTC on 17 May and 24.00 UTC on 6 June. For further information
please contact the Award Manager, Bengt Hogkvist
(SM6DEC) at
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DL6UAA Mart Moebius, Kirchplatz
10, D-04924 Dobra, Germany DL7DF Sigi Presch,
Wilhelmsmuehlenweg 123, D-12621 Berlin, Germany ES1FB Jaak
Meier, P.O. Box 2907, 13102, Tallinn, Estonia ES1RA Oleg
Mir, P.O. Box 806, 11702, Tallinn, Estonia F5GNY Michel
Valette, 1 rue des Mimosas, F- 31850 Beaupuy, France F5PRU
Yves-Michel Collet, 7 rue du Moulin, F-57100 Thionville,
France HB9CQK Frederic Furrer, Winkelhalde 11, CH-6048 Horw,
Switzerland IZ0FEJ European Space Agency - ESRIN Club Station,
Via Galileo Galilei s.n.c.,
00044 Frascati - RM, Italy K8LJG John Kroll, 3528 Craig
Drive, Flint, MI 48506, USA N2CKH Steve Hajducek,
Ocean-Monmouth ARC, P.O. Box 267, Oakhurst, NJ
07755,
USA RD1AL Victor Karassev, P.O. Box 73, St. Petersburg,
191126 Russia US7IGF Slava Shevchenko, P.O. Box 591,
Slavyansk-12, Donetsk obl.
84112,
Ukraine W1AA Marconi Radio Club, P.O. Box 1193,
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