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Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 723
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DX Bulletin No. 723
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August 22, 2005
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta,
KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)
CCF & OHDXF CRUISE.
Once again, the Contest Club Finland (CCF) and the
OH DX Foundation (OHDXF)
are proud to announce the 11th CCF & OHDXF Contest
and DX Meeting on
January 20-22nd, 2006. The meeting concept will be the
same as last January -
a cruise on the Baltic Sea from Helsinki(OH) via
Aland Islands (OH0) to
Stockholm (SM) and back to Helsinki. More details
of special cruise packages,
agenda, registration etc... are coming soon.
Information from the previous
CCF & OHDXF meetings can be found on the
CCF Web
pages:
http://www.qsl.net/ccfCN, MOROCCO. Jim, W7EJ, will be active as CN2R during the CQ WW DX
SSB
Contest (October 29-30th) as a Single-Op/Single-Band (40m) entry.
Look
for him to be active before the contest on the WARC bands and 160
meters.
QSL via W7EJ.
EA8, CANARY ISLANDS. Uli/DK2OC and Rich/W4GKR
will be active (possibly as
EA8/homecall) from Gran Canaria Island (AF-004)
now through September 4th.
Uli will handle CW and Rich will do SSB/PSK. If
anyone needs a (specially)
PSK contact, please send info on Band/GMT, band
opening to your QTH
to:
w4gkr@hotmail.comThey try very hard to be on that band/opening time slot. They
should have
a good signal on all bands 40-10 meters. They will also try to
get on
80 meters with a dipole. Listen between 18120-18130 kHz SSB, if band
is
open. PSK frequencies are: 18105, 14070, 10139, 7035 and 3579 kHz.
QSL
via their home callsign.
ET3, ETHIOPIA. YL chasers may want to
look for the E.A.R.S. club station,
ET3AA, on 20 meters. Operator Mima was
heard this past week on 14174 kHz
between 1530-1600z. QSL via Box 60258,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
GD6, ISLE OF MAN. Operators Joe/K1JB and Mike/K1EU
will be active as
GD6IA during the CQ WW DX SSB Contest (October 29-30th) as
Multi-Single
entry. QSL only direct to K1EU.
HI3, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Ted, HI3TEJ, announced that he will be active
in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest
(October 29-30th) as a Single-Op/All-Band
entry. QSL via ON4IJ.
HS0,
THAILAND. Charles, K4VUD, is now on the air as HS0ZCW. He informed
the DX
community that there will be no 80 meters operations planned for
now.
However, he may try to activate the HS0AC club station on that band
during
the big contests. More details are forthcoming.
IOTA
NEWS......................
AF-NEW. Mustapha/DL1BDF and
Salaam/SU1ER announce that an
Egyptian
team consisting of SU1KA, SU1KM and SU1ER will be
teaming
up
with guest operators from Italy to activate the new
IOTA,
Gifton Island (AF-New). The SU/I team has received
permission
to activate the island using the callsign/license,
SU8GFTN.
Activity is expected during September 2005. More details
are
forthcoming. QSL is via SU1ER: Ezzat Sayed Ramadan, PO Box
11,
El-Thanaweyya Al-Gaweyya, Almaza 11391, Egypt.
AF-018.
Operator IT9BLB and an international team will be active
as
IH9P
from Pantelleria Island (IIA: TP01, WAIP: TP and
ITU
Zone:
37) during both CQ WW DX SSB and CW Contests as
a
Multi-???? entry. QSL via KR7X.
AS-060. Members of the
Pyongtaek DX Club (D90HE) will be active
from
Saok
Island (KDN H32 - Shinan-Gun), August 26-28th.
Operators
mentioned are: Han/DS2GOO, Lee/6K2CEW, Kim/DS4PAI and
Kim/
6K2CSD. The operators will sign as homecall/4. Acttivity
will
be on
80-10 meters SSB, RTTY and BPSK31. QSL via
operator's
home callsign, by the bureau or direct. For more details,
visit
the
Web page at: http://myhome.naver.com/dxer2han/as060 AS-100. Mark/4Z4KX, Ros/4Z5LA, Yuli/4X6HP,
Isaac/4Z5LI,
Ilya/4Z1UF
and Jan/4X1VF will be active as 4X7AZ from Akhziv
Island
between September 30th and October 1st. Activity will be
on
40-10
meters CW and SSB. They plan to have three stations
on
the
air. QSL via 4Z5LA (QRZ.com).
EU-017. Fabio, IZ7FLQ,
will be active as ID9/IZ7FLQ/p from a
few
islands in the Eolie Group (IOTA EU-017) between now
and
August
27th. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by
the
bureau.
EU-047. Matt, DJ8OG, will be active as DJ8OG/p
from Baltrum
Island
(GIA N-06), now through August 27th. Activity will be
on
80-10
meters (no WARC bands) SSB. QSL via his home
callsign,
direct or through the bureau.
EU-061. Jorgen/LA5UF,
Paul/LA6YEA and Trond/LA9VDA will be
active
as
LA6Q from Svenner Island, September 15-18th. They
will
also
activate the Svenner Fyr/Larvik lighthouse (WLH
LA-025,
ARLHS NOR-044 and WLOTA 1029). Activity will be mostly
on
80-17
meter CW, SSB with some RTTY. They also plan
to
participate in the SAC CW Contest with one station. QSL
via
LA9VDA
(QRZ.com).
EU-124. Look for the Barry Amateur Radio
Society to activate
GB5FI
from
Flatholm Island, Friday, August 26th to Tuesday,
August
30th. This is their annual trip. Activity will be on
SSB,
PSK,
RTTY, SSTV, CW, Top Band to 70 Cms plus 6 meters.
QSL
via
GW0ANA, callbook address or by the bureau.
EU-138.
Operators Mario/DL5ME and Guenter/DG3HWO will be active
as
SM7/DL5ME and SM7/DG3HWO from Hassloe Island, August
27-31st.
Activity will be on the 40/30/20/17/15 meters CW/SSB.
Antennas
are a Butternut and Spiderbeam. QSL via their home
callsigns,
direct (prefer) or by the bureau (longer wait).
OC-148. Hot, YC0IEM, will be active as YC0IEM/9 from Timor
Island
from August 29th through September 15th. QSL via
IZ8CCW,
direct or by the Bureau.
IARC'S AWARD WEB PAGE CHANGE. Isaac Lindenbaum,
4Z4TL, IARC V. Chairman
and Secretary, announced that the "Maccabiah 17 Games
Award" Web page was
updated as follows: Award sample picture and a small
applet to search
eligibility for the award were added. The Web page address
is:
http://www.iarc.org/~4z4tl/Maccabiah17_award.htmIn case a callsign is not found on the search applet, please
contact
Isaac, 4Z4TL,
at:
4z4tl@iarc.orgKH7K, KURE ISLAND (Update). A press release was sent out by Ward,
N0AX,
late last week (dated 8/19/2005) indicating that the K7C team will
be
leaving for Kure Island in less than a month. OPDX InterNet
Subscribers
will receive the complete press release as an additional
bulletin. Excerpts
from the release state that the K7C team will leave the
Hawaiian Island
by boat aboard the Machias on September 15th. It will take
about 9 days
to sail to Kure Atoll, aided by the trade winds. The return trip
will take
another day or two. During the voyage, they hope to be active as
K7C/mm
on the HF bands. The success of this phase of the operation depends
on
how they can best rig an antenna aboard the Machias. Activity from
Kure
is expected to be between September 24th and October 6th. For more
details,
please visit the K7C Web page at: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/MONTAIN DXPEDITION CANCELLED! Alan, VK4AAR, reports: "It is with
regret
that the DXpedition to a remote Dayak mountain village (of Sarawak -
9M8)
has had to be cancelled. Various factors contributed to this
unfortunate
circumstance which caused Sengchai Chan (9M8SC) and Festus
(9M8FH) and
their team to 'pull the plug' on their late August
plans."
OH0, ALAND ISLAND. Ari, OH5DX, will be active as OH0Z during the
CQ WW
DX SSB Contest (October 29-30th). Operation class is to be
determined,
probably Single-Op and Single-Band (15m) or All-Band entry. QSL
via
W0MM.
P5, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA. No QSNs reported
yet for Dave,
KA2HTV, as P5/KA2HTV as this was being written Sunday morning.
There has
been some PIRATED QSNs but nothing legit. During the next few days
there
"should" be activity. He announced that his last three days would
be
devoted to ham radio. He is expected to be there until August 23rd.
QSL
via KK5DO.
QSL INFO AND NEWS.....................
C91CW-C93DY NEWS. Dimitry, UT5UGR, reports that the on-line logs
are
available
at:
http://www.dxer.com.ua/c9/log.html If your contact is not in the on-line log or if there
is any mistake,
please request Dimitry to check the log manually
via E-mail
at:
ut5ugr@uu7j.com QSL cards will be arriving from the printer in 2-3
weeks. Please, QSL
via UT5UGR: Dimitry Stashuk, P.O. Box 115,
Kiev-147, 02147, Ukraine.
Take a look at the QSLs via:
http://www.dxer.com.ua/c9/qsl_info.html Photo
gallery of C91CW is available
at:
http://users.iptelecom.net.ua/~ut5ugr/cw.htm Photo
gallery of C93DY is available
at:
http://users.iptelecom.net.ua/~ut5ugr/dy.htm Laurent/F8BBL (CW) and Jean Marc/F4ECL (SSB) was
active this past
weekend from Banc d'Arguin Island (EU-159 and
DIFM AT-033). QSL via
F8BBL, 100% by the bureau or
direct.
Online logs and photo story of the unexpected
expedition of Barbara/
SQ5BB and Andy/SP5XSD (from August
5-12th, 2005) to the islands and
lighthouses of the Polish
Baltic coastline (6 islands & 5 lighthouses)
are now
available at: http://sp5xsd.za.pl/aug2005/ QSL VK4YN/p via VK4FW. Activity was from Fraser
Island (OC-142) this
past weekend. Address via QRZ.com: Bill
Horner, PO Box 612, Childers,
4660,
Australia.
QSL VK6DHI via VK4AAR (direct only) to: Alan
Roocroft, 376 Old Toowoomba
Road, Placid Hills 4343, Australia.
Operators were Wally/VK6YS, Dan/
VK8AN and Nigel/VK6KHD from
Dirk Hartog Island (OC-206) this past
weekend.
RTTY DX
SURVEY. Don, AA5AU, Co-editor of the "VK2SG RTTY DX Notes", is
pleased to
announce the "2005 RTTY Most Needed DXCC Entities Survey."
All digital
operators are invited to take part in this exciting new
survey. The survey
can be found on the following Web page
at:
http://aa5au.com/rttysurvey2005.htmlSurvey ends 2400Z September 18, 2005.
S6, SINGAPORE.
Members of the "Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting
Society" (SARTS) will
organize another local field day to be held August
26-29th, from St. John's
Island (AS-019). They expect a fairly large
group of local operators to
operate and be active as S61FD. Look for
2-3 stations to be on the air on
40-15 meters all modes. If time permits,
and there is the availability of
hardware; he may also try 80 meters and
possibly 160 meters. QSL via PA0KHS,
by the Bureau or direct to:
Henk van Hensbergen, Smaragdstraat 53, 6534WN
Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
SPECIAL EVENT. A special event station,
SN25SOL, is operating from the
Gdansk Shipyard to commemorate the 25th
anniversary of Solidarity
(Solidarnosc), the social movement which changed
the country
(Poland) and Europe. The festivities will end on August 31st,
2005.
The station is operating on all bands from 80-10 meters (CW, SSB
and
digital modes). Piotr, SP2AYC, is the QSL Manager (via PZK
Bureau).
YO CONTEST. The Romanian Amateur Radio Federation (FRR) invites
radio
amateurs world-wide to participate in the annual YO DX HF Contest.
The
24 hour contest is scheduled on Saturday, August 27th, 1200z -
Sunday,
August 28th, 1200z. Rules can be found on the following Web page
at:
http://www.hamradio.ro/contests/yodx_eng.pdfWritelog and N1MM Logger have recently included YO DX HF on their
supported
contest
list.
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Kure-Osity
#2
19 August 2005
by H. Ward Silver, NĜAX (n0ax@arrl.net)
K7C Team Member
K7C Web site: http://www.cordell.org/htdocs/KURE/Hurry to Kure
The one-month-to-go date passed on the 15th
of August and the team is
scurrying about putting the final touches on
everything - the radios,
the antennas, computers, food. Of course, the
biggest and most important
part of the expedition is the
transportation! If that doesn't pull through,
nothing else matters as
we've seen several times in the past. The rarer
the QTH, the more
difficult the journey, it seems. Could there be a
correlation
here?
When one thinks of Kure Atoll at the far western end of the
Hawaiian island
chain, the image of swaying palms, steel guitars, and various
concoctions
of rum and fruit juice come to mind. Nothing could be
further from the
actual situation, I assure you! First of all, Kure is
a lot farther from
Honolulu than you might think - 1375 miles (2213
km)! Travel the same
distance east from Honolulu instead and you'd be
more than halfway back
to Los Angeles!
On the way to Kure, we'll pass
the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the western
edge of inhabitation, and then
have a long open ocean run past Nihoa, the
last of the islands with a
Hawaiian name. 400 km (250 miles) later, we
reach Necker Island, 393 miles
from Honolulu. Necker begins an increasingly
austere series of classic
desert islands until Midway is reached. A large
military base until
1993, Midway is being returned to its native state as
a national wildlife
refuge. From Midway, it's about 60 miles further on
to our final
destination Kure, the northernmost coral atoll in the world.
(Browse to
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/haw_formation.html to find
out more about the Hawaiian islands and how they
formed. Kure is a Hawaii
State Wildlife Refuge and more can be learned
about it at
http://www.hawaiianatolls.org/about/kure.php.)
In the past, some DXpeditioners to Kure first flew to
Midway via military
or tour aircraft and then took a boat to Kure. (There is
a landing strip
at Kure from the Coast Guard LORAN station days, but it is no
longer
maintained.) These flights are no longer available,
unfortunately. The
expense of chartered aircraft ruled out that option,
so it will be a
sailor's life for us on board the Machias. This name
should ring a bell
to aficionados of Pacific DX, the Machias having carried
the Kingman
Reef/Palmyra expedition in 2000. Once again, Cap'n Bill
Austin will be
in charge of a cargo of wild-eyed hamsters in hot pursuit of
DX!
Our captain estimates that the trip will take about 9 days from
Honolulu
to Kure, aided by the trade winds. Weather at this time of
year is expected
to be mild. You can keep an eye on Kure weather
at
http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather/hawaii/midway+island+naval+air+facility.html.
Coming back we'll have to add another day or two; a total of
19 or more
days at sea. We'll all be an old salt (or maybe just smell
like one) by
the time we get back to the land of the hula girls and
ukelele.
"Ahoy mateys, we're listenin' up five we are and we takes no
prisoners!"
Browse to the K7C Web site for photos of the
Machias.
During the voyage, we hope to be active as K7C/mm on the HF
bands. The
success of this phase of the operation depends on how we can
best rig an
antenna aboard the Machias. Operating at sea will be
by-guess-and-by-golly,
but if the 6-watt, battery-powered rig of LI2B aboard
the balsa raft
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl's pioneering adventure in 1947) could
maintain
contact with North America as it floated westward from South
America, then
I suspect that we can, too.
This sounds like quite a
voyage, doesn't it? We'll set sail on September
15th and won't be seen
again for a month! Nevertheless, we'll have all
of you to keep us
company through the magic of ham radio. See you on
the
bands!
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Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW - kb8nw@barf80.nshore.org --or-- kb8nw@arrl.netEditor of the "Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin" (OPDX - "DXer's Tool of
Excellence")
President of the "Northern Ohio DX Association" (NODXA)
DX
Chairman for the "Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society
ARRL Assistant Director
of the Great Lakes Division
Sysop of the "Basic Amateur Radio Frequency BBS"
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