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18 January 2003 No 611 $425WW611C
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VE - The first announced operation in this year's IOTA Contest (26-27
July) is VE2/VE9MY/p from Iles de La Madeleine (NA-038). Linda
(VE9GLF) and Len Morgan (VE9MY) will be active during the week
prior to the IOTA event, with an entry in the contest. Details will
be made available in due course. [TNX VE9MY]
VK - Australian radio amateurs will be able to celebrate their country's
national day for 48 hours this year with the use of the alternative
prefix AX replacing the normal VK. The mainland of Australia has
four different time zones - and mix of standard and summer time.
VK's can substitute the AX prefix from 00.01 local time on Sunday
26 January through 23.59 local time on Monday 27 January. WIA
Victoria (http://www.wiavic.org.au) will be activating AX3WI on the
two days using SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and CW, mainly on 20, 15 and 10
metres. A special event QSL card will be issued. [TNX VK3EW]
VP6_duc - Dieter/DJ9ON, Hans/DK9KX, Philippe/FO3BM, Hiro/JA1SLS,
Yuichi/JR2KDN, Doug/N6TQS, Dave/VP6DB, Mike/VP6AZ and Meralda/VP6MW
are the operators for the second DXpedition to Ducie Island [425DXN
610]. They expect to be QRV on all HF bands SSB, CW and RTTY plus 6
metres and AO-40, starting on 8-9 March for about a week. The
callsign will be announced shortly before the operation begins. QSL
via JR2KDN. The pilot stations will be JE2EHP, DJ8NK and WA2MOE.
The web pages for the operation are at www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/ducie.htm
and www.qsl.net/aa0mz/ducie2.htm
W - Tom, WA6WPG reports he will be active as WA6WPG/p from Anacapa
Island (NA-144) on 8-9 March. He expects to be on the air on 10-40
metres for about 26 hours starting at 20 UTC.
XE - Enrique/XE1IH (ex XE1LWY), Javier/XE1KOF, Jose/XE1ZJV, Jose
Luis/XE1YJL and Juan Jose/XE1XNH plan to be active as XF2IH from
Enmedio Island in the Veracruz State South group (NA-???) between
20 and 27 March. They expect to operate CW (1825, 3530, 7030,
10115, 14040, 18098, 21040, 24910, 28040 and 50102 kHz) and SSB
(1845, 3755, 7055, 14260, 18128, 21260, 24950, 28460, 28560 and
50145 kHz), with some PSK31. QSL via XE1IH (Enrique Garcia Munive,
P.O. Box 75-481, 07050 Mexico D.F., Mexico). For further
information (postage included) please visit
http://www.qsl.net/xe1ih [TNX XE1BEF]
XY - Hiroo, JA2EZD is still waiting for his Myanmar licence (XY2A or
XY1M), which he hopes will arrive on 18 January. Two other
operators from Japan will join him on 25-27 January. [TNX The Daily
DX]
ZK1_sc - Jun/VK4SJ and Doug/VK4BP will be active (on 10-40 metres SSB) as
ZK1AYL and ZK1SIM from the South Cook Islands in April-May. Their
first stop will be at Aitutaki (OC-083) starting on 27 April
through 14 May, then they will go to Rarotonga (OC-013) and be
active from 15 through 26 May. QSLs via VK4SJ either direct (June
Sim, P.O. Box 406, Caloundra 4551, Queensland, Australia) or
through the bureau. E-QSLs will not be accepted. [TNX VK4SJ &
VK4BP]
CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Manfred, DJ7RJ reports he will be active (on 160-6 metres
CW and SSB) as J79RJ from Dominica on 18-31 January and as J3/DJ7RJ from
Grenada on 1-13 February.
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
IREF ---> The new web site for the Island Radio Expedition Foundation (IREF)
is up and running at http://www.islandradio.org. In 2002 IREF sponsored 13
expeditions that represented 16 different IOTA references (OC-051, OC-077,
OC-090, OC-126, OC-186, OC-235 plus ten new ones: AF-092, AS-161, AS-165,
NA-222, OC-248, OC-249, OC-250, OC-252, OC-253, OC-254). More than $5,500 was
granted to help fund these expeditions that produced more than 47,000 QSOs.
Contributions to the expeditions ranged from $150 to $700 depending on the
difficulty and rarity of the island. [TNX AD5A]
MIAMI TROPICAL HAMBOREE ---> The South Florida DX Association will be hosting
the DX Forum at this year's Miami Tropical Hamboree on 1 February. For
further information on the event, as well as on the DX "Happy Hour" Cocktail
Party and the DX Dinner, please visit
http://www.qsl.net/k4fk/Tropical_Hamboree.html [TNX W4DTA]
NEW PREFIX ---> IQ (India Quebec) is currently being issued as ordinary
prefix club stations in Italy. For example, IQ4AD is the permanent callsign
for the Parma ARI Branch.
Since IQ is no longer a special prefix for individual Italian amateurs, those
who held an IQ contest callsign shall change it. For example, Andrea/IV3SKB
(ex IQ3X) will now be using IU3Y in major contests. QSL IU3Y via IV3SKB.
QSL EU-073 ---> All of the direct requests for IJ7/IZ8DBJ and IJ7/IZ8AJQ (San
Pietro Island, September 2002) have been processed and mailed; the remaining
QSOs have been confirmed automatically through the bureau. [TNX IZ8AJQ]
QSL FW8FP ---> "The QSL cards for FW8FP are not ready", Bill Horner, VK4FW
reports. "I am receiving literally hundreds of emails about this" Please be
patient, "the cards will be done as soon as received from the printer".
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