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10 May 2003 No 627 $425WW627B
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
ARBE ---> The "Amateur Radio Balloning Experiment", previously scheduled to
take place on 10 May, has been postponed to 17 May due to bad weather. See
425 DX News #626 for the details; for further information please email Tibor,
IK2SAI (ik2sai@amsat.org)
ARMED FORCES DAY ---> The US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard are co-sponsoring the annual military/amateur radio communications
tests in celebration of the 53rd Anniversary of Armed Forces Day. Although
the actual AFD is celebrated on 17 May, the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband
Communications Test will be conducted on 10 May (local) so as not to conflict
with the Dayton Hamvention scheduled for the same weekend (May 17-19). The
annual celebration features traditional military to amateur crossband
communications test and the message receiving test. QSL cards will be
provided to those making contact with the military stations. Special
commemorative certificates will be awarded to anyone who receives copies of
the digital AFD message from the Secretary of Defense. Further details at
http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/af-day/armdfrcs-2003.html
DXCC NEWS ---> The following have been approved for DXCC credit: OJ0/OE1ZKC,
OJ0/JH1ARJ, OJ0/AH7X, OJ0/JR4PMX (Market Reef, 12-16 July 2001).
EAST TIMOR OFF THE AIR ---> The International Telecommunications Union had
assigned the prefix block 4WA-4WZ for use by radio stations within the areas
administered by UNTAET (United Nations Temporary Administration of East
Timor). This prefix assignment was for the use of UNTAET as long as it
existed, and was to be released to the ITU at the end of its existence.
"Since the UNTAET organization's charter in East Timor expired May 20th of
2002", The Daily DX reports, "all ham radio operating authority also expired
on that date. A successor organization called UNMISET does not have the same
telecommunications and other authority that UNTAET had; an emerging East
Timor government is expected to take over responsibility for administrative
things such as ham radio licensing", but for the time being it appears that
East Timor is off the air. For DXCC purposes, UN Temporary Administration of
East Timor was added to the DXCC List with the effective date of 1 March
2000.
NEW 10M CONTEST ---> The first edition of the 10 Meter Italian Contest,
sponsored by the Mediterraneo DX Club (http://www.mdxc.org/contestitalia),
will be held on 17-18 May. Participation is limited to Italian amateurs only.
NEW QSL ROUTES ---> The QSL Managers Society (http://www.qsl.net/qslmanagers)
was created to protect and preserve Amateur Radio DX and DXpedition logs and
to make QSL cards available for all such logs, no matter how old. In March
2003, the QSL Managers Society was approached by Bob Young, K4JDJ about
taking over the logs that he was handling (many of them were those from the
late John Parrot, W4FRU) and on 5 April, Bob Schenck/N2OO and Skip Maze/N1IBM
drove down to Virginia to pick up 60 logs and some 100,000 blank QSL cards.
Thirteen new QSL managers were solicited among the members of the QSL
Managers Society to take over these logs and on 23 April the logs and
appropriate blank cards were shipped to their new homes.
The new QSL routes for cards formerly handled by W4FRU and/or K4JDJ are the
following:
Station Via Period
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1S0XV N2OO Apr-May 90
1S1RR N2OO 11-12 May 90
3W0A K2PF Jan 89-Feb 89
3W100HCM K2PF May 90
3W7A K2PF Mar 90
3X1Z K2PF Aug 81-Nov 82
5N0DOG NZ9Z 11 May 79-17 Mar 81
5N0RMJ K2PF Jun 80-Mar 81
5N20DOG NZ9Z Oct 80
5N20RMJ K2PF Oct 81
5N4ROF K1BV 21 Sep 80-13 Apr 81
5T5ZZ K1BV Jun 81-Dec 81
5Z4BI NZ9Z 2 Sep 89-4 Jul 93
8R1ZG NZ9Z 12 Feb 96-21 Jun 97
9M0S N2OO 26 May-2 Jun 93
9X5AA W9OL 15 Nov 87-19 Dec 89
A4XYS W9OL Sep 83-Mar 84
BS7H KU9C 1995 and 1997
E30GA N2OO 4-17 Nov 98
ET3USE W2GR 8 Dec 73-3 Feb 75
FB8WJ N2OO
FM5WE WF1N Oct 85-Dec 2001
FR7BE N1IBM Jun 78-Mar 79
J28EM W1TE Jul 85-Jul 87
KB4ATV/4S7 W9OL Apr 84
KX6PO W9OL 10 Jun 83-14 Dec 83
S21A N2VW Jul 92-Oct 95
S21B K2PF Nov 92-Apr 2000
S21NQ W2GR 5 Jun 91- 30 Sep 91
S21ZG AA1M 7 Dec 92-27 Jul 94
TA1A N1IBM 1 Mar 88-2 Jan 89
TO0R N2OO 26 Dec 96-2 Jan 97
TO0R/mm N2OO Jan-Feb 97
TYA11 W9OL 19-21 Jun 81
V29A W9OL Nov 88-May 91
VK0IR N2OO 14-27 Jan 97
VK4NIC/3X W2GR 7 Nov 80-20 Apr 81
VP8CBC N2OO Dec 94
VP8CRB N2OO Dec 94
VP8CRC N2OO Dec 94
VP8SGP N2OO 6-15 Jan 95
W3IVP/5N1 K2PF Mar-Apr 81
WZ6C/MM/S21 W2GR
WZ6C/S21 W2GR 18 Jan 92-31 May 92
WZ6C/ST4 W2GR 29 Nov 89-22 Oct 90
XV0SU K2PF Apr 90
XV0SU/mm K2PF Apr 80
XV100HCM K2PF May 90
YB1AQC W9OL 16 Feb 88-11 Oct 88
ZD7BJ N1IBM Dec 86-Sep 96
ZD7HH N1IBM 14 Sep 79-4 Jan 81, 26 May 00-12 Oct 00
ZD7XY N1IBM 20 Oct 95-7 Jun 96
ZD8HH N1IBM 25 Mar 87-5 May 90
ZD8XX W9OL 5 Aug 89-24 Aug 89, 30 May 91-10 Jun 91
ZD9BV WB2YQH 1 Mar 81-17 Oct 2000
ZD9CK WF1N Mar 86-Oct 87
ZD9CN K1BV Jun 90-Jul 90
ZD9CO WF1N Aug 90-Dec 91, Jan 93-Nov 93
ZD9YL WF1N May 82-Sep 83
ZS1EDR K1BV May 90-Mar 92
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