> > > 425 DX NEWS < < < _____________________________________________________________________________ 19 December 2009 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 972 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 4S - Peter, DC0KK is now active as 4S7KKG from Sri Lanka until 7 January. He operates SSB, CW and digital modes on the HF bands. QSl via home call, direct or bureau. 5N - Nick, LZ1QK has been active as 5N/LZ1QK from Nigeria since October 2008. He has now received four callsigns for him to use from different locations (5N3LQK, 5N3WQK, 5N4LQK and 5N4WQK). Next year he will operate under a special callsign (5N50K) celebrating the 50th anniversary of indipendence of Nigeria. The QSL route for all calls is via LZ1CL. [TNX The Daily DX] 5R - Sam, G4OHX will be active as 5R8HX from Antananarivo, Madagascar (AF-013) from 28 December until 3 January. He plans to operate mainly CW "on as many bands as possible". QSL via home call, direct only. GM - Using their club callsign GS2MP (North of Scotland Contest Group), Chris/GM3WOJ and Jim/GM0NAI will be operating their vintage Yaesu transmitters/receivers and transceivers from 1 January through 31 December. Each calendar month they will use a different Yaesu radio and amateurs worldwide are invited to work GS2MP and earn points towards the "Yaesu Heritage Year Award". Operation will mostly be on 40 and 20 SSB and CW. More details can be found at http://www.gm7v.com/yaesu2010.htm [TNX GM3WOJ] J8 - George, K2CM will be active from Bequia Island (NA-025) from 8 January to 12 February. He will operate SSB and CW on 20 and maybe 40 metres. QSl via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] KH9 - The Daily DX reports that Colin, KH9/WA2YUN now expects to remain on Wake Island (OC-053) for "about another year". He is active in his limited spare time. QSL via K2PF. ST - The Khartoum Sea Scouts Radio Club (ST2KSS) will be active as ST26ASC until 28 January to celebrate the 26th Arab Scout Conference that will be held next month. QSL via ST2M. [TNX ST2M] VE - Steve, N6QEK will be active as VY1/N6QEK from Whitehorse, Yukon from 30 December to 4 January, including the ARRL RTTY Roundup. He plans to operate RTTY, PSK31 and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL via N6QEK. Further information can be found at http://www.n6qek.com [TNX NG3K] VP8_fal- Michael, G7VJR and Martin, G3ZAY will be active as VP8DMN from the Falkland Islands (SA-002) on 21-29 January. They will operate mainly CW, with an emphasis on the low bands. QSL via G7VJR, direct or bureau. All QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW. [TNX http://dx-hamspirit.com/] XE - The Grupo DXXE (http://www.dxxe.org/) will be active from various locations as 4A1DXXE on 20-31 December to c elebrate their 5th anniversary. This will be an all band SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31 operation. QSL via N7RO (direct or bureau) and LoTW. [TNX XE1R] YJ - Nao, JK1FNL will be active as YJ0NA from Port Vila (OC-035), Vanuatu from 28 December to 4 January. He will operate on 40-6 metres with 100 watts and wire antennas. QSL via home call. [TNX JK1FNL] YJ - Franko (9A3DW), Hrle (9A6XX), Marko (9A8MM) and possibly a fourth operator will be active as YJ0MM from Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu on 21-28 January. They plan to have two medium power stations active on 160-10 metres CW, SSB and RTTY using verticals and spiderbeams. QSL via 9A8MM, direct or automatically via the bureau. Further information can be found at http://vanuatu.rkp.hr/ =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW BLACK SEA CUP ---> The Black Sea Contest Club sponsors the Black Sea Cup International Contest, which will be held from 12 UTC on 6 February through 11.59 UTC on the 7th. For further information please visit http://bscc.in/ [TNX UR5EAW] DXPEDITION OF THE YEAR SURVEY ---> Col, MM0NDX is conducting an online survey to recognize the DX World of Ham Radio DXpedition of the Year 2009 - please visit http://dx-hamspirit.com/dxpedition-of-the-year-2009/ and cast your vote! QSL P29CS ---> Andy, P29CS (Lihir Island, OC-069) advises not to use his qrz.com address for sending cards, as it is his location only and the cards will not get to him. Andy is presently looking for a QSL manager, but this might take a while. [TNX VY0PW] + SILENT KEY + Recently reported Silent Keys include Tadahiko Honma (JA1UE), Karel Debrouwere (ON5BV), Arnold J. Polsbroek (PZ1AP), Nikolaj S. Esipenko (RA3XG), Karlis Sleckaitis (YL2MD) and Antonio Scolamiero (YV4DDK). =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL ROUTES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3Z84NKP SP2FAP CP4BT EA5KB R1ANB RN1ON 4K9W DL6KVA CR5CQK CT1CQK R1AND RU1ZC 4S7KKG DC0KK CX5DNT ON5NT R1ANR RZ3BJ 5B4AIF EB7DX CX7CO WB3CDX RA9LI/0 UA9LP 5N3LQK LZ1CL D2CQ CT1IUA RK2FWA DK4VW 5N3WQK LZ1CL DL0PFB DL8HCI S21B KX7YT 5P15COP OZ5BAL DP1POL DL1ZBO SB1658OZ SK7JC 5R8GZ G3SWH DQ11APOLLO DF3JO SK1658DK SK7CE 5R8IC F6ICX DR09ANT DL5MHQ SN10GSW SP6PZG 5T5BV JA1PBV DR775TMG DJ8QP SN230KBS SP9PKS 5T5YL JQ1LCW E51BWL PA3LEO SP40DUV SP9GR 6W7RV F8CMT E51LEO PA3LEO ST2NH EA7FTR 7Z1HL DJ9ZB E51NAA PA3LEO SU9HP SC6A 9A430KA 9A6Z E51PMR PA3LEO T6AF WA2EWE 9G5SW OK1DOT E51SNL PA3LEO T6AG EA3GHZ 9H6A 9H1XT E51XIW PA3LEO T6LC K4MJN 9J2BO G3TEV E74A K2PF TA2ZAF OK1TN 9J2CA G3SWH EA8AH OH1RY TC2IYK TA1HZ 9J2FM JA4ATV EV1R EU1PA TJ3SL F5PSA 9K2YM EA5KB EW6DX EB7DX TM55T F6KUP 9L1BTB SP7BTB FK8DD LZ1JZ TO1BT EA1BT 9M2TO JA0DMV FK8GX W3HNK UE4CSU RA4CSP 9N7IIU JH3IIU FM1FV W3HNK UE9DMR RU9CK 9V1/IK1PMR PA3LEO FO8RZ F8BPN UE9WA RW9WA 9V1/PA3LEO PA3LEO GB1HF MI0SAI UE9WFJ RX9WN A41KJ NI5DX GM5XW G5XW UE9WS UA9WS A61AB IZ8CLM HF150LZ SP4YPB UE9WURC RV9WB A61BK NI5DX HG0WFF HA0HW UK8OK EA7FTR A61BN NI5DX HI3CCP ON4IQ UN7AB DL8KAC A65BE G3XHZ HI8LAM EA5NI UN7TK EA7FTR A65BG PA7FM HP3DX W4WX UN9PQ IK2QPR A7/M0FGA NN1N HR2/N8OO N8OO VP9400HW VP9HW A71QND A71CO HR2/NP3D W3HNK VY1RST KL7JR AN5CRM EA5URL IQ3GA/3 IW3IE WH0DX JM1LJS AP2NK W3HNK IR7DLI IK7JWX XV4TUJ OK1DOT AY0DX LU3DR KC4AAA K1IED YI1RZ IK2DUW AY8A LU8ADX KC4USV K1IED Z30MCWG Z35M BT3WX BA1DU LT1A LU3CT ZC4VJ M0URX BX2AAL NI5DX LZ55OUV LZ1PM ZF2AH W6VNR C56SMT SM1TDE LZ80DO LZ2VP ZL/DJ5IW PA3LEO C91J ZS5J OA4TT N6XQ ZL/DJ7JC PA3LEO CE0Y/SM6CUK SM6CUK OR4TN ON5TN ZL/IK1PMR PA3LEO CE0Z/SM6CUK SM6CUK OY3AA OZ1ACB ZL/OE2SNL PA3LEO CE1/K7CA NW7O OZ1658ROS OZ9EDR ZL/PA0BWL PA3LEO CN2JB F5MMY P29CW VK2IR ZL/PA3LEO PA3LEO CN8QN EA7FTR PC60TROLLEY PA0FAW ZM4G ZL2IFB CO6WD 8P9NX PD09XMAS PD5X ZS9X K3IRV CO7PH/p W3HNK PY0FF W9VA ZX5J AI4U 4L1BR Shalva Beridze, P.O. Box 49, Tbilisi-2 GE-0102, Georgia AT10BP Mrs. Shobha Semwal, W/O Bhagwati Prasad Semwal, 131 Karan Pur, Dehradun (Uttarakahnd) 248001, India BA1DU Alan Kung, P.O.Box 8091, Beijing, China 100088 DC0KK Peter Vossen, Vossberg 1, 33100 Paderborn-Dahl, Germany EP4MRG Mohamad Reza Dandomi, P.O. Box 61335, 4557 Ahwaz, Iran LZ1CL Vassil Shatarov, P.O Box 185, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria OK1DOT Petr Gustab, P.O. Box 52, Cesky Brod 282 01, Czech Republic OY2J Johan Isholm, Brattalid 9, FO-100 Torshavn, Faroe Islands PA3LEO Claudia Fava, Veerstr. 28-III, 1075 SV Amsterdam, The Netherlands SM6CUK Lars-Goran Persson, Svampvagen 5, SE-51634 Dalsjofors, Sweden UA9LP Sergej S. Abyshev, P.O. Box 698, Tyumen 625000, Russia VQ9LA Larry Arneson, PSC 466 Box 24 (DG-21 Annex 30), FPO AP 96595-0024, USA VR2EAG GPO Box 7191, Hong Kong ZD7DL Daniel Leo, P.O. 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