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3W - Sergey (RA3NAN), Oleg (RK3FA), Eugene (RZ3EC), Andy (RZ3EM) and Andrey/UA6BGB will be active from three Vietnamese IOTA groups between 24 September and 1 October as follows: 24-26 September XV6RRC Ngu Island AS-185 27-28 September XV7RRC Cham Island AS-162 29 September-1 October XV3RRC Tam Island AS-157 This is a tentative schedule, as actual dates will depend on local They plan to operate on 160-10 metres with two stations equipped with amplifiers and several antennas. QSL via RZ3EC, direct (Eugene Shelkanovtcev, P.O. Box 70, Orel, 302028, Russia) or bureau (bureau cards can be requested on-line). The logs will be uploaded to loTW. Bookmark http://xv6rrc.com for further information and updates. [TNX RZ3EM] 5R - Daniel, DF8UO will be active again 5R8UO from Madagascar (AF-013) on 12-20 September. He will operate mainly CW and digital modes on 40-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. He will upload his log to LoTW. [TNX DXNL] 9A - Look for Oliver, 9A/DG7XO and Wolfgang, 9A/DL7CB to be active from Ugljan Island (EU-170) on 13-19 September. QSL via home calls (bureau preferred). [TNX DX Newsletter] CT9 - Matthias, DJ8OG will be active as CT9/DJ8OG (QSL via home call) from Madeira (AF-014) until 15 September. He will operate on 80-10 metres and will participate in the WAE DX SSB Contest as CR3L (QSL via DJ6QT). [TNX DXNL] F - F0FZK, F4AHE, F4ASQ, F4CRE, F4EOQ, F8CNX and possibily F4EQH will operate as TM85NI from Noirmoutier Island (EU-064) on 12-13 September. QSL via either F4ASQ or F8CNX. [TNX www.onlineradio.fr] FT5G - The FT5GA team (F4EGS, F5IRO, F5LPY, F5PRU and F8CRS) is expected to depart Paris in the local early evening on 11 September, destination St. Denis, Reunion Island. The military flight to Glorioso (via Mayotte) is scheduled on 14 September. The team will remain on Grande Glorieuse for about three weeks. QSL via F5OGL, direct or bureau. Bookmark http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/ for further information and updates. [TNX G7VJR] JD1_og - Look for JD1BLP (QSL via JO2JDJ) and JD1BLY (QSL via JI5RPT) to be active from Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara on 19-22 September. They plan to operate on 40-6 metres CW, SSB and digital modes. [TNX NG3K] OE - The Vienna International Centre Amateur Radio Club (4U1VIC) will participate in the WAE DX SSB Contest as 4U30VIC. Although it is Austria for DXCC, it counts as separate multiplier for WAEDC. QSL via 4U1VIC. [TNX NG3K] OH0 - OH6EI will participate in both the Scandinavia Activity Contests (CW on 19-20 September and SSB on 26-27 September) as OH0Z from the Aland Islands (EU-002). QSL via W0MM. Detailed information on SAC can be found at http://qrq.se/sac/ [TNX NG3K] OZ - Jakob, OZ7AEI will be active on 20 and 40 metres as OZ7AEI/p from the lighthouse of Roedvig E Mole on Sjaelland Island (EU-029) on 12 September. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX OZ7AEI] OZ - Bernd, DL8AAV will be active as OZ/DL8AAV/p from Laeso Island (EU-088) on 14-26 September. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] OZ - Rene, DL2JRM will be active as OZ/DL2JRM/p from Romo Island (EU-125) on 18-20 September. He will operate mainly CW on 40-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] PA - Special event station PA09MONUMENT will be active on the HF bands and 2 metres from Noordwijk Lighthouse on 12 September, for the Open Monumentendag (the European Heritage Days in the Netherlands). QSL via bureau to PA7DA. [TNX PA7DA] SV - Fred, PA1FJ will be active as SV8/PA1FJ/p from Samos Island (EU-049) from 14 September to 2 October. He will operate SSB QRP on 40-6 metres. QSL via home call, bureau preferred. [TNX www.rsgbiota.org] TA - The TC Special Wireless Activity Team (www.tcswat.org) will be active as TC3BLH from Balyos Lighthouse (Sea of Marmara) on 19-23 September. They plan to operate mainly on 20 and 40 metres SSB. QSL via operator's instructions. [TNX TA1HZ] TK - Volta DX Team and Project DX Team members Ern/I2FUG, Oscar/IK2AQZ and John/IK2JYT will be active as TK/homecall from Corsica (EU-014) on 19-24 September. They will operate on all bands SSB, CW and digital modes, with two stations using small amplifiers, verticals and loop antennas. Side trips to the islands of San Cipriano (EU-164), Forana (EU-100) and Grande Sanguinaire (EU-104) are also being planned. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX IK2JYT] UA - Alex/RA1QY, Dmitry/RX1CQ and other operators will be active as UE1CDX/1 (QSL via via RN1CW, direct or bureau) and UE1RLH/1 (QSL via RA1QY, direct or bureau) from several lighthouses on Kotlin Island (EU-133) on 12-13 September. They will operate CW and SSB on 20, 30 and 40 metres. [TNX VA3RJ] UR - UR5KHZ, UR5KO, US0KW and UX2KA will operate CW and SSB as US0KFF/p from the Rivnenskiy Nature Reserve until 16 September. QSL via US0KW. [TNX US0KW] Z2 - Kazuo's, Z29KM next work assignment will be in Indonesia and he will be leaving Zimbabwe in mid October. He will remove his 5-band yagi in a couple of weeks, and although he will continue to be QRV as long as possible, his signals on the higher bands will be weaker. He reports having "too much QRN" on the low bands. Look for him on RTTY (18105 kHz) around 11 UTC, on SSTV (18130 and 14227 kHz) around 16 UTC and on CW (10120 kHz) after 18 UTC. QSL via EA7FTR. [TNX Z29KM] PACIFIC TRIP ---> Bill, N7OU will be active as ZL7/N7OU from the Chatham Islands (OC-038) on 18-30 September, and as E51NOU from Rarotonga (OC-013, South Cooks) on 5-30 October. He will operate CW only on 80-10 metres, running 100 watts to a vertical, from both locations. QSLs via N7OU. [TNX NG3K] =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The latest issue (Augsut 2009) is now available at http://www.425dxn.org/monthly/index.html. Articles and pictures should be sent to Nicola Baldresca, IZ3EBA. CO8DM ---> Doug, CO8DM says he now has a LoTW account and is working on his old paper logs in order to upload all of his QSOs. Should you not being able to find a QSL record, please drop him a line ([email protected]) to fix the problem. QSL EX8AB & EX9FF ---> Bek, EX8AB (EX9FF) says that RX3RC is no longer his QSL manager. Cards should be sent to Narynbek Djunushev, P.O.Box 1855, Bishkek, 720000, Kyrgyzstan. [TNX EX8AB] QSL HK0MZ/0M ---> Jairo Vargas, HK5MQZ was active from Malpelo Island in June 2001. Those who still need a card can go direct to Jairo's daughter, Jenny (415 Kensington Lake Circle, Brandon, FL 33511, USA), who "is helping clean things up". [TNX The Daily DX] QSL R1FJT ---> The Daily DX reports that, after the passing of QSL manager UA4RC [425DXN 947], QSL cards should be sent to: R1FJT, P.O. Box 252, Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan, 432452 Russia ("this PO Box is still registered to UA4RC, even though he is a Silent Key", but "it is believed that the callsign should work as proper identification"). + SILENT KEYS + Vernon R. Robinson (P29VR and W7GSP) passed away on 11 August. Vern was active from Papua New Guinea for 16 years, and his QSL manager (W7LFA) says he has all the logs for his entire operation. Other recently reported Silent Keys include Dennis T. Connors (KD2S), Robert D. Joy (W0EAN) and Sam Brown (WA4IUM). =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL ROUTES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3D2GM PG5M GA2MP N3SL SN70N SP2CA 3DA0JK WB6OJB GA5CX GM3YTS SN70NMW SP4KEV 3W1M OM3JW GB1WT M0XIG SN70O SP8ZBX 3Z70RG SP9KAG GB4SH G4DFI SN70R SP2UUU 4X6HP EA7FTR GB65BTF GW4XKE SN70W SP2LNW 5B8AD W3HNK GB80RBP G0ACK SO1RE DK8RE 5Q5NA DK5NA HB9VELO HB9OCR SO70A SP9YGD 7Q7HB G0IAS HF14MTR SP7PAC SO70E SP4JAE 9H3DZ PA2AM HF1939WW SQ6CU SO70M SQ9JKD 9H3S PA3HGP HF70A SP5PSL SO70N SP2YWL 9H3X PE1NGF HF70DWS SP2PMW SO70NMW SP3ZIR 9H3YM PE1OFJ HF70E SP5X SO70O SP9KAJ 9H9PA PB9ZR HF70M SP8MI SO70R SP4NDU 9M2TI EA4ATI HF70N SP5KDK SO70W SP5PPK 9M2TO JA0DMV HF70NMW SP6ZDA SP70WAR SP2PHA 9M8QQ DF5UG HF70O SP2KFQ SQ80SPLG SP9PKZ A65BJ DL7EDH HF70R SP4ICP SQ80SPQL SP9PKZ A65BM W4JS HF70W SP2KDS SV0XBM/9 W3HNK A65BP UA6MF HI8ROD EA7FTR SX2IMA SV2JAO AH0BT 7L1FPU IY0GMN IQ0RM SX5AG SV8CYR AL5A/WH0 JA7JEC IY1DCI IK1GPG SY7A/p SV7LNK AM8RHG EA8CNB IY2M IW2NOH SZ3P/p SV3DCX BA1RB EA7FTR J47OCF SV7FSK T30GM PG5M C4M W3HNK JI1FGX/DU9 JF1LZQ TC2X TA1HZ CE1TT EA5KB JU85TTC JT1DN TJ3SL F5PSA CR3L DJ6QT JW1SYL LA8FOA TM150RPC F5KAZ CT7/LZ3ND LZ1NK JW8FNA LA8FNA TM1MAD F5KLJ D2QMN RZ3EC LA/LX9EG/p LX1NO TM8POR F0DTB DU1MGA RX3RC LA1SYL LA8FOA TM9CDX F5CWU E51USA E51CG LY100BY LY3BY TU2/F5LDY F5LDY E73DX DJ2MX LZ44WFF LZ1KZA UE1OAC UA1OIW EG1SDC EA1AUM LZ50IM LZ2VP UE1WFF/3 RW3OW EG1SFF EA1EAU LZ8WHST LZ1PJ UE4FDA RA4FJV EG2SDC EA1AUM OH0JWL DL5FF UK8WFF RL3FU EG3SBD EA3ALZ OJ0B OH2BH UN3F EA5KB EG3SDC EA1AUM OL16B OK5MM UP3WFF/m RL3FU EG4SDC EA1AUM OL16BND OK2BEW UP44BFF/7 UN7ECA EG5SDC EA1AUM ON4DAMIAN ON7LR V8AQM W3HNK EG5WSP EA5RKB ON4WAR ON7RY VO2/NF6J DL7RV EG6SDC EA1AUM OX3XR OZ3PZ VU2UR SM3DBU EG7SDC EA1AUM P41USA W3TEF VY0O VE3LYC EG8SDC EA1AUM PA2009YSL PF1JM W7A AI4U EG9SDC EA1AUM PC400BKL PC2F YI9HOC K2AX EI9JF LZ3HI PF16SDT PD1KSA YI9TM WT4M EM0WFF UT7WZ PH75AJU PA3CAL YP9VIN YO9FNR ER3WFF ER3GS PJ2P DL8OBQ YV5KAJ/7 EA5KB ER4DX RA4LW SG3U SM3CXS ZD8Z AI4U ER4KAA RA4LW SN0PL SP5KP ZG2FK ZB2FK ER5GB W3HNK SN70A SP2KMH ZG2FX G3RFX FO/G3BJ G3BJ SN70E SP1MWF ZG2JK/P ZB2JK FS/W6IZT N7XG SN70M SP9KN ZS2DL NI5DX JD1BMM Masafumi Ishihara, 2-305 Loran, 2-5-35 Miyazaki, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-0806, Japan OY2J Johan Isholm, Brattalid 9, FO-100 Torshavn, Faroe Islands P29TL Tommy Logan, SIL - Box 115, Ukarumpa EHP 444, Papua New Guinea PG5M Gerben A. Menting, Brandparken 2, 9351 XM Leek, The Netherlands VE3LYC Cezar Trifu, 410 College St., Kingston, Ontario K7L 4M7, Canada
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