DX Newsletter 1128
January 4, 1999

DX-NL 1128 - January 4, 1999
DX News Letter
Editor: Michael, DJ5AV

(PR: DJ5AV @ OE9XPI.AUT.EU)
(e-mail: mikeoerter.dj5av@t-online.de)

translated into English by Bob, DL7VOA
(e-mail: robster@bigfoot.de)

ANTARCTICA

VP8 - ANTARCTICA Bud, ZS1B, is now active as ZS7B. He will reply to the QSLs for his activity from Tristan da Cunha (AF-029) and Gough Island (AF-030) after his return home. --- Philippe, FT5YG, is now in Adelie Land for one year. QSL via F5LBL, Gerard Karpe, 629 Route de Montpellier,F-30800 Saint Gilles,France.

PACIFIC

3D2 - FIJI Pekka, OH1RY/3D2RY, and Jaakko, OH1MA/3D2MA, are on the air between Dec 30 and Jan 6. QSL via homecalls.

FK - FRENCH NEW CALEDONIA Philippe, exTU2FH, stays there as FK8VHU till Aug 1999. QSL via buro.

FO0 - MARQUESAS ISLANDS After activating Fiji Pekka and Jaakko will become QRV as FO0KOL and FO0SIL from Jan 7-13.

T30/T32/T33 - KIRIBATI/BANABA HA9RE and HA8IC are on a Pacific trip to operate from different islands in CW/SSB/RTTY on 10-160m between January and mid March.

ZL9 - CAMPBELL ISLANDS The ZL9CI team landed today with ten operators and six stations. They intend to hit the airwaves by Wednesday 2300 UTC. Since their permit restrictions are limited to the hours of daylight only they have to leave the island between 1030 and 1600 UTC. QSL via ZL2HU. Logs and information at: http://www.qsl.net/zl9ci/

AFRICA

3B9 - RODRIGUEZ ISLAND The DXpedition of the Midway Kure DX Foundation to AF-017 has been postponed until April.

C9 - MOZAMBIQUE Jon, 3DA0CA, is active mostly in CW as C91CO/p on 10-40m between 1800 UTC and 0230 UTC from Dec 27 until Jan 8. QSL via W4DR.

D3 - ANGOLA Gabriel, D3SAF, until now only on 10-20m will soon appear also on 40m. He still has problems with 80m and 160m. QSL via I3LLH.

EA8 - CANARY ISLANDS Fritz, EA8/DL7VRO, EA8/DL3DRN, EA8/DJ4EJ, EA8/DL7UBA, EA8/DL5YCE and EA8/DJ1OJ are on the air. Mike, EA8/DL2OE, is on La Gomera Island. Their length of stay is unknown.

FT5Z - AMSTERDAM ISLAND Michael, FT5ZJ, is a brand new licensee and will stay for one year. He was already heard in a list. QSL via F2YT.

TU - IVORY COAST Aldo, I2AOX, and Marco, IK2CHZ, will stay in Nassian at the QTH of TU5IJ from Jan 12-25. They plan to operate in SSB and CW on 10/15/ 20/40/80m and perhaps also on 160m and WARC. QSL direct via I2AOX.

AMERICA

CE - CHILE Laurence, GM4DMA, was announced to be active from Patagonia in CW and SSB from Jan 5-24. QSL via GM4DMA, if possible via bureau.

CP - BOLIVIA Claus Braun, DJ8UG, stays active as CP4BT from Uyuni until 2000 (see DXNL 1111). QSL via DL9OT, if possible via bureau.

FY - FRENCH GUYANA Chris, F6BEN, is active as FY5DG on 20 and 40m.

HK - COLOMBIA Mel, FM/W8MV, is active from NA-107 mostly in CW on 160-6m from Dec 21-30. QSL via W8MV.

VE - CANADA The new territory of Nunavut will be separated from the North West Territories on April 1, 1999 and will receive the prefix VY0 (VE8 till now). The stations in this new territory mostly reside in CQ zone 2.

VP5 - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS Joe, VP5/W8GEX, is on the air on 6-40m from Jan 1-9. QSL via W8GEX.

ASIA

EP - IRAN Mr. Abdollah Sadjadian, EP2FM, states that the clubstation EP3PTT of the Iranian PTT is operated from time to time by 26 new licensed people. Operations take place mostly on 20m under supervision of Mr. Jamshid Mansuri (EP2CN) and Mr. Massod Adle (EP2ES). K6FCC put up a webpage at http://www.qsl.net/ep2fm/AmateurRadioInIran.htm Another homepage with up-to-date information about amateur radio in Iran is planned at: http://www.vtt.fi/ket/staff/komppa/ep.htm.

JY - JORDAN Pete, N3FNE/JY9NE, is on the air on 2 to 40m until the year 2000.

Preview

DATE          CALL          DXNL
April 1999     3B9  (AH0W etc) 1107
Dec 24-Jan 1   3D2DK           1127
Dec 30-Jan 6   3D2RY, 3D2MA    1128 *
Early 1999     3Y   (SSIDXG)   1091
now   -2001    5H3US           1117
Dec 27-Jan 8   6Y   (DL7VOG)   1127
Dec 22-12Jan   8Q7LE           1126
      -Jan/99  9G1TB, 9G5MG    1127
Dec 7 -Jan 16  9M6CT           1124
Jan/99-        9V1XE           1110
Dec 8 -Feb 1   A35VR           1125
Early 1999     A5   (JH1AJT)   1095
1998/1999      A6   (F6ARU)    1112
      -Jun/99  A92GD           1125
Dec 27-Jan 8   C91CO/p         1128 *
Jan 5 -Jan 24  CE   (GM4DMA)   1128 *
      -2000    CP4BT           1128 *
now            EA8/DL....      1128 *
now   -Aug/99  FK8VHU          1128 *
Jan 7 -Jan 13  FO0KOL, FO0SIL  1128 *
Dec/Jan-       FT5WH           1125
Jan   -Dec/99  FT5YG           1128 *
Jan   -Dec/99  FT5ZJ           1128 *
Dec/98+Jan/99  FY/DJ0PJ        1124
23Jan -April   H44MS           1126, 1127
1999-2000      HK3/G0SHN       1128 *
Dec 15-Jan 7   JL1KFR/JD1      1125
      -2000    JY9NE           1127
UNKNOWN        N1V             1111, 1113, 1124
      -Apr 20  P49M            1125
Dec 21-Jan 31  S21YP           1127
Jan 4 -Jan 14  T20FW           1127
Jan   -Mar/99  T30-33 (HA's)   1128 *
Dec   -Apr/99  T33VU etc       1119, 1124, 1127
Oct/98-Oct/99  TN7OT           1119
Jan 12-Jan 25  TU5IJ           1128 *
Dec 21-Jan 8   VP2MHJ          1127
Jan 1 -Jan 9   VP5/W8GEX       1128 *
Dec 26-Jan 16  VP8CRB          1127
      -2000    VR2FD etc       1122
Dec 17-Jan 13  VU2BMS          1127
Dec 23-Jan     WP2/WB9Z        1127
now            XU5NRY          1127
Oct 11-Apr/99  ZF2NT           1116
Dec 19-Jan 10  ZK3RW           1126, 1127
Jan 6 -Jan 25  ZL9CI           1104
now            ZS7B            1128 *

"NEW": 1128 *

Bandspots of the last 9 days

160m
   9M2AX       1829  2304Z direct
   A45XR       1828  1700Z via Box 2038, Muscat 111, Oman
   HZ1AB       1823  1727Z via K8PYD, bureau
   JX7DFA      1822  2156Z see DXNL 1125
   JY9QJ       1823  0411Z via DL5MBY, bureau
   OY3QN       1824  2151Z via OZ1ACB, bureau
   TL5A        1833  2344Z via PA1AW, bureau
   VR98BG      1829  2258Z via VS6BG, also bureau
   YK1AO       1833  0328Z via Box 245, Damascus, Syria

80m
   3D2DK       3506  1540Z via DK7YY, bureau
   FO0EEN      3503  0808Z via LA1EE, direct
   KP2AD       3800  0613Z via OK1AJY, bureau
   VK9CL       3800  1851Z via JM1LJS, bureau

40m
   3D2DK       7012  1906Z via DK7YY, bureau
   4F3CV       7004  1823Z via HB9CXZ, bureau
   6W1RN       7048  1858Z via DL4VS
   9M2TO       7015  2105Z via JA0DMV, bureau
   9V1ZB       7006  2240Z via JL3WSL, bureau
   CX2TL       7046  2228Z via bureau or CBA 98
   FO0EEN      7003  0811Z via LA1EE, direct
   XU7AAN      7055  2102Z via JH8YZB

30m
   3DA6Z      10104  1833Z via ZS6EZ, bureau
   3D2DK      10103  1601Z via DK7YY, bureau
   FK8GJ      10108  1404Z via F6CXJ, bureau
   FM/W8MV    10106  0131Z via W8MV
   JL1KFR/JD1 10111  1128Z via JL1KFR
   PY0FA      10105  2117Z via PY4KL
   VK9CL      10109  1951Z via JM1LJS, bureau
   YK1AO      10108  1800Z via Box 245, Damascus, Syria

20m
   3D2AG/p    14005  1000Z Rotuma, via CBA
   FT5WH      14178  1744Z via F6KDF, bureau
   FT5ZJ      14122  1754Z via F2YT, bureau
   PY0FT      14271  0806Z via JA1ELY, bureau
   T20FW      14194  1222Z via DK7YY, bureau
   T32O       14204  1628Z via WC5P, bureau
   T33VU      14003  1017Z via DL2MDZ, bureau
   V63KU      14188  1120Z via JA6NL, bureau
   XR0Z       14260  0752Z via CE0ZIS, direct
   ZK1JD      14215  0834Z Jim via Box 491, Rarotonga, Cook Islands,Pacific
   ZK3RW      14194  0612Z via ZL1AMO, direct

17m
   EM1LV      18070  0642Z via UR8LV, bureau
   FK8GM      18145  0740Z via WB2RAJ, also bureau
   PY0FF      18120  1448Z via W9VA, bureau

15m
   3D2RY      21300  0803Z via OH1RY, also bureau
   EM1LV      21259  1002Z via UR8LV, bureau
   JD1BIA     21260  0936Z via CBA

12m
   3DA6Z      24944  1458Z via ZS6EZ, bureau
   A22X       24945  1037Z via W2PJL
   P49M       24945  1628Z via VE3MR, bureau
   VK9CL      24935  1131Z via JM1LJS, bureau
   VP2MHJ     24903  1354Z via DL2MDZ, bureau
   VQ9QM      24914  1559Z via W4QM, bureau

10m
   3W7TK      28465  1001Z via OK1HWB
   9M2TO      28445  1013Z via JA0DMV, bureau
   NH0E       28027  0823Z CBA or KH0EJ,bureau
   T32NCC     28471  1653Z via HA1AG, also bureau
   VU2BMS     28391  1130Z via DL2GAC, bureau
   XR3J       28471  1500Z via HB9AOF, bureau
   ZF2NT      28025  1203Z via N2AU, direct

INFO

QSL Routes

• 3W5FM contrary to DXNL 1127 NOT via bureau BUT DIRECT ONLY via UA0FM, Coly, Box 37, VLADIMIR, 600000, Russia!!!
• 5A1IC Ops Veronica, IK3ZAW, and Martino, IK3RIY, via IK3ZAW, Veronica Della Dora, Piazza Fiume 14, I-30126 Lido di Venezia - VE, Italy
• CS3MAD A.R.R.M., Box 4694, 9058 Funchal Codex, Madeira Island, Portugal
• E30HA QSL arrived from sender: Szoeke Zoltan, Box 1157, 1245 Budapest, Hungary (problems occurred earlier, see also DXNL 1125)
• EY8AM NOT via DF3OL anymore! NEW from Jan/99: NOW DIRECT to Serge, EY8AM, Box 320, 734025 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• F5TBA Nam, #501-1209, Chamsil APT., 27 Chamsil-dong, Songpa-ku, Seoul 138-225, South Korea
• IK7JWX Alfredo De Nisi, Via E Toti 43, Box 218, I-73100 Lecce - LE, Italy
• JA0QBY Tatsuo Nishihara, 1458 Kihimiya, Mishimacho Mishima-Gun, Niigata 940-2322, Japan
• KC4AAA NOT via NC6J anymore! NEW from Jan/99 via K1IED who is not a very good manager reading the QSL moral list of DF6EX.
• LA7DFA Per Einar Dahlen, Royskattveien 4, N-7713 Sandvollan, Norway
• LR0H is the contest call of Javier, LU9HS (ex LU9HZS). QSL via LU9HS, Javier Omar Santillan, Av. 52 Casa 40 B Aeronautico, 5022 Cordoba, Argentina
• N4XP Tom Harrell, 2011 New High Shoals Road, Watkinsville, GA 30677, USA
• OA464QV is Cesar, OA4QV, using this prefix to commemorate the 464th anniversary of Lima in Jan/99. QSL via OA4QV, Box 957, Lima 18, Peru.
• OX3SA Sven Lutzen, Box 504, DK-3920 Qaqortoq, Greenland
• PY3PAZ Paul Toledo, Box 2180, 90020-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
• RY9C RK9CWA, Radioclub, Malyshev St 33-A, Ekaterinburg, 620014 Russia
• SV1EDY Apostolos Bourousis, 1 Anaximandrou Str., GR-116 33 Athens, Greece
• UA0NL Arthur Zorin, Box 024, Vladivostok, 690091, Russia
• UT4UZ/N2WCQ via Yuri Onipko, 2369 Lake Shore Blvd W #216, Etobicoke - ON, M8V 1C2, Canada
• WBADXG WBA DX Group, Box 19, 966400 Bragado, BA, Argentina
• WWDXA Western Wisconsin DX Association, Box 411, La Crosse, WI 54602, USA
• XU7AAN Yoshihiro Nosaka, e-mail: jh8clu@sp.dianet.or.jp or via JH8YZB, Hokkaido Contest Club, Box 48, Tomakomai, Hokkaido 053, Japan
• YO2LDE Daniel Vuescu, Zadei F3-1-7, RO-1700, Resita, Romania
• ZP6VLA Victor Hugo Sosa, C.C. 22065, 2160 San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Paul, ON6DP, is an important source for my QSL routes. His new QSLMGR.EXE with 49058 QSL routes can be found at http://perso.infonie.fr/on6dp/qsl.htm or http://perso.infonie.fr/on6dp/qslmgr.html. You can mail him via packet: on6dp@on0rat.#lg.bel.eu or via e-mail to on6dp@infonie.be

QSLs arrived buro: D68YN (HB9CYN), EA8ZS, EA9/DL2NBU (DL2NBU), OH0JJS, HF0POL (SP3FYM), HZ1AB (K8PYD), J39A (KQ1F),KH2/JE1SLP, KL7AC, OH0W (OH2IW), P29AS (K6VNX), PJ9E,R1ANZ (UW1ZC), RA2FB, TF8GX, V26U (W2UDT), V44KAI (K2SB),XUF2B (N4JR), VE3EJ/HC8, V51HK (DL6OBS), V5/HB9QQ, VP5/N9CK, WP4LNY, VP8CTR (DL5EBE), XT2DP (WB2YQH), XV7SW (SM3CXS),ZL2AGY, XW30 (SM0AGD), XX9TR (OH2BH), YN6WFM (JA6VU), XZ1N (W1XT), ZX0F (PY5EG)

QSLs arrived direct: 5V7A (GM4FDM), 9M6AAT, E30HA, TY8A

TNX for information to 425DXNEWS, 599 DXReport, ARRL DX News, DA1HA, DF1ZN, DF2HL, DF3OL, DF6EX, DH5JG, DJ0LC, DJ7AO, DL1GEH, DL1SBF, DL2BQV, DX PRESS, DK2JX, DL6NCY, DL7PR, GO List, IZ8AJQ, JA DX NEWS, Les Nouvelles DX, ON6DP, K1XN, OPDX, QRZ DX, QSL-ROUTES, RA0FF, RTTY DX NOTES, The DAILY DX, WB2YQH.