[15/01/2016]425
DX News Bulletin #1289
16
January 2016
A.R.I. DX Bulletin
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Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile
I2VGW
3D2 - Hardy, DF6PW will be active holiday
style as 3D2PW (requested
call) from Mango Bay (Viti Levu,
OC-016), Fiji on 13-19 February.
He will operate CW with a focus on 30,
17 and 12 metres. QSL via
bureau to DF6PW and LoTW. [TNX DX
World]
3W - Torsten, SM3NFB is active as XV3TH from
Da Nang, Vietnam until 6
February. He is QRV on 40, 20, 17, 15,
10 and 6 metres CW, SSB and
PSK31. QSL via SM3NFB. [TNX The Daily
DX]
3W - Owing to a change in his flight
schedule, Bert, DK2BR now expects
to be active as 3W2BR from Con Son
Island (AS-130) [425DXN 1285]
on 10-26 March. He will run 60 watts
into vertical antennas, and
will operate SSB, RTTY and maybe PSK31
on 40-10 metres. QSL via
DK2BR, direct only. [TNX DK2BR]
5V - Wim, ON6DX will be active again as
5V7TH from Togo from 10
February until around the 22nd. He will
operate SSB, CW and RTTY
on 40-6 metres, typically during the local
morning and evening
hours. QSL via ON6DX, direct or bureau,
and LoTW; logsearch and
6W - Francis, F6BLP (6W7SK) has had to
cancel his trip [425DXN 1281]
owing to health problems. Jacques,
F6HMJ will be active in his
spare time as 6W7/F6HMJ from 10 February
to 1 March. He will
operate on all bands mainly CW. [TNX
Les Nouvelles DX]
7P - Members of the F6KOP Amateur Radio Club
will be active as 7P8C
from Lesotho on 8-17 February. They
will operate CW, SSB and RTTY
on 160-6 metres with five stations.
A website is under
construction. [TNX F5NQL]
8P - Willy, KB8YRX will be active as 8P9CA
from Barbados (NA-021) from
16 January to 4 February. He will
operate SSB on 20-10 metres. QSL
via home call, and LoTW. [TNX The Daily
DX]
CE0Y - Bob, W7YAQ will be active holiday style
as CE0Y/W7YAQ from Easter
Island (SA-001) on 10-14 February. He
will operate CW and RTTY on
40-15 metres. QSL via LoTW. [TNX DX
World]
FO - Bob, W7YAQ will be active holiday style
as FO/W7YAQ from Moorea
(OC-046), French Polynesia on 6-7
February. He will operate CW and
RTTY on 40-15 metres. QSL via LoTW. [TNX
DX World]
GD - John, GW4SKA will be active as
GD4SKA from the Isle of Man
(EU-116) on 15-23 March. He will
operate RTTY and some some PSK on
80-10 metres. During the BARTG HF RTTY
Contest (19-20 March) he
and bureau cards) and logsearch on
Club Log. [TNX M0OXO]
GM - Jim, MM0BQI will be active as MM0BQI/p
from Tanera Mor (EU-092)
from 29 July to 5 August. He will
participate in the IOTA Contest
as GM1J. QSL both callsigns via
MM0BQI, direct or bureau. [TNX
HC - Rick, NE8Z will be active again from
Ecuador from 16 January to 6
February. He will operate CW, SSB and
RTTY on 40-6 metres as HC1MD
from Tumbaco (Pichincha Province) and
as HC1MD/HC2 from the Capay
lighthouse in Ballenita (Santa Elena
Province). QSL via K8LJG
(direct) and LoTW. [TNX QRZ DX]
HK0_sa - A team from Poland (SP2EBG, SP3CYY,
SP3GEM, SP6IXF, SP9FOW, SP9PT,
SP9RCL and SQ2OFS) will be active as
5J0P from San Andres Island
(NA-033) on 6-21 March. They will
operate CW, SSB and RTTY on
160-6 metres with four stations. QSL
via Club Logs OQRS (for
direct and bureau cards); traditional
cards should be sent to
SP6IXF (direct or bureau). The logs will
be uploaded to LoTW
"within 6-7 months". Complete details
on the Dxedition can be
will be active as J64SLI on 20-26 February
to celebrate the
anniversary of the indipendence of St.
Lucia. The group will be
camping out for the weekend and will
be operating for the
remainder of the week from various
locations. QSL via WB5Q.
J7 - Stig, SM3PHM will be active holiday
style as J79M from Dominica
(NA-101) from 17 January to 3 February.
He will operate CW only.
QSL via LoTW or via bureau to SM3PHM. [TNX
NG3K]
JA - Taka, JA8COE will be active as JA8COE/6
from Onna, Danjo Islands
(AS-056) on 8-9 April. QSL via home
call, direct or bureau, and
PY - The Curva do Rio Group will be active
as PR2DX from As Ilhas
(SA-071) on 22-25 January. They plan to
be QRV on 80-10 metres
with two stations. QSL via operator's
instructions. Plans for 2016
are to go and operate from a few other
islands along the Sao Paulo
State coast, namely Sao Sebastiao
(SA-028), Gatos (SA-071),
Comprida (SA-024), and possibly also Arvoredos
(SA-071), Vitoria
(SA-028) and Couves (SA-071). [TNX The
Daily DX]
PY - Orlando, PT2OP will be active as PS5M
from Ilha do Mel (SA-047) on
18-21 February, including participation
in the 8th South American
Lighthouses Weekend. QSL via PT2OP,
direct (preferred) or bureau.
[TNX PS7AB]
SV - The Amateur Radio Team of Aegina Island
(EU-075) will be active as
SX8KAP from 22 January to 5 February
to commemorate the
Inauguration day of Ioannis Antonios
Kapodistrias, the first head
of state of independent Greece. QSL via
SV8UM, direct or bureau,
and LoTW.
V6 - Sho, JA7HMZ will be active again as
V63DX from Pohnpei (OC-010),
Micronesia on 19-24 February. He will
participate in the ARRL DX
CW Contest as V6A. Before and after the
contest he will be looking
for Europe on 160 metres. QSLs via
JA7HMZ (direct). [TNX NG3K]
VK - Andrew, VK4NM and Peter, VK4LAT will be
active as VK4NM/p from
Fraser Island (OC-142) from 29 January
to 1 February. QSL via
W - Members of the Mid-Florida DX
Association (www.w4fdx.com)
will be
active as W4FDX from Garden Key
(NA-079), in the Dry Tortugas
National Park, on 29-31 January.
Multiple stations will be on the
air, including one to be QRV on 6
metres for the ARRL VHF Contest.
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Edited by I1JQJ &
IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile
I2VGW
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DXCC NEWS ---> Sharon Taratula, Awards
Manager at the ARRL Radiosport
Department, reports that 3B7FA (2015 operation),
D2FJZ (2012 and 2015
operations) and TN/CT1FJZ (2015 operation) have
been approved for DXCC
credit.
GB7NHR ---> Ken, G3OCA reports that the new
Telnet address for GB7NHR, the
DX Cluster run by the Nunsfield House
Amateur Radio Group, is
K5P ---> Operations from Palmyra started just
after 8 UTC on 12 January.
The logs are regularly uploaded to Club Log; the
latest update (at 13:00
UTC on 15 January) showed 19,293 QSOs (47.3%
with North America, 37.3% with
Asia, 15,4% with the rest of the world) with
6,757 unique callsigns. Poor
propagation and difficult path account for the
current meagre 6,1 % with
Europe.
QSL 9H3XI ---> Mack, JJ2QXI was active from
Malta on 28-31 December. QSL
via home call, bureau preferred (OQRS on Club
Log). [TNX JJ2QXI]
VK0EK NEWSLETTER ---> The eighth issue (Vol. 2,
No. 1) of the the Heard
Island Expedition Newsletter, published on 14 January,
contains "amazing
images of Heard Island" that "stimulate
research plans". Go to
Newsletter for free (there is also a link to
download back issues).
VP8STI ---> The team is active as VP8IDX/mm from
the "Braveheart". After
stopping at King Edward Point (South Georgia)
for safety and biodiversity
briefing, they resumed their voyage and expect
to arrive to Thule Island
(South Sandwich Islands) on 17 January.
Follow their progress at
WORLDWIDE DXPEDITION ---> Tom, KC0W will be
going on a DXpedition tour to
American Samoa (KH8), Samoa (5W), Tokelau
(ZK3), Solomon Islands (H4),
Temotu Province (H40) and Bangladesh (S2); Nepal
(9N) and Bhutan (A5) to be
decided once in S2. "Several of the licenses
will be issued upon arrival",
he says. The tour will start sometime this
summer, and "there will be no
time frame from each entity. The determining
factor will be when the
pileups die down it's time to pack everything up
& move along. Could be 3
weeks or it could be 3 months at each QTH". He
will operate CW only, with
an emphasis on 160, 80 and 40 metres. [TNX DX
World]
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3XY5M,
4L4C, 4U1WRC, 5E2E, 5U5U,
5Z4HW, 6V1A, 6Y5WJ, 7X4AN, 9X0NH, A25LC,
AP2NK, CR3OO, CX/N3BNA, D4D,
E51MKW, FY/F5UII, FY5FY, HH2/N3BNA,
J3/KO8SCA, JA1UNS/1 (AS-043),
JG8NQJ/JD1, JW/OX5M, KP2Q, N5M (NA-120), OJ0DX,
PJ4X, PJ6/G3TXF, PY0F/AA4NC,
PZ5W, RT9K/0 (AS-203), SU90IARU, SU9IG,
SV2ASP/A, T2GC, TA0/RM0F (AS-201),
TM6NB (EU-105), TX3X (OC-176), TX90IARU
(OC-032), TZ4AM, UE73DI (AS-005),
UK8OCR, V73D, VK4AAC/5 (OC-139), VK5MAV/8
(OC-229), VK9WA (OC-007), XX9TIH,
YB4IR/3 (OC-217), YB8RW/5 (OC-108), YB8RW/p
(OC-272), YJ8RN/p (OC-110), YP0H
(EU-191), YW5T (SA-059), Z21MG, ZA/YT5Z,
ZA/YT7DQ, ZA/YU7CM, ZA3HA,ZD7W.
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