425 DX News #1418
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:10 am
7 July 2018 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1418 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW A2 - Andre, NJ0F will be active again as A25A from Botswana on 13-20 July. He will operate SSB, CW, RTTY, FT8 on 80-10 metres. QSL direct to NJ0F. [TNX DX World] EI - Olivier, ON4EI will be active again as EI8GQB from Fethard, Ireland (EU-115) on 8-18 July using an hybrid wind-solar power system from his caravan. He will participate in the IARU HF World Championship as EI7T (the Tipperary Radio Club's special call, as he cannot use EI1A any longer). QSL EI8GQB via LoTW or via PA3249 (direct or bureau), QSL EI7T via LoTW. See www.qrz.com/db/EI8GQB. F - Members of the Radio Club des collines de l'Artois will use special callsign TM100ARM on 12-16 July in memory of the French Army's Moroccan Division which fought in World War I, and again on 9-12 November to mark Armistice Day. QSL direct to F5IQG. I - Giuseppe, IK5WWA will be active as IB0P from Ponza Island (EU-045) on 15-26 July. He will operate SSB and FT8 on 80-6 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX IK5WWA] KH9 - Philip, N7NVK is going back to Wake Island [425DXN 1403] on 6 July. He will be QRV in his spare time, typically between 7 and 9 UTC (weekdays). Usually he operates FT8 and some SSB on 20 and 40m. Updates will be posted to https://www.qrz.com/db/KH9/N7NVK. [TNX The Daily DX] OZ - Carsten, OZ4CG from Bornholm Island (EU-030) is active again as OZ4SOP for the Sea Of Peace Award until 31 July. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW and eQSL. OZ - Once again OZ1HQ will be the Experimenterende Danske Radioamatorer (EDR) HQ station for the IARU HF World Championship (14-15 July). QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, eQSL, or via OZ1ACB. Information on the new "Danish Headquarters Award" for working OZ1HQ can be found at http://www.oz1hq.dk/. SM - Eric, SM1TDE is active as SJ1SOP from Gotland Island (EU-020) for the Sea Of Peace Award until 31 July. QSL via home call, LoTW and eQSL; logsearch on Club Log. UA9 - R0LS, RM0L, RW0LD and RW0LZ will be active as R0LS/p from Rechnoy Island (AS-066) on 7 July, for some 20 hours starting around 4 UTC. They will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 40, 20 and 17 metres. QSL via R0LS, direct or bureau. [TNX qrz.ru] VE - Pierre, VE3KTB will be active again as VY0ERC on 8-21 July. This is the Eureka Amateur Radio Club station located in the environs of the weather station on Ellesmere Island (NA-008). QSL via M0OXO's OQRS. [TNX M0OXO] VE - Bruce, KD6WW Mike, K9AJ will be active as KD6WW/VY0 and K9AJ/VY0 from Fafarad Island (NA-207) on 19-23 July. The last operation from this rare IOTA Group was 18 years ago. They will be QRV with two stations on 40-17 metres. CW will be their primary mode, but they also plan some SSB "and FT8 is a possibility". QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via home calls (direct or bureau). [TNX K9AK] VK - David, VK3DRH will be active as VK3DRH/4 from Lizard Island (OC-187) on 5-11 July. He will operate QRP SSB on 40, 20 and 15 metres during his local evenings, from around 11 UTC. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW or direct to home call. [TNX DX World] W - NJ4Y, N4ESS and KE4AL will be active as K4R from Garden Key, Dry Tortugas (NA-079) on 6-8 July. The "main purpose for the trip is to activate EL84, one of the maidenhead grids with the least land area of any in the CONUS, on satellites and 6m". They will operate on the HF bands "as time, band conditions, and battery power allow". QSL via LOTW, or direct to NJ4Y. See http://k4r2018.com/ for more information; updates will be posted to their public Twitter account (https://twitter.com/K4R_EL84). ZF - Mike, NA6MB and Gayle, K6GO will be active as ZF2NA and ZF2GO respectively from the Cayman Islands (NA-016) on 11-22 July. QSLs via LoTW, or home calls. During the IARU HF World Championship and the North American QSO Party RTTY (21-22 July) they will use ZF1A (QSL LoTW or K6AM). [TNX The Daily DX] =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW Access to the main functions of www.425dxn.org is provided by the 425DXN App for Android. It is available on Google Play - free of charge, no ads. Enjoy! 3Y0I ---> "We haven't been updating our website recently, but we've been focused on securing crucial details of arrangements of our project", the 3Y0I (Bouvet Island) Team reported on 5 July. Read their "When no news means good news" post on https://bouvetoya.org/blog/. KH1/KH7Z ---> The team on Baker Island went QRT on 5 July at 12 UTC and is now underway, enroute to Fiji. Their voyage should take approximately six days. According to Club Log's statistics, as of 21:30 UTC on 4 July they had made 64,434 QSOs with 17,308 unique callsigns. The final log will be posted as soon as possible. QSL via Club Log's OQRS (direct or bureau), or direct to K4TSJ, P.O. Box 333, Bethlehem, GA 30620, USA. The Dateline DX Associa- tion "has a policy of uploading all pre-QRV donor's QSOs to LoTW when we return from the DXpedition and are confident the logs are correct. We expect this to be about 10 days after we QRT. For all others, the logs will be posted 3-6 months after the conclusion of the DXpedition". QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards on Les Nouvelles DX's website has been updated. Sixteen different galleries include 15,908 cards for the ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities (2008-17), the 62 deleted DXCC Entities, obsolete prefixes, stations from Maghreb from 1945 to 1962, Allied Forces stations in Germany (1945-70), special stations commemorating ITU and IARU, stations using the United Nations prefix (4U), Antarctic bases and TAAF (Terres Australes and Antarctiques Francaises), the various French DXCC island Entities in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas (from 1945 to 1970), pre-1945 countries, French Departments and CONUS, plus a gallery for cards not accepted by DXCC. Your participation is encouraged: http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/galerieqsl.php. [TNX F6AJA]. WRTC 2018 & VOACAP ---> Jari, OH6BG has prepared a starter set of propagation tools and analysis for next weekend's World Radiosport Team Championship: http://voacap.com/wrtc2018/. "It will give you valuable insights into making propagation predictions in general, and a set of pre- calculated point-to-point, band-by-band prediction tables, together with an extensive set of coverage area maps. All predictions are via Short Path. If you wish to make more detailed predictions, or look for any Long Path openings, please visit http://voacap.com/hf using the input values on the WRTC 2018 page". + SILENT KEY + DXpeditioner extraordinaire Erik A. Sjoelund, SM0AGD passed away on 4 July. Born in 1934 and inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame in 1981, his DX activity spanned 30 years (see https://www.qrz.com/db/sm0agd). Highlights of his career include the 1974-76 operations from Serrana Bank (HK0AB) and Bajo Nuevo (HK0AA), several operations from Africa (notably Equatorial Guinea, Annobon, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome, Lesotho, Botswana, Rwanda, Swaziland and Zaire - today's Democratic Republic of the Congo), the unforgettable 1982 Transpacific DXpedition (3D2DX, 5W1EC, C21NI, FW0AG, SM0AGD/KH1, SM0AGD/KH8, T2AGD, T30CB, T31AE, T32AJ, ZK1AF from the North Cook Islands and ZM7AG from Tokelau), the 1997 expedition to Kure and Miday (K7K and K4M), and the 1999 "Double Trouble DXpedition" to Central Kiribati and Tokelau (T31T/T31K and ZK3DX/ZK3CW). =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL ROUTES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3Z0BLY SP2PMW FR5FC EA7FTR PD18VOR PD5MVH 4U1WB KK4HD FS4WBS IZ1MHY PF2018FRA PA0MBD 5Q6D OE9KFV GB0GKA G3ZRJ PJ2ND K8ND 5Q9F OE9KFV GB0GKB G4HLN PJ4NX M0URX 7V5ID 7X4CZ GB0HMG G6UT R18BEL RO5O 7X0AD EA5KB GB13COL G0VLF R18MEX R6DG 7X2VFK 7X2DD GB2MOF GM4UYZ R25RFF RZ3EC 7X3WPL 7X3DL H44MS DL2GAC R25RLHA RZ3EC 8Q7DT SM0UDH HC2AO RC5A R25RRA RZ3EC 9H3FR DJ0BFS HG60KCI HA8KCI R25RRC RZ3EC 9J2BO G3TEV II4COU IQ4FE S590RTVS S50E 9M50IARU 9M4COK II9IQM 9A5URI SD7V DL2VFR A65DR N4GNR J28PJ F1TMY SJ1SOP SM1TDE AN1WHC EC1DD J42OSE SZ2T SJ7SOP SM7VRZ BV30R BM2JCC J48GEO SZ8LSV SN170WL SP3ZAT C31CT EA3QS JW7QIA LA7QIA SN85LOT SP1PMY C91CCY K3IRV KH6/W6AVY JI1AVY SX12ASTRO SZ1A CP6CL W3HNK KL7SB NI5DX T88HR JH1MLO DL60SOP DL4SVA LX/OO9O ON7SS T88TJ JR1FKR E723ESR E75MM LY765KM LY3X TM16PO F5DRD EA5IQX DK1RU LY85DG LY5O TM2CF F4KIW EF0F EA4URE LY85DS LY2NZ TM40MA F5KEQ EF8U EA8URL LZ25RRC RZ3EC TM5R F5KAY EF9R EA5KB LZ380PM LZ1KCP TM65EU F4ELK EH3MG EA3ZK OD5ZZ NI5DX TM88FU F8KHP EI0CAR EI4JR OE125FFS OE3TWA TM95KOB F5KOB EI0DXG M0OXO OE3LFLB OE3XHA V31MA M0OXO EI100MCV EI6AL OH0Z W0MM V47JA W5JON EL2EF NR6M OJ0Y M0SDV XL75A VE7JH EM0KHNO UT4UMZ OV18FWC SP2UUU YP7BARDF YO7KFX EV26L EU4AC OX3LX OZ0J YU85AOP YU7AOP FM5BH W3HNK OZ4SOP OZ4CG Z68M Z32ZM FP/KV1J KV1J P29RR ZL1BQD ZF2RM K3TRM 4K6/DL7ZM David J. 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