Bonsoir Ci-dessous les dernières nouvelles du trafic ! Bons amusements et 73 de Raymond. 25 October 2014 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1225 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 4O - Ark, UA4CC is active as 4O7CC from Montenegro until 1 November, CQ WW DX SSB Contest included. He operates CW, SSB and RTTY on 80-6 metres. QSL via UA4CC direct or bureau, and LoTW; logsearch on Club Log. [TNX UA4CC] 5R - Once again Eric, F6ICX will be active as 5R8IC from Sainte-Marie Island (AF-090) from 3 November to 12 December. He will operate mainly CW, with some RTTY, BPSK and SSB on 40-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau, and LoTW. Logsearch and OQRS on Club Log. 9M2 - The 9M2SE Team (http://9m2se.blogspot.com) will be active from Pangkor Island (AS-072) on 7-9 November. They will operate CW and SSB on 40-10 metres with two stations. QSL direct to 9M2RDX. [TNX 9M2PJU] 9N - Toshi, JA8BMK will be active again as 9N7BM from Kathmandu, Nepal between 31 October and 20 November. He will focus on 160 and 80 metres. QSL via JA8BMK. [TNX DX World] EI - Alex, SQ9UM and Peter, SQ9DIQ are active as EI/SQ9UM and EI/SQ9DIE from Ireland until 27 October. QSL via home calls. They will participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as EI1Y with the Papa Lima DX-Group. EP - "Nearly three years of negotiations and a reconnaissance trip by Patrick ON4HIL to Tehran finally resulted in obtaining a legal license to operate with a team of ten people for fourteens days", DX-World.net reports. The team, including operators from Belgium, The Netherlands and Greece, will be active as EP6T (requested callsign) from Kish Island (AS-166), Iran around the last two weeks of January 2015. They plan to have four or five stations QRV 24/7 on 160-10 metres CW, SSB and RTTY. Further information is expected in due course. FG - Special callsign TO10RR will be in use from Guadeloupe (NA-102) on 2-16 November for the 10th Route du Rhum, the 3000-mile single-handed transatlantic yacht race between St-Malo (France) and Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe). QSL via FG8NY, direct only. FO/A - Wayne, KK6BT will be active as TX5W from Raivavae (OC-114), Austral Islands on 5-11 January 2015. He will operate SSB only on 40-10 metres "with a primary objective to work as many amateurs in Central and Northern Europe as possible". Further information is expected in due course. [TNX KK6BT] I - "Strong winds destroyed almost all antennas at the IO9Y Contest Team station on Lampedusa", Dan S50U reported on 23 October. The Multi-Multi participation in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest has been cancelled, and there will be "only sporadic operation" by low power stations signing IG9/homecall. The team will return home when the ferry service is resumed. I - IQ8HP will be active on all bands and modes on 1-9 November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ARI Vibo Valentia. QSL via IW8PQ, direct or bureau. [TNX IZ8IYX] I - Special event station IY1EY will be active from 1 November to 31 December from Loano (www.ariloano.it) to commemorate the experiments conducted by Gugliemo Marconi from his yacht 'Elettra' in the Ligurian Sea between 1919 and 1936. Expect activity on all bands CW and SSB. QSL via IK1QBT. [TNX IK1QBT] J6 - Gerd, DL7VOG (www.dl7vog.de) will be active as J6/DL7VOG from St. Lucia (NA-108) from 8 November to 5 December, including entries in the WAE DX RTTY (8-9 November) and CQ WW DX CW contests. He will be QRV on 160-6 metres mainly CW and RTTY. QSL via home call, bureau or direct (OQRS for both options on Club Log). [TNX DL7VOG] JA - JS6ROO and JI3DST will be active on 40-6 metres as JS6ROO/5 (all modes) JI3DST/5 (CW and SSB) and JS6RRR/5 (RTTY and FM) from Shodo Island (AS-200) on 1-3 November. QSL via home calls, bureau preferred; OQRS on Club Log. [TNX JI3DST] KH8 - Mike, N9NS and several other operators will be active as W1AW/KH8 from American Samoa on 2-14 November for the ARRL Centennial QSO Party. They plan to be active on 160-10 metres from two locations on Tutuila Island (OC-045). [TNX The Daily DX] KP1 - On 22 October the KP1-5 Project [425DXN 1218] reported that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has notified that they will be the team to activate Navassa Island (NA-098) in January 2015. The DXpedition will be a maximum of fourteen days; exact dates will be determined by USFWS mission requirements and weather windows. A large group of experienced operators (AA7JV, HA7RY, K0IR, K4UEE, K5AC, K9CT, N2TU, N4GRN, NA5U, NM1Y, VE7CT, W0GJ, W6IZT and WB9Z) will be active as K1N. "For safety reasons and in order to maximize our time on the island and on the air", they say, "a helicopter operation is planned. Navassa is over 100 miles (160 km) from the nearest helicopter staging point and as many as ten round trips will be required at the beginning and end of the operation. Obviously, this means that there will be a significant cost for activating this #1 ranked DXCC Entity. The team has committed to fund 50% of the total costs. We are hopeful the DX community at large will fund the remainder". Check http://kp1.us/ for more details, updates and information on how you may financially support this DXpedition. [TNX W0GJ] OE - Celebrating United Nations Day, members of the Vienna International Amateur Radio Club (4U1VIC) will be active as 4U2U on 24-31 October. QSL via bureau or direct to 4U1VIC. OK - The Czech Radio Club will operate special event station OL90OK on 1-15 November to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first amateur radio operation within the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia). QSL via bureau and LoTW. SV - HA5OV, YT7DQ, YU7CM and YZ7ZZ will participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as SV8/HA5OV from Thassos Island (EU-174). Before and after the contest, until 29 October, they will be QRV as SV8/homecall. QSL via home calls. [TNX HA0HW] VK - To mark the 100th anniversary of the departure of the first convoy of ships carrying Australian and New Zealand troops (later known as ANZAC, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) to World War I, the Southern Electronics Group (VK6SR) will be active on 160-10 metres as VI6ANZAC from Albany, Western Australia for 24 hours starting on 16 UTC on 31 October. VK9L - The VK9DLX team on Lord Howe [425DXN 1220, www.lordhowe2014.org] will participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest as VK9LM. This will be a Multi-Multi entry on all six contest bands. "Especially on the low bands it may be possible that we will not always find a running frequency (especially when we have to compete against European stations)", they say, so "don't be shy to contact us to ask for a QSY frequency on 160m, 80m or 40m". There will be no CW operation on the contest bands during the contest, and there will be no upload to Club Log for the contest log as long as the official log checking takes place. VK0M - DX-World.net reports that "unfortunately, due to health issues", Rod VK6MH "has had to cancel his planned trip to Macquarie Island". He was expected to be QRV as VK0MH until April 2015 [425DXN 1221]. YV - Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Grupo DX Caracas will be active as YW6X from the Piritu Islands (SA-090) on 7-9 November. QSL to W4SO (mail drop). CQ WW DX SSB CONTEST ---> The following stations have announced their participation in this year's event (25-25 October): ZONE CALL CATEGORY COUNTRY QSL VIA -------------------------------------------------------------- 02 VE2IM SOAB HP Canada VE3DZ 04 VC3V SO Canada VE7VR 05 VP9I SOAB LP Bermuda WW3S 07 HO1C M/? Panama HP1CQ 07 HR2WW SOAB LP Honduras KD4POJ 07 TI5M M/S Costa Rica TI2KAC 07 YN5Z SOAB HP Nicaragua K7ZO/LoTW 07 YS1/NP3J SOSB 10m LP El Salvador EA5GL 07 YS1YS SO El Salvador YS1GMV 08 6Y4K MO Jamaica VE3NE/LoTW 08 CO2IR SOSB 20m QRP Cuba CO2IR 08 HI3CC SOSB 160m LP Dominican Republic W2CCW 08 HI3EPR SOSB 20m LP Dominican Republic LoTW 08 J3A Grenada WA1S/LoTW 08 J79L SOSB Dominica SP9FIH 08 J79X SOSB Dominica SP9FIH 08 KH2RU/KP4 SOAB Puerto Rico NP3O 08 KP2M M/M Virgin Isls AI4U 08 NP2P SOAB Virgin Isls LoTW 08 NP4Z M/2 Puerto Rico N4AO 08 PJ7/K5WE SO Sint Maarten K5WE 08 T42R M/S HP Cuba EA7FTR 08 T48K M/? Cuba DK1WI 08 TO5A SOAB Martinique LoTW/F5VHJ 08 V26B M/S Antigua KA2AEV 08 V47JA SOAB St. Kitts W5JON 08 VP5T M/? Caicos Isls WA3RHW/LoTW 08 WP3C SOSB 40m HP Puerto Rico W3HNK 09 9Y4D SOSB 15m LP Trinidad & Tobago 9Y4D/LoTW 09 FY5FY SOSB French Guiana FY5FY 09 FY5KE SOSB French Guiana LoTW 09 HK1NA M/M Colombia K6IPM 09 P40L M/2 Aruba WA3FRP 09 P40NW SO Aruba K9NW 09 P40S M/S Aruba K9QVB 09 P40W SOAB LP Aruba N2MM/LoTW 09 PJ2T M/? Curacao W3HNK/LoTW 09 PJ4S SOSB 10m QRP Bonaire DL1NX 09 PJ4X M/? Bonaire LoTW/W1MD 09 TO1A SOSB French Guiana LotW 09 TO2A SO French Guiana KU9C 10 HC0E M/2 Ecuador HC1JQ 10 OA4O SOAB HP Peru OA4O 11 PW2D M/? Brazil M0OXO 12 3G1B M/M Chile HA1AG 12 3G3W M/2 Chile XQ4CW 13 LT7H SOAB LP Argentina EA5GL 13 LU8YE M/2 Argentina IK2DUW 14 C37NL M/2 Andorra C37URA 14 CR6K M/S Portugal CT1CJJ 14 EA6/GM0EGI M/2 Balearic Isls 14 ED1R M/2 Spain EC1KR 14 EI1A SO Ireland PA3249/LoTW 14 EI1Y M/? Ireland EI5JQ/LoTW 14 GJ2A M/S Jersey LoTW 14 HB9H M/S Switzerland HB9CXZ 14 HB9OK M/S Switzerland HB9OCR 14 LX7I SO Luxembourg LX2A 14 MD2C SO Isle of Man MD0CCE 14 SI9AM M/? Sweden SM3TIR 14 SJ2W M/S Sweden SM2LIY/LoTW 15 3Z6O Poland SP6NVK/LotW 15 4O3A M/S Montenegro LoTW 15 4O7CC SO Montenegro UA4CC 15 9A1P M/S Croatia 9A2RD 15 E78T SOSB 15M Bosnia & Herzegovina E78T 15 II9K M/2 Sicily IT9HBT 15 IO4W SOSB 15M Italy LotW 15 IR5A M/S Italy IK5AFJ/LotW 15 LY4A M/2 Lithuania LY4A 15 LY7A M/M Lithuania LoTW 15 OH0JFP SOSB 10m Aland Isls OH0JFP 15 OH0YY SOAB Aland Isls OH2YY 15 OH0Z M/S Aland Isls W0MM 15 OH5Z M/S Finland LotW 15 OL4A M/2 Czech Republic OK1DSX 15 TK9R SOAB HP Corsica IK8UND 16 RM3F SOSB 15M Russia (EU) UA3DPX 16 UB7K M/M Russia (EU) UB7K 17 RU9CZD SOAB HP Russia (AS) RU9CZD/LoTW 19 RK0LWW M/S Russia (AS) RK0LWW 20 4X2M SOSB 80m HP Israel 4X4DZ 20 4X7R M/S Israel 20 J42T M/2 Greece LoTW 20 J43TR M/S Greece SV3DCX 20 P3F SOAB HP Cyprus M0URX 20 SV8/HA5OV M/S Greece HA5OV 20 SX9C M/S Crete LoTW 20 TC2BC SOAB LP Turkey DL7BC 20 TC7V SOAB HP Turkey M0OXO 21 4L0A SOAB HP Georgia EA7FTR/LotW 21 4L8A SOSB 20m Georgia K1BV/LoTW 21 9K2GS SOAB HP Kuwait EA5KB/LoTW 21 9K2HN M/? Kuwait 9K2HN/LoTW 21 A71EM SOAB Qatar EA7FTR 21 A73A M/2 Qatar A71A 24 B4L SOAB HP China BY4IIG 24 BH1IOT M/? China BH1IOT 24 BV2A M/S Taiwan BV2A 24 VR2S M/S Hong Kong VR2HKS 24 VR2XAN SOSB 15m HP Hong Kong VR2XAN 24 XX9R M/S Macao EB7DX 25 D70LW M/S Korea DS4NYE/LoTW 26 E2X M/S HP Thailand E20GMY 26 XW1IC SOAB HP Laos E21EIC 27 AH0BT M/? Northern Marianas 7L1FPU 27 AH0K M/2 Northern Marianas OH6GDX 27 AH2R M/S Guam JH7QXJ/LoTW 27 NH0DX SOAB LP Northern Marianas JL3RDC 27 NH2DX SOAB 15m HP Guam NH2DX 27 T88HZ SO Palau LoTW/TA1HZ 27 T88WJ SO Palau JS3LSQ 28 4W/K7CO Timor Leste K7CO 28 9M2SE M/S LP West Malaysia 9M2RDX 28 YB0NDT SOSB 40m HP Indonesia YB0NDT/LoTW 28 YC8ROP SOSB 15m LP Indonesia YC8ROP/LoTW 28 YE2C M/2 Indonesia LoTW 28 YF1AR/8 SOAB LP Indonesia N2OO 29 VK9XSP Christmas Island LoTW/SP6IXF 30 VK9LM M/M Lord Howe Island DJ2MX 31 KH6LC SOAB Hawaii LoTW 31 KH7CW M/S Hawaii K2WR 31 TX7G Marquesas Isls N7SMI 31 V73AX Marshall Isls eQSL 32 5W0EF SOSB 10m Samoa W8AEF 32 5W0QQ SOSB 20m Samoa N7CQQ 32 5W0XH SOSB 15m Samoa KD6XH 32 KH8B SOAB HP American Samoa LoTW 32 ZM1A M/? New Zealand LotW 33 CN2AA M/S Morocco UA2FM 33 CN2R M/S Morocco W7EJ 33 CQ3L SOSB 10m Madeira DJ6QT 33 CR3L SOSB 15m Madeira DJ6QT 33 EA8/RA1A SOSB 15m Canary Isls RN3RQ/LoTW 33 ED9K M/2 Ceuta & Melilla EA7LS 33 EF8S SOSB 80m Canary Isls OH2BYS 33 EF8U SOAB LP Canary Isls EA8URE 33 IG9R SOSB Italy (AF) IK8HCG 33 IH9YMC SOSB Italy (AF) eQSL 33 S0S Western Sahara EA2JG 36 ZD8R SOSB Ascension Island OH0XX 36 ZD8W SOSB Ascension Island W6NV 36 ZD8X SOSB Ascension Island OH2KI 39 3B8HA SO Mauritius Island LoTW 39 5R8C Madagascar IK2VUC 39 FR/F4FET SO Reunion F4FET 39 TO0X SOSB HP Mayotte LoTW 40 JW5E M/? Svalbard JW5E Do not forget to give a look at the Announced Operations listing maintained by Bill, NG3K at www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2014.html - good contest to you all! =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The September 2014 issue is now available for download at www.425dxn.org/monthly/index.html. [TNX IZ3EBA] CQ CONTESTS POLICY ---> On 17 October CQ announced that it would no longer accept logs for any contest from Crimean stations using Russian-issued callsigns. However, "in response to requests from a large number of contesters around the world", on 21 October CQ reconsidered its decision. "Since the country list for CQ contests is based on a combination of the Worked All Europe (WAE) and ARRL DXCC lists, and the ARRL has already adopted a policy regarding Crimean stations in its award and contest programs, we will amend our policy to be consistent with the ARRL's DXCC policy. Therefore, the listings of Crimean stations submitting logs for CQ contests will be based on the call sign under which they have operated. If they used Russian-issued calls in the contest, they will be listed under Russia; if they used Ukrainian-issued calls in the contest, they will be listed under Ukraine. This change reflects not only the desire of many contesters around the world, but also of a large majority of members of the CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee". DXCC NEWS ---> ZS8A (Marion Island 2013-14) has been approved for DXCC credit. If you have had a card rejected in a recent application, please contact the ARRL DXCC Desk (dxccadmin[@]arrl.org) to be placed on the list for an update to your record. [TNX ARRL] IOTA NEWS: IOTA AND CRIMEA ---> IOTA Management has decided that, given the unresolved political situation in Crimea, it has no course open to it except, for a period initially of one year, to freeze certain actions connected with Crimea that it would normally take in the routine management of the IOTA programme. This means that it will not accept or issue credit for EU-180 operations taking place after 17 March 2014 that use a non-Ukrainian callsign, or accede to any requests from programme participants for update of their records or changes of callsign and/or checkpoint that involve a change of DXCC entity. The Committee will review the situation after one year in the light of developments. IOTA Management regrets taking this action but it accords with practice adopted elsewhere. [TNX G3KMA] IOTA NEWS: NEW GROUP NUMBERS CONFIRMED ---> Following the receipt of validation material several new IOTA group numbers have been confirmed with the result that credits can be given for the operations in brackets: AS-200 (several JA5 stations), AS-201 (TA0/DF8DX), EU-191 (YP0F), NA-247 (PJ7PK) and OC-294 (VK6ISL). [TNX G3KMA] IOTA NEWS: WITHDRAWAL OF AN-014 ---> Berkner Island, the sole qualifying island of AN-014, has been on the IOTA list since the very start of the IOTA Programme. It was regularly shown on maps as a large island, albeit covered with a layer of very thick ice, separating the Ronne Ice Shelf from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Some contacts were made by LU1ZX from the old General Belgrano III Base on the island more than 30 years ago - no more than a handful are credited on the IOTA database. The remote possibility of a second operation that might be mounted at huge expense has caused IOTA Management to review the retention of Berkner Island on the list. In recent years there have been authentic reports from the scientific community that Berkner Island is an ice-rise and that no part of the land-mass under it would be above water if there were no ice. This seems to have gathered credence with map-makers as the considered view of the scientific community. Faced with information that confirms that the ice-rise does not meet IOTA's qualification rules as a valid island IOTA Management have taken the decision to withdraw AN-014 from the IOTA list with immediate effect before any further operation takes place. The few existing credits will be withdrawn no later than 1 January 2015. [TNX G3KMA] THE P5/K6VVA QUEST ---> "In just a few months will begin Year #9 of my quest for approval to operate from P5", Rick K6VVA says. "There have been many, MANY different proposals made to the D.P.R.K. Authorities during the past 8 Years. Recently, my primary Advocate and Envoy to P5 has left the NGO to a new position with a different organization not involved with Humanitarian work in the D.P.R.K. I am pursuing alternative new pathways to success in this project to be able to fulfill the intended Humanitarian goal, and the objective to provide an equal opportunity for all DXCC Program participants in need of ONE CW QSO credit with North Korea". Read the entire latest update (20 October) at www.k6vva.com/p5 [TNX K6VVA] W1AW WAS ---> Look for ARRL Centennial stations W1AW/7 from Wyoming and W1AW/1 from Massachusetts to be on the air starting at 00.00 UTC on 29 October until 23.59 UTC on 4 November. In addition, W1AW/KP2 also will be active from the US Virgin Islands. Complete information on the ARRL Centennial QSO Party can be found at www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B9EME, 3D2RA, 3D2RA/p, 3D2TR, 3W4DK (AS-132), 4J3DJ, 5E7R, 5H1NE, 9M2MI, 9Y4/AI5P, A25TQ, A35CO, A35TR, CE0Z/UA4WHX (SA-005) , CE8/UA4WHX, CE9/UA4WHX, D44TS, DU7ET, EX9T, EY8/UA4WHX, FM5AN, HB0/ON4WRC, HK0/UA4WHX (NA-049), J3/AI5P, J79WTA, JA6TBE/5 (OC-200), JT1AA, JW9JKA,K4KGG/VO1 (NA-198), PY0F/UA4WHX, PY5ARP (SA-047), PZ5VB, RI44ANT, S01WS, S21ZBC, UK8IF, UN6GDX, VK5CE/8 (OC-173), VY0/RK0BWW/p (NA-008, NA-009 and NA-043), WP2/WQ6X, YB4IR/5 (OC-106), YB4IR/8 (OC-222), YB8RW/p (OC-209), YC9WIC, YF1AR/6 (OC-270), YW5D,ZA/ON4ANN, ZA/ON4CCV, ZA/ON6NB. **************************************************************************** 425 DX NEWS HOME PAGE: http://www.425dxn.org 425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE: http://www.425dxn.org/monthly **************************************************************************** 425 DX News is a free of charge weekly bulletin edited by Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ and Valeria Pregliasco, IK1ADH Its contents may be used, reproduced and distributed in part or full provided that "425 DX News" or "425DXN" receive proper credit Contributors are invited to send their DX information to Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ (425dxn@alice.it) The deadline is 12 UTC on Fridays **************************************************************************** Direttore Responsabile Gabriele Villa, I2VGW Giornalista Professionista - Tessera n. 071675 Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti Roma, Italia **************************************************************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "425eng" group. 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