Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 472
July 31, 2000

The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 472
BID: $OPDX.472
July 31, 2000
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1

Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, ARRL, K1ZZ, WB2YQH/WB2RAJ & THE 59(9) DX Report, W3UR & The Daily DX, W4MPY, N6RT, W7WX, K8EP, K8IW, K8YSE, WB8BGY, CT1ETE, DJ5AV & DX News Letter, DJ5JH, EA3EJI, EA5XX, EU1SA, F6AJA & Les Nouvelles DX, HL0C, IK7JWX, JM1LJS, LU7BQ, SP2DX, SP2UKB, TA3J, UR7GG and Ciprian Sufitchi for the following DX information.

EDITOR'S SPECIAL NOTE (by KB8NW): There will "NOT" be an OPDX bulletin for August 14th and 21st. I know, you heard this before, but it is true this time. My wife (chief proof-reader) and I will be going to Las Vegas (without the young adults) for our 25th wedding anniversary (How did she put up with me all these years?) and to visit my Dad. I can really use the break! However, PLEASE continue to send your DX info to me.

3DA0, SWAZILAND. "The 59(9) DX Report" states to look for Norbert, ZS6ANL, to be active August 21-24th as 3DA0/ZS6ANL. His activity will be mostly CW. QSL to: N. Taferner, P.O. Box 6282, Homestead 1412, Rep. of South Africa.

4U1UN, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS. Fritz, DL4TT, will be in New York from now through August 27th and plans to operate from the club station 4U1UN. Operations will be mainly on CW. QSL ONLY via 4U1UN, NOT via DL4TT.

4X & E4, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE. Hide, JM1LJS/T88LJ, informs OPDX that he will be active between August 6-13th as 4X/JM1LJS and E4/JM1LJS. Activity will be on 40/30/15/10/6 meters. Sightseeing is his main goal on this trip. QSL Manger for both 4X/JM1LJS and E4/JM1LJS are via JL2XUN.

7Q, MALAWI. The "DX News Letter" reports that Harry, 7Q7HB, will be active again during the next five months. He was spotted this past weekend on 21343 kHz around 1532z. It was also mentioned that he will do the first time ever QSOs on SSTV from Malawi. QSL direct only to the CBA of G0IAS.

DXCC NEWS............ As of July 16th, there were 801 applications and 80,217 cards out- standing. The DXCC Desk was processing mail received the third week of May. The DXCC Desk had processed 1213 Millennium DXCC Awards processed as of July 16th.

During the second meeting of the year by the ARRL Board of Directors on July 21-22st, the following topics were announced and discussed as per the minutes by David, K1ZZ and a ARRL Bulletin:

• The 12 and 17 meter DXCC's will be added in January 2001, thus rounding out the program.
• An update on the "Electronic QSLing Project" (EQSL) will proceed with written specifications for an automated system incorporating extensive electronic security measures.
• DXCC Card Checking Program will be re-evaluated at the next Board meeting.
• The Membership Services Manager was tasked with studying the possibilities for managing a QRP DXCC.
• The MSC will be developing a set of goals and criteria to send to the Contest Advisory Committee for a study of the Club Contesting program.
• A new DXAC Chairman will be appointed soon to replace Wayne Mills, N7NG, who joined ARRL staff as the Membership Services Manager.
• The ARRL Board also okayed the expenditure of up to $1,025,000 to develop a new information technology platform for ARRL Headquarters. The new computer software and hardware not only will enhance the ARRL's e-commerce capabilities but update membership information and accounting systems. It well also eventually enable such services as electronic QSLing, member Web access to DXCC records, nearly real-time updates of DXCC listings, and expanded, detailed contest results.
• The Board also agreed to put the League's muscle behind an inter- national effort to secure a 300-kHz exclusive as signment for Amateur Radio in the vicinity of 7 MHz. The 40-meter realignment issue now is on the agenda for World Radiocommunication Conference 2003.

The minutes of the ARRL Board of Directors July meeting are available on the ARRL Web site at: http://www.arrl.org/announce/board-0007/

FM, MARTINIQUE (Change of plans). The departure for Gerard, F2JD, is delayed for one month. He will leave early in September for Martinique for 4 months. Please refer to OPDX.470.

FR/T, TROMELIN ISLAND. Just a quick reminder that the Lyon DX Group is expected to be on the air by August 1st. Operators Gil/F5NOD, Larry/F5PYI, Eric/F5PXT and Erwann/F6JJX are expected to sign FR/F6KDF/T until August 16th. Activity will be on 160-6 meters on CW, SSB and RTTY. Again, suggested frequencies are as follows:

• CW - 1823.5, 3504, 7004, 10104, 14020, 18074, 21020, 24894, 28020
• SSB - 3790, 7065, 14195, 18145, 21295, 24945, 28495, 50110
• RTTY - 14080, 21080, 28080 kHz

QSL via F6KDF, Radio Club de la Gendarmerie, 292 route de Genas, 69677 Bron Cedex, FRANCE. For more information, check out their Web site at: http://perso.easynet.fr/~f6jjx/menu.htm

HR, HONDURAS. A group from Spain will be active from here September 17-25th, transmitting on all HF bands, SSB, CW and RTTY operation, while installing 9 new digipeaters. This will be another DXpedition of the URE (Union de Radioaficionados de Espanoles) "RADIOSOLIDARIDAD" group. There will be 7 operators going to HR-land: Angel/EA1QF, Chema/ EB1ADG, Pere/EA3CUU, Paco/EA4BT, Tony/EA5RM, Julio/EA5XX and Belinda/ EA8NN (YL). They will operate from Tegucigalpa 24 hours day, while some of the operators will be travelling throughout the country to install the new digipeaters for packet-radio. TNCs, PCs, tranceivers, coaxial, antennas, etc, will be carried from Spain and give to the HR radio amateurs in Tegucigalpa who will be in charge to keep it working in the future. No callsigns were mentioned in the press release. The QSLs will be confirmed via EA4URE, URE's Headquarter, P.O. Box 220, Madrid 28080, Spain.

HU4, EL SALVADOR. A group of Spanish operators will be active September 17-25th as HU4U. The team will operate as time permits as they will be there to install a communications network. Look for them on all bands CW/SSB/RTTY. QSL via EA4URE.

IOTA NEWS..............

• AS-085. Stro, a representative of "Hanyang University Wave Research Club" (HL0C), informs OPDX that a group will go to So-An Island (under Wan Island to the southwest of Korea) near Mokpo (Cholla South Province of South Korea between August 3rd and 9th. They will be active as HL0C/4 during their DXpedition on 40/20/15 meters CW/SSB. So-An Island also has a KDN (Korea District Number) which is H30. QSL via: Hanyang University Wave Research Club, CPO 4397, 100-643, SEOUL, KOREA. They have a Web page at: http://hl0c.hihome.com
• EU-052. Look for Gerard, F2VX, to sign SV8/F2VX from Keflonia Island now through August 13th. After the contest they will be active on HF CW/SSB with their individual callsigns (DH7NO, DL2RTK, DL2SWW, DL2VFR). Pictures from last year and logs after the contest will be available at: http://www.qsl.net/dl0kwh/
• EU-070. Eric, F5SSM, will probably be active from Les Embiez Island August 12-19th. Be careful, this island was previously EU-095.
• EU-179. Look for Oleg, UR3GA, to be active from Orlov Island (UIA BS-13). He is a local resident and will operate on all HF bands CW and SSB. QSL via UR7GG, Victor Tkachenko, P.O.BOX 73, Kherson, 73000 Ukraine.

J43, GREECE. Wolff, DJ5JH, will be active from Peloponnese with the special contest callsign J43J during the WAE Contest (CW) August 12-13th. QSL via the bureau to his home call DJ5JH.

J6, ST. LUCIA. "THE 59(9) DX REPORT" reports that Juha, OH1HX, will be active August 1-6th as J6/OH1HX. Activity will be on 20, 15 and 10 meters SSB, maybe CW.

PIRATE ALERT. Marcos, LU7BQ, informs OPDX that the station signing XQ0X/LU7BQ on 20 CW, is a pirate. He has worked only SSB for about 40 years and has never gone to XQ0. He is currently receiving a lot of QSLs, and he is so sorry for the guys wasting their geenstamps and IRCs...

QSL INFO AND NEWS..............

• TX0DX, 4W/N5KO and 4W/W3UR (QSL status report by W3UR & The Daily DX): "As of Monday, July 21, U.S direct requests covering (prefixes) letters A and K0 up to K9Z were released. The next batch covering KA0 thru N9Z will be released August 10 while the final release from N0 thru WZ9 will be made August 25th. Since the validity date and submission date of October 1, 2000 will be easily met, there is no reason for 2nd QSL nor for any other action. Each claimed QSO is being checked while QSLs containing missing QSOs will be re-processed by early September, still meeting the October 1 submission date. During the week of July 21, the following other countries were either released or will be released; EA, F, G, HB9, I, LA, OH, OZ, SM, VE, VK, ZL. The team is currently busy on sorting out Germany and Benelux followed by South America, Russia and Eastern Europe. Everything will be completed following the same schedule as U.S. JA envelopes (HF) will be released during the first week of August while 50MHz cards have been released by JA1BK. Considerable extra work is experienced here since another pirate was very active toward Japan - especially working on 7 MHz and 10 MHz. Large numbers of requests on these two bands will be returned........ The following team is providing you the TX0DX/4W QSL service; OH2BN, OH2BAD, OH2BH, OH2NB, OH2RF, OH3LQK, OH9MM, JA1BK, N4GN and W3UR."
• Please address QSL cards for EW5HQ only to the following address: P.O.Box 469, Minsk 220050, Belarus. This is the address of the Belarussian QSL Bureau. Please DO NOT send cards to the official address of BFRR.
• W4MPY is "NOT" a QSL Manager for any station! Wayne informs OPDX that in each bureau mailing, 50% of the cards are for stations for which he has printed cards in the past. He also mentions that forwarding these QSLs gets to be expensive.
• John, N7CQQ, states to "PLEASE be patient" for the Clipperton FO0AAA QSL cards. He is working on them every day.
• The QSL Manager for last weekend's activation of ED3IM on Medas Island (EU-078) is not EA3CCN as announced, but was changed to Santi, EA3CKX. They report that the activity had to stopped early on Sunday morning because of bad weather predictions with the possibility of strong winds which would hamper their return.
• Jean Michel, F6AJA, reports that all PY0F/PY2ZDX direct requests are on their way.
• F5TXM, F5TRO, FB1BON, F4BHZ were active as F5TXM/P from Noirmoutier Island (EU-064) during the IOTA Contest. QSL via FB1BON.
• GM5C was activated by the Crocodile Rock Amateur Group from the "Isle of Great Cumbrae" (IOTA EU-123) during the IOTA Contest. QSL Manager is GM0DEQ.
• IK7LMX/P from Pedagna Island (EU-091) was activated by the "Salento DX Team". QSL to homecall via the bureau or direct via HCA (qrz.com).
• Doug, N6RT, reports that the final 7P8AA log is now available online at: http://dx.qsl.net/logs/
• The PZK Headquarters Station SN0HQ, which took part in the recent IARU Contest, will mail QSL cards in approx. 2 months. QSL via SP2PI CBA or via the PZK QSL Bureau. The PZK Headquarters will have a new address starting August 1st. QSL cards to Poland should be send to the following address: PZK Central QSL Bureau, P.O. Box 54, 85-613 Bydgoszcz 13, Poland.
• QSL cards for TA3J, on July 26, 2000, were sent to the QSL bureaus of Bulgaria, Latvia, Brazil, Luxembourg, Estonia, Belarus, Ireland, Lithuania, Israel, Kuwait, Portugal, Finland, Croatia, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Japan, Greece, Belgium, Slovenia, Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland and Netherlands. QSL cards were also sent on July 28, 2000, to the QSL bureaus of the USA, Germany and United Kingdom.
• Paulo, CT1ETE, reports to OPDX that a new Web Site is available which displays QSLs in a photo album (along with Database) for hams to view. He asks hams worldwide to send him your QSL in JPEG format (about 360x250; 24/16 million colors; size between 20k and 35k). The site also has a Ham Forum where individuals can start discussion threads. The Web site is at: http://www.qsl.net/ct1ete/ Any suggestions are welcome via his E-mail address at: ct1ete@qsl.net

SPECIAL EVENT. The Ukrainian special event station EM500E will be active in August on all bands and modes to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the "Cossack's Glory". QSL via UR4EYN or UR4EN.

SPECIAL EVENT. The Western New York DX Association will operate special event callsign K2L during the period August 7-20th in conjunction with the Buffalo (New York) Harborfest and culminating with operations from the Buffalo Lighthouse during the Lighthouse/Lightship Activity Weekend August 19-20th. During the August 7-18 period, activity will be on CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on all bands, including WARC. During August 19-20th, activity will be on CW and SSB from the lighthouse. A special photo QSL will be available for QSLs requested direct. QSL via WB2YQH, P.O. Box 73, Spring Brook, NY 14140 with SAE/SASE. All DX QSOs will be QSLed automatically via the bureau.

WORLD TRAVELER/DXER PETER. Peter, ON6TT, currently 9A/ON6TT, informed the DX community that after being based in Kosovo for the UNWFP since February, he is moving his base to Pakistan. He plans to start setting up shop in Islamabad as of November. Peter expects to stay there for probably the next 4 years and will try to build up a station again, as he did from 5X1T (Uganda). He is sure the location will be more challenging than in Africa to work pileups. He states Mario, 5X1C, has recently joined his team and will be based in Islamabad also. Peter adds that his upcoming business trip is not only taking him to Pakistan, but to Laos, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, East Timor, Thailand, Bhutan, Cambodia and India. He is still looking for E-mail contacts of active DXers in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Laos (for the latter 2, any licensing information would be welcome). If you can help, Peter's E-mail address is: Home.Peter.Casier@wfp.or.ug He will only stay a week "max" in each of those places, so he will only be active after work but with no special activity nor a large scale operation.

XX9, MACAU. Ed, K8EP, will be travelling here and will operate as XX9TEP from August 17-21st. His operation will be CW/SSB on 160-10 meters. He mentions that he will be in the SEANET contest as well. QSLs to K8EP at his new Buckmaster address: Ed Sawyer, 14 Greycrest Pl, Woodlands, TX 77382.

YO DX HF CONTEST. Romanian amateurs want to remind everyone to not forget to try your skills operating in YODX HF Contest 2000, on August 6th. It runs for 20 hours (0000-2000 UTC) and it is recommended to work YO counties. Activity will be on 3.5 to 28 MHz bands CW/SSB. An ITU exchange will be used for DX stations and YO County for YO station. Logs are sent to: Romanian Amateur Radio Federation, P.O. Box 22-50; R - 71100 Bucuresti, Romania (or E-mail to: yo3kaa@pcnet.pcnet.ro ). Full details on the rules are available on the Web at: http://www.qsl.net/yo3kaa/

OPDX INTERNET SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE REQUEST: opdx-request@nshore.org
OPDX WORLD-WIDE WEB HOME (provided by John, K8YSE):
http://www.en.com/users/k8yse/opdx.html
ALSO VISIT THE NORTHERN OHIO DX ASSOCIATION'S WEB HOME PAGE:
http://www.en.com/users/k8yse/nodxa.html

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