425 DX News #1286 - corrected

[I1JQJ]

26 December 2015 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1286
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4S - Special event station 4S0GS will be active on 27-31 December
during "Galle Season", a large fair and exibition that will be
held in the historic city of Galle in southern Sri Lanka. QSL via
4S7DF.
4S - 4S7JTG and 4S7NTG are the new callsigns that Josep, EA3BT and
Nuria, EA3WL will be using during their 3-8 January activity from
Beruwala, Sri Lanka (AS-003) [425DXN 1283]. They expect to operate
from nearby Berberyn Island (AS-171) "as much time as possible".
They will be QRV on 40-10 metres mainly SSB, with some CW and
RTTY. QSL via EA3BT, direct or bureau (OQRS to be enabled).
EA - Celebrating the 6th anniversary of the CW Operators' Club
(www.cwops.org), special callsigns EG1CWO, EG2CWO, EG4CWO, EG5CWO,
EG6CWO (Balearic Islands) and EG8CWO (Canary Islands) will be in
use on 1-10 January. Further information to be found in due course
on http://eacwops.es.
EX - Andrea HB9DUR (http://hb9dur.ch/) will be active again as EX/HB9DUR
from Kyrgyzstan between 22 December and 8 January 2016. He will
operate SSB with a focus on the higher bands. QSL via home call
and LoTW; logsearch and OQRS on Club Log. [TNX DX World]
G - The Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society will celebrate the New Year
2016 with a series of special event stations (GB0HNY, GB1HNY,
GB2HNY, GB4HNY, GB5HNY, GB6HNY and GB8HNY) that will be active
from 28 December to 24 January. "Whilst we are not issuing any QSL
cards", they say, "you can claim a special commemorative
certificate for working five stations". Details on qrz.com under
GB1HNY. [TNX DX Newsletter]
HL - Special event station HL16RI will be active from 1 January to 27
June in celebration of the 107th annual Convention of Rotary
International, which will be held in Seoul on 28 May-1 June. QSL
via HL4CCM.
JD1_oga- Once again Harry, JG7PSJ will be active as JD1BMH from Chichijima
(AS-031), Ogasawara from 30 December to 9 January. He will operate
CW, SSB and RTTY on 160-10 metres. QSL via JD1BMH (bureau) or
JG7PSJ (direct). Logsearch and other information can be found at
http://sapphire.es.tohoku.ac.jp/jd1bmh/.
PJ2 - Steve, PJ4DX will be active as PJ2/KH0UN from Curacao (SA-099) on
28-29 December. QSL via LoTW, as he does not plan to have any
cards printed for this short operation.
PY - Manu, ZP9MCE will be active as PP5/ZP9MCE from Santa Catarina
Island (SA-026) on 2-9 January. He will operate CW and digital
modes (JT65) with a focus on 30, 17 and 12 metres. He says to "QSL
via PayPal" for this activity.
UA - Yuri R2DG, Pavel R2DX, Yuri RV3DFI, Eugene RW3FB, Mike RX3DVZ and
Dmitry RZ3DJ will be active as RU55IA from the town of Kologriv
(RDA KS-14), Kostroma Oblast on 3-6 January. They will operate two
stations on 80-10 metres. They will also be QRV as RU55IA/m on
their way to/from Kologriv. QSL via R2DX (bureau, eQSL and OQRS).
[TNX qrz.ru]
V6 - Kou, JR2GAG will be active again as V63GG from Micronesia on 1-8
January. This time he will operate from Kosrae (OC-059). QSL via
JR2GAG, direct or bureau; logsearch and OQRS on Club Log.
VK - Special event station VI2AJ2016 will be activated during the 24th
Australian Jamboree, to be held on 3-13 January at the Cataract
Scout Park in New South Wales. QSL via VK2KDP and LoTW; logsearch
and OQRS on Club Log.

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FT4JA ---> Christian, EA3NT has joined the FT4JA team who will be on Juan
de Nova from 29 March to 11 April (these dates include the unloading and
loading phases). In early January, four crates of equipment will be shipped
to Mayotte, which will be the DXpedition's starting point.
To minimize problems on the bands with the concurrent DXpedition to Heard
Island, "we suggested to the VK0EK team to adopt a common band plan to share
the segments on the different bands": www.juandenovadx.com/en/band-plan/.
FT4JA will have a dedicated station for 6 metres, as the DXpedition will
take place "during a period of trans-equatorial propagation (TEP), which
suggests many QSO on the magic band". The station "will operate mostly in a
CW beacon mode (CQ FT4JA), whose frequency will be published in our plan.
We will switch to a transmitting position (CW or SSB only) as soon as we
hear someone respond". They also plan to try EME (JT65). At all events,
their 6m QSOs "will be in addition to the rest of the contacts and not to
the detriment of our presence on the HF bands". Read the complete latest
news release, dated 18 December, on the DXpedition's website.

OC-243 ---> Andy, VK5MAV and Craig, VK5CE will be active from Breaksea
Island (OC-243) in early March [425DXN 1285]. The exact dates will be
announced in January. They will have first to drive from their QTH in South
Australia to Albany (Western Australia), "a monster journey of 2743 km
(1704 miles)". Then, "due to safety and permit restrictions from the
Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife", the only way they
"can get to and from the island is to charter a helicopter". They will be
running two stations at the same time, using vertical dipoles for 10, 15
and 20 metres and a quarter wave for 40m. VK5MAV/6 will operate CW with
100W, while VK5CE/6 will operate SSB with 400W. "So as you can imagine this
trip has many transportation costs", and "any financial support would be
greatly appreciated". See http://oc243.blogspot.com.au/ for further
information and updates.

P5/3Z9DX ---> As announced [425DXN 1283], Dom was in Pyongyang, North Korea
"for high level talks with officials and inspectors" in anticipation of a
future operation. Dom had to take all radio equipment with him, but there
were no plans for him to be QRV during this visit. Unexpectedly, however,
he was able to give a demonstration and be active for a few hours between
00.09 UTC on 20 December and 08.47 UTC on the 21st. He made 790 QSOs with
749 unique calls on 15, 20 and 10 metres SSB. "His antenna is on a metal
fence post 2m above the ground among government high rise buildings",
DX-World.net reported. "The lowest noise level on 15m is 59+10 and on 20m
it's 59+30. He's surrounded by a lot of people as he operates (officials
coming in and out)". Hopefully "a different QTH will be found for the real
activity planned for early next year". As agreed before operations
commenced, he has left the equipment in North Korea. The P5/3Z9DX log has
been uploaded to Club Log, and the OQRS has been enabled. [TNX DX World]

VP8STI & VP8SGI ---> "In just two short weeks", N6PSE reported on 21
December, "members of the VP8STI/VP8SGI team will be meeting the
'Braveheart' in Stanley, the Falkland Islands. All of our plans are going
very well. We have raised 73% of the funds needed to complete our
DXpedition".
The QSL page on the DXpedition's website (www.intrepid-dx.com/vp8) has been
updated, and the OQRS will be live as soon as each activation is completed.
The team will make "every effort" to upload their logs to Club Log on a
daily basis, but there might be problems as Southern Thule Island is
outside of the Inmarsat BGAN coverage footprint.
"The team is very focused and committed to satisfying the need for contacts
with South Sandwich and South Georgia. We ask that everyone follow the DX
Code of Conduct. We will not work stations that are calling out of turn. We
will be in communications with our Chief Pilot each day, and we ask you to
work with our team of Regional Pilot stations to help us meet the demand
for contacts".

YASME FOUNDATION'S SUPPORTING GRANTS ---> The Board of Directors of the
Yasme Foundation (www.yasme.org) announced on 21 December a number of
supporting grants in furtherance of its goal of supporting the development
of amateur radio. The grants fall into several areas as follows:
SCHOLARSHIPS AND YOUTH PROGRAMS
- A grant to the ARRL Foundation to fund the Yasme Foundation scholarship
- A grant to the Foundation for Amateur Radio in support of its 2016
scholarship program
- A grant to the Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) program to support programs
aimed at promoting amateur radio among those under age 26 throughout IARU
Region 1
- A grant to the ARRL Teacher's Institute to fund one teacher's attendance
at the 2016 Teacher's Institute on Wireless Technology
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
- A grant to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
program in support of its effort to place higher power amateur radio
equipment on the Columbia Module and standardize the equipment
configuration
- A grant to the Northern California DX Foundation Beacon Project to update
the beacon station in Sri Lanka
- A grant to the Reverse Beacon Network to build and install a node that
will provide coverage in an area identified as both underserved and of
particular interest to propagation studies
HF OPERATING AROUND THE WORLD
- A grant to a representative of the Haiti Amateur Radio Club for the
purchase of amateur radio training materials to be used for training
sessions of future licensees in Haiti and the donation of a Kenwood TS-
440S transceiver for use by the new licensees
- A grant to the International Amateur Radio Club at ITU-Geneva (4U1ITU) for
station maintenance and the acquisition of needed equipment
- A grant to WRTC-2018 in support of ongoing expenses and to encourage
organizations and individuals to support this important event
- A grant to the Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society club station ET3AA to
acquire a new computer, interfaces and programs to be used for logging and
operating digital modes and to purchase new headsets
ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING AMATEUR RADIO
- A grant to the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) in support of
their ongoing activities
- A grant to Dokufunk, the Research and Documentation Center for the History
of Radio Communications and the Electronic Media in Vienna, Austria, in
support of its activities to preserve the history of radio communications
Also, the Board of Directors recognizes Director Charles "Mac" McHenry, Jr.,
W6BSY as he retires from the organization after many years of service, and
bestowes upon him the title of Director Emeritus, a first for Yasme. Mac's
association with Yasme spans decades, and dates back to the time when Lloyd
and Iris Colvin were on their around-the-world DXpedition, visiting 221 DXCC
countries and operating in about two-thirds of them. Yasme volunteers
answered over 750,000 QSL requests. If you are lucky enough to have a
handwritten Yasme QSL card, chances are very good that Mac was the one who
filled out the card, stuffed it in an envelope and sent it off to you. [TNX
W6SZN]

ZL9A ---> The latest update on the DXpedition to Antipodes Islands (OC-286,
new one for IOTA) [425DXN 1284] is avalaible on http://iotahunter.org/.
Cezar, VE3LYC is already in New Zealand, and confirms that two full sets of
equipment (rigs and antennae) are with the Department of Conservation
office in Invercargill, where all team members will gather on 2 January and
the quarantine is scheduled for the 3rd. "If everything goes according to
plan and weather cooperates, the team will board 'Evohe' by noon local time
on 4 January, and attempt landing by mid-afternoon on 7 January. It will
likely take a few hours before they will be QRV, since landing will require
some serious hiking back and forth between the shore and camp. One of their
stations will be located inside the Castaway Depot, while the other a few
tens of meters away, in a small tent".

+ SILENT KEY + Dr.-Ing. Petr Obermajer, OK2FEI passed away on 16 December
at 80 years of age. A professor at the Brno University of Technology, he
was an "expert in transmitters and power amplifiers" and was fond of CW and
DXing. [TNX OK2ZO]

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3D2AG Antoine de Ramon N'Yeurt, P.O. Box 10842, Laucala Beach Estate,
Suva, Fiji
3Z9DX Dom Grzyb, skr. poczt. 84, 34-200 Sucha Beskidzka, Poland
DF8DX Bodo Fritsche, Mardelaeckerstr. 14, 5417 Untersiggenthal,
Switzerland
EA3GWK Josep Solans, Apartado 1, 25138 Torrelameu (Lleida), Spain
EA5GL Pedro Miguel Ronda Monsell, C/ Maximiliano Thous 16-24, 46009
Valencia, Spain
F1ULQ Jean-Luc Missler, 7 Rue de la liberte, 57720 Obergailbach, France
FO5RH Alain Claverie, B.P. 51690, 98716 Pirae - Tahiti, French Polynesia
ON7WP Pedro M.J. Wyns, Moutstraat 7, 2220 Hallaar, Belgium
SM6WET Magnus Aronsson, Soldatvagen 17, SE-521 34 Falkoping, Sweden
VE2JCW Jean Charron, 17 rue Elisabeth, Saint-Jerome QC J7Z 2S9, Canada
W4VAB Hugh W. Morgan, 3316 Bunker Hill Dr, Knoxville TN 37920-3711, USA

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