DX News Letter 1257
August 21, 2001

DX-NL 1257 August 21, 2001
DX News Letter

a free weekly service of
DARC Committee "DX and HF Contesting"
(http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/)

Editor: Karlfried Henrichs, DL1EK
(PR: DL1EK@DK0MWX.DL.EU)
(e-mail: dxmb@darc.de)

translation by: Bob, DL7VOA
(e-mail: dl7voa@darc.de)

DX ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRITISH BASES ON CYPRUS, ZC4 Steve, ZC4BS, is QRV in all modes from 10-160m but mainly on 15/20m for the next 13 months.

FAVIGNANA, ID9, EU-054 After staying on Pantelleria Frank, I5RF, wil be active from Favignana in CW/SSB/RTY on 40/20/15m from Sep 2-7. You can request his QSL online at http://www.i5rfd.bbk.org.

FITZROY ISLAND, VK4, OC-172 Trevor, VK7TS/4, is active on 10/15/20m from Aug 22-24. QSL via VK7TS, bureau ok. He will then go to Magnetic Island.

ITU HEADQUARTERS GENEVA, 4U/ITU Dave, EI3IO, will be QRV from the IARC clubstation 4U1ITU during the evening hours of Aug 28-30. He is planning a full day of activity for Aug 31.

WESTERN KIRIBATI, T30, OC-017 Pete, KZ1Z, already shipped his equipment there and hopes to hit the airwaves as T30ES around Sep 1. For more information online check: http://people.mags.net/boem/kiribati1.htm.

KWAJALEIN ISLAND, V7, OC-028 Jeff, KA1GJ, is QRV as V73GJ for the next three years. QSL direct via P.O. Box 1050, APO AP 96555, USA.

MADAGASCAR, 5R, AF-013 Jack, F6BUM, is planning a (mainly CW) activity for Sep 2-27. The call is not known yet but he is also planning two trips to the two smaller islands: AF-090 from Sep 3-7 and AF-057 from Sep 23-26.

MOLDOVA, ER The special event station ER10MD celebrating the 10th anniversary of Moldova's independence (Aug 27, 1991) is active from Aug 25-31. QSL via ER1BF.

PALESTINE, E4 Gunter, DH2GZ, has the permission to sign E4/OE1GZA from Ram Allah on Aug 24. He plans to be QRV in SSB on 10-20m, his preferred frequencies are 28480 and 21280-21290 kHz. QSL via Gunter Zwickl, C/O SICT, P.O. Box 1133, Ram Allah, Palestine.

RAROTONGA ISLAND, ZK1, OC-013 Gunter, DL2AWG, is planning a South Pacific tour until mid September. During his first stop he will sign ZK1AWG from Aug 21-29 before he will go to Viti Levu (3D2, see there). QSL via DL2AWG, bureau ok.

SAMOA, 5W, OC-097 Atsu, JI3WLT, is expected to hit the airwaves from Samoa on Aug 22. He will sign 5W1SA from Apia for two years. QSL via JH7OHF.

TEMOTU, H40 Roberto, EA4DX, is momentarily on the air in SSB signing H44RD from Honiara (OC-047) in the Solomon Islands. Starting on Sunday he will sign H40RD from Lata (OC-100) on 10-80m. QSL via EA4DX.

UKRAINE, UR The Ukraine is also celebrating its 10th anniversary of independence. Besides other activities this event is celebrated by the special event station EO10V from Aug 20-26. QSL via UR7VA, bureau ok.

VITI LEVU ISLAND, 3D2, OC-016 After staying on Rarotonga Gunter, DL2AWG, will sign 3D2AW between Aug 31 and Sep 8. QSL via DL2AWG.

FITZROY ISLAND

Fitzroy Island is situated about 35km Souteast of Cairns. This island used to be part of the Australian mainland. Its covered by eucalyptus and rain forests. The temperatures are about 17 degrees Celsius in winter and up to 32 degrees Celsius in summer. Its inhabitated by huge butterflies, ospreys and cockatoos but the underwater world is also very rich.

This island was discovered by Captain Cook on June 10, 1770 who named it after his Prime Minister Duke Fitzroy of Grafton. Initially Aborigines came here for hunting and the members of the Gunghandji tribe still believe that Gulnyjarubay came to this island and named it Gabara which can be translated with 'fist'. When the Australian freighter Somerset introduced the smallpox to this island in 1877 Fitzroy became a quarantine island. During the same time 3000 Chinese immigrated to North Queensland who were not welcomed by the local settlers and thus sent to Fitzroy as well. After 16 days the Chinese could leave the island again after showing no smallpox symptoms. In 1907 some unwanted Yarrabah Aborigines were sent here to take care of banana and coconut tree plantations. Fitzroy became a natural reservate in 1989.

Nowadays this island is visited by 70.000 people per year who are travelling about an hour from Cairns. A submarine is offering diving trips to the coral gardens of the island but hiking through the rain forest or the beaches is also worth a trip.

Amateur radio: Prefix VK4, DXCC entity: Australia, IOTA reference: OC-172.

QSL INFO

(d) = direct only
(B) = bureau ok
* = new QSL manager

DL1EMH is NOT the manager of Chris, A45XR! QSL direct only to: Mr K. Dabrowski, Box 2038, Oman 111. DL1EMH writes also that the statement: "QSL via homecall SP5EXA" is also NOT not correct!

The PSK31-DX-NOTES are now available in the internet as well: http://www.krs.poltava.ua/psk31dx.htm or http://www.qsl.net/xe1m/ut5rpdx.htm You can subscribe the Ukrainian PSK31-DX-Reflector by sending an e-mail with no subject and the first line 'subscribe psk31' to majordomo@krs.poltava.ua.

QSL direct: GZ7V, H40RW (OC-100), HA6NF, HB0/IK2WAN, HC8A, HI9/DJ7ZG, HI9/DL7AFS, HK3JJH/HK0 (SA-007),HK3JJH/HK0M,HK3JJH/HK5 (SA-017), HP2/F5PAC, HR1RMG/HR4, HR2RCH/HR6 (NA-035), HS0/G3NOM, HZ1MD, I8YRK, J3/DJ7RJ, J45W, J73HPL, J73VW, J79CGA, J79WW, JW8G, J5X, JD1BFA (JA3EMU), K7BV, K9PPY/4 (NA-142), KB5GL/5 (NA-082), KC4USV (AN-011), KH9/AC4G, KH0/JK1FNN, KP2/KD4D,KP4/8P6AH,LU9AY, LY2ZZ, LZ1ANA, N4MO/TI7, N6IC/p (NA-066), OE75PPK, OH0EA,OK1FJD, OZ5ESB, P41E, P43E, PI4MRC, PJ4G, PJ7B, PJ7/W3HNK, PJ7UQ, PY2KC, PY1NEW/2 (SA-024, SA-028), PY5EG, S07BT, S21YT, SV0LR, T5W, T5X, TA0/IZ9YRE/p (AS-159), TI1C, TI4CF, TM0AR, TX0C (OC-176), TX8DX, TZ6JA, TZ6TO, UA2FZ, UP4L, US0HZ, UU3JQ, V31DI, V31JU

QSL bureau: C21ZM (G3ZEM), C6A/K2PS,CH1SO,CS7AHU/p (EU-145),DL3BUM (EU-129), DS5USH, E44/HA1AG, EA6/DL6NBR (EU-004), EA8BYR, EM500E (UR4EYN), EN8PSL (UT5PW), ES0QK (EU-034, DL6QK), F6HQP/p (EU-048), FG/F5SNY (NA-114), FG5EY (F6EYB), FH/G3SXW, FO0PT,FW8ZZ (OH2BN), FY/F5AEG (SA-020), FY5HY, GM0HTT (EU-009), GN0STH (EU-115), GP0STH (EU-114), GU3EJL (EU-114), HK3JBR/1 (SA-040), IC8AMR (EU-031), IT9HLN (EU-025),J28FF (F6TID),J3/K4LTA,J6/K7NM, J79GU (DL7VOG), JA4PXE (AS-012), JW7QIA (EU-026), KH0/JA5AUC, KL7/K6ST (NA-215, N6AWD), LA/DL3BRC (EU-036), M2000A (EU-005), NP2/K7BV (KU9C),PJ6/PA3GIO,PP1500RR (PP1RR),PS5B (SA-027, PP5WB) PV500B (PP5LL), PZ5JR (K3BYV), RK1OWZ/A (EU-066, UA1OMS),S79SXW, SP6ECA/1 (EU-132), T88JR (OC-009), TI5/K4UEE (NK4U),TZ6TT,UN7LZ, TR0A/p (AF-089, G3OCA), V31GI (PA3GIO), V31SN (DJ4SO), V31YN (DJ4KW),V51/DJ7XG,V73NN (OC-029, KD6WW),VE7TLL/p (NA-061), VK7TS/p (OC-233),VO2AC (Zone 2, VE3FU),VP5/K2AA,VP8CSA (DL1SDN), VQ9GB (K7GB), XX9TRR (N6XJ), ZB2CN (DJ9WH), ZB2FX (G3RFX), ZF2RV (NA016, WJ7R)

Preview

DATE            CALL          DXNL

Aug 31-Sep 8    3D2AW         1257 *
Aug 15-Aug 30   3V8SQ         1256
Aug 28-Aug 30   4U1ITU        1257 *
Aug 23-Aug 30   5B/IZ8CCW..   1256
NOW   -Aug 31   5K3CA         1254
Sep 2 -Sep 27   5R/F6BUM      1257 *
Aug 22-2003     5W1SA         1257 *
Aug 4 -Sep 16   9M6CT         1255

Aug 15-Aug 28   A52UL         1255
Aug 13-Sep 27   C6TKJ         1255
Aug 13-Aug 23   C6/DJ9HX      1255
Aug 25-Oct 3    D44TD         1256
Aug 24          E4/OE1GZA     1257 *
Aug 20-Aug 26   EO10V         1257 *
Aug 25-Aug 31   ER10MD        1257 *
Aug 15-Aug 28   FR/I4ALU      1255
Aug 24-Aug 29   GB5FI         1256

NOW             H40RD         1257 *
NOW   -2001     HC2BEV..      1228
Aug 14-Sep 6    HS0ZCY        1256
Aug 26-Sep 4    IA5/IK0YUJ    1256
Aug 13-Aug 27   ID9/I1SNW     1254
Aug 25-Aug 31   IH9/I5RFD     1256
Aug 16-Aug 27   J8/PA5RT..    1255
Aug 14-Aug 24   JA6GXK        1254
Aug 25-Aug 26   N1IBM/p       1256
Aug 20-Aug 27   RA1OZ/A       1256

Aug 23-Aug 30   T22SC         1256
Sep 1 -         T30ES         1257 *
Aug 21-Sep 6    TA0/I3BQC     1256
Aug 18-Sep 2    TK8T          1255
May   -Sep      TT8JE         1243
Aug 28-Jul/2002 TT8DX         1256
Aug 11-Aug 29   TY/F5CWU..    1254
Aug 31-Sep 6    V63KA..       1256
NOW             V63LJ         1256
Aug 21-Aug 30   V73CW         1256
NOW   -2004     V73GJ         1257 *
Aug 18-Sep 7    VE1/DH8IAT    1255
Aug 22-Aug 24   VK7TS/4       1257 *
Jun 6 -Aug 31   VO2/K2FRD     1246
NOW   -Sep/2002 ZC4BS         1257 *
Aug 21-Aug 29   ZK1AWG        1257 *

*  = new
.. = and other calls

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