DX-NL 1273 December 13, 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)
BAHAMAS, C6 John, WZ8D, will sign C6AIE from Jan 1-10, 2002. He will work mostly on 6m/2m but will be on 10-40m SSB if 6m has no propagation.
BURUNDI, 9U Piero, IK2BHX, is working for an UN mission until Jan 4. He will be on the air as 9U5X mainly on the WARC bands during his spare time.
CAMBODIA, XU Dick, N6FF, is signing XU7ACB from Sihanoukville mainly on 160m until Dec 17, 2001. His preferred frequency is 1827.5 kHz, QSX down for JA's and up 5 for all other stations. Rod, WC7N, is his pilot station and skeds can be arranged via wc7n@gb.wave.net. QSL via N6FF, direct!
CANADA, VE To commemorate the first transatlantic radio contact by Marconi 100 years ago Canadian radio amateurs may use the special prefixes: VX instead of VE, VG instead of VA, XJ instead of VO, XK instead of VY between Dec 12, 2001 and Feb 12, 2002.
CURACAO, PJ2, SA-006 Marty, NW0L, is planning a trip for Jan 2-8. In the ARRL RTTY Contest he will sign PJ2T while he will use PJ2/NW0L in RTTY/SSB on 80-10m during the rest of the time. QSL: PJ2T via KN7Y, PJ2/NW0L via NW0L.
GUINEA, 3X Francois, VE2XO, will be on the air from Conakry signing 3XY6A between Dec 26 and Jan 5, 2002. He also plans a trip to Roume Island (AF-051) from where he will be active as 3XY8A. Main operation will be in SSB but also some PSK31. His frequencies are in SSB on 14195, 14260,18145, 18128, 21295, 21260, 24945, 24950, 28495 and 28460 kHz (QSX 5 up) and PSK31 on 14070, 18100, 21070, 24920 and 28120 kHz. QSL direct to VE2XO, Francois Normant, 3054 Avenue Lacomb, Montreal, QC H3T 1L4, Canada.
HORNOS ISLAND, CE8, SA-031 The Southern Cross DX Group from Chile is planning a trip to this island for the end of this year. More activities are planned for 2002, check their website at: http://www.qsl.net/ce9c/.
KOH TARUTAO, HS, AS-126 E20HHK, E20RRW, E21EIC, G3NOM, HB9DKZ, HS0GBI, HS1CKC, HS4BPQ, K4VUD and SM3DYU are on the air from this island in the Andaman Sea until Dec 15. Their callsign was not announced. QSL via HS0GBI.
MALLORCA, EA6, EU-004 Christian, DL6KAC, will become QRV on 40-10m between Dec 21 and Jan 6. QSL via DL6KAC.
PALESTINE, E4 Guenter, E4/OE1GZA, will try again to operate twice. There could be two possibilities for him to hit the airwaves on Dec 14/15 and/or Dec 21/22. For actual information please check his website at: http://www.geocities.com/dh2gz/arse4.html. Guenter asks everybody not to make a safety QSO on same band/mode to provide as many QSOs as possible to the deserving ones!
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, P2, OC-034 Kyle, P29KH, returned after seven years. He is working almost only in CW but you can also find him active in SSB contests. He is using only a multi band dipole until February. His preferred times are 0900-1200 and 2000-2300 UTC look for him 040 kHz from the lower band edge. QSL via WD9DZV.
VIETNAM, 3W Karl, W9XK, is now signing 3W2XK near Saigon in Vietnam. You can find him on 14260-14270, 21370-21400 and on 28500 kHz until April 9. He is active in the Southern Cross Net (14226 kHz at 1200 UTC) and the Bill Bennett Family Net (14245 kHz at 1500 UTC) almost every day. The QSLs should be sent via W9XK not earlier than April 9.
CURACAO ISLAND
Curacao is situated at 12 deg 6'North and 68 deg 56'West in the West Indies approximately 65 km off the coast of Venezuela. Together with Aruba,Bonaire, Little Bonaire and Little Curacao they are the small Netherland Antilles. The landscape is made up by some hills, bushes, cactuses, Divi Divi trees and small forests. The west coast includes some dream beaches and became a tourist center contrary to the east coast with its rocks.
Leutnant Alonso de Ojeda from the fleet of Kolumbus discovered the island in 1499. The English pirate Sir Francis Drake plundered a few villages in 1573. The Dutch conquered Curacao in 1634 and the famous Peter Stuyvesant was governor of the island from 1642-1646. Between 1666 and 1815 the island was possessed several times by Holland, England and France. The islands were finally handed over to Holland with the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783. During the 17th century more than 1000 jews settled on the island and founded the oldest Jewish community in the New World.
Nowadays Curacao has some 150,000 inhabitants who live from tourism, oil refineries and last not least from the biggest casino in the Caribbean. The capital Willemstad is situated at a lagoon in the south, worth seeing are the three bridges named after queens, old colonial style storefronts, a swimming market and several forts. Even the world famous liquor "Blue Curacao" is made in the Chobolobo-Landhuis.
Amateur radio: Prefix PJ2, DXCC entity: Netherland Antilles, not listed in the ARRL's Most Wanted List. Time difference: UTC-4h, CQ zone 9,ITU zone 11, IOTA reference SA-006.
(d) = direct only
(B) = bureau ok
* = new manager
QSL direct: 3A/IK5GQK, 9M2TO, A25/JA1ELY, AA4V/KP2, AP2IA, CN2LE (AF-065), C98DC, CN8NM, ER4DX, ES1FB, FK8HG, FM5/F5SGI, FO/F6CTL (OC-066), GJ2A, HK5MQZ/OM, J3/PA0ZH, J3/PA7FM, J38PAJ, J75J, J8/PA0ZH, J8/PA3EWP, J8/PA7FM, KC4AAA, KH2JU (OC026), KP2/K6RO, KP4DKE, MM/W5ZE/p (EU-012), NH6XM (OC-019), OJ0/JH1ARJ, OX3CO, PJ2/AE9B (SA-006), PJ4B, RK3IWT/3, TA0/I3BQC (AS-098), TA2IM, TG0R, UA0QJG/0 (AS-029), VP5V, VP8GAV (AN007 GM0LVI), VY0AA/P, WV2B/CY9, XQ6ET, YB3HZ/p (OC-147), YI1BGD, YI1HK, ZK1EFD, ZK1JD, ZK1QMA, ZX5J
QSL bureau: 3C1AG (SM0AGD), 3W2KYU (JH8KYU), 4X1EL, 4X2K, 4X6ZM, 5R8GY, 5B4/DL3PG/p (AS-120), 5T5YD/p (AF-050, F6FYD), 6M0MM, 6N0LN, 7Q7CE (IN3VZE), 8J2000, 8P9BK (NA-021, DL1DA), 8P9V, 9A3LE, 9M2XA, 9M6AAT, A35BR, C37URA, C56/G3SEM, C6ASM (NA-080, DL2RMM), CE0Y/G0KBO (SA-001), E29DX (AS-145, HS0GBI),EA4ATI/EA1 (EU-080), FG/RN3OA (NA-102), FO/DL5XU,FO0AKI,FO5PI,FR5EZ/p,H40MY (JA0IXW), HS0/VK3DXI (DL4DBR), IA5/IV3NVN (EU-028), IJ7/IK7AFM (EU073), IS0JXO (EU-024), JA8NFV (AS-078), JW/OK2PBM (EU-026), KH0/KH2TX, MU/OH9MM,OX3SA,PY6/PT7WA,R3RRC/6 (UA6MF),RI0ZKR (AS-095, RA0ZD), RH1A, S21YE (G4VLV), SK0HS/5 (EU-084, SM0MRV),SM5/G0GRC (EU-177, G0RCI), SP1/DL6NBR/p (EU-132), SV5/DL6NBR/p (EU-001), T88CQ, SV9/DJ0MAQ/p (EU-015),V26Q,TK/F5BOY/p (EU-014),V2/DL1DA (NA-100) VK7WR/p, VP5/RA9CO (NA-002), YB2OBL, YS8ZKK, ZK1DKX,ZK2XO,ZP6VLA
QSL cards of T5/DL8YR from 1993 are now accepted for DXCC credit. These QSLs have to be presented to the DXCC checkers again since the ARRL did not save the application data prior to March 1, 1998.
DATE CALL DXNL
NOW -Apr 9 3W2XK 1273 *
Dec 26-Jan 5 3XY6A.. 1273 *
Jan 3 -Jan 13 4T4I.. 1272
Aug 22-2003 5W1SA 1257
NOW -Sep/2002 9L1BTB 1268
NOW -Jan 4 9U5X 1273 *
Jan 1 -Jan 10 C6AIE 1273 *
Dec 17-Dec 22 CE7HJO/8.. 1272
Nov 21-Dec 14 D2/CT1FSC 1271
Dec 8 -Dec 15 E29AL 1271
Dec 14-Dec 15 E4/OE1GZA 1273 *
Dec 21-Dec 22 E4/OE1GZA 1273 *
Dec 21-Jan 6 EA6/DL6KAC 1273 *
Dec 3 -Dec 14 FO0SEV.. 1271
NOW -2002 HF0POL 1271
Dec 8 -Dec 15 HS??? 1273 *
Nov 1 -Dec 15 IB0/IK8VRH 1268
Dec 1 -Dec 31 IU0M 1272
NOW -Dec 31 IY1SP 1268
NOW -Apr/2002 JX7DFA 1266
NOW -Mar/2002 KC4/N3SIG 1267
NOW P29KH 1273 *
NOW -2002 P5/4L4FN 1270, 1271
Jan 2 -Jan 8 PJ2/NW0L 1273 *
NOW -Jan/2002 R1ANC 1268
Dec 30-Jan 3 T88HA.. 1272
Feb 4 -Feb 16 TI9M 1272
Dec 6 -Dec 13 V73ED 1272
Nov 8 -Mar/2002 VK3FEI/p 1267
Dec 1 -Dec 31 VO1S 1272
Dec 12 W1AA/CC 1272
NOW -Dec 17 XU7ACB 1273 *
Dec 17-Dec 23 YC3MM 1272
NOW YA/F6EKD 1272
Nov 21-??? YA5T 1271, 1272
NOW -Sep/2002 ZC4BS 1260
Nov 20-Dec 15 ZD8Z 1269
-Oct/2002 ZD9IR 1264
* = new
.. = and other calls
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