14 December 2013 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1180
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

9M6 - Vincent, F4BKV is visiting Singapore (9V, AS-019), Brunei (V8,
OC-088) and East Malaysia until 22 December. "Radio is not the
main purpose of the trip", he says, so "don't expect a full time
activity". The first two operations will be limited to few hours
only, on 14 December from 9V and on 17-18 December from V8. On
20-22 December he will operate holiday style from Labuan Island
(9M6, OC-133). Logsearch and OQRS at www.f4bkv.net
A9 - The Bahrain Amateur Radio Group will operate special event station
A91NM on 15 December to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the
Bahrain National Museum. QSL via IZ8CLM. [TNX A92AA]
DL_ant - Felix, DL5XL will be working at the German Antarctic station
Neumayer III from 20 December to 8 February. He will operate
mainly CW as DP1POL in his spare time. QSL via DL1ZBO, direct or
bureau, and LoTW. Logsearch on Club Log. Holger, DH1HB will be
located at the same research station until February 2015, and will
be QRV as DP0GVN (QSL via DL5EBE). [TNX DX World]
H40 - Sigi, DK9FN will be active again as H40FN (mainly CW) from Temotu
Province from 21 December to 10 January. This year he will operate
from Lomlom Island (OC-065). QSL via DK9FN (new route), direct or
bureau. Further information and operating tips (they are worth a
reading) at qrz.com under H40FN. [TNX The Daily DX]
JW - Alex, DL1NX/PY2SEX will be active as JW/PY2SEX from Spitsbergen
(EU-026), Svalbard on 24-25 December. He plans to operate mainly
CW and SSB on 40-10 metres. QSL via DL1NX.
PJ4 - Steve (ex 9M6DXX and 9M8Z, aka G4JVG and KH0UN) has moved
permanently to Bonaire (SA-006) and received his licence on 10
December. His new call is PJ4DX. He is QRV using an FT-950 and a
low Spiderbeam, plus a 40m quarter-wave vertical with elevated
radials. All equipment is kindly loaned by Peter, PJ4NX, until
Steve's own equipment arrives from Malaysia early in 2014. QSL via
M0URX, direct or bureau (OQRS preferred). Logs will be uploaded to
LoTW and ClubLog on a regular basis. [TNX PJ4DX]
PJ5 - Nao, JN1RVS will be active as PJ5/K6NAO from St. Eustatius
(NA-145) on 22-29 December. He will operate CW and RTTY/PSK on
40-10 metres. QSL via JA1HGY; logsearch and OQRS on Club Log. [TNX
DX World]
PY - Raimundo, PT7CG will be active as ZX8DX from Ilha Grande de Santa
Isabel (SA-025) on 26-30 December. QSL via home call.
V5 - Dietmar, DL3DXX will be active as V5/DL3DXX from Namibia from 24
December to 8 January. He will operate CW only 160-10 metres. QSL
via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
VP5 - Steve, VE3OC, to be active holiday style as VP5/VE3OC from
Providenciales, Caicos Islands (NA-002) on 18-27 December. QSL via
home call (direct only) and eQSL.
ZS - Celebrating the late President Nelson Mandela's legacy, the South
African Radio League will operate special event stations from
around the country using the special callsign ZS9MADIBA until 11
January 2014. QSL via the bureau or direct to SARL, P.O. Box 1721,
Strubensvallei 1735, South Africa. Logsearch on Club Log. See
www.amateurradio.org.za/zs9madiba.htm for the operating schedule.

AFRICAN TRIP ---> Mathias DJ2HD, Ulmar DK1CE and Wolfgang DH3WO will be on
4x4 trip Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana between 14 December and
18 January 2014:
14-18 December V5/DJ2HD
18-22 December ZS/DJ2HD, ZS/DK1CE, ZS/DH3WO
22-24 December 7P8DJ, 7P8CE, 7P8WO
24-30 December A25DJ, A25CE, A25WO
31 December-18 January V5/DJ2HD
1-5 January V5/DK1CE, V5/DH3WO
All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau. When in
Namibia, DJ2HD will participate in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest and the DARC
10m Contest (12 January 2014) as V55V (QSL via DJ8VC, direct or bureau).

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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

DXCC NEWS ---> 9X0XA (Rwanda, 2013 operation), T6TM (Afghanistan, current
operation) and VU7AG (Lakshadweep Islands, 20 November - 10 December 2013)
have been approved for DXCC credit. [TNX NC1L]

INDEXA NEWS ---> "The officers of the International DX Association, INDEXA
(www.indexa.org), have agreed to send an additional donation of 2,500 USD
to the Amsterdam Island, FT5ZM, DXpedition team. INDEXA's financial support
for this DXpedition has now grown to 10,000 USD. Our membership of
worldwide DXers has been generous to us this year with donations. Thus,
INDEXA felt further support to the FT5ZM team was appropriate".

K9W ---> The K9W Wake Atoll Team thanks the DX community for the
outstanding response to The Forgotten 98 Commemorative DXpedition. K9W made
53765 CW, 38700 SSB and 7562 digital QSOs. The final QSO percentages per
continent are NA 35.3%, AS 32.3%, EU 26.9%, OC 3.1%, SA 1.8% and AF 0.6%.
All of the QSOs have been uploaded to Club Log, and "most, if not all,
corrections have been made". Please write to info[@]wake2013.org for
possible problems with the ClubLog upload. The printed QSLs are in transit
to the QSL manager (AA4NN). The use of OQRS for direct and bureau cards is
highly recommended (see http://wake2013.org/pages/qsl.html). [TNX W8GEX]

QSL HP0INT ---> Vincent, F4BKV mailed about 50% of the direct cards for the
Panama IOTA Tour on 12 December, the others will follow on the 23rd. Those
letters will be sent from Hong Kong, he says; direct requests with French
postage stamps on their SAEs will be processed in early January.

STORMY WEATHER: OH8X ---> Radio Arcala (OH8X) has lost its 100m (330 ft)
tall tower that supported 160m and 80m Yagis. The structure weighed 40 tons
(80,000 lbs) and did not survive recent storm Oskari's gusts of up to 68
knots. "The mammoth structure collapsed peacefully, not hitting any of the
other six towers, not hurting people or damaging buildings", OH2BN reports.
"It is suspected that automation designed to enable the array to find its
most comfortable position in high winds somehow locked up and caused the
structure to corkscrew and crumble down on its on base".

STORMY WEATHER: SV2ASP/A ---> The Daily DX reports that also Monk Apollo,
the only active station from Mount Athos, has lost all of his antennas,
which "fell down in the big wind storm last week". Apollo is currently "in
Corinth, Greece for the olive harvest" and "does does not know when he will
have the time to get something back up in the air".


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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER
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3A60ARM 3A2ARM HK1/CO8ZZ DK1WI RR110RAEM UA9LP
3B9FR HB9SLO HZ1XB IZ8CLM RS110RAEM R4AAS
3W7W W3HNK IR8IDXC IK8WEJ RT110RAEM UA6YW]
3Z20SOT SP1NQF IY0CXII IQ0RM RU110RAEM R9WXK
3Z3ZIMA SP3SBY J68FF W3FF RV110RAEM UA3A
4O7ML DL3ML KC4AAA K1IED RW110RAEM RT0Q
4S7KKG DC0KK LY2013SAT LY3BY RX110RAEM R4IT
5R8IC F6ICX LY5YOTA ON9CFG RY110RAEM R9XC
5T0JL ON8RA LZ110RAEM LZ3SM RZ110RAEM RZ1ZZ
6L0NJ HL4CEL LZ125VZ LZ2KLR S21B KX7YT
6V7D DL7VOA OM13YOTA ON9CFG S513YOTA ON9CFG
8P2K KU9C OM9YOTA ON9CFG SG30RM SK6RM
8P9BJ K0BJ ON4YOTA ON9CFG SH9YOTA ON9CFG
8P9IU KI1U OU1RAEM DF5LW SN0YOTA ON9CFG
8P9TA KI1U OX5T OZ0J SN18PPM SP4EOO
9A283XV 9A3JB OY1OF M0URX SN20SOT SP1RKT
9H5G/C6A NI5DX P29LL EA7FTR SN3ZIMA SP3WVL
9X0ZM JO1CRA P29VNX JA1NLX SN5ZIMA SO5MAX
A61BM IZ8CLM P40GH WA2TTI SN640OKA SP5KVW
A91MCAT IZ8CLM PA6YOTA ON9CFG SP20SOT SP1YKO
AP2NK W3HNK PJ4DX M0URX T32RC N7RO
C6ANM WA2IYO R110RAEM R9OOO [b] T40C EA7FTR
CE2AWW N7RO R110RAEM UA9OA [d] TM16C F4DSE
D2QR RW6HS R1150SM RV3LZ TM1TLT F8KFP
D2QV UT0EA R1941OM RW3FB TM4TLT F4KIP
E6RQ VK4FI R1980L RX1CQ TT8ES IK3GES
E720IARU E71A R1980M UA3A UP110RAEM RW6HS
EG5MM EA5FL R200SB RN4ABD V63XG JA1XGI
EM110RAEM UT7UT R2014HQ RO6L VP8BTU G1EUZ
EN100ZKM UT5ZY R95NRL RA3TYL VX3X VE3JO
EN110RAEM UT5UIA RA110RAEM RA0R VY1JA N3SL
EO110RAEM US5ID RB110RAEM RW0UM XR150CBS XQ7UP
ES5YOTA ON9CFG RC110RAEM UA0C XU7AEV N2IEN
ES9YOTA ON9CFG RD110RAEM RA0AM XW0YJY E21EIC
FG4NN NI5DX RG110RAEM UA9APA YL13YOTA ON9CFG
HA110RAEM HA8MT RJ110RAEM RT2Y YO0YOTA ON9CFG
HA40QRP HA6NL RK110RAEM RN1ON YP95GU YO3IZT
HB30OK HB9OCR RL110RAEM RK3AW ZD7PAS ZD7DL
HD2RAE HD2A RM110RAEM RT5G ZD8UW M0OXO
HF1ZIMA SQ1KSM RN110RAEM/p RZ9DX ZF2OK N0OK
HF20SOT SP1KYB RO110RAEM RU5TT ZS6TQ K3IRV
HF3ZIMA SP3GVX RQ110RAEM R8IA ZT1T ZS1AFS

C91B P.O. Box 102303, Meer en See, Richards Bay, 3901, South Africa
C91J P.O. Box 102303, Meer en See, Richards Bay, 3901, South Africa
F5TLN Sylvain Bertrand, 16 rue Guerin, 30320 Marguerittes, France
IK3GES Gabriele Gentile, Via Baratta Vecchia 240, 31022 Preganziol TV,
Italy
IZ8CLM Salvatore Rapacciuolo, Ufficio Pompei, Casella Postale 10, 80045
Pompei NA, Italy
JA1NLX Akira Yoshida, 1-16-11 Kanamori-Higashi, Machida-shi, Tokyo,
194-0015, Japan
JA1XGI Haru Uchida, 2-30-11 Shintomi, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama-ken, 350-0043,
Japan
JA4GXS Kenji Sasaki, 2-15 Ishigannon-cho, Yamaguchi-shi, Yamaguchi-ken,
753-0038, Japan
JO1CRA Hideharu Aimono, 2577-1 Tsuruta-machi, Utsunomiya-shi,
Tochigi-ken, 320-0851, Japan
M0OXO Charles Wilmott, 60 Church Hill, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4NG,
United Kingdom
N7RO Richard J. Moen, 2935 Plymouth Dr, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
ON9CFG Bjorn Dettmaring, Twaalf Hofsteden 41A, 9940 Kluizen, Belgium
VK4FI Graeme Hope, 37 Haase Place, Bellbowrie QLD 4070, Australia
ZL3CW Jacky Calvo, PO Box 88, Waihi Beach 3642, New Zealand

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