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- DX Bulletin 20 ARLD020
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT April 14, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB DX ARL ARLD020
- ARLD020 DX news
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- The items in this week's bulletin are courtesy of Bob, WB2CJL,
- Joyce, WB9NUL, Frank, AH0W/OH2LVG, Jay, AF2C, Pat, G3IOR, the Yankee
- Clipper Contest Club PacketCluster network, and Contest Corral from
- the pages of QST. Thanks.
-
- RWANDA. Paul, F6EXV, has been evacuated from Rwanda and is safe in
- Burundi. He had been operating as 9X5DX. Paul was active from 7O
- several years ago, and was the equipment benefactor for 7O1AA.
- Plans are for Paul to move on to Kenya around the time this bulletin
- makes its way to the airwaves.
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- YEMEN. Be leary of any 7O station operating CW. Pat, G3IOR,
- reports that the only activity from Yemen is on SSB, that being
- Ahmed operating 7O1AA. Check the Arabian Nights and Family Hour
- nets, 14226, 14243 and 14250 kHz. Ahmed also chats with Zedan,
- JY3ZH, around these frequencies. QSL via PO Box 485, Aden, Yemen.
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- ON THE TRAIL OF ZL1AMO. Ron, ZL1AMO, will be active soon as 3D2RW,
- with the hopes of moving on to C21, T28RW and ZK3.
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- VATICAN. Listen for Bob, N2EDF, operating HV4NAC until April 19.
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- JORDAN. Ibrahim, JY5IN, sometimes checks into the DX net on 14243
- kHz at around 0615z. Also try 14247 kHz at 2230z.
-
- ALAND ISLAND. Pete, OH3MEP, will be active as OH0MEP for a week
- starting April 16. Around the same time, listen for OH0NLP, OH0LQK,
- OH0LIU, OH0LYA and OH0KAG. Between all these stations, CW, SSB and
- RTTY will be used on all HF bands. Some satellite activity is also
- planned.
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- SINT MAARTEN. From May 24 to 30, Chod, VP2ML/WB2CHO, and Frank,
- AH0W/OH2LVG will be signing PJ7/WB2CHO and PJ7/OH2LVG respectively.
- They will team up to operate in the CQ WPX CW Contest as PJ8X. QSL
- PJ7/WB2CHO via K1RH. QSL PJ7/OH2LVG and PJ8X via KE7LZ.
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- FIJI, TONGA AND WESTERN SAMOA. JR7OEF will be active from these
- South Pacific locations. The tentative schedule is April 29 and 30
- as 3D2EF, May 2, 3 and 4 as 5W0NI, May 4, 5 and 6 as A35NI, and May
- 7 and 8 as 3D2EF. QSL via JR7OEF.
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- ANTARCTICA. Gavin, VP8GAV, is active from the British base of
- Rothera. Check between 3500 and 3506 kHz around 0515z, and again
- between 1015 and 1100z. His 20 meter haunts are 14017 kHz CW at
- 0030z and 14245 kHz SSB. QSL via GM0LVI.
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- GHANA. Peter, ex XT2BW, is active as 9G1PW and was heard on 21297
- kHz at 1428z. QSL via WB2YQH.
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- NEPAL. Marlo, IK3HAQ hopes to be active until April 24.
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- SAINT PAUL ISLAND. Operators KW2P, WA4DAN, AA4VK, N0TG and possibly
- W0RJU plan to be active for the first week of July. This is the
- same group operated from KP1 and KP5 in 1992 and 1993. Landing
- permission and transportation have been secured.
-
- PETER ONE ISLAND QSLS. Cards for the recent 3Y Expedition are being
- printed in Belgium and will be shipped to the states soon. Jerry,
- AA6BV, states that label printing is about 75 per cent complete,
- with final mailing planned for sometime in May. Please note to QSL
- SSB contacts via AA6BB. CW and RTTY cards go via KA6V.
-
- ON A SAD NOTE. QSL Manager Joyce, WB9NUL, reports that HK0BKX is
- now a Silent Key. Francisco provided countless DXCC credits for San
- Andres Island.
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- THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. Check out the SARTG World Wide AMTOR
- Contest, sponsored by the Scandinavian Amateur Radio Teleprinter
- Group. It runs from 0000 to 0800z and 1600 to 2400z on April 16,
- and 0800 to 1600z on the 17th. Exchange RST, name and QSO number
- starting with 001. Use FEC, mode B, for calling and ARQ, mode A,
- for exchange. For more info see page 121 of March QST.
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