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Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 112
The Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 112
BID: $OPDX.112
May 24, 1993
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 216-237-8208 14400/9600/2400/1200/300 8/N/1

Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, ARRL, DXAC, DF4RD, EA3BKI,
HB9ARC, AD1C, K3ANS, K4CEF & Southeastern Cluster Group, AH6MM, KF8VW,
W8GMH and NE8Z for the following DX information.

9M0S, SPRATLY ISLANDS. Martti Laine, OH2BH, was heard talking to Wayne,
N7NG, this past weekend about the latest details of the 9M0S DXpedition.
The DXpedition team (OH2BH, N7NG, OH1NYP, OH2MAK, AB6NJ, WA6AUE, JA5DQH,
9V1YW, 9M2FK and 9M6TC) plan to depart from East Malaysia by plane and
fly directly to Spratly. Departure time is 7 AM from 9M6-land on May
27th. It is only a one and one-half hour flight to Spratly, so they
plan to be on the air in the afternoon. Operation will last 6 1/2 days.

CW:  1827, 3502/3522, 7002/7022, 10102, 14022, 18072, 21022, 24892, 28022 kHz
SSB: 1827, 3792, 7062, 14195, 18102, 21295, 24932, 28495 kHz

The satellite operations are supported by the U.S. OSCAR 13 Group
and maintained by OH2MAK. During the CQ WPX CW Contest stations will
be transmitting 1kHz above CW band edges.

9E, ERITREA. There is a rumor that two JA operations are planned for
here towards the end of month. Call signs are apparently already
assigned, but the operators do not wish to publicize them.

IOTA NA-110. Dr. Rick Dorsch will be active as NE8Z/1C0 from Hilton Head
Island, South Carolina. Activity will be from June 19-27, on the following
frequencies: SSB IOTA freq 14260, 21260 and 28460; CW is plus 5kHz and
25 kHz up on 40-10 meters. QSL Manager is K8LJG, John Kroll, 3528 Craig
Drive, Flint, MI 48506.

KH9, WAKE ISLAND. The following information was supplied by Javier, AH6MM,
about a DXpedition that is still "IN THE WORKS":  The Cal Poly Amateur
Radio CLUB W6BHZ (ITS STUDENT MEMBERS) are organizing a DXpedition/Radio
Wave Propagation experiment to WAKE ISLAND KH9 for late August and early
September. Permission has been received from "some" of the necessary U.S.
AIR FORCE authorities. This is being organized as a "MAJOR" DXpedition
and Propagation Experiments to KH9 by the students of California
Polytechnic State University and the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club W6BHZ.

There will be 6 operators and activity will be on CW, SSB, RTTY and
OSCAR Satellites and all bands (160-6 meters). MOONBOUNCE equipment might
be brought if enough funds are received to get equipment to WAKE (This is
being done on a college student budget so they might need help).

This is "UNOFFICIAL INFORMATION", but they expect the last remaining
documents to be received in the next 2 to 3 weeks. More details and
information will be released later as it is received. Also, Javier,
mentioned he will be working and operating in Finland this summer (more
details next week).

KH0, SAIPAN. Dave, KE2PF, will be active before the end of the month
from here and other remotely islands. The remotely islands, which consist
of Sarigan Island, Pagan Island, Maug Island, Guguan Island and Aguijan
Island, will please many IOTA chasers because they have never been on
the air before. He plans to spend a day or so on each island.

S0, WESTERN SAHARA. OPDX has obtained two letters from Arseli Echeguren
Bardeci, EA2JG (R.A.S.D Amateur Manager), stating that portable S0
operations are not allowed at the present time in the country. The
station operating KA3KJH/S0 has not received any permission to operate
portable S0. The one letter also states KA3KJH/S0 is not operating
inside S0 territory.  At the present time, the only legal active stations
of operation are: S0RASD (Club Station), S01A (Naama Zeine Edinne),
S01B (Azman Mohammed) and S01MZ (Manfud Zein). The only temporary
operations and DXpeditions that were legal are: S01EA, S01LYNX, S02UN,
S03UN and S01DX. Both letters were orginally sent to the ARRL in March.

T2, TUVALU. Juan, T20JC, is apparently a new licensee on the island. He
has been heard a few times on 14247 kHz between 0330-0500z. It was
reported that Juan is with the Peace Corps. QSL via KL7H.

V6, MICRONESIA. Greta, HB9ARC, attending the Asian YL-meeting in Osaka,
met with Minami, JQ3EEL, and was told he would be going to Micronesia
as V63SM, June 18-20. He will be active on SSB (21240, 7070), CW (21040,
7007) and on the satellites (145.930 or 145.890). QSL to: P.O. Box 88,
Moriguci, 570, Japan.

ZD9, TRISTAN DE CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLAND. Andy, ZD9BV, and his wife
Lorraine, ZD9CO, are the only hams on Tristan de Cunha. They can only
operate until midnight local time because the town's generator goes off
at that time. Andy frequents 21260 kHz around 1830z and 21313 kHz at
1800z. His wife sometimes shows on the YL/NET at 21313 kHz around 1830z
and another net on 21355 kHz at 1930z. Both can be QSLed to W4FRU.

Alain, ZD9CQ, is on Gough Island through November. He mainly works
20 and 40 meters on SSB. QSL via ZS6AS.

DXAC HAPPENINGS. Reported in the DXAC's Monthly Report, the DXAC Chairman
Bob Beatty, W4VQ, has scheduled two votes for the week of July 5th:

1 The DXAC was requested to consider an endorsement for the DXCC award
for those attaining Honor Roll status for single-band and
mode-peculiar endorseable DXCC awards.

2 The Southern California DX Club proposes a change of DXCC in Criteria
Point 2 from a separation between a Point 1 island nation and the
first island from 225 miles to a separation of 100 miles and from
the first island to subseqents islands of 500 miles to 100 miles.
The intent is to "increase the number of countries for the pursuit
of DX".

NEW CALL SIGN PREFIXES FOR "The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)"
as reported by the Russian newspaper, "Patriot".

4J-Azerbaydzhan EY - Tadzhikistan
4L-Georgia      EZ - Turkmeniya
EK-Armenia      R, UA to UI, 4K - Russia
ER-Moldova      UJ to UM, UR to UZ, EM, EO - Ukraine
EU, EV, EW - Belarus UN, UO, UP, UQ - Kazakhstan
EX-Kyrgyzstan

Uzbekistan was missing from the list.  There was no indication of
implementation dates nor what would be the status of current call
signs that do not conform to this outline.

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