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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Amateur radio on islands, castles and portable operations report


21/06/2007: Matthias, DD9HK will be active June 21st to July 5th from the 3V8SS QTH
in Sousse, Tunisia. QSL this operation via DD9HK. [Tnx 425 DX News]

22/06/2007: Members of the Uruguay DX Group plan to activate Wichubwala Island in the
San Blas Province Group (NA-170) between June 22-28th. The operators mentioned are:
Mario/CX4CR, Bert/CX3AN and Gus/CX2AM. Look for them to sign HP2/homecall. Activity will be on 80-6 meters CW, SSB and the digital modes. QSL via CX2AM. For more nfo, please visit their web page at: www.cx2an.servehttp.com/hp2/ (Tnx OPDX)

23/06/2007: Mike, G0HIO has arranged a radio trip to Cyprus (AS-004, MIA MCI-002, WLOTA LH-0051), June 23-30th. He will be operating CW only as 5B/G0HIO, with 100 watts and wire antennas. QSL via home call. E-mail requests for band skeds can be sent to (g0hio -at- tesco.net). [Tnx 425 DX News]

23/06/2007: Operators Ivan/OM3CGN, Bob/OM1KW, Afif/7X2RO, Youcef/7X2HF, Sofiane/7X2GX, Faouzi/7X2FB, Franta/7X0RY and Yves/7X0MT will be QRV June 23-28th as 7U5CI from Cavallo Island (AF-104/Pr). Activity will be on all bands with 3 stations, spiderbeam and wire dipoles. QSL via OM3CGN. [Tnx Pete's-DX-Newsdesk]

23/06/2007: Gianfranco, I6GFX and Luca, I6QIZ will be active as 9A/I6GFX from Croatia, June 23-28th. Their main QTH will be on Murter Island (not IOTA, IOCA CI-074), and they plan to go and operate from a few EU-170 counters: Arta Vela (IOCA CI-004, MIA MC-008), Kornat (IOCA CI-042, MIA MC-166), Murvenjak (IOCA CI-075, MIA MC-263), Radelj (IOCA CI-097, MIA MC-331), Smokvica Vela (IOCA CI-107, MIA MC-387), Vrgada (IOCA CI-143, MIA MC-462) and Prisnjak Mali (IOCA CI-488, MIA MC-319). QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx 425 DX News]

23/06/2007: Look for Nicolas, F5NWL/p to be active June 23rd from the Castle of Flamanville (DFCF 50-028), Department of Manche (DDFM 50), Province of Basse-Normandie (DPF 04). Activity will probably be mostly on 40 and 20 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx Radioamateur.org]

24/06/2007: Ric, DL2VFR will be QRV June 24 to July 1 as OZ/DL2VFR from Laeso Island (EU-088, NK-003 for the Danish Islands Award), maybe Hornfiskroen Island (EU-088, NK-005 for the Danish Islands Award). Activity will be on all HF bands, CW and SSB. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [Tnx RSGB IOTA]

25/06/2007: Eli, N6PF will be celebrating his 60th birthday with a visit to 3A2MD's QTH. He will be operating as 3A/N6PF from June 25-30th. Bands and modes of activity were not provided. QSL via his home call. [Tnx OPDX]

25/06/2007: Xavier, ON4XA reports that he will operate as YO2/ON4XA from Romania between June 25th and July 3rd. From 21 July 21st to August 12th Xavier and Bea, ON4BEA/YO2MBO will operate as F/ON4XA and F/ON4BEA from France. QSLs via home calls. [Tnx 425 DX News]

26/06/2007: Look for Ralph, NM5RC/p to activate three new islands on June 26th for the U.S. Islands Award program. He will be sitting on the UT/AZ border on Antelope Island with six-for-one contact: UT/AZ, UT023/AZ023, Kane/Coconina counties. Also Padre Point Island, UT022, San Juan County, which only needs 13 more contacts to qualify it. Island order yet to be determined. Ralph will be QRV mainly on 20m (14.260 MHz), but will try to accomodate relayed requests for other bands. He will send QSL cards for all QSOs. Accept QSL's via: USi eQSL, Callbook Address and Bureau. [Tnx USi]

27/06/2007: G3ZAY, M0HSW, and M0TJH will be QRV as EI/homecall/P from Inishmore (EU-006) from 2000 UTC June 27th to 1000 UTC June 29th. They will also try to operate for a few hours, weather permitting, from the Blasket Islands (EU-007) on June 30th. QSL via home calls. [Tnx 425 DX News]

28/06/2007: Rod, NA9N, will be active as J79RM from the island of Dominica (NA-101), June 28th-July 5th. He will mostly be operating HF and will try to work a number of digital modes. QSL to his home call sign, NA9N. [Tnx OPDX]

28/06/2007: Jim, WB2REM will be operating the special 4-letter suffix callsign VP2EREM from the island of Anguilla (NA-022) from June 28th to July 8th. Operation is expected on 80-10m using CW and SSB. QSL via WB2REM. [Tnx NG3K]

29/06/2007: Zhang, BD3APX will be active as BD3APX/2 from Juhua Island (AS-151) between June 29th and July 1st. Activity will be on 40-10 metres usingn CW, SSB and Digital modes. QSL via BD3APX. [Tnx OPDX]

29/06/2007: Pierre, HB9QQ will be trying to activate Liechtenstein (HB0) again from June 29th to July 2nd and July 6-9th. He will try to be active on HF/6m/2m as well WSJT (for meteorscatter). QTH will be the Sareiserjoch in Malbun Lichtenstein at about 2015m asl. NO EME activty planned. QSL via home call. [Tnx F5NQL]

29/06/2007: Operators Igor/VE3ZF, Alex/VE3KF and Nick/VE3FJ are going to Orleans Island [Ile d'Orleans] (NA-128, QC-007 for the Canadian Islands Award) and hope to be on the air as VE2IDX before sunset on June 29th. They will stay on Orleans Island for a couple of days and their main goal is participating in the RAC 2007 Canada Day Contest which will be held on July 1st. Main frequencies will be 14.260 MHz (daytime) and 3.795 / 7.260 MHz (during night). Equipment: transceivers YAESU FT-1000MP, IC-765, IC-756 PROIII,
PA Kenwood TL-922a and Drake 1 kW output, antennas Spider 3 elements Yagi for 14-21-28 at 10 meters telescopic mast, vertical Cushcraft AP8A, Inverted Vee and Delta Loop on low bands, GP for 50 MHz and Yagi for 144 MHz. QSL direct to VE3ZF (Igor Slakva VE3ZF, 105 La Rose Avenue, Apt. #803, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9P 1A9 Canada). [Tnx VE3ZF]

29/06/2007: Pete/VE3IKV and Bill/W4TAA will be activating the Belcher Islands in CQ Zone 2, VY0 Nunavut Territory, using the special call sign authorized by Industry Canada - VF0X - between June 29 and July 4, 2007. This is IOTA island group NA-196. They will be on HF and 6 metres, CW and SSB. QSL is via VE3IKV direct (quick) or via the bureau (slow).(Tnx NG3K)
(Source: I.C.P.O. Bulletin 21-29 June via Dave Raycroft)