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P5 - NORTH KOREA - Ed P5/4L4LN is very active in 15 meters -21225 khz - around 2230z but rather now it is listened better, what indicates that the vertical antenna was very well. However, it is not still informed when they will give him in writing the official permission. And do many ask in the Cluster when?. can you see in their page pictures of the antenna and Ed operating. The Qsl via KK5DO that by the way is reported in the bulletins DX that the Qsl has received it very soon. http://amsatnet.com

YA5T - AFGHANISTAN - it is informed in the page web of YA5T http://www.qsl.net/ya5t that Peter arrived February 3 to Kabul, it was Robert S53R that already had several days operating in that country and that same day Mark united ON4WW. Both continue using a vertical antenna R5 and 100 watts of power. Peter continues in New York and after one week he will return, while SM7PKK continues in the expedition in A6 and she will return to Kabul in two weeks. He says Peter that who operated in December RTTY like YA5T, she is pirate. The Qsl via KU9C.

PIRATE IN 6 METERS. - Yuri UA0SJ says that a station with the indicative UA0SC has been active in 6 meters, but it is a station pirate.

J73LR - GRENADA. - VE3EBN has been very active and in the cluster they have reported it in 10 and 40 meters CW and SSB. It will continue in that country until March.

5H - TANZANIA - Mauricio IK2GZU is active from February 5 and it will finish the 27. The Qsl to their indicative one personal.

EP3PTT - IRAN - Stig LA7JO has become the first foreigner that achieves a license of radio operator in this country from 1979 and it has been very active in the bands of 40 to 10 meters, from the headquarters of the club EP3PTT. The Qsl via LA7JO. But the Qsl can also request to: UNICEF Iran, Stig Lindblom, No. 30 East Farzan St., Naji St., Dastgerdi Ave., Tehran 19187, Islamic Republic of Iran, but it is recommended not to put indicative of radio in the envelope, and IRC is not accepted.

FS - St. MARTIN - Of the 2 at February 8 will be active George FS/W4LW and Frederick FS/K4UP in the French part of the island, especially in 20, 15 and 10 meters SSB and some 80 meters. They will only come out after the dinner and the breakfast - local time - because they went to the island with their wives in plan of vacations. The Qsl via K4UP.

JX7DFA - JAN MAYEN - it has been reported in numerous occasions in the clusters. The operator is LA7DFA who will respond the petitions of Qsl, but until he/she returns to its QTH in the spring.

S9LA - SAO TOME - February 10 finish the operation of the group formed by LA6FJA, LA7THA, LA5QKA, LA5UF, LA6EIA, LA7WCA, LC3EAT, LC6ZBT, SM5COP and SM5IMO who maintain at least two active stations during the 24 hours of the day in the bands of 160 to 6 meters in CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV, using amplifiers and a good range of antennas. QSL via direct to LA2N: Sore Sunnmore Gruppa av NRRL v / Otto Norhagen, NO-6143 Fiskaabygd, Norway. More information in: http://www.qsl.net/s9la/

XW3QBR - LAOS - Mauro IN3QBR informs that February 20 will finish its operation in that country, and soon he/she will inform on new dates of its operation.

3C5 - EQUATORIAL GUINEA - ISLAND BIOCO (AF010).- From the weekend it has been reported especially in the clusters 3C5/SP1NY in CW in the bands of 10, 12 and 30 meters. It is ignored how long it will last in that place. The Qsl to their indicative one personal.

CE9/LZ0 - SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS - Ricardo CE9R has been very active from the Base Julio Squire in the island King George, and she has been listened in 21275 khz at 1700z o'clock. The Qsl via CE3HDI: P.O.Box 15, International Airport, Santiago, Chile.
LZ0A - SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS - it has Also been very active in CW and SSB, in 3793 khz among 0130 0530z, but he/she has also been found in 21275 khz around 1815z o'clock. The Qsl via LZ1KDP.

VP8GEO - SOUTH GEORGIA OF THE SOUTH - The group multi national integrated by EI6FR, EI5IQ, HB9ASZ, PA3FQA, K0IR, W3WL, K4UEE, VE3EJ, N5KO, K5TR, W7EW and 9V1YC, this very active one in the island after many problems that had to disembark, because of the bad time. The Qsl via VE3XN: Garry Hammond, 5 McLaren Avenue, Listowel, Ontario N4W 3K1 NARROW CANYON.

KP2 - AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS - W8LBY and K8NI are active as KP2 / in St. Croix and they will finish February 13. They have concentrated to the bands Warcs and to the PSK31. The Qsl via direct to their indicative ones personal.

J38A - GRENADE - Bill K4LTA and their XYL Ruby K4UPS is for eighth occasion passing the vacations in this country. In the competitions NA Sprint February 9 and the ARRL DX CW February 16-17 will come out as J38A. Outside of competitions they operate as J37BO and J37RO. They operate in 20, 15,10, 80 and 160 meters as well as the bands Warcs, but they are also pending of the openings in 6 meters. They will finish February 26. The Qsl to: 101 Baylor Drive, Oak Ridge, Tn. 37830. It is asked to include a SASE.

TG - GUATEMALA - Tom W9AEB and Bob WF9V is operating in that place like TG7/W9AEB from January 31 and they will finish February 9, in the bands of 10 and 20 meters in CW and SSB. The Qsl via WF9V.

EM1KCC - ANTARCTIC - EM1KCC Igor has been very active in 18154 khz. The Qsl via UT7UA. (thank you LU3DV).

XW3QBR - LAOS - Mauro IN3QBR already began activities in that country where it will remain up to July 31 in Vientiane. On the other hand Fabrizio IN3ZNR will be operating from April 20 to May 10.

HL17 - SOUTH KOREA - From January 1 at May 30 the 2002 the League of Radioaficionados of Korea - KARL - with reason of the 17 World Glass of FIFA Korea/Japón the indicative special HL17FWC will only be being operated until before beginning the games. Also, during the games, of May 30 at June 31 an indicative one will be operated also special in the 10 cities where they are organized the Games, beginning with DB and then the number of the area and the subfijo FWC (ejem. DT1FWC). The Qsl via HL0HQ: KOREAN AMATEUR RADIATES LEAGUE, CPO Box 162, Seoul, KOREA. But also, of May 31 at June 31, all the indicative of Korea will change, taking off the original number and putting in their place the number 17 (ejem. HL1ABC - HL17ABC, DS0AB - DS17AB). it was also announced that he gets ready a special prize for who achieves contacts with those stations and the details will be given to know shortly.

CT3FN - ISLAND MADEIRA (AF014) - Hermann HB9CRV this asset from January 22 and it finishes February 14 from I Carry Saint and it will participate in the CQWW 160 Meters CW.

XU7ACE and XW - CAMBODIA AND LAOS - Jaak ES1FB informed that January 27 begin activity in Cambodia during two weeks especially in SSB and something of CW. Then he/she will go to Laos and it will operate during 3 or 4 days with an indicative one that still ignores. The Qsl via ES1FB.

HF0POL - ISLANDS SHETLAND OF THE SOUTH - Of January 1 at December 31 the 2002. The Qsl via SQ5TA.

SU3AM - EGYPT - The Qsl via DL5ZBV.

P29NB - PAPUA NEW GUINEA (OC034) - The Qsl to: Norm Beasley, Bale 437, Ukarumpa, EHP, 444, Papua-New Guinea. Remember that there IRC is not accepted.

P29KH - PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Qsl via WD9DZV.

DU - PHILLIPINES - DU1/F2JD, will be in that place until the month of June.

TT - CHAD - Guillaume F8ARR hopes to be active from this country next month in all the bands, digital ways and 6 meters. More information will be given shortly.

5T5 AND SO7 - MAURITANIA AND WESTERN SAHARA - Of the 11 at February 17 six members of the the International Interested Volunteers Radio - IARV - they will be in the Desert of Sahara like part of a program of help technique and they hope they allow them to operate their radios with the indicative one 5T5 / in Mauritania, and I eat S07CRS and S07U in Western Sahara. They will operate especially in CW and RTTY. The Qsl via direct to their indicative ones personal. For S07CRS and S07U it should be via direct to JA1UT.

XU7ACE - CAMBODIA - it is expected that for this Sunday February 10 active ES1FB are already. The Qsl to their indicative one personal.

NEW IOTA - Of the 9 at February 11 IT9YRE, IZ1CRR and IZ8AJQ will be operating from a new IOTA in the Island Sonsorol like T88SI. There will always be two stations operating the 24 hours of the day in the bands of 20, 15 and 10 meters in the ways CW, SSB and digital ways. The Qsl via direct to IT9YRE: Ferdinando Rubino, P.O.Box 96012 Avola, SR, Italy.

PY0AI - ARCHIPELAGO DE ABROLHOS (SA019) - Of the 16 at February 22 PT2GTI, PT2HF and PP2RON will activate that the Archipelago 8DIB: 12 and DFB: BA-14), in the bands of 10 to 80 meters CW and SSB in the habitual frequencies of IOTA. The Qsl via direct to: PT2GTI: Roberto F. Stuckert, Shin QI 07, Conj.12, marries 14, 71515-120, Brasilia/DF, Brazil. The operation is good for the WLH Award (it counts as LH-0463).

TI9M - ISLAND COCO, COSTA RICA - Of February 17 at March 4 2002 will be it activates this expedition that for some time has been announcing thoroughly. However the Government from Costa Rica only dió permission to operate Henry TI2HMG and she will only be able to operate the bands of 10 and 15 meters with a maximum of power of 250 watts because he only has license Class "B". http://www.qsl.net/ti9m/

8Q7ZZ - MALDIVES - The end of the month of July and during 10 days she will be carried out this expedition that Mark directs M0DXR, and the team EA2AIJ they integrate it, DJ1YFK, K3XC and M0TTT, operating in all the bands, even Warcs. They are also requesting patronage for the QSL or for the sale of the video that you/they will make, and they should warn Mark m0dxr@qsl.net More information in: http://www.8q7zz.com

PJ7B - ST. MAARTEN - Of February 24 at March 17 W8EB and W8DVC will be in that place for tenth occasion and then they will be united K8RLM and W9MSU to be in the French part of the island (SFC) and in the Dutch part (PJ7). The 2 and 3 of March will participate the Competition ARRL DX SSB with the indicative PJ7B. The rest of the time will make it with its indicative ones, and they will operate in all the bands, and for first time in 6 meters and PSK31. More information in: http://www.qsl.net/pj8a  http://www.qsl.net/w8eb  http://www.qsl.net/k9pxv

9L1JT - SIERRA LEONE - In April it will be Jerry K4ZIN of new bill in this country, where the government has granted him again his prefix 9L1JT. The operation will be very short, maybe only four days, for what will operate only in 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters CW and SSB. Jerry is now in that country and there it will remain during two weeks but dedicated totally to matters of business. At the end of February he/she will already be able to know the exact date of their operation.

9N1MM - NEPAL - April 14 will have a special operation to remember to the Father they Live. Charly informs K4VUD (9N1UD) that unfortunately have not been able to get that they are granted the indicative of the Father 9N0MM they Live for the radius club of Katmandu and the steps were also affected by the King's murder and part of its court.

9Q - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Between the 2 and February 24 several operators of that country will be active from Rubber, next to the Volcano of Nuyiragongo, in the county of North Kivu with the indicative one 9Q0AR/6, but also among those days other operative ones will come out as 9Q1MM, 9Q1KS, 9Q1A, 9Q1YL in the bands of 20, 15 and 10 meters and maybe in 40, 17 and 12 meters. The Qsl via F2YT with SAE and it stamps, but it is also accepted for via Desk.

PW0T - ISLAND TRINIDAD (IOTA SA010, DIB02 DXP). - Of February 18 at March 2 will be carried out an expedition to the island of Brazil more far from the continent, in the Archipelago of Vaz, after 3 years of being inactive. Organized by the Araucanian DX Group, in cooperation with Inepar and their president PY5EG, the Brazilian authorities and the Armada. The team will form it: PY5CC, PY1RO, PY5HSD, PT7BZ, PY7XC, PY7ZY, PY7ZZ, N6FF, W9VA, W6/G4VPM and PY0FF, the leader of the expedition and who by the way grieve it restores after delicate several months. They plan to be active the 24 hours of the day in all the bands and ways from 160 to 6 meters, and maybe also satellite, but depending on the demand of existent contacts. The log will be on-line. The supports for the expedition to: K7BV: Dennis Motschenbacher, 4357 Appollonio Way, Carson City, NV 89704. The Qsl via direct to KU9C, to where she can also send their support. More information in: http://www.trinidade2002.com

KH0 - MARIANA ISLANDS - Of the 9 at February 11 will be active KH0/JA5ROH and KH0/JA5AUC in the bands from 160 to 6 meters CW and SSB. The Qsl via direct to their indicative ones personal or via Desk JA.

MD - ISLAND OF THE MAN - Of the 11 at February 18 DL4LQM, DL4WG, DL5LYW, DL5AXX AND DL8WAA will be again mainly in the Man's Island in CW. The Qsl via direct to their indicative ones personal.

9A - ISLAND DE SUSAC OF THE LIGHTHOUSE DE KANULA (EU016 - LH1430) - Of the 23 at March 30 will be active 9A/DF9MV, 9A/DL9CHR AND 9A/DE0MST. The Qsl via direct to DE0MST: Manfred Stippschild, P.O.Box 1406, D-83657 Lenggries, Fed. Republic Of Germany. Via Bureau it is 100%.

CE - ISLAND OF LADIES (SA086) - Of the 8 at March 10 CE6TBN/2 will be active in the bands of 10 to 10 meters only in SSB. The Qsl via direct to N1IBM.

H44 and H40 - TEMOTU AND ISLAND OF SOLOMON - The operation of DL7AFS and DJ7ZG will begin February 10, and depending on the local conditions, for the electric power lack, the tropical malaria, among other, they have programmed to activate all the bands from 80 to 6 meters in SSB, RTTY and PSK31. Then they will go to Temotu where they will be active as H40ZG and H40YL. The Qsl for both operations day DL7AFS. More information in: http://www.qsl.net/dl7afs

VP8GEO - SOUTH GEORGIA AND ISLANDS ORKNEYS OF THE SOUTH - Of February 27 at March 2 Mike GM0HCQ will be operating from Orkneys of the South and of the 4 to March 6 like VP8SGK from Georgia of the South. More information in: http://www.qsl.net/gm0hcq/

YN - NICARAGUA - Of February 18 at March 8 DL2OE and DL3DXX already have the permission to operate and they want to put special attention to the bands of 160 and 80 meters and in RTTY. They have activated countries like CE0Y before, CE0Z, T30, FW, 3D2, ZL7, P29, S21, VK9X, VK9C, VK9L, D44, CT3, C5, HP, ZB2 and HB0, and they highlight that the trip will come out them very expensive for the overweight that you will have to pay in the airplane to transport several antennas, three radios, two amplifiers, for what you are requesting support, contacting Hans to its electronic mail dl7cm@online.de

KH4 - ISLAND MIDWAY - Phil G3SWH has informed that the expedition has been canceled that had programmed to the island Midway from the 6 to April 30 because the flights have been canceled among Hawaii-Midway and the hotel in the island is closing its operation, as well as they are closing the stores and all the lodgings and the whole population is beginning to leave, for instructions of the Service of Fishing and Fauna of USA, to preserve the ecological environment of the island.

NEW MICRO-SATELLITE - AMSAT America of the North prepares a great project: to place a micro-satellite in a low orbit that can be activated from the Earth with a portable transceiver of 2 meters dual-bander with 70 centimeters, but he will also have other occult functions. Shortly more details of the project will be given, after the concept is accepted by the directive meeting of Amsat America.

DEBATES ON THE NEW IRC - Informs 5B4AFB that the new IRC 15 for 10 centimeters is already for sale in Cyprus and it will only be valid up to December 31 the 2006. On the other hand G4BGW informs that they are also already for sale in the United Kingdom. On the other hand Gunnar SM0SMK, president of the Society of Radio Fond of Sweden, also confirms that they are already selling in his country and he says that each country will have to print his that will be accepted in all the countries. XE1BEF informs to have received the first new IRC of United States, but in the post office in Mexico don't still know them and they don't accept them, until they receive instructions.

A YOUNG EXPEDITION. - The "Crystal Clear DX Group" she is preparing an expedition to the Maldives at the end of July of the 2002, but the interesting of this project is that all their members are young: The leader of the team is Mark M0DXR 18 years old, besides M0TTT, DJ1YFK, EA2AIJ and K3XC. The main objective of the expedition will be the knowledge for these new operators. They plan to carry out 30,000 QSOs and they will use the indicative one 8Q7ZZ. More information one could request m0dxr@qsl.net

QSL MANAGER. - AC7DX informs that he is the QSL mánager of BV2FB.

GOOD OPENING. - Steve VK3SIX has counted an interesting history: she says that from 1973 to the date has 166 countries in 6 meters, but now in the cycle 23 from the grid QF02WH achieved during the opening of one day more than 60 countries with 100 watts of power.

EXEMPLARY OPERATOR. - Robin M1DUD is an operator very insistent QRP in 50 MHZ that has achieved excellent results: January 26 the 2002 achieved several contacts with stations of United States and Canada using an antenna of 3 elements and 2 watts of power! that which gives an idea of the quality of the used antenna.

SENT QSL. - Karl DL2FAG, the Qsl mánager of C98DC informs that the 4824 Qsl that has received via direct up to January 28 was already by mail correspondents. But now she will make a pause, since it will be in the expedition for H40 and H44.

NO MANAGER. - Sergey EX8MLE that has been very active for several weeks in Kyrgystan, no longer has Qsl mánager and for that reason it asks that the QSL sends him to: Sergey Tkachenko, P.O. Box 742, Bishkek 720017, KYRGYZSTAN. And he notices that if he/she sends himself by mail registered, there will be more security.

VP8 - GEORGIA OF THE SOUTH - For those who VP8GEO worked they are informed that the Qsl can request it via direct to: VE3GCO: The Maple Leaf Radiates Society, 5 Avenue of McLaren, Listowel, Ontario N4W 3K1 Canada.

DESTROYED QSL. - Informs David M0CHR, subordinate manager of the Buro M0D-M0Z, says that 1200 cards QSL that were not claimed by the operators, has been destroyed. It is considered that it can wonder for the electronic mail if cards are had to their favor: mail@m0chr.co.uk This information also demonstrates us to the operators DX that if our cards QSL sends them to the Bureau of M0 and its operators don't claim them, they will simply get lost. Pity!

QSL PJ2T. - Marty Informs NW0L/PJ2T that its new QSL mánager is Scott N9AG who will also assist all the applications that have been made its QSL previous mánager KN7Y. It asks them to have patience to receive the QSL.

LIST THE QSL. - Alain F6BFH informed that she already received the cards QSL of XU7ABW, XU7ABY, XU7ABZ and XU7ACA of IK1PML. More than 650 QSL for XU7ABW have been already by mail correspondents as well as all those of the operation in 6 meters. On previous Saturday already put in the mail all the QSL that had received up to now. The QSL via desk will send them in this month.

Six Club 2nd Winter Contest, begins at the 2300z of February 8 and it finishes at the 0300z of February 11.

CQ/RJ WW RTTY WPX Contest, begins to the 0000z of February 9 and it finishes at the 2400z of February 10.

Utah QSO Party, begins to the 0000z of February 9 and it finishes at the 2400z of February 10.

Asia-Pacific Sprint CW, begins at 1100z o'clock and it finishes at the 1300z of February 9.

Dutch PACC Contest, begins at the 1200z of February 9 and it finishes at the 1200z of February 10.

YL-OM Contest CW, begins at the 1400z of February 9 and it finishes at the 0200z of February 11.

FISTS Winter Sprint, begins at 1700z o'clock and it finishes at the 2100z of February 9.

RSGB 1.8 Mhz Contest CW, begins at the 2100z of February 9 and it finishes at the 0100z of February 10.

North American Sprint CW, of the 0000z at the 0400z of February 10.

QRP ARCI Winter Fireside SSB Sprint, of 2000z o'clock at the 2400z of February 10.

NEXT WEEK

ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST CW, begins to the 0000z of February 16 and it finishes February 17 at 2400z o'clock.

YL-OM Contest SSB, begins at the 1400z of February 16 and it finishes at the 0200z of February 18.

The weekly presage of the propagation of Tad Cook, K7VVV, points out that the solar flow reached the maximum thing on Tuesday with 261 and during the previous week she stayed between 250 and 235.
K1TEO reported that January 23 in 6 meters the conditions opened up toward Ukraine with reports S9. The following day the opening was with it is, YL, OH, SM, and another day later the conditions were good with Western Europe, as well as to the west and the western coast of Canada.
The presage is that they improve the conditions in HF, with a flow solar average of 230.8 and an index K average 5.6, considered as bad.

On the other hand Neil Clarke, G0CAS, in its weekly work on the propagation highlights that during the week the solar flow increased from 225 units to 248 and averaging 234. The space ship ISS detected a variable solar wind between 300 and 500 kilometers per second. The best openings were given among 0400 0600z between 14.3 and 3.5 MHZ. The openings in 50MHZ for F2 they were short for the gradual fall of the solar flow.
The high bands of HF will remain with good conditions during another month.
In their estimates for the following week, it considers that the solar flow will increase around 230 in the weekend. There will be good openings during the hours of the day in same latitudes around the 39 mhz for the south and 36mhz for the north. In hours of darkness it will be approximately around 10mhz. The possibilities of success to the Asia will be approximately of 50 percent in 30mhz, but the good frequency will be around 23mhz with 90 percent of success should prove among 1100 1400z or for the long road around 0900z. Next week will be impossible an opening in 50MHZ toward Australia, but yes toward the center and East of America of the North with Europe, in the morning, and maybe in the afternoon, but only some days.

6 METERS IN MEXICO. - XE1KK that the band in 6 meters opened up February 4 again at 1614z  with United States and Europe working GI and OZ . The following day at the same hour, the opening was with Scandinavia and XE1KK GI, OX, she worked SM, LA, while XE1UN worked an OZ. On the other hand XE1BEF reports that February 2 of 1617z at 1802z 204 QSO carried out in 50 MHZ with W1-2-3-5-0, VY1-2, VE1-2-3, VO1-2, receiving numerous reports 59+ and CQ was never called.

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