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In a new edition of the International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (ILLW 2008) , which will be held on the third weekend of August (15, 16, 17 August) the BAHIA BLANCA DX GROUP RADIO CLUB (www.grupodxbb.com.ar) will transmit, this time, from SEVEN (7) different lighthouses at the same time:

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MORRO NUEVO Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG – 048, ILLW AR-0031) – FOR FIRST TIME.
Lat. 42° 52′ S Long. 64° 08′ W — Grid Locator = FE77wd
Located at the South end corner of Valdez Peninsula. It indicates the entrance to the “Nuevo” Gulf. 750 Km. South from Bahía Blanca
Operators and calls used: LU9ESD/W, LU4ETN/W, LW9EAG/W.

SAN GREGORIO Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-062, ILLW AR-0028) – FOR FIRST TIME.
Lat. 45° 01′ S Long. 65° 38′ W — Grid Locator = FE74ex
Located in South East of Chubut Province.
Operators and calls used: LU1EUU/W LU5DEM/W + others.

CABO ARISTIZABAL Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-023 HISTORIC, ILLW AR-0027) – FOR FIRST TIME.
Lat. 45° 13’ S Long. 66° 32’ W. — Grid Locator = FE64rs
Located at North end of “San Jorge” Gulf, in Chubut Province.
Operators and calls used: LU7DSY/W, LU5DIT/W, LU6DBL/W + others.

PUERTO ROSALES Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-095, ILLW AR-0029) – FOR FIRST TIME.
Lat. 58° 55’ S Long. 62° 04’ W — Grid Locator = FD81xc
Located in the access to the main wharf of the commercial port of Punta Alta city in the south of Buenos Aires Province.
Call Used: LU3DXG/D (Official call of BBDXG). Operators: LU5EAO/D, LU8EHQ/D, LU7EUZ/D, LU5DKT/D, LW5DAD/D, LW2ENB/D

BALIZA CHICA Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-083, ILLW AR-0026).
Lat. 38° 53’ S Long. 61° 58’ W — Grid Locator = FF91ac
Located in the Base of Marines called “Baterías”. 20 km. southeast from Naval Base Puerto Belgrano and 40 km. from Bahía Blanca.
Operators and calls used: LU8DWR/D, LU8DIP/D , LU3DZO/D, LU4ELE/D, LU4UZW/D, LU4DBP/D .

BALIZA PUNTA ATALAYA Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-099, ILLW AR-0024).
Lat. 35° 01’ S Long. 57° 32’ W — Grid Locator = GF14fx
Located in the perimeter of the Argentine Naval Prefecture, detachment Atalaya. 102 Km. east from Buenos Aires city.
Operators and calls used: LU6DRN/D, LU6EU/D.

CLAROMECÓ Lighthouse (ARLHS ARG-014, ILLW AR-0008)
Lat. 38° 51’ S Long. 60° 03’ W — Grid Locator = FF91xd
Located in the Claromecó Spa, near Tres Arroyos town. 200 Km. east from Bahía Blanca.
Operators and calls used: LU7HW/D, LU3HKA/D, LU7EHL/D, LU7DR/D, LU4DBT/D

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— All Bands and modes will be worked, including digimodes (RTTY, PSK31, SSTV…) and CW.

— SAN GREGORIO, CABO ARISTIZABAL and MORRO NUEVO Lighthouse will use each operator´s callsigns plus “/W” because they are located in the province of Chubut.

— PUERTO ROSALES LH will use the official BBDXG call LU3DXG for this first time activity.

— Contacts with PUERTO ROSALES, BALIZA CHICA, BALIZA PUNTA ATALAYA and CLAROMECÓ Lighthouses will be valid for the “PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES LIGHTHOUSES” Award organized by Bahía Blanca DX Group. (more info: lu9esd@yahoo.com)

— Also the permanent award is on the air this year again: “Argentine Atlantic Coast Lighthouses 2008” organized by Bahía Blanca DX Group, Mistongo DX Group, Tandil Radio Club (LU2EE) and Avellaneda Radio Club (LU7EE).
Silver version: working a minimum of 5 of 9 lighthouses valid for this award.
Gold version: working the 9 lighthouses valid for this award.

The valid lighthouses are:
ARG-048, ARG-062, ARG-023, ARG-095, ARG-083, ARG-099 and ARG-014 (by BBDXG)
ARG-063 (ILLW AR-0025) SAN JOSE Lighthouse activated for FIRST TIME (by Mistongo DX Group and Tandil RC)
ARG-008 (ILLW AR-0012) PUNTA MEDANOS Lighthouse (by Avellaneda Radio Club)

The award are printed in full color glossy paper and call and name in laser print.

The cost (totally: QSL’s, post costs and award) for all DXCC entities are 10 Green Stamps or 8 IRC. You will need send a log with a separated QSL per each Lighthouse.

The term for the reception of requests will overcome on 20th September of 2008.

For more info please contact: lu9esd@yahoo.com

— The QSL and Award manager are:

LU7DSY Carlos
P.O. Box 709
8000 Bahía Blanca
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Please send one envelope with all your QSL.
Up to 2 QSL = 1 IRC. Up to 4 QSL = 2 IRC. Up to 6 QSL = 3 IRC. Up to 8 QSL = 4 IRC. For 9 QSL without award please send 5 IRC.
If you want the award send QSL for each lighthouse and 8 IRC.

— For More information:
lu9esd@yahoo.com

PLEASE FWD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS AND BULLETINS. TNX.

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VISIT VK9DWX

You always had the dream not only to work a DXpedition from your home but also to visit the crazy guys on their lonely island?

Now your dream comes true!

• 4 day trip with the Rum Runner
• Start: October 15th, 2008 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia
• Finish: October 19th, 2008 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia
• Accomodation onboard the Rum Runner
• Including meals and soft drinks (alcoholic drinks on own account)
• See the VK9DWX operators live at workinig Pile-Ups (guest operation possible)
• Flight to Cairns is NOT included
• Every guest has to ensure that he is on the Rum Runner in time as we depend on the supplies for our operation
• Costs: EUR 1000,- per person

If you are interested in this exciting trip please contact us via the contact form on our website.

http://www.vk9dwx.de

S21VOA

Will be QRV in evening hours local time from Dhaka a few days this week on CW & SSB on HF.

QSLs to my home call direct (or via W7 buro).

73,

Steve W7VOA (A52SW, T88SH, VU3USJ, 7J1AIL, 9N7VOA)

Will be QRV in evening hours local time from Dhaka a few days this week on CW & SSB on HF.

QSLs to my home call direct (or via W7 buro).

73,

Steve W7VOA (A52SW, T88SH, VU3USJ, 7J1AIL, 9N7VOA)

What is geocoding ? Geocoding is the ability to assign coordinates (lat/long) to points on a map. How is this useful for DX’ers ?

Well now if you want to know the lat/long of a place, go dont have to fire up google earth, it can now be done in Google Maps. Just search for the address or place name and there is a marker there with the lat/long.

 http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/shout-it-from-rooftops.html#links

Paul

Check out this link to see how you can add a 4D view of the Ionosphere using Google Earth !

The following operations are approved for DXCC credit:

9UXEV – Burundi

2008 Operation

5X1NH – Uganda

2007 Operation

YK9G – Syria

2008 Operation

SØ5A – Western Sahara

2007 Operation

HZ1PS – Saudi Arabia

G4GIR/KH9 – Wake Island

2007 Operation

If you had this rejected in a prior application, please send a note to dxcc@arrl.org to be placed on the list for an update.

73 es DX!

from Bill Moore…

The following operations are approved for DXCC Credit:

TX5C – Clipperton Island

2008 Operation

VP6DX – Ducie Island

2008 Operation

73 es DX!

Due to consistently poor wx and rig problems from the wx it looks as if TX5C will QRT as early as Friday. They have been really beaten up by tropical storms and high temps.

W1GDQ

courtesy of Bernie at dailydx

FIRST FULL DAY OF OPERATION YIELDS 17,652 QSO’s. ONLINE LOG BEING READIED.

Courtesy

Pete’s Newsdesk

Jan HH4/K4QD and Don HH4/AF4Z will be at the Northwest Haiti Christian
Mission www.nwhcm.org from 24 March to 4 April.  They will operate 80-10M on
CW, SSB and RTTY as time permits.  The will also participate in the CQWW WPX
SSB contest.  QSL to home calls (K4QD & AF4Z).  Operators prefer direct or
LoTW, but BURO OK.

FR/G by French op’s

Early May for several weeks

tnx F5nql

It is now 3:18am EST and I am sitting in the airport in Ireland, in the next few hours I will be in Amsterdam and if all goes well I should be on the air late afternoon local time. I am toting a K1, so I will be QRP with about 4 watts on either 14.025 or 7.025mhz. I will be in the Netherlands for 3 days.

Cheers,

Paul

In Ireland on business and brought with me a K1, was on the band for a bit last evening and will be on this evening with 20/40 CW with 4 watts.

A group of members of the TDXS will be on the air, probably by tonight as 5J0E (San Andres Island - HK0). They will be on all the major bands before and after the contest, so please give them a call and work them in the contest.

They will make a extra effort on RTTY all bands and 160.

1753Z/27th

WE ARE OFFICIALLY OFF

News #22- 2008 Feb 26
Highlights:
… First LOTW credits for VP6DX contacts on ARRL server …
… Station and camp disassembly begins …
… One more record claimed …

Late yesterday, Feb 21, the Ducie Island expedition submitted over data for over seven thousand VP6DX contacts to the ARRL robot. These contacts were with over
900 stations whose owners made financial contributions of at least five US dollars to the expedition through Feb 24.

The submission has been accepted and processed by the robot, and these contacts are ready for matching by the donors.

Meanwhile, on Ducie Island, the operator team and crew of the Braveheart have begun the first phase of disassembly and off-loading. On today’s schedule to be
disassembled and removed from the island:

* All antennas for 20 through 6 meters at both east and west camps.
* The 30m antenna at the west camp, and the 40m 4-square at the east camp.
* Two operating positions and the shift supervisor workstation at the east camp.
* The technical workstation.
* A portion of the camp infrastructure for meals, cooking, washing, etc.

No on-air operating will occur during the daylight period today, as all hands are needed to complete the work of disassemble, packing, transfer to the ship,
and storage for the sea journey.

Tonight (beginning as early as Feb 27 Wednesday 0300z) a more limited on-air operation is possible, if the operators have time and energy remaining. Five
operating positions at two sites and transmit antennas for 160 through 30 meter bands will be available.

At Feb 27 Wednesday 1445z on-air operations will again shut down for a second day of deconstruction. At the end of Thursday local time the entire east camp
will have been removed from the island. The west camp, with single element verticals for 160, 80/30 and 40m, and possible one beverage (045) will remain,
along with three operating positions. This equipment will be staffed by a skeleton overnight crew, on-air from about Feb 28 Thursday 0330-1430z. Most
operators will sleep on the “Braveheart”, as there will be no camp facilities on the island.

Early Thursday morning (Ducie Island time), around 1400z, the ship’s crew and operators will return to the island to pack and remove all remaining antennas,
equipment, etc. The on-air phase of the Ducie Island expedition will end at that point.

This will be the last press release from Ducie Island. A log update was submitted to the website about one hour ago. A final log update, together with a
press release containing final statistics, will be transmitted from the Braveheart once we have departed.

WOW, hats off to Carsten and team, they are breaking records all over the place. Here is an excerpt from their latest bulletin…

1. largest number of RTTY contacts, previously held by the Swains Island N8S expedition of 2007 April.
2. largest number of SSB (voice) contacts, previously held by the Comoros Island D68C expedition.
3. largest number of contacts on the 40m band, previously held by the Libya 5A7A expedition of 2006 November.
4. largest number of contacts on the 30m band, previously held by the St Brandon Island 3B7C expedition of 2007 September.
5. largest number of contacts on the 17m band, previously held by the Swains Island N8S expedition.
6. largest number of contacts with North America, previously held by the Comoros Island D68C expedition.
7. largest number of contacts with South America, previously held by the Peter the First Island 3Y0X expedition of 2006 February.
8. largest number of contacts with Africa, previously held by the Rodrigues Island 3B9C expedition of 2004 March-April.

As this message was transmitted by Iridium satellite from Ducie Island, the expedition contact total crossed 170,000 contacts… and continues to increase at about 415 contacts per hour. Most contacts now entering the logs are with European stations during their morning twilight period. In an hour or so the focus will shift to North and South America, east Asia and the Pacific, where it will remain until dawn at Ducie Island.

After 4-6 months from ZD9 Tom plans two weeks from each of the following: South Sandwich, South Orkneys and South Georgia

Looks like the team did the right thing and went QRT. Nothing heard since 0700Z/21st

w1gdq 

I just noticed that on Feb 17th my QSOs were confirmed with N8S on LoTW…

According to the latest news reports coming out of the area, several riots are taking place , apparently they stormed the US Embassy and started 1 or more fires.

 fox news website

12 members of the Southeastern DX Club will be operating TI50DX (Tango India Five Zero Delta Xray) during the upcoming ARRL DX Phone contest..March 1,2.  This activity is part of the celebration of the SEDXC’s 50th anniversary.  QSL via N4NX.  Look for the ops using their individual call signs prior to the contest.

3Y0E CARDS NOW BEING COUNTED FOR DXCC. IF YOUR CARD WAS DENIED CONTACT BILL MOORE

Basically, one of two things need to occur

1)  Become a member of the United Nations

2) Receive a prefix bloc from the ITU

I don’t think it would be all that difficult to predict which of the two is most likely to happen.

read the full story here

News #18- 2008 Feb 19

Highlights:
… 160m contact made with opposite side of the planet …
… 104,900 contacts and climbing …
… QSO Statistics …
… 17m RTTY operations started …
… 30m RTTY frequency adjustment …
… 6m beacon now on the air …
… long path contacts made with Finland, European Russia on the 80m band…
… possibilities for 160m? …
… North American 160m schedule …
Read the rest of this entry »

News #18- 2008 Feb 19 05:00z

Special Request for Europe
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The propagation path between Ducie Island and UA1-3-4-6-9, UR, OH, SM and LA is very difficult… typically open for less than 1 hour each day.

On Feb 17 around our sunrise (Feb 17/1345-1445z) we successfully worked 80m CW and 75m SSB long path QSOs with OH and UA3/UA6. Signals peaked on the 195° beverage for most stations worked, with some stations equally strong on the 225° beverage. We hope to work more long path contacts with Scandinavia and western Russia during this time… and, with luck, perhaps a 160m long path QSO could occur. We will be listening!
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Kosova Press Release # 2 February 17, 2008

In addition to the individual multi-national Amateur Radio operators (G3TXF, N7NG, OH2BH, OH2PM, ON8NC and W3UR) currently in Kosova and operating with UNMIK licenses, the group will soon begin activity as YU8/OH2R. The team currently has two stations and will begin activity on 7 to 28 MHz on SSB and CW. For more details about the project please check the QRZ.COM listing for OH2R. QSL YU8/OH2R via OH2BN.

courtesy dailydx

 Albanians flooded the Kosovocapital Pristina on Saturday, celebrating the territory’sindependence from Serbia a day ahead of schedule.

Cavalcades of cars circled with horns blaring as thousandspoured into the city waving the black and red Albanian flag.Fireworks lit up the night sky in a spontaneous celebrationless than 24 hours before the secession.

Kosovo’s parliament will declare independence on Sundayafternoon, almost nine years since NATO went to war to save theAlbanians from killings and ethnic cleansing by Serb forcestrying to crush a rebel insurgency.

It ends a long chapter in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.

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As I wrote in a previous segment, it has now been released…

Kosovo Press Release # 1 February 16, 2008

A multi-national group of Amateur Radio operators is now in Kosovo in an effort to support and help revitalize Amateur Radio locally. The initial team members will begin activity today. Activity will be on all bands on CW and SSB. Look for YU8/G3TXF, YU8/N7NG, YU8/OH2BH, YU8/OH2PM, YU8/ON8NC and YU8/W3UR. More details will be released when available. QSL via the operator’s home callsign.

courtesy: Daily DX

KOSOVO SLATED FOR INDEPENDENCE FEBRUARY 17th. HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHO SHOWS UP FROM THIS NEW ENTITY.

I HEARD THAT YU8 IS PRESENTLY THE PREFIX YOU WANT. YU8A WAS HEARD WORKING SEVERAL STATIONS ON THE 15th.

 w1gdq

Directly from Ducie Island:

ARRL DX CW contest starts soon. VP6DX will participate in a limited fashion:

* On the CW contest bands 160, 80, 40, 20 15 and 10, we probably will not be at
the “normal” frequencies. Operators will pick a frequency based on band
conditions. Each operator will make his own decisions about split vs simplex
operation, depending on the situation at the time.
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Here are the first words from the island via Iridium:

Operations began Feb 11/0500z with a little “cooking session” to check out the
stations and available antennas. After several days of hard work, it was
relaxing to make some QSOs. With another big construction day ahead on Feb 12,
the cooking session ended at 11/0930z. The cooking session worked 1034 QSOs.

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I was asked to help spread the word. We all love to gather DX News tidbits and some have very creative ways discerning the news.

People love gossiping; rising up excitement before things may happen. But such situations may lead to misunderstandings - and certainly - learning some wrong information. We just experienced another hoax that hits ZS8-preparations…

The team of 3Y0E has been alarmed today. Some unconfirmed news of unknown origin is hitting some dx bulletins with details of Petrus’ next activity from ZS8 - Marion Island.

Remembering recent problems caused by sharing unconfirmed news regarding 3Y0E activity, leading dx chasers to confusion, we would like to clarify that we cannot take any responsibility for any gossips and hoax news spreading across the world.

We suggest all dx news and bulletins publishers to verify any news regarding ongoing preparations and further arrangements of ZS8-activity received with us before publishing them to avoid sharing incorrect news again. Avoid hoaxes, please…

We would like to clarify that Petrus Kritzinger, ex 3Y0E, currently ZS6GCM/mm is set as team leader for a new scientific team going to Marion Island for 1 year.
The arrangements for his activity from ZS8 are in progress now. Currently we try to collect some equipment for Petrus to make his activity more complete, delivering another most wanted DXCC entity to you at high level.

We would like to ask once more for being aware of publishing wrong news regarding this operation. A brand new, ZS8-dedicated site is under construction now. Its web address will be published soon and more news regarding any further activity of Petrus will be announced right there.

73
Rhynhardt Louw ZS6DXB
3Y0E Pilot station and Media Officer

source:MM0NDX

News #14- 2008 Feb 13 2100z

From the webmaster…I just had a telephone call with Carsten (DL6LAU) on Ducie Island. The reason we did not get any update or online log from the island is that they had no time until now because of a big workload to setup the stations and antennas. They plan to go “online” in the next 6-12 hours so we expect the first online logs around noon on Thursday. Please be aware that the data connection via Iridium is very sensible so it can last a long time to upload the online logs.

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For the last several days I have noticed that a fellow Daily DX editor has been mysteriously missing, I wonder if he is en route to activate an upcoming DXCC entity ?

With all the news about Kosovo seeking independence I came across this web site.Which displays the map below and many links to the countries that will recognize them as a new country. As of this report it is about 44 of the 192 members of the United Nations will recognize Kosovo.

VK9WWI – Willis Island - 2007 Operation

YI9PT – Iraq - Current Operation

Courtesy of NC1L

Last Friday we successfully arrived to Caleta Tortel after abt 450 km driving on gravel roads on very mountainous terrain. We boarded our boat Jorge Montt and left for Wager Island. Due to the bad weather conditions in the Messier Channel we had to stay overnight in a protected bay. We arrived to Wager Island on Saturday noon. We quickly set up the antennas at the tideline and the pileups started. At around 1800 the rain started too and was followed by gale force winds. The tents were deformed by the wind and even the ?all weather proof?tents could not resist the sheer pressure of water and soon we were all soaked. Food, clothes, everything. In the meantime our boat sought protection from the elements in a protected bay in Byron Island.

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This is a rather interesting take on the correlation to the lack of sunspots and a global cooling. According to the article back in the 17th century there was a period where the 11 year sunspot cycle just vanished, or in other words the sun hibernated for an extended period of time.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

here is the link to the rest of the article.

updated links below

Also read this Wikipedia article and Little Ice Age