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IRAQ The long wait for Iraq to come on the air ended about 0800Z on April 14th when
YI1BGD came on the air. The station has been active most days since. It is not an
easy one to work. That did not keep many of the Deserving from sticking close to
their rigs and hopefully waiting everytime YI1BGD came on the air. Marty Laine,
OH2BH, was in there helping to push things along and Marty had a thousand friends.
Maybe a couple thousand.
Last week YU3DM, Zlatko Krec, passed along some late information. Zlatko has been in
close touch with the YI operation and noted that YI1BDG had even been heard on
occasion calling `CQ' at the 14230kc frequency.
Zlatko reported that the current operation by the YI-operators is restricted to twenty
meter SSB but the station definitely is operating. The low power of the ATLAS 210 has
made the station difficult to hear and there has been work to improve the antenna.
The operation by the YI operators has been slow and meticulously correct. Some
impatient to work them have not hesitated to voice criticism and several European
amateurs have pointed out that this will not help things and excessive carping could
be detrimental at this time to the operation. Many have considered the beginning
good.
It is expected that the operation will continue on a regular basis on the low part of
twenty SSB, sometimes just above 14200kc....other times around 14230kc. There has
also been a report that the station is located within a public building there in
Baghdad and may only be available during the hours the building is open.
OH2BH has joined with YU3DM in urging patience and restraint while waiting for the
YI1BGD operation to learn operating techniques and some of the problems are worked
out. The expectation is that noticeable progress will come. Marty noted that he
appreciates the anxiety of those wishing to work Iraq and he remembers the times when
he has been in that position. He is working to help and there have been discussions
aimed at having the Finnish government request permission to have an amateur station
within the Finnish Embassy there in Baghdad.
There are also discussions and offers to get more equipment into the YI1BGD station,
this including some directional beams and linears to boost the signal. As of this
last weekend it was no long list of W/Ks who have worked the YI1BGD. The line of
those waiting was not diminishing.
In recent months while there were doubts and hesitations that a YI station would come
on the air, the steady faith of the Deserving was finally shown to have been well-
placed.
It was also noted that the Iraqi operators would be relatively inexperienced and there
would have to be a period of learning. Eventually most everyone will work Iraq.....
but this is the time for patience.
ST PAUL The Canadians are looking to put St Paul Island on the air again, this coming
in the latter part of May.
VE1AI indicates that they will start operating from St Paul signing VE/VY0 on May 18th
and will operate four days to May 22nd. They plan to work all bands, ten through one-
sixty, both c.w. and SSB. The c.w. frequencies will be 5kc up from the lower edge.
There probably will be a bit more on this before the date arrives.
DESECHEO There are indications that this one may come zipping out of the dawn once
there is a decision by the DXAC on the matter of country status. This also presumes
that the DXAC would again vote that Desecheo be accepted as a DXCC counter. The
latest report is that the call probably will be KP4AM and that the whole thing is
ready to roll once the word of approval is heard.
Watch the pile-ups. You can never tell who might be under all the noise and certainly
Desecheo might be found under one before too long.
BOPTHUTHATSWANA Sid Coosner, ZS4MG, and Dick Brummer, ZS4JB, and Mike Sherman, ZS6IW,
will be in Bopthuthatswana from May 3rd to 7th and will be signing ZS4MG/H5 and, if they
can get the other station going, you will also hear ZS4JB/H5.
Sid says to look for them 20kc up on 10/15/20 and 5kc up on 40/80.....maybe a bit
either way to get out in the clear. If the QRM is not bad, they will work inside the
American phone band at 14210kc/21260kc and 28600kc. If it gets bad, they will
split....a big split. Otherwise they will be listening 10kc up from those phone
frequencies.
ZS4MG and ZS4JB were in Bopthuthatswana over the New Years and racked up a couple
thousand QSOs. This time with conditions even better they are going to up the total.
Sid is also looking at the Southern Province of Bopthuthatswana located 220km from the
main portion of this African homeland.
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REPORT FROM SUNSPOT LOUIE The solar activity continues to rise
and the mean for March was 73.5. On a daily basis, the sunspot
count hit 103 on March 4th but generally was high during most
of the month. The lowest period was March 29-30th when it was
down in the forties.
For March there was one day with the count over a hundred,
five days in the nineties, six days in the eighties and
eight days in the seventies. Of the other eleven days,
five were in the sixties, three in the fifties and
three in the forties. The count is high and probably
is headed higher.
On the twelve-month running smoothed sunspot number,
Zurich figures out to 38.5, this centered on September
of last year.
Looking ahead, Zurich figures it will be the smoothed No 1057 12 spots
numbers for the months ahead.... N19o W62o 250 millionths
April 56 July 65 1058 19 spots
May 59 August 69 S27o W38o 150 millionths
June 62 September 73
Considering that many DXers are showing the signs of 1063 1 spot
lack of sleep because of band conditions, think of what N18o W22o 10 millionths
it will be later this year. Unbelieveable!!
1978 so far has been an exceptional year and band con- 1064 1 spot
ditions have been very good. Clipperton has been erased S27o W04o 20 millionths
from the most wanted lists and Iraq is being heard. And
DXers everywhere are capering in the street shouting: 1066 1 spot
"Bouvet, Burma, South Sandwich and China!" Are they the N15o W34o 10 millionths
happy DXers? Hardly ever. Often when you see a DXer
with the corners of his mouth turned up, it is gas. As 1069 7 spots
one often says to the local political sachem: "Don't S33o E69o 20 millionths
tell me what you did for me yesterday, what are you going
to do tomorrow?" And tomorrow will bring more DX! 1070 32 spots
And even some Ans will be showing. We don't like to talk N16o E40o 330 millionths
about the BNs....But Ted, peering into the bright Spring
sunshine, says it will be: 1073 4 spots
N17o E53o 80 millionths
April 24th Low Normal May 1st Below Normal
25th Low Normal 2nd Low Normal 1074 1 spot
26th High/Low Normal 3rd High Normal S45o E69o 10 millionths
27th High Normal 4th Above Normal
28th Above Normal 5th Above Normal
29th Above Normal 6th Above Normal...may
30th Below/Low Normal drop to LN as another
storm possible
Once in awhile you run into a dead band. Nothing last longs and generally the
WWV report is up. K6EC watches to make sure that they are doing right ad Ev says the
flux and stuff was.....
Solar Flux Ap Index Solar Flux Ap Index
April 10th 155 17 April 14th 138 34
11th 180 35 15th 140 14
12th 155 23 16th 137 7
13th
Remember when the flux was down in the 70s. You should not see those days for some
time. DX is here to stay....
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25 April 1978
MALDIVES Rolf Salme, SM5MX, is reported as having left Tokyo bound for the Maldives a
week or so back. About April 15th or so. If you have not heard him there may be some
problems. But he did head that ways. Listen if you need this one.
ICELAND A good handful of TF3 operators will operate from Kirkjubaejarklaustur from
July 20th to July 23rd signing the special prefix of TF6M. The group will be working
both c.w. and SSB.
CW frequencies will be generally 5kc up except on ten where it will be 50kc. Fifty kc
up is also alternate frequencies for twenty and fifteen c.w.
SSB will be 3790/7090/14190/21250/28600kc with split operation possible on twenty.
All the frequencies may be eased a bit up or down to get in the clear. OSCAR, while a
possibility, has not as yet been decided on.
Special QSLs will be available for this operation close to the largest glacier in
Europe, Vatnajokull there in eastern Iceland. Operators will include
TF3CW/TF3JB/TF3KX/TF3SB/TF3UA/TF3US/TF3YH and TF3-033 will also be in on the
operation.
Be prepared! They expect to run up a lot of QSOs with TF6M.
NAVASSA The planned operation for late this year from KC4-Navassa is looking solid.
N0TG reports that the Coast Guard has granted permission for the landing and that the
plans are firming for the operation.
The current schedule calls for the group to be on Navassa from November 26th and to
operate to December 4th. More will be coming on this.
GIBRALTAR W1JQ/4 will be on Gibraltar within a few weeks and plans to operate as
ZB2AV from May 10th all the way to the 11th.
This will be a c.w. effort and Ron says that he will be found about 30kc up from the
bottom of the twenty meter band. He will be especially looking for the Western
Reaches, the Pacific Ocean Area and Alaska. He plans that on each hour he will tune
up and down 3kHz looking for stations in these areas.
Ron, who says he will be going with the Royal Navy to Gibraltar, says that QSLs go to
Box 292, Gibraltar.
SOUTH SHETLANDS A quick, fast CE9AT operations shows on twenty SSB most evenings.
CE2BSA and WB2AYP run a short list operation around 14240kc from 0000Z or thereabouts.
Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 2330Z might be a time to watch but Victor may show
on other days.
The list operation came after previous efforts drew raucous pile-ups which flattened
out the operation. QSLs go.....Sase with 13 cents U.S. postage. Send to CE2BIO,
Antarctic Department, Naval Post Office, Valparaiso, Chile. Your card will be sent
back via WA2NHE. About thirty QSOs get through each night but the time of Victor to
operate is limited.
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25 April 1978
DXAC....DXCC... The DX Forum at the California International DX Meeting provided a
few clues to what may be coming down the pike for the Deserving DXers. Some of this
confirms what has been suspected, some is new information and there is even
continuation of the present African policy.
The report is that another look is being taken at the Southern Sudan decision and the
portents this time are favorable...or would appear to be. This would affect the
ST2SA/ST0 operation by Bill Rindone of July 1976 and the ST0RK by Frank Turek, DL7FT
and friends. Hold on to your QSLs! The feeling is that they will be true-blue before
too long.
On the WG3JFK operation, there has never been any submission for DXCC status on this
one and the feeling there is that there probably will never be one. This one has
always been some sort of a mystery and while nothing was said directly about future
operations from this monument, other thinking in the DXAC might be relative to this
one.
4U1UN may get some serious consideration and this one may join 4U1TU as a DXCC
country. Hold on to your 4U1UN QSLs....
On Desecheo Island, there in the Mona passage, as previously noted, this one was
approved by the DXAC and everything was `Go' when the signals were reversed. A
protest on this one because of the acceptance of Desecheo while at the same time
turning down Water Island got the whole thing back before the DXAC. After more
consideration, there is a good possibility that both will be accepted for DXCC.
On the African homelands, these probably are and will continue to be in a suspended
status until after the completion of WARC 79. This means that it may be 1980 or 1981
before there is hope for these but at the same time there is a possibility of
retroactive approval. What you work now will be credited then. Walvis Bay currently
is in a holding status.
Some effort was made to get some expression of opinion from the DX Forum but the
response was not exactly clear-cut and tended to be inconclusive. Some indication of
whether more or less DXCC countries was desired...whether changes in the country
criteria was desired for autonomous, dependencies, monuments or neutral zones found a
lot present sitting on their hands.
There was some discussion of phone operations and the question of lists. Some
expressed a feeling that list QSOs should not be accepted for DXCC. Others came on
strong to point out that often the DX station desired list operations to cut down on
the impact of the impatient and howling DXers. Others noted that where language is a
problem, list operations are often the only way language barriers can be handled.
Generally the group was united in turning thumbs down on list operations where any of
the information is relayed....signal reports or call letters especially. Apparently a
sub-committee of the DXAC is currently studying the matter of phone operations in DXCC
and if you have any ideas, this is the time to express them.
Spanish Sahara probably will be deleted from the DXCC list before long. The DXAC is
also looking for more input from overseas DXers to give their ideas and feelings on DX
matters.
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25 April 1978
HERE IT COMES! We have to mention this but we would like it kept among outselves.
Everytime we groan we get a couple hundred pamphlets on Medicare, everytime we say we
have too many subscribers the faithful rush to tell their friends to get in before the
curtain goes down. This time this is a routine notice and we need neither sympathy,
publicity or more subscribers. There!!
This issue marks the completion of ten full years of the West Coast DX Bulletin. We
know that some won't believe this because of our attempts in recent years to go
underground. But with this issue we have turned out an issue every week for ten
years, the first showing May 1, 1968.
What are we mailing these days? A few under the 2400 mark. Who does the work? A
couple of gray panthers.
Mostly we look at awe at not missing an issue in ten years. Even that startles us.
One of these days we may take a vacation. But listening to the local two meter
repeater.....and hearing K6TX- and W6D- and a couple more trying to figure out how t
fill in their hours, we suspect that maybe we will keep plowing up and down this
pasture. After all, there are still some who think we are not going to last..... As
DX bulletins go, we are well past middle-age.
We did make it to Visalia and that in itself was an accomplishment....of sorts.
SHORTLY NOTED CO2CF/ET3 goes to home QTH.....J Amador, San Nicolas 260 Havana, 2
Cuba.
HB9MX says that the demand for the First Day Clipperton cover was underestimated. He
is pretty well cleaned out and only three are left. A decision has been made to hold
these for bidding. If interested, write HB9MX. The others went for $25. The airmail
letters with the autographs are also gone.
As of mid-April a couple of thousand letters had already hit Kurt, he figures about
9000 QSLs have been received. The mail runs from no sase to some weighing 2.5 pounds
and containing but one QSL.
HB9MX is holding the shoulder to the door. If you are desperate and apparently a few
are, he will confirm by telegram for a $15.00 fee. If you can stand to wait for an
airmail, $5.00 will get one to you in advance of the normal QSLing.
HB9MX, Kurt Bindschedler, Strahleggweg 28, 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland.
I2YAE, George Broggini, says he has been the victim of fate.....or Slim. HH2TW and
M1C are non-existent as far as he is concerned and he cannot help with QSLs. These
were c.w. operations. George does handle FM7AQ/FM7AU/YS1SC and KM6EA.....but HH2TW
and M1C he does not. The real M1C does not operate c.w. and the true-clue QSL route
is via I4EAT.
HC5EE notes that many stations are calling a station they believe to be D2EA. Careful
listening may indicate that this station is actually in Central America and actually
signing TI2EA. QSLs for `Ernie' go to Box 969, San Jose, Costa Rica.
WB9OQU had NBC make a live telecast from his QTH a week or so back. This for a program
on amateur radio. After they left he took down the beam and shipped it to 4S7EA to
improve the signals. Ernie still being found Sunday to Thursday around 14215kc from
2330Z or so. On Fridays and Saturdays check the action from 0000Z and Ernie stays on
as long as the band does.
Come to think about it, there is a rumor about that NBC will do aprogram on Marin
County this summer....about July 20th. Hard to believe what Marin is like. Saturday
Evening Post a number of years back ran an article which said that in Marin...."....
it is always May 8th".
We ran out of space again. Son of a Gun! We have notes piled knee deep around us.
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25 April 1978
REPORTS FROM RED EYED LOUIE Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste
And the work of head and hand
Belong to DX which does not know
And does not understand.....
TEN METER LIVES!!
A2CBW 28548/1355/Apr 8m IT9LHQ 28605/1650/Apr 10m TR8MG 28504/1445/Apr 6e
C5AM 28570/1200/Apr 9e IS0WON 28540/1605/Apr 15m TR8AC2 28673/1705/Apr 9m
CN8CC 28525/1530/Apr 8e J3AJ 28588/1755/Apr 16m TR8GDC 28673/1115/Apr 15m
EI1CZ 28525/1900/Apr 9e J28AM 28530/1910/Apr 9e UA2FAL 28517/1450/Apr 8e
EP2TY 28502/1550/Apr 8e JY4NA 28671/1540/Apr 8m UA3QFO 28594/1230/Apr 10e
F6AOC 28605/1640/Apr 10m JY9TE 28671/1540/Apr 8m UA6LBQ 28564/1230/Apr 10e
FC2CH 28541/1345/Apr 8e OD5IQ 28562/1330/Apr 8e UA6AKB 28552/1505/Apr 9e
FO8EX 28517/2225/Apr 7e ON5PD 28532/1945/Apr 9e UA0LBY 28540/0214/Apr 11w
FY7BC 28515/1710/Apr 16m ON6WU 28605/1650/Apr 16e UA6LFA 28605/1555/Apr 10m
GM3CAN 28554/1945/Apr 9e OX3AB 28595/1950/Apr 8m UB5GBZ 28604/1600/Apr 10m
GW3AHN 28514/1945/Apr 9e RA3DRB 28575/1245/Apr 10e UI8LAG 28503/1400/Apr 8e
HK0BKW 28571/1945/Apr 9e RB5FBX 28604/1600/Apr 10m VU2KT 28577/1700/Apr 9e
HP1RXW 28616/1615/Apr 16m RB5QAP 28605/1600/Apr 10m VP8PE 28556/1900/Apr 16m
I8JH 28606/1605/Apr 10m SV1IY 28600/1500/Apr 8m U2BUP 28612/1730/Apr 10e
DF4ZD 28015/1705/Apr 13e UA2FCB 28073/1700/Apr 8m
DL3NY 28015/1720/Apr 13e UA6IAI 28057/1550/Apr 9e
DK8NG 28016/1655/Apr 13e VK4XA 28021/0150/Apr 14e
DM2DFL 28016/1740/Apr 13e YU2QZ 28070/1550/Apr 9e
HG5A 28100/1550/Apr 9e
AND SOME DXERS WORK SIX METERS!
KZ5NW 50110/0300/Apr 10m LU8DIN 50110/1940/Apr 10m
LU1DAU 50110/2205/Apr 3m PY1RO 50110/0315/Apr 10m
LU3IX 50110/2150/Apr 3m YV4BE 50110/0320/Apr 10m
LU8BF 50110/2210/Apr 3m YV6ASU 50110/0325/Apr 10m
AFRICA CW
EA8BF 14009/0800/Apr 10w ZE1FQ 14037/1530/Apr 13w
EL2ET 14030/0555/Apr 16m ZE8JW 14039/1415/Apr 16m
SU1MI 14011/0115/Apr 17m ZS5A 14030/1530/Apr 7m
WA7JRL/SU 14037/2215 5e 9J2BO 14021/0530/Apr 15m
ZE1FS 14055/1500/Apr 6w
AFRICA SSB
C5ABK 14205/0020/Apr 17m EL2BJ 14025/0550/Apr 12kh WD9FCC/VQ9 14220/1600 12w
CN8CW 14316/1600/Apr 16m D68DA 21294/1820/Apr 12e WD9FCC/VQ9 21319/1750/10m
CN8AK 14201/2230/Apr 16m FB8ZM 14225/1625/Apr 14m WA4YVG/VQ9 21313/1500/17m
D4CBS 21300/1850/Apr 9e FR7BJ 14202/1325/Apr 17m ZS2MI 14115/1530/Apr 13w
D4CBS 14205/2215/Apr 15m J28AY 14205/0330/Apr 17m ZS2MI 21312/1745/Apr 9w
EA8LD 21315/1840/Apr 7w S79MC 21319/1810/Apr 10w ZS1Q 14201/1530/Apr 14w#
EL2BS 14236/0430/Apr 17e S79DF 21292/1955/Apr 9e ZS5WX 14217/1430/Apr 13m
EL2SM 14225/0155/Apr 6m TR8AC2 14206/0215/Apr 15m ZS6PB 14210/0610/Apr 12kh
EL2ET 14205/0550/Apr 12kh WA3WAQ/TJ 21341/2135 8m 3B8CS 14215/1200/Apr 9m
AFRICA CW
A4XGE 14013/1310/Apr 15m UD6DLJ 14059/0320/Apr 7e UI8ADR 14044/0120/Apr 7m
BV2A 14027/1205/Apr 5e UF6FDI 14010/0245/Apr 10m UI8GAJ 14027/0100/Apr 17m
CR9AJ 14206/1625/Apr 13m UF6QAQ 14051/0325/Apr 13m UJ8AE 14008/0120/Apr 10m
EP2IA 14026/0400/Apr 13m UF6CX 14033/0405/Apr 13m UJ8BQ 14013/0125/Apr 10m
UA9CO 14032/0210/Apr 6m UF6FAG 14002/0230/Apr 7m UJ8AC 14023/0135/Apr 10m
UA0YAD 14010/0120/Apr 17m UG6GAE 14002/0000/Apr 16m UK6DAD 21011/1820/Apr 9m
UA0ACE 14035/0020/Apr 16e UG6AG 14025/1255/Apr 13w# UK9AAN 14030/0150/Apr 8m
UD6DKW 14025/0305/Apr 8m UG6AB 14001/0245/Apr 10e UK9QAA 14016/1725/Apr 8w
UD6DFF 14020/0120/Apr 17m UH8HCE 14026/0250/Apr 7m UK0LAD 14043/1420/Apr 14e
UD6DKK 14040/0450/Apr 19m UH8DC 21005/1655/Apr 9m UL7JG 21014/1645/Apr 6e
UD6AI 14020/0240/Apr 7e UH8HBR 14040/0210/Apr 16m UM8MAG 14025/0125/Apr 17m
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25 April 1978
MORE RED EYED LOUIE Oh! Lonely night, last forever
You have made me learn to live and love-
And work DX!
ASIA SSB
A4XGB 14204/2250/Apr 13m JY5HH 14215/2330/Apr 16m UK9YAZ 14210/0415/Apr 14w
A4XGY 21356/2105/Apr 16m JY9EC 14257/2320/Apr 16m UI8AAY 14260/0330/Apr 7e
BV2B 14222/1345/Apr 12m HS1WR 14273/1430/Apr 9m VU2LAE 14224/0015/Apr 17m
CR9AJ 14221/1430/Apr 13m KA6RS 14214/1435/Apr 7m VU2CP 14210/1215/Apr 15m
EP2TY 14210/0335/Apr 13m UA9ABV 14265/0345/Apr 17m VU2JNA 14201/1215/Apr 16m
EP2GJ 14223/1300/Apr 17w UF6DZ 14260/0315/Apr 17m VU2DK 21283/1920/Apr 17m
EP2PE 21360/1730/Apr 13m UH8BZ 14240/0335/Apr 10m VS6HG 14223/1525/Apr 11w
EP2LI 14230/2230/Apr 13m UJ8SAJ 14245/0345/Apr 10m OE5CA/YK 21355/1840/ 10e
HZ1AB 14205/1300/Apr 17w# UK7LAZ 14231/0505/Apr 19m OE6DK/YK 14242/0500/ 8e
JY3ZH 14210/0500/Apr 19w UM8MBW 14202/0045/Apr 17m OE2YJL/YK 14318/0240/ 10e
EUROPE CW
DM2DLG 14015/0600/Apr 8w LZ2KEZ 14002/0430/Apr 8w PA0AWJ 14017/0610/Apr 10w
FC9VN 14008/2345/Apr 15m LZ2JF 14003/0550/Apr 8w SM3FVW 21046/1630/Apr 17m
GD4AM 21032/1850/Apr 8w OE5MJL 14010/0530/Apr 8w SP9ABE 14013/0550/Apr 10w
HB0BLC 14002/0040/Apr 17w OK2SGW 14002/0430/Apr 8w UA1DZ 21055/1600/Apr 9e
I3YEG 21011/1820/Apr 8w OK1US 14010/0540/Apr 8w UB5WK 21025/1915/Apr 8w
IS0LYN 14032/2340/Apr 16m OK1PR 21016/1605/Apr 9e UC2OCB 14025/2040/Apr 9m
EUROPE SSB
CT2AK 21355/1845/Apr 17m LX1GM 21321/1735/Apr 7w SP9CV 14248/0450/Apr 7w
FC9UC 14214/1510/Apr 14w# LX1SM 21386/2140/Apr 8m SV1IX 14250/0410/Apr 7m
GW3CBA 21276/1845/Apr 10w LZ1KPZ 14224/0500/Apr 7w SV1KT 14202/0320/Apr 17m
HA9IARU 14220/0550/Ap 17w M1D 14245/0630/Apr 18w TF3CW 14230/0115/Apr 10e
HA8KZB 21295/1735/Apr 6w OE1FF 21297/1700/Apr 7w TF3CW 21290/2150/Apr 8m
HB9AHA 21322/1810/Apr 4w OH3OU 14209/1535/Apr 14w# UA3PA 14214/0515/Apr 14w
HV3SJ 21280/1730/Apr 6w OH0JN 14202/0615/Apr 9e UA6RD 14265/0335/Apr 17m
I0JX 14236/0045/Apr 17m ON4UN 14210/0530/Apr 17w UK3DAH 21303/1430/Apr 9e
LX1JE 14234/1855/Apr 12m OY5NS 21300/2235/Apr 16m UK2BAS 14212/0500/Apr 17e
LX1SM 14220/1100/Apr 13m OZ8JW 21310/1625/Apr 15m UK3ACM 21305/1745/Apr 7w
ELSEWHERES CW
FM7BA 14010/1250/Apr 13e KH6AZ 14037/0650/Apr 16m CP5NK 14024/0205/Apr 15e
FO8EI 14003/0535/Apr 16m J3AAG 14002/0320/Apr 10w VP8QE 14014/0115/Apr 10e
FO8AK 14011/0545/Apr 16m KG6JIC 14009/1305/Apr 10e YB7AAU 14034/1400/Apr 16m
HK0BKX 14040/0230/Apr 17m KM6BI 14034/0700/Apr 11w ZL1UT 14070/1200/Apr 11e
ELSEWHERES SSB
A35NW 14203/0355/Apr 12w KG4OO 14316/1515/Apr 16e P29JS 14220/0915/Often
A35NW 21284/0225/Apr 11e KG6JHC 14233/1220/Apr 10e TG8DX 14190/0525/Apr 6m
CE9AT 14204/0115/Apr 14e KC6MM 14211/1245/Apr 8m TG9DF 14316/1515/Apr 16m
CE0AE 21355/1845/Apr 17w WB7OOV/KJ6 14283/0330 14m VK6LK 14204/2320/Apr 11e
DU1MEL 14229/1545/Apr 14w KX6BU 21326/0155/Apr 10w VK5MS 14211/1240/Apr 17m
DU1EN 14251/1350/Apr 15m KX6BU 14206/1215/Apr 9m VK9RH 21300/0140/Apr 11w
WB8ULG 14203/1330/ 16m OX5AP 14230/0010/Apr 10e VR6TC 21350/0100/Apr 12e
W7UUO/DU2 14239/1405/12m P29MM 14220/1230/Often VP2SQ 14212/0150/Apr 12e
HC8GI 21355/1915/Apr 14w P29CC 14265/1225/Apr 9m VR4BF 14230/1310/Apr 1m
HH2YL 14202/0325/Apr 13m P29JD 14241/1445/Apr 9m YN8ARC 14205/0050/Apr 17m
HH2HP 14202/0325/Apr 13m P29DV 14246/1210/Apr 14m YN1EGW 14316/1515/Apr 16m
HH2MC 14205/0300/Apr 5m PZ2AC 14214/0220/Apr 15m YB3AE 14232/1530/Apr 11m
LOW BAND LOUIE.......What's Left of Him!
CE0AE 7030/0515/Apr 4m M1P 7012/0400/Apr 14m VP2VEL 7009/0320/Apr 15m
EA3JJ 7004/0130/Apr 8m TI8BP 7275/0115/Apr 15m YU3DKR 7003/2310/Apr 11m
EP2IA 7003/0300/Apr 11m UK3ABB 7010/0015/Apr 8m ZS5A 7007/0315/Apr 9m
HR1MC 7275/0320/Apr 15m UP2BAO 7005/0420/Apr 5m ZS6AK 7007/0415/Apr 5m
LZ2LP 7012/0220/Apr 8m UT5MD 7008/0315/Apr 11m 4X4BT 7005/0320/Apr 15m
M1C 7025/0220/Apr 3m VP1KS 7007/0450/Apr 6e 8P6GO 7006/0115/Apr 16m
(e= eastern states m= middle states w= western reaches kh= hawaii etc. all times in gmt)
(#= long path ???= Slim .....an excellent c.w. operator but poor QSLer! )
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25 April 1978
CALENDAR
IRAQ On right now but signals weak. Patience!
MALDIVES SM5MX left for there a week back. Listen!
NIUE 4Z4TT says he will be there May 5th to 19th
ICELAND TP6M in July
ICELAND/FAROES GMs there in July/August..all bands to 144mHz
COCOS KEELING P29JS for a couple of weeks from May 30th
CHATHAM ZLs looking for October effort
MELLISH VKs looking for August effort
ST PAUL VEs planning /VY0 from May 18th to 22nd
NAVASSA N0TG and friends set to be there...Nov 26th to Dec 4th
DESECHEO Stand by! This one may pop up any time now. Really!
BOPHUTHATSWANA ZS4MG and ZS4JB signing /H5 from May 3rd to 7th
SOUTH SHETLANDS CE9AT with a short list most nights...twenty SSB
GABON TR8AC2 being reported and will be there for some time
GIBRALTAR ZB2AV on twenty c.w.....May 10th and 11th
CHRISTMAS ISLAND VR3AH returns! June 1st
AVES No late information. But it will come someday. Maybe...
MANASSAS HAMFEST June 4th...downtown Manassas or nearby. WB4HAV for info..
DXPO 78 Sept 15-16th....Tyson's Corners. K3AO for information
W6AM's OPEN HOUSE Sunday, June 18th. Caper with the Paols Verdes Sundancers
W6FOJ's JA TOUR Nov 3-18th. See all the JA DXers!! Plus some other things
SEANET CONVENTION Singapore.....Nov 10-12th
PACC TEST April 29/30th.....this weekend
USSR TEST May 13-14th
NIUE You may be getting some conflicting dates on this but our understanding is that
Baruch has moved it up to next week and should be heard as the weekend of May 6th
nears.
Baruch has sent out notices that he would be there May 26th. However, word sent after
this April 3rd letter indicates that because of a change in transportation plans, he
now will be there from May 5th and will operate until May 19th.
This will be a SSB effort only and he does not plan to use c.w. He will also try to
vary his transmitting frequencies to work the strong signals in one area and the
weaker ones in another.
The stronger signals are considered to be the VK/ZL/WK/JAs etc. He will be using, for
these signals......3795kc/7155kc/14280kc/21225kc/28600kc.
For the weaker signals expected from Europe and Africa....and QRPers generally, Baruch
will be around 3795kc/7085kc/21245kc/28495kc. You probably already have noted that
the 7mtr frequency is the same for both and this may be changed. Initially he was
thinking of 3895kc but has been advised against this.
He will be using ATLAS 210s but without outboard VFOs. He will have a beam for
10/15/20 and dipoles for the other frequencies. The call is not certain but could be
ZK2TT.
QSLs will go direct....Baruch Sheinberg, 4Z4TT, POB 22572, Tel-Aviv, Israel. He asks
that IRCs not be sent but will QSL direct if $1.00 (US) is enclosed with your QSL.
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25 April 1978
ARRL Bob Booth, W3PS, General Counsel of the ARRL, suffered a mild stroke a week or
so back while in Alaska on business and presently is in the Naval Hospital at
Bethesda, Maryland.
The ARRL at the first running showed a profit for the first quarter of this year.
With costs going up and more demands for services, and ARC 79 around the corner,
efforts are being made to get the bottom line showing a bit more in than out.
ARRL is somewhat concerned over reports that industry representatives may be dropped
from the WARC 79 delegation. The report is that the Justice Department has raised the
point as to whether industry people on trade delegations constitute conflicts of
interest. Discussions on this are going on.
ARRL concern in this comes from the plan to have Merle Glunt, W3OKN, on the WARC
delegation as a consultant to the ARRL and spokesman for the amateur service. If
industry types are not permitted, Merle Glunt will go as a member of the IARU group.
ARRL notes that in the Second Report and Order in Docket 20282 that Technicians are
granted full frequency privileges above 50mHz but does not do the same for Generals.
Apparently an oversight, this is expected to be corrected before the effective date of
May 15th.
Charles Higginbotham has left the FCC after thirty years of service and his place has
been taken by Carlos V Roberts who had been holding the office of Chief of the FCC's
Office of Plans and Study. Back in 1973 he had headed a special enforcement group
charged with the enforcement of CB rules in the eastern third of the country.
ARRL membership was a grand total of 165 326 at the end of March. 124 631 were full
members.
TNX to W1MV, W2AG, W2FP, K2OF, WB2RLK/VE1, W4AAV, W4DZZ, WB4EDD, W4HU, W4LOL, K4MQG,
W4QDP, WB4RIS, WB4RRK, WB4RZN, W4UF, N4WX, N4XX, W4UG, W5AQ, K5AQ, W5CPI, W5DD, K5DUT,
W5JW, K5LZO, K5OVC, N5TP, W5VVD, W5YIZ, W6AOA, WA6BJS, WA6DNM, K6EC, W6JD, K6JG, N6JM,
W6KPC, K6LAE, W6RDS, W6TSQ, K6UFT, W6YO, K7ABV, W7HR, N7RC, K8IP, K8RD, W8UVZ,
W9DH, K9RL, W9SS, K9UIY, K0BJ, WB0MSZ, W0NTD, WB9OQU, W0SF, N0TG, KH6BZF, KH6DL,
KP4EAJ, HC5EE, I2YAE, TF3JB, ZS4MG, 4Z4TT.
WEST COAST DX BULLETIN Published every week by the Marin County DX Group. One of the
local QRPers had been to the Visalia International DX meeting and made it home safely.
He was by to report and we expected that he would be telling of the program, the
seminars, the Clipperton operators and the always non-stop action at these meetings.
He surprised us. "You know something?" the QRPer began with one of his always
original openings, "it was a good time but what I enjoyed most was to see Don Wallace
and his everlasting enthusiasm for DX." We had to think this over for a bit for Don
is always at the DX meetings. Some even say he invented DX and is there to protect
his child. "But Don is always there," we said and the QRPer nodded. "Sure he is,"
the QRPer said, and maybe we tend to overlook a lot of things because of that. But I
don't think that there will be anyone arguing when I say that Don is one of the giants
of DXing. And just to see him and hear him talk should be a memorable event. I do."
Son of a Gun! We had to agree with this thinking for as far back as we could
remember, Don has cast a long shadow across DX. Sometimes we have to stop and think
and remember that some of the legends of DX are right here among us. And if you
should forget, a weekly reminder of the great things and great days of DXing will come
your way each week by second-class mail in the U.S. for $14.00. To all the far
reaches of VE/US/XE areas, the drum-roll comes skidding down the track each week by
first-class mail for $18.00. And to all the DXers far beyond the line of the horizon,
to those who greet each morning with the hopeful prayer......"Today maybe I will work
one of those elusive Ws, the weekly word of hope comes for $20.00 Keep hoping YI1BDG!
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