. ===================== *** The Daily DX *** ===================== Volume 1 Number 44 May 19, 1997 Edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR ----------------------------------------------------------------- Headlines ----------------------------------------------------------------- Julio, EA5XX, sadly reports the 3C0DXpedition to Annobon Island has been postponed until October 11, 1997. With just three days to go before the planned operation was to take place the Equatorial Guinea authorities said 11 of the 13 operators were unable to go. When The Daily DX spoke to Santos Rodriguez, EA4AK, at the Dayton Hamvention Saturday he was unaware of the postponement of the 3C0DXpedition. Materials, equipment and operators airline tickets were all on hand and ready. The Union de Radioaficionados Espanoles (URE) staff members have been working very hard and will continue to do so. Due to the unexpected delays a new target date of October 11th has been set which may actually be a better time for good low band conditions. Tosy, JA6VZB, will be active this weekend in the WPX CW contest as T88X. Before the contest he may be active as T88JA on RTTY or SSB. He plans to be active on 10 through 80 meters. He may be on 160 meters and if so will have in inverted L with elevated radials. Tosy will have a TL922 amplifier and monobanders for 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters. On 80 meters he will be using an Inverted Vee. QSLs for this operation will be handled by JA6BSM as he will send all cards via the bureau. John, W2GD, told The Daily DX he will be single operator all bands this weekend as P40W in the CQ CW WPX contest. He also plans to be active starting today until May 26th. QSL via W2GD. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dayton Hamvention ----------------------------------------------------------------- My trip to the Dayton Hamvention started on Thursday morning at the QTH of Gene Zimmerman, W3ZZ. We were joined by Mr. Ham Radio, Fred Laun, K3ZO, who graciously drove. It was an absolute pleasure to meet all of the subscribers of The Daily DX who were present at the Dayton Hamvention. The weather was fantastic and so were the forums. During the 12th annual DX dinner on Friday night, which was sponsered by the Southwest Ohio DX Association, attendees were delighted to hear guest speaker Bob Schmieder, KK6EK, take us on a journey to Heard Island (VK0IR). Afterwards Steve Bolia, N8BJQ, presented the following DX'ers with this years inductions into the CQ Magazine DX Hall of Fame. # 31 Bob Vallio, W6RGG # 32 Bob Ferrero, W6RJ # 33 Frank Schwab, W8OK Congrats to all three of these fine DX'ers. After the DX dinner many of the attendees were able to talk to 18 of the 20 VK0IR operators who were attending the Hamvention. On Saturday night at the 5th Annual Contest dinner sponsered by CQ Magazine the guest speaker was Fred Laun, K3ZO. After Fred spoke Bob Cox, K3EST, presented the following Contesters with this years inductions into the the CQ Magazine Contest Hall of Fame. # 24 Carl Cook, AI6V # 25 Gordon Marshall, W6RR # 26 John Devoldere, ON4UN # 27 Jorge H Bozzo, LU8DQ # 28 John Dorr, K1AR The Daily DX would like to thank the following people who assisted us this weekend: Rich Boyd, KE3Q, Amy Boyd, N3MIL, Rob Shapirio, ND3A, Barry Shapiro, WR3Z, and Hope Smith, WB3ANE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QSN ----------------------------------------------------------------- FH5CB - Mayotte - Elio can be found very often between 21295 and 21300 from 13:00 to 18:00Z. V85GA - Brunei - Gerald was operating RTTY on Sunday on 14089 from about 14:00 to 14:30Z. VP8AWU - Falkland Islands - Was found on 14210 at 19:15Z. YA/PA3BTQ - Afghanistan - John, who was recently operationg from Bangladesh as S2/PA3BTQ, was on 14130 Sunday starting around 14:45Z for about one hour. ----------------------------------------------------------------- IOTA ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following IOTA stations were on yesterday (5/18/97): IOTA Call Freq GMT ------ ----------- ----- ---- AS-043 JA2ZTR/1 14039 1200 AS-053 HS0/IK4MRH 14260 1934 EU-030 OZ/DL3UB/P 28015 1212 EU-030 OZ/DL1ARD/P 7065 1851 EU-031 IC8OZM 14256 1129 EU-036 LA8LA 14256 1132 EU-037 SM7DLZ 14207 0557 EU-047 DL1BBR 14260 0614 EU-075 SV2BXJ 18071 0835 EU-098 DL8OBC/P 7001 1958 EU-125 OZ1RDP 14260 0956 EU-128 DL1BKK/P 14262 1724 EU-130 IL3/IV3JWR 7058 0835 NA-110 KB4GYT/M 14260 1549 NA-199 TO9PL 21260 1409 OC-021 YB1XUR 14193 1345 OC-150 YC9KV 7050 1438 SA-011 9Y4SF 14197 1909 IOTA frequencies - CW 28.040 24.920 21.040 18.098 14.040 10.114 7.030 3.530 SSB 28.560 28.460 24.950 21.260 18.128 14.260 7.055 3.765 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Calendar ----------------------------------------------------------------- Begin End Country Call (IOTA) ------ ------ ------- ----------------------------------- May 19 May 19 JA JA2ZTR/1 (AS-043) May 19 May 20 C6 C6AGN (NA-080) May 19 May 20 OZ OZ1RDP (EU125) May 19 May 21 3B8 3B8/F6DBZ May 19 May 23 G G3HTA/P (EU-011) May 19 May 26 P4 P40W May 19 May 30 4S 4S7BRG May 19 June 6 9M6 9M8CC (OC-088) May 19 June 8 3B8 3B8/NK6F May 19 June 15 3X 3XY3A May 20 May 25 I IT9FXY/IH9 & OK1CW/IH9 (AF-018) May 23 May 26 KL7 KL7AK (NA-161) May 23 May 27 GM GM5VG/P (EU-059) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Propagation Forecast ----------------------------------------------------------------- The effective sunspot number for Saturday, 5/17/97, was Unknown. The WWV numbers for Sunday, 5/18/97, were as follows: Date Hour SFI A K Forecast ----------- ---- --- - - -------------------------------------- 18-May-1997 21 74 4 2 VRY LOW/QUIET;VRY LOW/QUIET-UNSETTLED 18-May-1997 18 73 7 1 very low, quiet to unsettled 18-May-1997 15 73 7 2 very low/quiet to unsettled 18-May-1997 12 73 7 1 VERY LOW 18-May-1997 09 73 7 2 18-May-1997 06 73 7 1 SA=QUIET,GMF=QUIET 18-May-1997 03 73 7 2 SA VY LOW / GMF QUIET TO UNSET. 18-May-1997 00 73 7 2 very low, quiet to unsettled The forecast for Monday, 5/19/97: solar flux 74, A index 10, K index 2. Monday should be High Normal. The forecast for Tuesday, 5/20/97: solar flux 74, A index 10, K index 2. Tuesday should be High Normal. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QSL Info ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call Manager ------ ------- 3Z0AU SP6CZ 5N8NDP/9 IK5JAN HA/W0YR AA9DX OZ1RDP DL9BDP TM5FER F5KMK TO9PL KF0UI ----------------------------------------------------------------- Credits ----------------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks to the following for the above DX information: 425 DX NEWS, EA4AK, EA5XX, JA6VZB, K3SKE, KC3AJ, NOAA, N3OSH, OPDX, URE, US Air Force ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions to THE DAILY DX are $28.00 for 6 months (25 weeks), $49.00 for 12 months (50 weeks). 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