. ===================== *** The Daily DX *** ===================== Volume 1 Number 67 June 19, 1997 Edited by Bernie McClenny, W3UR ____________________________________________________________________ Headlines ____________________________________________________________________ Bob, N2OO, announced he will be operating from East Malaysia at the Grand Opening of Hillview Gardens, a resort with a ham radio theme. He will be there promoting this new site from August 4th to August 23rd. Hillview Gardens is a new resort owned and run by Alfons, 9M6MU, and Doris, 9M6DU. The resort includes a 50 foot swimming pool, food, beverage, entertainment areas, 20 rooms, an 85 foot tower and hamshack. A special callsign is expected and will be announced later. Alan, VS6KY/ZL1TX and other local 9M6's will also operate this station with Bob. Activity is planned for 10 through 40 meters (including WARC) SSB and CW. The new address for the Polish (SP) QSL bureau is as follows: PO Box 42 64-100 Leszno 7 Poland Antoine, F6FNU, reports that Jean Piere, F5TRD, will be active for four months from N'Djamena, Chad (TT). His call and QSL information is unknown at this time. ____________________________________________________________________ QSN ____________________________________________________________________ 5A1A - LIBYA - Abubaker started off on 28454 on Wednesday at 15:50Z then around 19:15Z he was found on 24944. FK8HC - NEW CALEDONIA - Frank was found on 3799 working JA's around 09:35Z. R1FJV FRANZ JOSEF ISLAND - Came up on 14020 working JA's and Europe at 19:40Z. V85HY - BRUNEI - Hassan showed up on 14185 at 13:45Z working west coast and mid-west US stations. VK0GC - MACQUARIE ISLAND - Graham start on 7070 at 07:00Z and then was found on 3799 at 07:50. XV7TH - VIETNAM - Was on 14195 staring just before 14:50Z. ____________________________________________________________________ IOTA ____________________________________________________________________ The following IOTA stations were on yesterday 6/18/97: IOTA Call Freq GMT IOTA Call Freq GMT ------ ---------- ----- ---- ------ --------- ----- ---- EU-008 GS3ZBI/P 14260 1350 EU-067 SV8/G3SWH 10108 1722 EU-018 OY/DL6YFB 14250 2234 EU-120 GB5LI 7019 0857 EU-028 IA5/IV3UHL 14263 1243 NA-047 VE8TA 14001 0028 EU-038 PA2JJB 14260 1049 OC-146 YB5NOF/8 14260 1458 EU-045 IB0JN 14261 0157 OC-146 YC8UYB 7015 1040 EU-056 LA4GHA 14260 1409 OC-209 YC8TZR 7004 1045 EU-057 DL8KUE 14330 1134 OC-NEW YC8YZ 21260 1418 Bruce Yih, BV2KI, tells The Daily DX that he and a group of others will be operating from Matsu Island IOTA AS-113 using the callsign B0OM from July 24th to July 31st. Operators include BV2KI, BV2KS, BV4AS, BV4FH, BV4ME, BV4MU, BV4RH, JP1RIW, JI6KVR, JA1JKG and JR7TEQ. They will be active on 10 through 160 meters including WARC and 6 meters. They will be active in The IOTA contest during the weekend of July 26th and 27th. Also planned is some 2 meter propagation testing into JA/HL and UA. QSL via BV2KI, Bruce Yih, P.O. BOX 84-609 Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. or via the bureau. Declan, EI6FR, reports the West Net DX Group made over 5,000 QSOs from Rathlin Island (EU-122) as GI/EI7JET. Frank, KL7FH, is scheduled to be on Saint Paul Island, Alaska (NA-028) in the early afternoon on June 30th. He plans to use the call KL1SLE and will leave July 1st. QSL via WL7KY. 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) ------- ------- ------- ----------------------------------- June 19 June 19 C6 C6AIE (NA-001) June 19 June 19 YB YC8YZ (OC-new) June 19 June 20 OY OY DL's June 19 June 20 SV SV8/G3SWH (EU-067) June 19 June 20 SV9 SV9/DL8SET (EU-015) June 19 June 20 TF TF/IT9ESZ & TF/LA6ZH June 19 June 22 GM GS3ZBI/P (EU-008) June 19 June 23 CY0 CY0SAB June 19 June 26 GU GU3ICO/P (EU-114) June 19 June 30 XU XU2A June 19 July 1 SV5 SV5/I3QBC June 19 July 17 V5 V5/GM4DMA June 20 June 21 EA ED5RCC/ED3 (EU-154) June 20 June 22 OH OH1MDR/P (EU-096) June 20 June 23 KH0 KH0N & KH0/JA6HBS June 21 June 22 All Asian CW DX Contest June 21 June 23 JA JI6KVR (AS-037) June 21 July 4 3A 3A/ON5FP & 3A/ON6NN June 21 July 5 9H 9H0VRZ & Many 9H3's ____________________________________________________________________ Today's Propagation Forecast ____________________________________________________________________ The effective sunspot number for Tuesday, 6/17/97, was 17.1 The WWV numbers for Wednesday, 6/18/97, were as follows: Date Hour SFI A K Past 24 hours ; next 24 hours ----------- ---- --- -- - ----------------------------------- 18-Jun-1997 21 71 2 0 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 18 70 3 1 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 15 70 3 1 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 12 70 3 0 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 09 70 3 1 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 06 70 3 1 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 03 70 3 1 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET 18-Jun-1997 00 70 3 0 VERY LOW/QUIET;VERY LOW/QUIET The forecast for Thursday, 6/19/97: solar flux 70, A index 5, K index 1. Thursday should be High Normal. The forecast for Friday, 6/20/97: solar flux 70, A index 5, K index 1. Friday should be High Normal. ____________________________________________________________________ QSL Info ____________________________________________________________________ Call Manager ------ ------- FK8HC VK4FW GS3ZBI/P G3OCA OD5NJ EA5BYP V63KU JA6NL VR6TC WD6GUD ZD7HI N2AU ZF2MK K9MK ____________________________________________________________________ Credits ____________________________________________________________________ Many thanks to the following for the above DX information: 425 DX NEWS, ARRL, DX News Letter, DX News Sheet, F6FNU, K3SKE, KC3AJ, KF2TI, KH6BZF REPORTS, Les Nouvelles, LYNX, N2OO, N3OSH, NOAA, NPDXG, OPDX, 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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