Stillwater Amateur Radio Club News
April 5, 1999
April newsletter.
This is going to be a short newsletter. I have the flu and I was late getting the call for
articles out. I want to thank Martin WB5AGZ for the last minute article.
de W5RED
Building it in the Dark
By Martin McCormick
The idea for this article came from a suggestion received after posting a short message to
a Usenet news group about how hams who are blind go about the experimental side of amateur
radio.
Hams who are blind must go about the experimentation and construction process a bit
differently. Certain things such as building a kit from instructions or duplicating
a complex circuit from a schematic in a magazine article are not easy to do at all because
there is no good way to translate something as involved as a schematic in to Braille or
raised-line drawings. The drawings could be made raised all right, but the detail is
simply too much to follow well with one's fingers. All the lines will feel pretty
much alike and reading such a diagram is about as easy as following one particular
piece of string in the world's largest ball of twine.
Another thing which a ham who is blind must come to grips with is the need to
measure the world around him or her. This is no different than the physical and
electrical measurements that a sighted person makes, but finding the right tools and
instruments to render those measurements in a usable form such as speech or some kind of
sound is a trick at times.
There are rulers sold to the general public as school supplies that have the
graduations on them molded in to plastic so that one can feel/count them. These type
rulers can be used by a blind person because it isn't actually necessary to read the
numbers as much as it is necessary to be able to count the varying-length marks and go
from there.
Metal shop rulers or the little sliding rulers that are part of adjustable squares
often-times have their graduations slightly cut in to the metal so a finger nail dragged
along the edge will usually pick up the nicks or a tooth pick or scribe point will also
work.
As for electronics, there have been various devices around for adapting meters of all
kinds to use by people who are blind. In the old days, the method was to modify a
typical multimeter in such a way as to tap off some of the voltage across the normal meter
movement and use it to change the pitch of an oscillator. This in itself can tell
the person using it whether the thing being measured is increasing or decreasing.
One can give actual measurement units to this signal by adding a switch to the
device such that the pitch of the oscillator is either controlled by the meter reading or
by a special adjustment potentiometer whose knob and pointer follows a raised scale
with markings around it corresponding to markings on the visual meter. To
"read" the meter, one listens to the pitch as determined by the meter reading
and then switches over to the manual adjustment and turns it until the pitch is the same
for both the meter and the manual scale. The pointer then points to the marking on the
manual scale that corresponds to the pointer on the meter.
A variation on this theme is to use a Wheatstone bridge and have the meter feed
one side while the manual scale feeds the other such that there is no voltage at all when
the two readings are the same. This null or balance point can either feed an
oscillator which will dip or peak in pitch when the null is reached or it can be fed in to
a chopper modulator and then to an amplifier so that one hears a null in the signal.
The game is to hear something different when the manually-turned pot reaches a
value which is equal to the meter reading.
When digital electronics came along, there also came a new crop of modifications
to existing digital multimeters and frequency counters to make it possible to drive a
voice synthesizer or maybe a Braille display. These modifications usually involved
butchering the device being modified such that it was no longer portable any more or such
that it had more ribbon cables hanging off of it than an intensive care patient on his
last days.
A few outrageously-expensive gadgets existed in which somebody had put a voice
synthesizer or Braille display in the same box as a digital multimeter, but these dream
toys were usually far out of reach as they cost five or six-hundred Dollars or even more.
About 10 years or so ago, Radio Shack produced a talking multimeter which sold for
around $150.00. This device was at least reasonable in price and put the voice chips
and the DMM in a standard-sized DMM case. The probe has an extra button on it that
one pushes when it is time to take a reading. This was quite a step forward, but it
appears to be only the beginning.
Now, it is possible to buy a device for about the same price that doesn't talk on
its own, but can be connected to a personal computer. This device can do all the DMM
functions plus count frequencies and read capacitors as well as check transistors.
This removes a lot of the difficulties that hams who are blind have had in taking
the kind of measurements that most people take for granted. About the only thing
left that is a bit hard to measure are inductors and there are ways to do that at least
indirectly.
This is just scratching the surface of the bag of tricks that hams who are blind
can use to experiment productively with electronics. The next article will tell how
all this and more are used to actually construct something useful. After all, that's
what it's all about.
via N5AJK APRS/GPS
I've had many additional inquiries about the APRS/GPS activities in NEOK. Merlin Griffin,
WB5OSM, our NEOK DEC has given me some additional information I thought I'd pass on to you
all.
73
Charlie Calhoun, K5TTT
Section Manager, OK Section
-----Original Message-----
From: Merlin Griffin [SMTP:megriffin@ionet.net]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 6:08 AM
To: Charlie Calhoun
Subject: RE: APRS/GPS Workshop
Charlie. Pass this on:
The general idea of this thing: We're not saying you must have sveral hundreds more
dollars worth of equipment to be a weather spotter or to participate in SKYWARN, but if
you don't mind investing a little more money and effort it;s a way to improve things and
play with some neat technology. If you primarily do your spotting thing in Tulsa
County, it's probably not that important, but if you go out in the unincorporated or rural
areas, or like to venture off the beaten path this could be of tremendous help. I've
been there and done that.
Let's say you're out on a rural road in Rogers County, they do have street signs up, and
you report quarter size hail and 65 mph winds, at the intersection of NS 153 & EW 403.
If you in Osage County a street sign of any kind is a luxury. We still don't really know
where you are, but with the GPS you could give us a latitude and longitude, or an AZ/RAN
from the Tulsa RDA at Inola. Then we would know exactly where you are. This
could also be important if the storm damages your vehicle or you run out of gas out there
it would make it easier for us to get you help. Then if you couple the GPS to an
APRS packet radio system, then your posistion is sent to us automatically and plotted on a
computer screen. The WX service is willing to set this up so it goes through a
firewall then shows up on the AWIPS screens where they now analyze the radar data.
I see diferent levels of involvement:
1: GPS but no APRS report your posistion as an AZ/RAN by voice. (SEt a way point
based upon either the INX RDA or the SRX RDA whichever is closest for your area. 2: GPS
With APRS, but no laptop on board. SOme of the APRS units will let you store some
canned messages that you can pre-program from your home computer.
Steve Piltz and I receommend MSG 1 Hail > Dime Size MSG 2: Winds > 60 MSG 3
Funnel Aloft MSG 4 TORNADO on the ground MSG 5 911 (Please send help to this location)
3: GPS With APRS and a Laptop computer, where you can send text messages
concerning the wx condx where you are. this is useful if you can't do voice and data
at the same time or ran out of range on the voice frequencies. There are APRS digipeaters
around.
4: Then we'd kind of like to see some folks really run with this, and this may need
to be an organization, outfit a vehicle with some weatehr instruments, and interface them
to the laptop, and have those measurements automatically forwarded to the WX service.
Again nobody has to do any of this, but if you want to, it's a way to improve the SKYWARN
program.
73 DE WB5OSM
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Calhoun [mailto:k5ttt@tulsa.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:59 AM
To: 'Charlie Calhoun via tulsa.com'
Subject: FW: APRS/GPS Workshop
There is a group in Tulsa working with the Weather Service that
will be holding an APRS/GPS workshop. The weather service has
invested a lot of time and effort in this project and I would
like to see us support them with our own efforts. If you are
interested and available I would encourage you to attend.
Information is listed below.
Thanks and 73,
Charlie Calhoun, K5TTT
Section Manager, OK Section
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Lake [SMTP:Charlie.Lake@noaa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 2:35 PM
To: loyd@betnet.com; k5ttt@tulsa.com;
schiller@cherokee.nsuok.edu; swilson@okla.net; caclark@ibm.net;
kb0ll@minospring.com; jmoore8575@aol.com; gcouger@couger.com;
coblentz@ionet.net
Subject: APRS/GPS Workshop
Good Morning:
We are scheduled for the Philbrook Art Museum, Saturday, April 10th at 10:00 AM. The
address is 2727 S Rockford Rd. Its just East of Peoria and North of I-44.
Please park on the lower level towards the Northeast corner. We'll be in the
Studio room. Hope to see you there. Please pass the word to other interested
Amateur's.
Thanks in advance.
73
Charlie
KB0NEC
Steve Miller - KC5TRR
on Weather
Two definitions this month to kick off storm season!
dBZ - Nondimensional "unit" of radar reflectivity which represents a logarithmic
power ratio (in decibels, or dB) with respect to radar reflectivity factor, Z.
The value of Z is a function of the amount of radar beam energy that is
backscattered by a target and detected as a signal (or echo). Higher values of Z (and dBZ)
thus indicate more energy being backscattered by a target. The amount of backscattered
energy generally is related to precipitation intensity, such that higher values of dBZ
that are detected from precipitation areas generally indicate higher precipitation rates.
However, other factors can affect reflectivity, such as width of the radar beam,
precipitation type, drop size, or the presence of ground clutter or AP. WSR-88D radars can
detect reflectivities as low as -32 dBZ near the radar site, but significant (measurable)
precipitation generally is indicated by reflectivities of around 15 dBZ or more. values of
50 dBZ or more normally are associated with heavy thunderstorms, perhaps with hail, but as
with most other quantities, there are no reliable threshold values to confirm the presence
of hail or severe weather in a given situation.
*Tornado - A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and
extending from the base of a thunderstorm. A condensation funnel does not need to reach to
the ground for a tornado to be present; a debris cloud beneath a thunderstorm is all that
is needed to confirm the presence of a tornado, even in the total absence of a
condensation funnel.
For Wx questions or comments, contact
Steve Miller - KC5TRR
millesd@okstate.edu
or visit www.hamsnet.net/kc5trr
From: kd5fx <kd5fx@poncacity.net> via N5AJK
et. al.
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 7:05 AM
Subject: Backup repeater now available
KA5SJK has given us permission to use the 146.73- repeater as a backup for 97 any time we
need it. With the problems we've been having on 97 this will be an added asset during the
coming storm season. I think that 97 has an antenna problem, we'll need to schedule an
antenna party at the repeater on the first available nice weekend. It looks like we'll
need to pull the antenna down and check it over closely, I think there is a loose
connection somewhere on it. If you have trouble communicating on 97, switch to 146.73. It
has about the same range as 97. Work on the voter system for 97 has been held up by the
crummy weather.
See ya on the Monday night net tonight at 9 PM...
73, Dave
--
*********************************************************
* David Land Amateur Radio Station: KD5FX
* Email: kd5fx@poncacity.net (home)
* myhomepage:http://www.poncacity.net/kd5fx
* Where will you spend eternity? Smoking or non-smoking?
*********************************************************
And thank to A.J. K5AJK for the DX report
SB DX @ WW $OPDX.403
Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 403
The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Bulletin No. 403
BID: $OPDX.403
April 5, 1999
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF-80 BBS Cleveland, Ohio
Online at 440-237-8208 28.8k-1200 Baud 8/N/1 (New Area Code!)
Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, K1VV, K1XN & The Golist,
K2WE, WB2RAJ/WB2YQH & The 59(9) DXReport, W3JJ, AL7KC, N6RT, K7ZD, K8YSE,
BA1DU, DJ5AV & DX News Letter, DL2FAG, F6HKS, G4BUE & DX News Sheet,
GM4FDM, JI3DST, JM1LJS, OH1KAG, PR7AR, PY1LVF, RA3SL,
UT7ND, ZS6P and 4X1VF for the following DX information.
3B9R DXPEDITION TO RODRIGUES ISLAND IS NOW ACTIVE. A team of nine operators
representing the countries of Finland, Japan, Mauritius, Mexico and the
United States is now active from Rodrigues Island (AF-017) of the Mascarene
Islands group in the Indian Ocean unti April 11th. This will be an all mode
operation, 160-6 meters with special emphasis on 160, 80, WARC and RTTY.
Team members include Bruce/W6OSP, Kimo/KH7U, Jari/OH2BU/OH7RF, Victor/
XE1VIC, Jacky/3B8CF, Garry/NI6T, Frank/AH0W/OH2LVG, Ned/AA7A and Yuuji/
JA3IG/K1NT. QSL via: Joyce Johnson N7LVD, 5627 West Hearn Road, Glendale,
Arizona 85306, USA. Pilot stations are: Andy/UA3AB (ua3ab@dateline.ru),
Gary/K7ZD (k7zd@inficad.com) and Tom/N4XP (n4xp@juno.com). Interested
DXers may submit inquiries during the DXpedition via any of these pilot
station e-mail addresses. Thanks to Mr. Anton Vinokurov, an informational
Web site is now on-line including information about the DXpedition, maps
and photos of Rodrigues Island, frequency table, recognition of sponsors,
interesting links, operating plans, and more. (On-line logs will NOT be
available.) DXers are invited to sign the guest-book and submit comments
at: http://www.dateline.ru/3b9/
3W, VIETNAM (Also VR, Hong Kong). Steve, K2WE, is returning to Vietnam
with a stay in Hong Kong first. He plans to be in Hong Kong from April
16th through the 23rd. Steve has applied for a temporary license in VR-
land. He will then continue on to Saigon from April 23rd through 27th.
Steve will be operating from the XV300S station at the Kimdo Hotel in
downtown Saigon. He has asked for a renewal of his 3W6WE callsign. Steve
is again going to try 40 and 80 meters and hopes the noise won't be too
bad. He will bring back all the logs for 3W6LI, 3W6KA and XV300S, so he
can answer the hundreds of cards waiting at his QTH. QSL again via his
home callsign K2WE.
3W, VIETNAM. Look for Sugi, JA2BWH, to be active again from April 8-12th
as 3W6BWH. His operations will include SSTV on 14240, 21346 and 28680
kHz. QSL via home callsign.
4F7, PHILIPPINES. The "DX News Sheet" reports to look for Gus, SM3SGP,
to be active until May 6th as 4F7/SM3SGP from Cebu Island. Activity will
be CW/SSB. QSL via SM3EVR.
4Z0, AKHZIV ISLAND (New Prefix, Rare Island). Jan, 4X1VF, informs OPDX
that he will be leading a group of hams from Israel next Saturday, April
10th, to operate from this rare Israeli island (AS-100) bewteen 0530-1400z.
Akhziv Island has not been on for many years. The callsign that they
will be using is 4Z0A. (also a new prefix). They plan to operate 3 stations
on 20/15/10 meters both CW/SSB using the IOTA frequencies. Jan states
that they have to leave the island before dark.
BI5, DONGTOU ISLAND (NEW IOTA). The BI5D IOTA DXpedition to Dongtou Island
in the Zhejiang Province Group (AS-???) will take place between April 29th
and May 3rd. The team consists of BA1AA, BA1AJ, BA1DU, BA1FB, BA1HAM,
BA1KA, BA4AA, BA4RD, BA4RF, BA4RX, BA4TA, BA4TB, BG4AGM, BG4RUC, BD5HAG,
BD5RV, BG5BAC, BD6AA, BD6CQ, BA7IA, BA7JG, BA7JK, BD7IX, BD7JA, BD7NI and
BD7NQ. They will operate on all bands 70cm - 160m. On HF bands, they plan
to have six transceivers, three yagis and three amplifiers. Suggested
frequencies for CW/SSB are: 1826, 3530, 3755, 7025, 7055, 10115, 14038,
14260, 18098, 18128, 21038, 21260, 24918, 24945, 28038, 28465 and 29280
kHz (FM only). Look for them on RTTY on or around 7040, 10140, 14080,
21080 and 28080 kHz. They will pay special attention to NA on the following
bands, modes and time: 0000-0400z 15m, 17m and 20m on CW; 1100-1500z 40m
on SSB/CW; 1100-1300z 75m on CW; 2200-0000z 15m, 20m and 40m on SSB/CW;
and will especially work EU during 0700-1800z on several usable bands and
modes. On VHF and UHF, they will used 4ELE HB9CV antenna on 6 meters, 13ELE
yagi on 2 meters and 70 centimeters bands. The frequency will be 50.115
MHz (SSB/CW), 144.10 MHz (SSB/CW) and 432.20 MHz (SSB/CW). They will
especially look for JA, HL and BV stations on 2 meters and 70 centimeters.
QSL via P.O.Box 1713, Guangzhou city 510600, CHINA ( direct only ). Any
suggestions, comments and questions should be sent to:
Alan BA1DU ( ba1du@arrl.net ) or Yang BD7JA ( bd7ja@amsat.org ).
CE9, SOUTH SHETLANDS. Ric, CE3HDI, will be active until April 23rd as
CE9R from the Teniente Rodolfo Marsh base (and possibly President Frei
Montalva base) on King George Island. Activity will be CW/SSB/RTTY/SSTV
on 80-10 meters. QSL via home call.
CU, AZORES. Look for CU2ARA to be on the air April 10TH and 11TH.
Activity will be on 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters on CW, SSB, SSTV and
Packet.
IOTA NEWS.....
AS-042. Mike, UA3SDK, is active as UA3SDK/0 from Sredniy Island until
the end of April. QSL
via RU3SD, P.O.Box 1, Ryazan 390000,
RUSSIA.
AS-049. Takeshi, JI3DST, reports that he will be active from Tokara
Archipelago
(Kuchinoshima, Kogashima-Ken) from April 28th
through May 4th. Look
for him to be active as JI3DST/6 (or
7N3UXO/6) on
17/15/12/10 meters SSB. QSL via JI3DST; Takeshi
Funaki, 2-18-26
Hannan-Cho Abeno-Ku, Osaka-City Osaka 545-0021,
JAPAN. His E-mail
addresses are:
MXK00027@nifty.ne.jp or ji3dst@jarl.com
EU-094. Look for TM2WLH to be active on Penfret Island from May 6-9th.
Activity will be from a
lighthouse (Lighthouse LH 0321 for
the Lighthouse Award)
on all bands CW/SSB. QSL Manager is
F6HKS.
SA-029. A group of Brazilian operators will activate the following
islands during April
9-12th (Same IOTA number for all islands):
Itacuruca Island,
Martins Island and Jaguanum Island. Activity
will be SSB and CW on
all bands (160-6 meters). Suggested
frequencies:
SSB - 1850, 3755, 7055,
14260, 18128, 21260, 24950, 28360
and
28460 kHz
CW - 1835, 3530,
7030, 10115, 14040, 18098, 21040, 24920
and
28040 kHz
Also, please listen to
the Brazil DX Net, Saturday and Sunday
from 1800 to 2100z on
14222 kHz. Look for the following
callsigns: PY1NEZ/p or
PT1Z (Lima), PY1NEW/p (Pete) and
PY1LVF/p or ZX1Z
(Vieira). QSL via home callsign or the PY1
QSL bureau.
J2, DJIBOUTI. "The 59(9) DXReport" reports that Phil, F5PHW, will be
active as J28BS until the end of April from the French Radio Club. He will
use a TS-440S plus available antennas on CW and maybe RTTY. QSL via F6KPQ.
JD, OGASAWARA. Yasu, JA9XBW, will be active as JA9XBW/JD1 from April
9-18th. Operations will be on CW/SSB/FM on 160-6 meters. QSL via home
callsign.
LV2, ARGENTINA. Look for the special callsign, LV2V, to be used by the
Radio Club General Roca for the next 5 years. QSL via LU3VAL.
NEW CANADIAN PREFIX. VY0 is the prefix for Canada's new Nunavut province.
The call would have been VE8XN prior to April 1st.
NEW SCOTTISH PREFIXES. To commemorate the new Scottish parliament, look
for the following special prefixes to be used by Scottish operators during
May 6th through July 31st: GMs can use 2S (ex. GM4FDM can sign 2S4FDM),
MMs can use 2A and 2Ms (Novice) can use 2T.
NEW WELSH PREFIXES. To commemorate the new Welsh Assembly, look for the
following special prefixes to be used by Welsh operators during May 6th
through July 31st: GWs can use 2C (ex. GW4FDM can sign 2C4FDM), MWs can
use 2X and Welsh Novices can use 2Y.
OH0, ALAND ISLANDS. OH0M operation will probably be QTH by the time you
read this. Activity was to be done by the Finnish Radio Amateur League
(SRAL) and was to active until April 5th. The operators are: Juha/OH1KAG,
Mikko/OH3FM, Pertti/OHLQK and Jukka/OH3NLP. QSL via BUREAU to OH3LQK.
QSL INFO AND NEWS......
KL7FBI was operated by Mike, AL7KC, during March 30th through April
2nd, from Shemya Island (IOTA NA-037(, Semichi Group, Aleutians. QSL
to KL7FBI via bureau or direct.
Serge, EK4JJ, reports that there is no QSL Bureau in Armenia, and
it is too expensive to reply direct unless return postage is enclosed
with a QSL card. It has been reported that Serge is a reliable
and
fast QSLer if you send return postage.
YC9WZJ QSL go to Joni Salim, PO Box 127, Sorong-98401, Irian Jaya,
Indonesia.
Roger/G3SXW reports QSL requests already received for contacts with
C21SX have now all been answered. Cards arriving daily are being
handled within 48 hours. Over 1,000 contacts have already been
confirmed direct. The address for direct QSLs is: Roger Western,
G3SXW, 7 Field Close, Chessington, Surrey KT9 2QD, England. Nearly
200 contacts have so far been requested by E-mail. These cards will
go to the bureau this week. If you wish to receive a card via bureau
merely send QSO details and your call-sign to: G3SXW@compuserve.com
PLEASE do not send your card by other routes as this defeats the
purpose of saving time (your's, Roger's and the bureaux's) and money
(your's and the bureaux's).
The following Web site
http://dx.qsl.net/logs
has placed the following logs on-line this week:
PW1S (1999 CQ WPX SSB
Contest)
PT1A (1999 ARRL DX SSB
Contest)
PX1I (1998 ARRL 10m
Contest)
FO0CI (1992 Clipperton
Island DXpedition)
YC0LOW (thru 20-Mar-99)
ER0N QSLS. GENE, UT7ND, was active in the CQWW WPX SSB Contest as SOSB
28 MHZ from the village of Otaci, Moldova, as ER0N. He is also planning
to be active from here in other upcoming contests using the same call.
ALL ER0N QSLS are via the Ukrainian QSL Bureau or direct to UT7ND,
Gene Chumakov, P.O. Box 5235, Vinnitsa, 286018, Ukraine. PLEASE DON'T
SEND YOUR QSLS TO MOLDOVA.
Bob, K3BYV, reports that he is no longer the QSL manager for TG5ITS
and KB0QMY/TI5 (both calls are the same person, op Tim). Bob will
still be QSL Manager for these stations ONLY: PZ5JR, PZ5DX and P29ND.
ZZ7Z special callsign used in the CQ WPX SSB Contest can be QSLed
via PR7AR, Irapuan de Sousa, P.O. Box 60, CEP.58200-970,
Guarabira-Paraiba-Brazil.
QSLs for both CE3/NE4Z and XR3Z now go to AJ4Y, Paul Womble, P.O.
Box 1207, Highland City, FL 33846-1207. The old route to CE3SMN will
no longer be any good.
R.O.A.R.S. SPECIAL EVENT. On April 10-11th, the "Radio Officers' Amateur
Radio Society" will commemorate the "END of MARITIME CW" operations with
a special event tribute to "Maritime Coastal Stations". Over 90 special
event amateur stations representing historic maritime coastal stations
will take part. For details and certificate information, please visit
the Web page: http://homepages.enterprise.net/dbarlow/
The Marconi Radio Club W1AA/WCC will represent the WCC Cape Cod, MA
coastal maritime station for the event.
S07, WESTERN SAHARA. Ross, CN2UN, was been active as S07UN this week on
the 14247 DX net. He was there on a UN mission. He has recently left for
Hong Kong and will return to Africa in three weeks. QSL via ZP6CU.
Meanwhile, the "DX News Letter" reports that Arseli, EA2JG, plans
to
operate as S09A on all bands for two weeks as of March 31. OPDX has spotted
Arseli this past weekend on 40/20/15/10 meters SSB. Check around on the
usual DX windows. QSL direct only via EA2JG, Arseli Etxeguren, Barrena 6,
E-01480 Luyando Alava, Spain.
S7, SEYCHELLES. Babs/DL7AFS, Lot/DJ7ZG and Karl/DL2FAG will be active
from April 11th to May 2nd from Mahe, as S79YL, S79ZG and S79FAG. They
will be active on all bands, except 80 meters (which is not allowed in
S7). If there are any possibilities, they will also try to activate one
or two other IOTA islands. Their equipment will be the following: Kenwood
TS850S, ICOM IC-706MK and FL2100Z-amplifier. Antennas will be a 3 element
Yagi for 20/15/10 and Multiband-dipoles/triple legs for the other bands.
They will be active on SSB, CW, RTTY and also possibly in PSK31, Amtor,
Pactor. For the YL-award, Babs/DL7AFS will be again active (recently was
C50YL) using the special callsign S79YL. QSL for all callsigns are via
DL7AFS.
T8, PALAU. Look for Misao/JJ1DWB, Hide/JM1LJS and Hiro/7N1KAE to be
active as T88MT, T88LJ and T88?? (Hiro applying now), respectively, from
April 27th - May 7th (possibility that schedule may change little). Their
activity will be on 80-6 meters SSB/CW/(29M-FM) and T88LJ will try to be
on SSTV. QSL to the following addresses:
T88MT - JJ1DWB, Misao Tanzawa, 3-15 Yakata, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-0017,
JAPAN
T88LJ - JM1LJS, Hideyuki Kai, 4-22-15, Takata-higashi, Kohoku-Ku
Yokohama-City 223-0065, JAPAN
T88?? - 7N1KAE, Hiroyuki Yamada, 2-9-209, Chigusadai, Inage-Ku,
Chiba-City 263-0013, JAPAN
TL, CENTRAL AFRICA. Gianni, IZ1CQD, will be active until April 20th as
TL8CG from Markounda. His activity will be limited to his free time while
working. Look for him on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters SSB using only a 100
watts to a dipole with solar power. QSL via home callsign, bureau or
direct.
V4, ST. KITTS & NEVIS. The "DX News Sheet" reports that Jim, G0IXC, will
be active again as V47XC, April 10-30th, from Nevis Island. Activity will
be 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters SSB with a dipole and tri-band Yagi. QSL via
home callsign.
VU3, INDIA. After waiting for many months Tom, KR4ZY, has received his
VU callsign. He is now signing VU3TOM. QSL via KR4ZY.
ZS8D, MARION ISLAND. Excerpts from a press release: On Thursday, April
1st, the SAS Agulhas left Cape Town to take the 56th weather and biological
research crew to Marion Island. This annual supply run includes a radio
amateur! Deryck Yelverton, ZS6DE, has been licenced as ZS8D. While Deryck
is not an experienced HF operator, he has spent much of the last few weeks
in intense training. Deryck will not be active before mid-April at the
earliest, as the ship sails in April, and the base handover will occupy
his full attention. However, once he has all the hardware ready, he
expects to be on regularly and to make lots of contacts. QSL to ZS6EZ,
Chris R. Burger, Box 4485, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa. Requests with
sufficient postage will be sent by bulk courier service, while the
remainder will go via the bureau. SPECIAL NOTE: OPDX InterNet Subscribers
will receive the complete press release as an additional bulletin.
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