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14-79
April 4, 1979
SPRATLY
Last week the Spratly group were being heard from Brunei and advising when they were not being
the assumption could be had that they were at sea enroute to the island group ·in the South China
Sea. Last Friday it was the waiting game while mazzy were waiting for the dawn hours in the Spratlys
where it would be Saturday and with the waiting was the hope that 1S1DX would .come barreling in on
all bands. How things went you probably know yourself by now,
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Apparently some problems were being worked out early in the week when expected shipments of gear did
not show at the take-off spot in Brunei and they were scrambling to find replacements. N200, K4SMX
and N4WW traveled together to Hong Kong and then on the doS"'leg run down to Brunei. They had a 24-hour
flight from New York City and operated from VS6 before heading to VS5. KV4KV was traveling on another
airline, John reported as planning to continue on a ~und-the=world tour after the Spratly operation.
At Hong Kong those flying that route said that all their equipment was on hand.
listed previously,
ABU AIL
There is no really new information on the plans of
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Q,SLs go to VK2BJL as
OE6EEG planning for some Red Sea Activity
~t that there are a number of well known DXers who mS¥ be in on the action should all the plans
jell.
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Also included in the planning is DJ9~, F6BDS and J28AZ. They intend to explore the possibilities in
a number of areas in the Red Sea countries, some of these on the rare side of things.
Some of this may come in the next month or six weeks, It might be noted that 4W-Yemen and 70-South
Yemen who have been engaging in military actions have declared a truce and after some discussions, they
are reporting to have agreed that the best solution to their continuing problems would be to combine
the two countries under a provisional government, Things are moving in the areas around the Red Sea
and some DX types are looking to move with them.
CHINA Felix Suter, HB7MQ, who has been the DX Editor for the Swiss Amateur Ma«azine, "OLD MAN" is repo~,ting
that HB9APN, Lambert, is at the Swiss Embassy in Peking and was on the air with a signal in the phone ·
bands.
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Embassy to !1ay
who noted that
to some of the
used was HB9APN/A/BY and was at 21155kHz from 1400Z. The station will be at the Swiss
20th and plans to be active. Some have indicated that the call was HB9APN/BY, Some
the frequency was in the American novice sub-band were trying to get the station to move
more routine SSB frequencies.
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HB9APN is Lambert Moos, CH-6288 Schongau, Switzerland. Because of the source of the report there is
good reason to pay attention to this possibility, It may be that the fifteen meter frequency may not be
kept but around that 1400Z time it may be advantageous to be alert.
TANZANIA 5H3GK has been found on fifteen SSB and says he will be on c,w, soon, He is located 25kHm north
of Dar es Salaam. He gives his name as Gary, says that he is on assignment from Radio Sweden to Radio
Tanzania and will be there through April
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He is running a TR4 to a vertical from a QTH in a hotel. Says to Q,SL to SM5AWO, Gerth Karlsson,
Trollbecksv 47, 13500 Tyreso, Sweden. This probably is 5H3GK's home call, everything seems to fall into
line to indicate this.
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OK3TAB/D2A has been showing during March, the station being on twenty and ten meters. The operator
said that he definitely was in Angola and to Q,SL to his home QTH. That was what he said on twenty, on
ten meters he said to go via OK}ALE, The latter seems to be a more valid route.
The station has been heard over a several day period.
The program is to work 'em first.
NEPAL 9N1BMK has been showing on ten meter c,w, and working a lot of the ·wjK types.
-"'28o07kHz at 0300Z and said to QPL to JA8BMK.
This one was at
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Q!TAR EP2LI who is presently in the states will be going back to the Persian Gulf area and his next stop
will be at A7X-Qatar. Mike says that he has assurances of getting a license when he shows up for a tour
of work there.
EP2LI left the last stop in a bit of a h~, leaving the station, household goods, clothing and the family
omnibus as he hastened to catch the outbuund commute, Q,SL for his activities go to WA4PY.F , Ron Stange,
2760 Davidson Drive, Lithonia, Georgia 3665·8 and Ron has the loge for EP2LI from Jan 1st of 1978 to the
last day of operation on February 11th, Also on hand are the loge for A7XAH. Any. ne wanting to help
A7XAH get on the air fast might, when Q,SLing for the EP2LI or other operations, droi;n some small green
stamps in with the Q,SLs. The aim is to take A7X-Q.ATAR off the semi-rare list with sustained schedules.
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LOUIE Now t hat the
Days of DXing
r eady for offi ci al certif icati on. ten is wide o~en ~d
r;;any s canning SiX :for :j.ts pot ential, some ,J:ihO muaj;
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'-IOrr'J a r e a sking how long it wil l l a s t .
"FI:>;:;:eve r ?'),....._
they i n quire . Mayb e not quite tha t but ~~e g~
days sh0uld b e wi th us f or s ome t i me yet . - ,_
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In t he March R8GB ' Radio Cornmunication"...__G8KG
t akes a l ook down the long day s of Cycle ~
and say s t hat i t "'ill be w.i. th us f or a l ong
t i me y e t .
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The me thods of predicting peak s in the cycl es E
freqoo ntly change s as new kn.Qwle·~~
oped , tha t or i.nterpre tation of statistics
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a s new t heories show. . The latest for.e~!rl­
from ~OAA bas e d on Cia t a up tQ...-Oetoner' ~f las t
year i s a smoo t hed sun!;Jp otnumber at the t op~
of Cycle 21 of 150 (:!:34).
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tha~C~l~1 may~
GBKG' s ar t icl e anti cipa t es
show a :?harp ris e s t a rting this summer a.nd· 'pe akin~
with a monthly mean s~ spo t nuinber o;r ove;r 200 . /
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'l'pis may come a round the t u= i nto 1980, i t ma~be
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a s l a te as mid,- 1980 . The peak i s anticipateq/to
be above average and Cifcl e 21 very li~ely may have
one of t he highe st peaks on r e cord. The runoothed
monthly numb~ r, t his being the 12 mont~ running SSN
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number and not t h e monthly mean, is e~~ct~d to be around
179 and the monthly me an s ql~r flux smoothed number around
215.
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What doe s i t all mean? All you have~to do is to f:,'"O back
1638
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and read the predic tions , direful as they were, soiQe s i x
years or mo r e back. Many were saying that the Great Days
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of DXing woul d never b e s een agaip in our lifetime or that
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of o~r descenden ts . Then, out of th~ barrancas above
Portuguese Bend c~ e t he Palos Verdes Sundancers. If you
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did not belie ve then , what dQ you do now? The 4eignt of
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the Grand Je t Et was only an early indicator of t he he i ght
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of Cycle 21. Re j o.ice. DX has b~en saved for the Deser ving !
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16 s pot s
480 mil lionths
And ~ quiqk look at N~XX' s predictions will have you looking
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a t a string of HNs and AHs with only some LNs showing at t i mes , 8J0°W¢3°
Keep in mi nd that all thing::; are r el a t i ve , i ncluding t h e LNs
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and HN s, you can l ook fo r ••• •
N¢7° E18°
9 spots
1So mill ionths
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Apr Lth
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Abo ve/Hi gh Normal
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Low Normal
I,ow J-Tounal
High Nomal
Apr 9t h
10th
11th
12th
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High Normal
Above Normal
High Normal
High Nonnal
Low Normal
All of the ba ckground and help in making your own predi cti on s can be lea=ed e a sily i f you have a copy of THE SHOR'l'
WAVE :PROPAGATI ON HANDBOOK. vie ' ve r tm t h e i nfo rmation on i t
i n prcv~ ous i s sues. With the handbook you can fi n d how t o
l!!<J.:i. nta in y our own r e co rds an d make you r own predic t ions,
I t ca.n be i pteresti ng . ••• •
6 spots
20 mill i onths
1 spot
1E> millionths
1 s pot
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10 su ots
L70 mi llion t h s
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10 millionths
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70 milliont hs
Regi on 1638 flared on Mar 18th,
the disturbance l as t i n g about
one hour. Two l arge fl ares came
Oil Har 27th .
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26 Mar '79
Meamvhil e , K6EC k eeps the \Mv watch and though t he flux i s u p, it i s no t over the 200 mark
1vher e FJv woul d l ike to have it. But l ook ing ba ck a year or t ·w-o , in •Apri l 1977 the repo rt
hiid al l the :?Obr flux figures i n the seventies . Ev s ays i t shows what believing will do
and by now everyon e sho'tlld be a believer. And believe t h a t the charts shoul d show •• • •
Solar FlUJl: Ap I ndex
Ma:r 19 th
20th
21st
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186
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25 th
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190
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Ap Index
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We st Coast DX :Bulletin
4 Apr il 1979
SHORTLY NOTED Fri day had us working in c ircl es \vBi ting for
reali z ing that i t was hardly dawn there i!' tl:e Sou-,h China
up the pri nting of this bullet in. K4SNX and t he c~~ew sent
showing the Chinese side of t he border there in Hong Kong.
much like this side. But i f the bulletin seems disjointed
that we print t h e back page first , the f irst page last.
a sign of the ·JS1DX but also
Sea when we were finishing
a pos tcard of :BY-China, they
Actually, i t looks pretty
more than usual , keep in mind
KH6 I J continues in the hospital there in Honolulu, one side being affected and it does
seem h e has had a cerebral hemorrhage.
r¢IJ who handl ed the ~Ls fo r the first Abu Ai.l effort in 1971 by ETJZU/A and who was
one of the operators on the second effort in September 1971, says he has the logs for
both operations and can help anyone who, after a..Ll these years, thirsts f"or an Abu Ail
~I, •••• and ~>Tho is in the log books.
Tony also SUS1Jects that some may believe .that the
contact was not completed because of the QRM existing or did not realize that tlie station
was on Abu Ail. If you worked an ET}-station in a roaring pileup you might direct a query
to him at •• •• Tony Privitera , I f1IJ, 150, Via Tiburti na, 00185, Roma, Ital'y.
Tony also is l ooking at some Mediterranean DX ••• • Rhodes, Crete and even Mt. Athos but there
is no t hing f irm in t he plans as y et. :But there is hope ••••
For those who l ike to k eep up with Slim and his operations, the boy has been busy and you
can l i st these f or your Wo r ked-All-Sl im . HV5GH was Tyrrhenian Slim, the Pol ish ~1 r oute
says t hat he knows no thing. SV5VJ and SV5UP from Crete are Mediterran Slims. 5R8EA s aid
that OZ6MI was his QSL route. OZ6I1I says that that operator was unknown to him. W1JZ says
he is not the QSL route for FM?AV, GU4EON says that he i s getting QSLs for GJ}MBS but any
information i n di cating thi s is not ~rre ct , h e does not handle the cards. :BY1AA was on
a couple of months back, QSLs sent to Peking for ~yng came back 'Unknown!'. W2KLW has
been getting QSLs for some, says he knows not why and that he is the QSL Manager for no one.
You can try FR7ZL/I' to N4NX ••••• N~:WX has been getting them and having to .trans-ship them to
the right agent .... N~l~X. The 'new' Q.SL Nanager for TA 1M:B, that being Kadri in Is tanbul , is
~like, WB9ZKK.
Se~d direct ••••• to ~~9ZZK.
On the St :Barthe~my QSLs, we have some more reporting in. Fred Alden, W8JT.D, got hi s
FG¢DWT/FS QSL from F6CTK a couple of weeks tack. W7TE says he has two QSLs •••• one from
FG¢DXS/FS and another from FG¢DWT/FS. vl?TB got his cards from F6EXV. Hope still c ling s
and the cards have come through.
EA9GJ is usually found around 14280kHz from 2300Z on Wednesdays.
This one QSLs to WD6:BI F.
vlB6GFJ will again be in Tab,i ti this year and will sign FO¢F:B. 'lhls will not be the usual
FO¢-operation, Ross is intending to put OSCAR ox: from FC.y5 and will aim to use Modes, A,:B
and J, both c.w. a."Yld SSB. He will try t o get OSC_I\....11. action organized on a more permanent
basis from Tahiti and we will have more information for this summer operation.
TR6RG Q,SLs do come tb,rough but the question has !ceer, as to what is the address for
D.I\.1CZ, it not being in the c all books . N9DX has :persisted a.."ld has come up with the following:
H. ft~ousque llAlC~
CH Rollerstr 2
7590 Achern, West Germa.YJ.y
DA1CZ is also F2GA when home in France. Try it for ranging purposes. Strange as i t may
3ound, we a lso have another address i u reserve bc..t bel i eve that this one will work for you.
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4 April 1979
TEE KING OF SPAIN
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Las t week we menti on ed thi s ~ontest, i t coming the last full week
end in Apr i l and s t i ll a coupl e of weeks of f. They are going all
out with the trophies and cer tifi cates. Reading the r ules as
they were issued probabl y would be more i nformati ve than we. trJing
t o extr act the pertinent points. We probably would fo rget a few .
All of t his from Agrupacio Radioafi cicna ts Calella in Cal ella,
that being close to Barcelona and s ent out by EAJAMD. If you want
more informat ion, write the club s ecretary • • •• Jubara, 168 f r in
Cal ella.
BAS IES
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First. - The t roph y w il l he open to all nations, between Spanish stations and
world stations ca lli ng Spanish EAs st ations, i.e., to be accepted a OSO
shou ld ope rate w it h at least one EA st ation .
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CA LE L LA (Costa d"l Maresme) November 1978.
TEE QRPERS ARE RESTLESS
A couple of weeks back we mentioned tha t s ome
of the long docil e QRPers a re taking to swift action and hard words
when t hey think they have been trampl ed upon. The recent 3Y1VC from
Bouvet found a good many of them beating the drums of rebellion over
further ac ceptance of t heir doormat s t a tus . Here i s what one said
to the one who ran right over him on the QRM freeway •••••
Lrive
Ann Ar bor , Mi chigan
Fe brua ry 11, 1 979
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Dear W5,
I would like to exp ress my unhappi nes s ove r an 1nc1dent
tha.t oc curred several da ys ap: o , an incident of:.. wh ich you no
dou bt took littl e no tic e. It i s, unfortu natel y , t he ki nd of
'1nc id•ent whi ch is t oo often r epeated on t he amE t e ur l:le.nds. I
' had call ed an African station whi ch I nee~e~ op 15 meter SSB ,
and he res-ponrl.ed by repea ti np: sever al tim'e's ;' "QRZ t he Wl sta t i on , you a r e not too s tronp: OM". As I ans wered again, you
called hi m a nrl. compl etely covered me up wi th your very loud
s itnuil. P'e ca me back t o you, What mad e me espe c ially a ngr y
was y.our c ommen t t hat you had worked him a wee k or two before
on thP. same band a nd 1t was " ni~ e to s ee him again".
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I a m only r unn inp: low power to an indoor dipole. Larp:ely
wi t h the indoor dipole a nd al s o a mobile whip , I have wo r ked
296 count ries in my eight years as a ham . Obviously , I hava
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no t a s greedy and inc onsidera t e as yourself, or my DXCC t o tal
would cert ainly be mu ch smaller . Ope r at ing practi ce s suc h as
yours make me wonder if my efforts a r e worth it,
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West Coast DX Bulletin
4 April 1979
•
FCC MONITORING STATIONS Some months back one close to the Washington scene advised that
he considered amateurs as possibly lax in defending their .frequencies by .failing to both
report and protest incursions by outsiders into the amateur .frequencies, Citing the
well-know Russian Woodpecker as an example, he noted that complaints to the FCC on this
violation of the ITO allocations have dwindled and that it is quite possible to have an
assertation made at WARC 79 that the interference itself is about nil because the amat~xrs
themselves do not pro t est very loudly.
When this is pointed out to some amateurs, the often spoken reply is that they figur.e
that you-know-who is out manning the barricades to protect the amateil.r · frequencies. To
thi-S belief we have often heard a disparaging 'HA! ". Apparently there are some who do
not believe.
Not only the woodpecker but other incursions bother the amateurs. The Afrikaner Net had
to slip down a couple of kcs from their usual frequency because of what they believe to
be interference .from commercial sources, The interference has alw~s been a problem in
Europe and Africa, now it is bothering the states as well.
The following are the full list of the FCC Monitoring Stations and their telephone numbers.
If you hear something on the amateur frequencies and are irate enough,' grab your telephone
and get their attention, Not once, every time, And if your neighbor does it, that does
not mean that two complaints are not better than one, The letters in parentheses are the
FCC's two-letter designators for that station,
(AL)
(AN)
(BE)
(DS)
Allegan ~chigan (616) 673 2063
Anchorage Alaska (907) 344 1011
Belfast, Maine
(207) 338 4088
Douglas, Arizon~ (602) 364 2133
(FE)
(FL)
(KI)
(LR)
(LV)
Ferndale, Wash
(206) 354 4892
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (305) 472 5511
Grand Island, Nebraska
(308) 382 4296
Kingsville, Texas (512) 592 2531
Laurel, Mary-land (301) 725 3474
L~vermore, Calif, (415) 447 3614
(PS)
(SS)
(WA)
Powder Springe, Georgia (404) 943 4794
Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico (809) 784 3772
Watch Officer, FCC Washington Of.fice (202) 632 6975
(WP)
Waipahu, Hawaii
(GI)
(808) 677 3954
If you want relief •••• permanent type relief • ••• from the problems on the amateur bands,
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_.ill5PORTS FROM E&."'U
April 1979
:l.'he glo:rions DX that fooled me in my youth,
:t'he sw·eet mirage th~.t lured me on i t s t r ack,
Is i'olmd again . Ten meters is back •••••
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C5.AllJi
CN2AQ.
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28040/0205/\1ar
2il0 36/2205/l'Ja.r
25037/1915/Mar
2800fJ/OJ05/Nru:
28036/2205/Na:c
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20e
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26w
20m
25m
21w
J.J."""Z'i·~~.
;~(;6 ~ '!/)1!.05/Ha.r ~-i ~-.r
-~~';5. 22/0315/r4ar 20\11
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LX1BJ 28027/1900/Mar
26.·!'"! LX1!•1L 28025/1455/Ma.r
:20e
OX3AY 280'15/0216/Ma.r
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llX6N.t7;Y. 2'3:)J+3/0l,J0/1•1ax
CJ;'JV 28')11/1650/r.lar
OKJTAB/D2A 28615/2110
DU9RG 28573/0JhO/Max
EA9Y.D 2855Lv'1!+05/Nar
1'Gyo!DYN/FS7 2fl55ol1615
dNHJ 28505/0030/Nar
H~1LA 28505/2305/Ma.r
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22e
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1
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16m
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2'1e
20e
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UK7FAS
VP1KG
VR6HI
VRJAH
VD2GO
VS5PM
28046/15 15/Mar
28021/2235/Mar
28007/ 2040/ Mar
2800 .3/ 1920/Mar
28038/1325/Ma.r
28020/0 300/Mar
20e
21m
25w
20m
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2611'
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ZB2CJ
6W8AAD
9H1 CH
9N1BMK
9V1RS
28033/1 655/Mar
28026/21 00/Mar
28060/1540/Ma.r
28020/ 1445/11a.r
28007/ 0 300/Mar
2802LV0400/Mar
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UA¢:F\;D 28523/0305/Mar
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UJ'8XCW 28568/0!,.20/l'lar
\JK¢FAJ 28508/ 0415/Ma.r
U17NAN 28535/0JOO/Mar
UK2RDA 28525/1 430/Mar
UJ,7NAF 28525/ 0330/Mar
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19e
20w
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22w
21w
22vl
20w
2·1w
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21w
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VQ9MR 28570/ 1620/Mar 18m
VR1AW 28')10/0 145/Mar 20e
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VK2DCA/VK9N 28595/0040 23m
YB,0ACN 2855Lv'0120/Mar 22e
JD2UP 28505/2030/Mar 20m
ZS3JJ 2858lv'1 905/Mar 20m
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SP5BLI 7022/0 100/Mar 23e
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4Z4DX 700 1/0210/Ma.r 15m
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21026/0130/Ma r 20e
14022/1 520/llia.r 24l<
14040/0405/Max 22e
14023/1255/Mar 23e
21045/9335/Ma.r 24e
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FP7ZL/~' 140 10/1450/Mar25w
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14032/0345/I'lar
14029/14J5/Mar
21012/2105/Mar
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6W8EX 21009/0140/Mar
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14221/1235/Mar
213.33/01'15/Mar
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14275/2150/Mar
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21305/2215/Mar
14308/1500/Mar
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14035/2155/Mar
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23e
22e
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21308/2015/Mar
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14225/1630/Mar
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21320/0110/Mar
14190/0310/Mar
21279/2000/Mar
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20m# 5T5ZR 14220/0825/Mar
24w
7X2BK 14220/2150/Mar
20w
9G1KB 142 1lV0710/Mar
22m
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2~'4# 9X5PP 14275/211 5/Mar
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20m
20e
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23w · UJ 8AE 14001/0 205/V~r 20e
23w
UK'{NAR 14006/0 125/Mar 23e
23e
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22e
UM8MBA 21038/1310/Mar 21e
22e
TA2BAV 1405W0330/Mar 24w
25e
VS6.AK 14020/1 215/Mar 23e
23w
UI8AEW 21290/0200ft!a.r 20e
U'i:8JAA 1421~8/0)20/·fu.:r 22w
UL7LA 14228/12.35/.Max 23m
T.JM8Fz 14206/1250/Ma.r 22m#
VS6AK 1421 1/1225/l·la:r 21e
VS6DA 21.330/00 15/Mar 20e
YK1AN 14225/1330/M.a.r 21m#
YU2FJ)D/YI 14203/2300 22m
4S7JL 14215/1 230/Mar 23m
4S7EA 1),.211/0030/Ma.r 22m
5B4EP
9K2DX
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14252/ 0450/Mar
14215/1420/Mar
14216/1240/Mar
1421J/ 15LIO/Mar
14225/1 740/}lar
23m
22m
2Jm
22m
24w
West Coast DX Bulletin
4 April 1979
Oh,
And
Not
Can
MIRE RED EYED LOUIE
EUROPE
GW
14062/0720j)Ia.r
14028/04JOhJar
21017/1855/Mar
21045/1650/Mar
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21w
21w
23w
21e
20e
20e
22w
21w
22w
14214/0010,/Ma.r
21310/2350,/Ma.r
2128)/1715/Ma.r
14223/0455/Ma.r
OK21lJli 21335/2030/Mar
SP5EJV 14223/0515/Ma.r
25w
26m
26m
21w
20m
20w
TA1MB
UA6JAD
UR2FA
UW1CX
Y02BM
YT2D
14207/0400/Ma.r
14223/0450j)Ia.r
14204/0335/Mar
14224/0400j)Ia.r
14206/0620/Ma.r
14229/0520/Ma.r
24w
25w
21e
23e
OX3RA
P~9BL
PJ8VL
VR6HI
14007/0200/Ma.r
14024/1510/Mar
21026/01)0/Mar
21007/06)0,/Ma.r
24w
24w
20e
25w
VR6HI
VS5:FM
VS5SW
14007/0335/Ma.r 25e
14036/1530/Mar 20e
14029/1440/Ma.r 26w
25w
20w
24w
20w
20w
23w
20w
FWBAD 14210/1130/Mar
AC4Y/KH2 14227/1225
KX6BU 14338/12~
WA4CFOjKx6 14209 1230
OX)BA 14235/2345/Mar
P29BL 14201/1230/.I'!'!.r
P29PN 14252/1300/Mar
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23m
23m
23m
21w
20e
20e
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VK9XI
VP1KG
VP8SO
VP8SM
VP8S.U
VR3AH
14211/1250/Ma.r 21e
.14201/1340/Ma.r 21m
21286/2315/Mar 21m
14275/2115/Ma.r 20e
14275/2120/Mar 20e
14240/0230/0ften ·
14211/1105/Mar 24m
DK6AX/LX 14028/0700 . , .22w
DK6AX/LX 21014/1)00
20e
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OY9K
14001/2300/Mar 23m
EUROPE
C!I'2BB
EA6DX
GD4HOO
GJ2LU
GUiJEON
Is¢oRJ
I have roamed o'er many lands
many f:ciends I've met;
one fair word or kindly emile
this DXer forget • • •••
.UA6PBA
UN1AU
U050GV
ZB2CJ
SSB
14245/2140j)Ia.r
21358/1940,/Ma.r
21358/1940/Mar
14247/0620/Ma.r
21353/1830hJar
14209/0720/Mar
ELSEWEERES
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20w
24m
24m
21w
21w
ZB2CJ
ZB2DV
9H1FN
9H4L
14263/2255/Ma.r
21358/1940/Mar
21351/2000/Mar
21355/2030/Mar
14214/0740/Mar
22e
20e
20m
20m
22w
VS5TX
YJ8FS
3D2UP
3D2BM
8P6JD
H44TP
14204/1530/Ma.r
14235/1025/Mar
14216/1340/Mar
14291j111 ojMar
14220/2345/Mar
14248/1030/Mar
21m
20w
20e
24m
26m
20w
9H4H
GW
DU10R 14027/1500/Mar
FG¢DYM/FS 14002/0110
KJ6BZ 21039/0455/Mar
KL7JEF 14004/0305/Mar
ELSEWEERES
IP7VCA
IT9AZS
IB$CJA
LZ1FF
SSB
~'.AE 14181/1420/Ma.r
DU6FG 14210/1045/Ma.r
DU9RG 14244/1525
WA1~DU2 14275 1035
K)FSS U2 1420 1045
F01ZS 14225/17~
FG¢DYM/FS7 14225 1015
(e =eastern states
m =middle states
w =western reaches
kh = hawaii, . etc. all times in ~t)
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Usually found on c.w ... a good operator .... a horrj..~le QSLer )
SPRATLY
A co·irple weeks back the NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG, a newspaper published in Switzerland, had an article
titled: "Contested Islands in the South China Sea". As they talk of the Spratly and Paraoel groups, the
article might be interesting to DXers. It was translated by Ed Richmond, W4MGN,
During the middle ct: Se!ltember 1974, eight and a half months before the end of the Indochina War, Peking sent
,~arships and naval marines to the Paracel Islands locared in the South China Sea.
'Ihe South Vietnamese troops
who had seized the islands back in the 1950s were forced to capitulate. By this action Peking obviously intended
to s teal a march on Hanoi which had already sent a sharp protest note to the Chinese government. Todalf, a Soviet
flotilla cruises the area of the paracels on which the Chinese maintain a garrison of 1000 men. For the Soviet
Union, an attack on the small archipelago would be an: operation which would cost relatively little and would
scarcely brong on international complications.
Along with the Paraoels, the Spratly Islands are part of the dispute between Peking and Hanoi. Both Island
groups extend over a giant area in the South China Sea and consist of hundreds of atolls and reefs which are
again and again visited by typhoons and heavy storms. 'Ihe Paraoels extend over 200 kilometers from west to east
and over 130 kilometers from north to south. 'Ihe most western islands of this group are 270 kilometers from the
Chinese Island of Hainan and 300 kilmeters from the coast of central Vietnam.
The Vietnamese base their claim to both island groups on the groupds that they had already been occupied and developed by the then kingdom of Annam under King Gia Long in 1802. On the islands seaweed, bird-nesting, and bird eggs
were being harvested. 'Ihe French colonial government scarecly bothered about the islands which fell into Japanese
hands at the beginning of World War II. At that time support bases were set up for the Imperial Japanese fleet.
After the Japanese capitulated, Nationalist Chinese troops occupied Itu Aba, the main island in the Spratly group,
and on which Taiwan still maintains a garrison of 600 men. Not until the beginning of 1974 did South Vietnamese
troops occupy seven islands in the Spratly group, from which they were driven shortly before the end of the VietNam
War by the armed forces of Hanoi, Since the 1960s the Philippine government has also expressed an interest in
the Spratly islands and appropriated six of them on which they have stationed 1000 mari~s~ On the island of
Pagasa the Philippines have also built a landing strip for airplanes. Along with ,China, and Vietnam Taiwan and
the ::W.lippines also lalf claim to the Spratlys. 'Ihe Philippine claim is purely geograph!n~and geol~gical, since
the ~slands lay very near Palawan, the most westerly island in the Phillippine group and the Spratlys are
allegedly a part of the shelf of the Philippine island group.
Peking claims sovereignity over all the islands in the South China Sea and supports their claims on arguments
that reach far back into history. As ' proof ', archeologial finds have been located, these which are without a
doubt, Chinese in origin and go back to the Han Dynasty of the second century B.C. Under the Ming Dynasty the
islands were a part of the Chinese kingdom and were colonized by Chinese from Hainan and can be found on ~cient
maps . Todalf, with the exception of the soldiers and personnel in weather stations, scarcely anyone lives on the
inhospitable islands,
Through their position in the middle of the South China Sea, the Paracel and Spratly Islands are of certain
str~tegic importance , From them the s ea routes from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean can be partly controlled.
Pek~ng seems to fe ar that one day the Russians will attempt to occupy the islands, seven of which are still held
by the Vietnamese. Both island groups are rich in phosphate deposits and their waters are among the richest fish· J: g waters in As i a., so rich that even the fishermen from Hong Kong will dare to enter. It i.a also guessed the
, . ;era of the shel fs of both island groups ID8lf be rich in oil deposits.
West Coast DOC Bulletin
4 April 1979
CALENDAR
1S1DX should be on now if everything fell into place
VR6HI currently doing big c.w. business
PY¢APS and PY)6MAG in May
YV¢AA about April 28th
Reports persist •••• something may show in April
K7ISX from VP2M late this month
Wiesbaden Radio Club aiming for late May
ZL1ADI may make a Manihiki effort in May ••••
OE6EEG scouting for some Red Sea Activity
OK3TAB/DC2A being heard on several bands
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The FCC has extended the grace period for renewal of Amateur Radio licenses to five years. Any person
who has let his amateur radio q>erator's license to expire, m~cy regain his operator privileges without
reexamination i f it has been five years or less since the date of expiration.
You can get all the details on this in the Maur QST.
MARION ISLAND Sid Coosner, ZSW'!G, has passed the word along to K50VC that ZS6BEE will be going out to Marion
Island to relieve the present operator there, ZS1TD. Marion Island is on the air from time to time but never
enough to satisfy all the demand. Much of the operation there depending on the inclination of the operators
at the weather station.
St. BARTHELEMY We got a fast response on this one, W6RGQ forwarding a copy of the QSL for FGjil'DWT/FS received
back in the first part of the year from F6CTK. Apparently the cards are out •••• for some. Also the queries
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FGjil'DXS/FS and FGjil'EUU/FS were the other stations active with this group.
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WEST COAST DX BULLETIN Published every week by the Marin County DX Group. Last week a QRPer came trotting
up the hill, excitement bubbling all around him, "Heard the news?" he asked and for a moment we thought
we might have missed the true-blue BY station. "It's the Fresno International," the QRPer said, drawing
up back on track, "they are going to have this. big debate on lists, Regular debate rules and everything,
One fellow will defend lists, the other one will tear them apart. Some are anticipating that the massacre
might be ' worst than the Little Big Horn. It's going to be big!" We had to f'u=ow our brow. at this for
though the years are marked with disputes over lists, they are always with us. We had to know more and
our questions had the QRPer shaking his head. "Some are pushing the idea that contacts made via a list
operation should not be accepted for DXCC credit. And there are some even s~cying that m~cybe they should
take a poll of the DXers at the Fresno International and tell the DXAC Committee what to do, Two, possibly
even more, of the DXAC will be there, ~ sure will be interesting," We were hearing the words but the
plot was eluding us . "How do they figure to control things i f the DX stations wants a list operation,"
we asked, figuring to get this one out of the w~cy before asking the next one. The QRPer waved his hands
airily. "Oh, some s~cy they just pass along the idea to the DXAC and let them work out the details. Maurbe
something like a 'banned list' or some thing like that. With all the new help back at the nxcc desk, they
should ee able to figure something out." We were still groping but we lalew that the answer might be near
though we could not yet recognize it. "And what happens i f the DX station says that he does not care about
what the DXAC, the DXCC, the Fresno International or anyone else s~cys? That he will work anyone any w~cy
he likes. What happens then?" Maybe we should not have asked that question for immediately the QRPer
started to smile. "Mau'be they will just disqualify any W/K for working· a list station or a banned station
and i f they cannot work the W/Ks, who can they work? Have you thought about that?" Son of a Gun! At
this point we figured that we had the picture, we had heard the tune but was not understanding the words.
And we recalled the words of one who had said them a decade or so back, "Heck, there's nothing I like
better than to smash my way through a pile-up and work the station, And the bigger the pile-up, the more
I enjoy it!" And though we may seek to have things restructured in our own images, these are sometimes
difficult to achieve. We may not have all the answers but we have an unlimited variety of questions and
a few answers that maybe do not match, But ask us the moveable subscription rates and we have a form prepared for every question, •••• within our list, of course. Ask,, , , • i f you must!
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