Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Amateur radio special events in June

June
9H3, MALTA. Markus, OH1MN, will be visiting the island of Malta (IOTA EU-023, MIA MM-001 and WLOTA LH-1113) between June 19th and July 3rd. Activity will be holiday style (when time and XYL allows), and he will be on air as 9H3MK. Operations will be on 80-6 meters using SSB and the Digital modes. QSL via OH1MN.

CARIBBEAN TOUR. Operators Andrea/IK1PMR and Claudia/PA3LEO will be active from two islands between June 8-21st. Their schedule is as follows: June 8-12th - Sint Maarten; callsign PJ7/IK1PMR and PJ7/PA3LEO June 12-21st - Anguilla; requested callsigns VP2EMR and VP2ECF Activity will be holiday style with a focus on 30/17/12 meters using CW and RTTY. QSL via PA3LEO.

E4, PALESTINE (Update). Just a reminder that the upcoming E4X operation will take place this week between May 28th and June 6th. The operators mentioned are: Antonio/EA5RM (Team Leader), Roberto/EA2RY, Fernando/EA5FX, Manuel/EA7AJR, Jose/EA7KW, Florent/F5CWU, Alain/F6ENO, Bernard/F9IE, Fabrizio/IN3ZNR and Valery/UT7CR. Operations will be on 160-6 meters including 30/17/12 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY with at least 3 stations on the air at the same time on different bands and modes. QSL via EA5RM: Antonio Gonzalez, P.O. Box 930, E-03200 Elche, SPAIN. Remember that a band and mode survey is being taken on their Web page at: http://www.dxfriends.com/e4x/index.php

EU-010. Operators Ray/M1REK and Andy/M1LOL, members of the South Cheshire Amateur Radio Society, will be active as GM6TW/p from some of the Outer Hebrides Islands between

June 12-17th. Their tentative schedule is as follows:
June 12-13th - Lewis and Harris Islands (IOSA OH01, SCOTIA HI21).
June 14-15th - North (IOSA OH02, SCOTIA HI13, WLOTA LH-3287) and South (IOSA OH03, SCOTIA HI06, WLOTA LH-2972) Uist, Benbecula (IOSA OH04, SCOTIA HI08) and
Eriskay Islands.
June 16-17th - Barra (IOSA OH11, SCOTIA HI02, WLOTA LH-3126) and Vatersay Islands.
Bands and modes of activity were not provided. To find out the latest information go to Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#search?q=GM6TW

Islands, Castles & Portable Operations

Laci, HA0HW will be active as J48HW and SV8/HA0HW from Thassos Island, Greece (IOTA EU-174, GIOTA NAS-037, MIA MG-124, WLOTA LH-4186, QRA KN20HS) from 27 May to 7 June 2010. He will operate mainly CW, with some SSB, RTTY and PSK31 as well, on the HF bands (mainly on 40, 30, 20 and 17 metres) and on 6 metres. He will take place in The CQ WPX CW contest as J48HW. His rig are a FT-840 with a MOS-FET amplifier and an IC-706 (for 6m only) with monoband Gps and dipoles on fishing poles. QSL via home call, direct or via HA-bureau. [HA0HW]

Operators Antonio, EA5RM, Roberto EA2RY, Fernando EA5FX, Manuel EA7AJR, Jose EA7KW, Florent F5CWU, Alain F6ENO, Bernard F9IE, Fabrizio IN3ZNR and Valery UT7CR) will be active as E4X from Ramallah, Palestine (Grid Loc. KM71), from 28 May to 6 June 2010. QRV 160-6m using CW, SSB and RTTY, with at least three stations active at the same time on different bands and modes. QSL via EA5RM (QRZ.com). Web:
www.dxfriends.com/e4x/index.php [MMMonVHF]

Waldi, SP7IDX will be active as LA/SP7IDX from Engeloya Island (IOTA EU-062) on 2-17th June 2010. Activity will be holiday style (DXing and fishing) on 20-10 metres using SSB and RTTY. He will operate with 100 watts into a Hexbeam antenna. QSL via his home callsign. [OPDX Bulletin]

David, OK1FJD / OK6DJ will be active from Liechtenstein as HB0/OK6DJ/p on 3-6 June 2010. He will also participate in the IARU Region 1 Fieldday. Equipment: TS480hx with G5rv and dipole antennas. QSL via OK1DRQ, direct or bureau. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW. [NG3K]

Look for JT0YAB (UA9YAB), JT0YW (RW9YW) and JT0YPS (UA9YPS) to be active from Lake Khoton, Altai Tavan Bogd National Park (WFF JTFF-001) (western Mongolia) on 3-8 June 2010. They plan to operate on all bands and modes with two stations and special attention for 6 metres. QSL via home calls (direct only) and LoTW. [425 DX News]
(Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin)