IK5ROS Ham Site

4W, TIMOR-LESTE. Chris, 4W6FR, works for the Australian Armed Forces and is stationed in Timor-Leste periodically. He has finally been given permission to operate and has his license in hand now. He has begun operating but only operates as time permits outside of his work hours. It seems he really likes working PSK, especially on 20 and 17 meters. There has been some QSNs reported on 20 meters SSB. Most of his activity takes place between 0900-1300z. QSL via VK4FW, direct or the OQRS at: http://www.odxg.org

13 COLONIES INDEPENDENCE SPECIAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT. Ken Villone, KU2US,
Award Manager, has announced that "All operators that needed 'K2D' on HF
for their last station of a 'CLEAN SWEEP', will be given credit on their
certificate, due to an unfortunate situation.... Thank you for under-
standing and your participation." For more details, go to:
                          http://www.qrz.com/db/KU2US
                                      -or-
           http://home.comcast.net/~dzabawa/ThirteenColonies.htm

3D2/C, CONWAY REEF (Update). Jan, DJ8NK, informs OPDX that based on the
crew that activated Chesterfield Island as TX9 some years back, Hawa,
DK9KX, as team leader, has formed a new crew which will operate from
Conway Reef during the period of October 1-10th, 2009, plus/minus due
to weather conditions. Hans, DL6JGN, the leader of 3D2CR crew, who
operated from the island 20 years ago, will also join Hawa's team. As of
press time, the team consists of the following: Norbert/DJ7JC, Jan/DJ8NK,
Dieter/DJ9ON, Heye/DJ9RR, Hawa/DK9KX, Hans/DL6JGN and Ron/PA3EWP. The
callsign will be announced at the starting date. Activity will be on
160-6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK. QSL Manager is DJ8NK QSL direct
or by the Bureau. PLEASE NOTE: New IRCs are "OK", but old IRCs with
expiration date December 31st, 2009, are not "OK", because QSL cards
most likely will be sent out in January 2010.  A Web page will be active
soon at:                  http://www.conwayreef2009.de

4W, TIMOR-LESTE. Chris, 4W6FR, works for the Australian Armed Forces and
is stationed in Timor-Leste periodically. He has finally been given
permission to operate and has his license in hand now. He has begun
operating but only operates as time permits outside of his work hours.
It seems he really likes working PSK, especially on 20 and 17 meters.
There has been some QSNs reported on 20 meters SSB. Most of his activity
takes place between 0900-1300z. QSL via VK4FW, direct or the OQRS at:
                          http://www.odxg.org

5V, TOGO. Franco, I1FQH, will be active as 5V7PRF from Kpalime between
July 22-30th. This will be a very light DXpedition with activity on 80-10
meters using mostly CW and some SSB (no Digital modes or 6m). He will
use 100 watts into a Spiderbeam for 20/17/15m as well as a vertical and
wire dipoles for the other bands. QSL via I1FQH, LoTW, eQSL or Bureau.
Look for updates on QRZ.com or http://twitter.com/i1fqh

5Z, KENYA. Bob, K4UEE, will be here between July 10-17th, doing a short
term mission work. (See: http://www.410bridge.org)  He informs OPDX that
he will be in the Kwambekenya village located about 3-4 hours north of
Nairobi. He is involved in several different projects including a video
project and demonstrating amateur radio in the local high school.  He
hopes to be active for some DXing in the late evenings and early mornings
local time.  He has an IC-706 MKII, a "Beam in a Bag" and a dipole for
30/40m.  This is definitely not a DXpedition and operating time is limited.

7P, LESOTHO (Update). A group of international operators will be operating
from Lesotho starting July 29th through August 13th. They will be operating
with the equipment supplied by African DX Safari in Johannesburg. The
following operators will be on the air: Dr. Gasper "Pista" Istvan/HA5AO
(7P8AO), Ben Pyfer/DJ0YI (7P8YI), Laurent Thomin/W0MM (7P8MM), John
Plenderleith/9M6XRO (7P8OK) and Charles "Frosty" Frost/K5LBU (7P8CF).
They will have 2 stations on most of the time and might have a 3rd for
PSK and RTTY. Activity will be on all bands and they hope to work as
many of you on 160/80 meters. They will have a 70 foot vertical which
works great on those bands. For 40, they will have a 4 sq. dipole setup
on one of the towers. Two trailers with towers will have Tennadayne T8
LogP antennas at about 55 feet. For 30 meters a sloper off one tower
will be used. Also, a M2 6 meter beam will be up as well. QSL via each
operator's own home callsign except for 9M6XRO/7P8OK who is via M0URX
in the UK. ADDED NOTE: Operators from the 4M5DX group were not able to
join up with the African DX Safari group due to things beyond their
control. The African DX Safari group wished that they could but things
did not work out for them.

8N, JAPAN. The JARL will activate 9 HQ stations from various regions in
Japan during the 2009 IARU HF Championship this weekend. Each station
listed below may be active on other bands other than specified as below
outside the contest before the contest weekend. All QSOs will be QSLed
automatically via the Bureau. Look for the following 9 HQ stations:
   Callsign   Band/Mode during the Contest   Location
   --------   ----------------------------   ----------------------
   8N1HQ      15m-CW                         Kimitsu City, Chiba
   8N1HQ      160m-CW, 10m-CW                Minato Ku, Tokyo
   8N1HQ      80m-Phone                      Minami-Ashigara City, Kanagawa
   8N2HQ      10m-Phone                      Nakatsugawa City, Gifu
   8N3HQ      15m-Phone                      Nara City, Nara
   8N3HQ      40m-CW                         Kobe City, Hyogo
   8N3HQ      20m-CW                         Miki City, Hyogo
   8N4HQ      80m-CW, 40m-Phone              Okayama City, Okayama
   8N8HQ      20m-Phone                      Iwamizawa City, Hokkaido

9A, CROATICA. Zik, VE3ZIK (DO7ZZ), will once again be active as 9A/VE3ZIK
from Bilice between July 2nd and August 3rd. Activity will be on the HF
bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. He will also participate in the
RSGB IOTA Contest from IOTA group EU-170. QSL via DO7ZZ, direct or by
the bureau (E-mail requests for Bureau QSL cards can be sent to Zik via
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Logs will be uploaded to eQSL and LoTW.

CX, URUGUAY. The members of the "RADIO CLUB URUGUAYO" will be active as
CX1AA during the upcoming IARU CONTEST activity, from 1200z Saturday,
July 11th until 1200z Sunday, July 12th. Activity will be on 160-10
meters using CW and SSB with two stations on each band, one station on
CW and the another on SSB. QSL Manager for this activity is W3HNK.

DX SUMMIT (SOON READY FOR 2-WAY COMMUNICATION WITH OVER 110,000 MONTHLY
USERS -- http://www.dxsummit.fi/dxspots.aspx ): The OH8X Team reports:
  "The Radio Arcala DX Summit portal is celebrating the milestone of one
million monthly hits over a course of several months and more than 110,000
people spending an average of 35 minutes on the site daily. The top five
nations using the service are as follows:

   USA (28.5%) followed by Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Japan. In
 total, users from 170 DXCC countries have entered the service portal.
 With new visits approaching 19% during the month of May, an increase of
 users is quite evident.

   In the process of making the DX Summit service more focused on younger
 user segments and non-amateur radio population, two features have been
 added recently.

   Each spotting and spotted callsign is automatically linked to QRZ.COM,
 providing a more human link to the personal profiles of people and to
 their pictures. Just click the callsigns and you will automatically enter
 the relevant QRZ.COM page. Additionally, each line carries the name of
 the DXCC country spotted.

   In a few months time, custom selected filters will be provided to the
 public allowing users to receive personalized spots that they would like
 to receive. While initially the selected spots will be sent to your
 personal email address, the ultimate aim is to offer an SMS (short
 message service) option to DX Summit users.

   This service is a non-profit exercise for Radio Arcala, OH8X but we
 are pleased to recognize Yasme Foundation and Nokia Corporation for their
 support of further development and defrayment of operating expenses of
 the portal. As the servers are in the hands of a professional service
 provider in the United States, some interruptions are recorded and
 changing the service provider is in process.

  Also, a Help Desk for regular users and for S/W developers is being set
 up. Here it is suggested that DX Summit open a channel for accepting
 voluntary donations to keep the Help Desk operational. On a trial basis,
 through PayPal, DX Summit accepts donations and, additionally, following
 a donation of 10 USD or 10 EUR, Radio Arcala will send you a full-color
 Radio Arcala wall calendar postpaid. This option is valid only for the
 months of July and August.     http://www.dxsummit.fi/donate.aspx

 We thank you for your support of and interest in Radio Arcala DX Summit."

G & GM, ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. The RSGB will be represented in the IARU
HF Championship by GB7HQ from two separate DXCC entities this year (G,GM).
The contest runs July 11-12th. G3LZQ is handling special certificates
for those working GB7HQ:
   * Bronze award - contact GB7HQ on three band/modes
   * Silver award - contact GB7HQ on six band/modes
   * Gold award - contact GB7HQ on nine band/modes
   * Platinum award - contact GB7HQ on all twelve band/modes
  Further details of the award can be found at:
                     http://www.gb7hq.com/Award-Info.html
When you contact one operator, he can give you the frequency of the next
GB7HQ station to work to assist in making contacts for the awards. QSL are
being handled by G3TXF: direct, bureau, or LoTW. Full details of the
station hosts, locations, operators, WAB squares and grid locators can
be found at:        http://www.gb7hq.com/2009/2009-Ops-List.html