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Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 878.2

The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
DX Special Bulletin No. 878.2
BID: $OPDX.878.2
October 8, 2008
Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)

Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
Clusters Network and VU2MY for the following DX information.

VU4, ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS
VU7, LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS. OPDX received the following press releases
from our friends at the NIAR in India.

Release #1
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(Edited)

Dear Friends,
Greetings to the Ham world from India ! ! !

It gives me a great pleasure in informing you that VU4 and VU7 will be
activated again this year as part of NIAR Silver Jubilee Celebrations
in October 2008.

The necessary clearances have been obtained; the formal permission letter
for VU4 and VU7 activity will be issued shortly. The callsigns will be
VU4MY, VU4RG, VU7NRO & VU7SJ.

I would like to thank all the applicants who have supported us and joined
hands to strengthen amateur radio activity in India. The VU4 and VU7 will
be activated by teams of Foreign and Indian amateur radio operators. Names
and other operational details will be given by the respective teams.

We profoundly thank the all the concerned government agencies like the
Ministry of Defence, Home Affairs and External Affairs as well as the
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology for their continuous
support to amateur radio activity in the country.

It is the third time for three years in a row that the Government of
India has extended its full support to foreign and Indian radio amateurs
to operate their amateur radio stations from remote Islands of Andamans
and Lakshadweep. The simultaneous amateur radio activity from these two
Islands is a path breaking achievement for NIAR during the year of Silver
Jubilee.

We wish all hams to join us to support our vision and mission to
strengthen amateur radio promotion in India.

Look forward to meet you on the band.

Thanking you.
With Regards,
S.Suri, VU2MY
Founder & Chairman, NIAR Web site: www.niar.org
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National Institute of Amateur Radio
Raj Bhavan Road, Somajiguda
Hyderabad 500082, INDIA

Telefax: 91-40-2331 0287
Tel: 91-40-6516 7388
E mail:

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Release #2 - DJ7JC and DL5DSM 07th of October 2008
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(Edited)

VU4RG - DXpedition from the Andaman Island in October/November 2008

The Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Radio Club (NIAR) at
Hyderabad will be during 18-20 October, 2008. There is now the good news
about the amateur radio activity after the event from the 24th of October
to November 3, 2008. NIAR had informed us today about the successful
licenses and operation permits for VU4 or VU7 activations.

There are two callsigns for the VU4-DXpedition:
VU4MY will be the call for the Indian Team.
VU4RG will be the call for the two German HAMs operating with two stations
from Port Blair/Andaman Island (IOTA: AS-001; WLOTA: L-0562;
ITU: 49 ; WAZ: 26


The two German operators a Helmut, DL5DSM (VU3NLG)
Norbert, DJ7JC (VU3NLF)
Equipment:
DL5DSM : FT857 + KL500 or FL7000
DJ7JC: Elecraft K3 + FL7000

Antennas:
160/80m G5RV
40m Phased Array (2GP's)
30m GP
20-10m 5-Band-Spiderbeam
15m-GP von DX-Wire

Modes:
All modes: CW, SSB, BPSK, RTTY

Allowed Bands:
160M 1820~1860,
80M 3500~3700, 3890~3900,
40M 7000~7100,
30M 10100~10150,
20M 14000~14350,
17M 18.068~18168,
15M 21000~21450,
12M 24890~24990,
10M 28000~29700

Pay attention to the specific permission for 30 m!
We’ll publish our working frequencies on QRZ.com under VU4RG

CQWW SSB Contest:
We’ll take part at this Contest from the October 25-26th, as VU4RG.

Operating from GOA:
DL5DSM with the Indian callsign VU3NLG and DJ7JC with the Indian
callsign VU3NLF will be on the air from GOA between the 6th up to
the 14th of November.

Further informations:
QRZ.com :
VU4RG
QSL-MANAGER FOR VU4RG:
Norbert Meyer
DJ7JCatdarc.de
Huenninghausenweg 33
D-45276 Essen
Germany

How to help: Sponsoring is welcome via Paypal to
norbert.meyeratversanet-online.de after the DXpedition

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