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Bulletin issued by the Northern P.0O. Box 1010
v Branches of the Wireless Institute Launceston
of Australia, Tasmanian Division Tas. 7250

September 1977
Vol.7 No.5

Registered at GPO Hobart
for transmission by post Price 40¢
as a periodical. Category B.

* As I haven't received the Northern Notes or the Notes from the
North West this issue must be about the smallest I have ever
p had the misfortune of doing. Rather than not having a QORM
' issue at all this month it was decided to go to print with
. the DX and VHF notes only as there is at least something of
v interest. I hope that future issues will be back to the
usual standard or it will not be worth going to the trouble
of typing and printing. It seems that there is more material
available for a Broadcast each Sunday
; John VK7JV

MEETINGS

Sept. 9th Northern Branch, 34 Burke St. 8 p.m.

Sept. 13th North West Branch, Lakins Hall Ulverstone. 8 p.m.

A.0.C.P. CLASSES
Sept. 12 Tﬁst Equlﬁment a?d measerements Kings Meadows
Sept. 19 High School
Sept. 26 Wave propagation Blgck B
Oct. 3 Transmission lines Room 35
Oct. 10 ! !

Y.R.C.S. CLASSES
YRCS classes are held every Tuesday (during school Terms)
from 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. at
Kings Meadows High School, Block B, room 33.
Page 2 QR M September 1977

HF and DX notes by Col Wright VK7LZ.

Checking back through my log over the last 3 years
it appears as though the only significant difference this
year is the absence of the African stations that were usually
Q0SO'ed around 0700Z on 7MHz, in previous years the odd station
from EA8, 6W8, CT3, CN8 and EA9 have appeared in my log,
however nothing has been heard this year from these areas,
lets hopefully consider that the rising sunspot cycle is the
reason and stations are migrating to the higher frequencies
but judging by the activity, or lack of it, on 14MHz such
is not the case. However listening on the bands reveals an
upsurge in DXpeditions, although not always audible here activity
has been noted from OJ@MA (Market Reef), OF2BR/OFZ (Aland Island),
F@PCH/FC (Corsica), IJ7EX (San Pietra) and JJ1DRR/JD1 and the next
two months will produce the following, Tokelau Islands, ZM7
will again be activated by either ZM7AT or ZM7MM on Sept. 10th
all bands SSB and CW, period of operation unknown.
Galapagos Islands, according to Luigi I@LLZ this
country will be on the air during September, HC5EE will be
the operator and the call-sign is expected to be HDSEE.
Kermadec Islands, a YL team from ZL will operate from
these Islands commencing on the 2lst of October using SSB and
CW, up to 15 WPM only on CW please, bands to be used will be
1.8 to 28MHz operation will cease on the 5th November.
Stations noted on the bands are as follows;
1.8MHz, VK's only although DX should start to appear as these
notes are been read.
3.5MHz, Outside of VK and ZL the only DX heard has been JA's
on CW,
7MHz, Here again the W's and JA's predominate although CO20M,
FOBEX, KV4CI/KG6, XE1lAO and YV4NS have been logged in
the evening local time with a few VE's and Asiatic
UA's, all on CW
14MHz, The following stations were logged, CO2HZ, DJ's, EA'S,
EAB0Z, F'S, F@CH/FC, FK's FM7WS, FO8AZ, FOB8EX, G's,
HA1TJ, HC2HZ, HC2WF, HI8CDS, HIS8LAP, HIBSRH, HK@AZW,
HK@CLS, HKYCOP, HRIRC, I's, IJ7EX, IS@IIT, JA's,
JY3ZH, KL7's, KX6BU, LZ1CG, OK2AUF, 0Z5EV, P29CD, S79Q,
TG8BNE, TI2CF, TU"GA, UA@'s, UF6FE, VE's, VP2LCT, VPOIF,
VR1AF, VR4's, VR6TC, VS6BE, XE's, XF3B, YB3AQ, YNS5SJAR,
YU1BCF, ZK1CV, 3D2WR, 4X4's, 5Z4DV, 5Z4JE, 5Z40T, 5Wl's
6Y5's, 9HlAwW, OHI1EY.
21MHz, JA's, W's, KG6RT, ZM7AT, ZM7MM, 5W1BD.

28MHz, Nil,

It is interesting to note that the VK7 QSL bureau
has already received more inward QSL's than the full total
for 1976 and the outward QSL's are also well up.
September 1977 QR M Page ‘3

QSL INFORMATION

CO2HZ Box 1 Havana, Cuba.
FKBCP Box 328 Noumea, New Caledonia.
FM7WS Box 632 Fort-au-France, Martinique.
F@PCH/FC wvia HBOTL.
HC2HX Box 666 Guayaquil, Ecuador.
HI8SRH via W2KF
HK@CLS and HK@AZW Box 392 St.Andres Island, Central America.
IJ7EX Box 1 Bari, Italy.
VP2LCT Box 489 St.Lucia Island, Central America
VR4DH Box 654 Honiara B.S.I.
XF3B has changed his Box number to 591 Cancun Island,
Mexico.
ZK1BA via WATHRE
4X4JS via WA2KWP
5W1BD wvia WASOCN
5W1AU wvia WEKNH
5Z4JE Box 19002 Nairobi, Kenya.
JY3ZH via DJ9ZB

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