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IZ9Z Lampedusa is. WPX 97
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Next Monday, 24 March, we will leave from Italy flying to Lampedusa
Lampedusa is, as more of you know, the most southern Island of the
Political EUROPEAN Continent, but geographically is part of the
AFRICAN Platform, and due this particular anomaly, the Island is
Located in the African Continent and CQ Zone 33.
We had started to plan WPX the day after the CQWW96, on the only
One boat that connect the Island with the mainland. Unfortunately
the WPX is on the Easter weekend, so we had started to search some
Flight to the Island, but all was fulfilled starting from January
The Island is quite difficult to approach, trough boat or airplane
the boat is frequently broken, so you must plan to stay 2 / 3 days
on the Island, because the boat repairs service is in Germany !
The flight are rarely, excluding summer season , with a lot of
charting flight, not very cheaper, and without any chance to bring
with you very large or weight luggage !!
During this period there are only 2 daily regular flight, for
medical emergency , no hospital on the island, business man , and
for the local to reach the mainland for shop.
The Easter period has filled all the available flight, and so the
Contest was in over until the last week, were we have found a way
after a very long waited overbooking to managing a round trip from
our respective QTH.
The 5 Operator comes from 5 different cities of Italy, is like a
National ContestPedition,IK2SGC, Mat from Milan, I4UFH, Fabio from
Bologna, IV3TAN, Albert from Trieste, IT9GSF, Fabio From Palermo,
and IT9EQO, Antonello from Ragusa. They are all member of the MCC
Marconi Contest Club, the first Italian Contest Club.
The special semirare Call IZ9Z has been requested and obtained from
our PTT, an unusual call from the Island,the regular prefix is IG9,
but due old PTT rules a 2X1 call with IG9 pfx cannot be authorized
for Contest, only for some International Radio Event, remember the
IG9A/IG9R/IG9T/IG9W activity in the CQWW95, the centennial of the
Radio invention.
The station is located in the center of the Island,where take place
some of the last IG9's activity in the CQWW96. Antennas are on the
ground we still need to building the 160m antenna, and stand up the
beverage, but we plan to be ready the 27 March, just one day before
the Contest, allowing us to tune up all the station a solve the last
RFI interference
We are planning to spend most of our time on lower band, due the
double score credit but during the daylight period we will catch
opening on 15m an 10m, in the last days, 15m sound very good from
EU, so we hope on JA's and W's opening.
In this propagation condition , due the geographically position, we
expect a very strong EU opening, so plan to look for us also on
higher band, 10m could surprising some one, in the last Lampedusa
activity, we running EU pile-up on 10m, at 2200/2300 z !!!
All the Contest program recognize the IZ9 prefix as an Italian,
Sicilian call, obviously, so, if you work us, you will not have the
correct score credit, this is true for the EUROPEAN and AFRICAN
station. The EUROPEAN log the QSO as an EUROPEAN Prefix so they
credit 2/4 point instead of 3/6 point the AFRICAN, log the QSO with
3/6 point instead 2/4. For this we suggest you to update you CTY
file adding the IZ9Z callsign( be warning do not add the simple IZ9
prefix, this prefix is'NOT assigned in unique way to the island) to
the IG9 line, this will allow you to have a correct score.
This is the line mod's for the CT9 / TR CTY.DAT
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European Italy: 15: 28: EU: 41.90: -12.50: -1.0: I:
I;
African Italy: 33: 37: AF: 35.40: -12.50: -1.0: *IG9:
IG9,IH9,IZ9Z;
Sardinia: 15: 28: EU: 39.20: -9.10: -1.0: IS:
IM0,IS,IW0U,IY0GA;
Sicily: 15: 28: EU: 37.50: -14.00: -1.0: *IT9:
IB9,ID9,IE9,IF9,II9,IJ9,IO9,IQ9,IR9,IT9,IU9,IZ9;
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Best Greeting from the IZ9Z team, for any info mail us :
Fabio I4UFH i4ufh@contest.dsnet.it
Mat IK2SGC matt@galactica.it
Fabio IT9GSF it9gsf@mbox.vol.it
MCC Marconi Contest Club http://www.galactica.it/MCC
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