Hallo dear MMMonVHF friends,


please find below our latest NEWSLETTER of the VHF-DX-Portal
"Make More Miles on VHF" (www.MMMonVHF.de) dated 2008-12-05
We attempt to distribute our Newletter one or two times per week.
For further detail please be so kind and refer at our "News"-page:
http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php - welcome and enjoy...


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One of the major meteor showers of the year, the Geminids, dominates
December’s meteor scene. Gemidids meteor rates are rather high (ZHR
around 120 hr-1) and regular year by year. Geminids maximum for 2008
s predicetd by IMO on December 13, on 23 UT. Lot of MS activity is
expected in 144 MHz band, due to concomitant BCC-MS contest. Read
more (as well about other dec. MS-Shower) he www.mmmonvhf.de/ms.php
The team of MMMonVHF did start to archive the past ACTIVITY-OVERVIEW´s
(PERSEIDS 2008 & OVERVIEW PDF-File & EU-MAP) and built up an ACTIVITY-
OVERVIEW´s for each upcoming showers from now on - the GEMINIDS and
BCC MS-Contest youll find at: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/ms.php
SOURCE: The MMMonVHF Team

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PLEASE DO REGULAR UPDATE OF THE eMWS and eMWDXCC at MMMonVHF

The Team of MMMonVHF will use YOUR "Most Wanted" for showing expedition
the most wanted places (specially for MS in europe and EME all over the
world). Remember such nice trips to DXCCs like GU, JW or JD1 these year
or the multi-square operation from Tor, DJ8MS... Some of you did not
update since 01/2007 and so maybe they are not interested anymore or have
had no changes. So therefore we decide to build in a new BUTTON at your
ACCOUNT to click that there was "NO CHANGES" in your "most wanted" since
your last update. Otherwise we will remember your after a years periode
to see if you still have interest in it... NO problem, if not, but than
we will skip these entry after 3 years to have the table as update as
possible (its not a question of quantity, it shall be high quality!).
However, the eMWS and eMWDXCC pages make only sense if the data is as
much up-to-date as possible. So, please feel free to upload your data as
often as you want. SOURCE: The MMMonVHF Team

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THE NIGHTLY VHF SKEDS ARE ACTIVE AGAIN
The nightly VHF skeds from Port Elizabeth have been resumed on 144,400
MHz FM to benefit from the excellent Tropo conditions that exist during
the hot summer months. The skeds start at 19:30 SAST when the beam
antennas in Port Elizabeth are pointing west in the direction of Mossel
Bay, Dana Bay and beyond. At 20:00 SAST the beams are turned to East
London and Division 5. While the East London Hams are beaming to Port
Elizabeth it should be possible, under good conditions, for Hams in
Mossel Bay to also hook up with them. During these skeds there is also
the opportunity to arrange tests on 144,200 SSB and/or 70,200 MHz FM.
Please read more in detail http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=2113
SOURCE: Mike, ZS2FM via VHF-Reflector

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The 144MHz AFS contest takes place this Sunday from 0900-1700 GMT
Full details can be found he
http://www.vhfcc.org/cgi-bin/contest...test=afs144MHz
Exchange is RST , Serial Number (starting at 001) and a 6 character
(e.g. IO91AA) locator - AFS teams can be up to 5 team members in size.
The G3MEH Trophy will be awarded to the winning AFS entry. Good luck!
SOURCE: Pete G4CLA via UK Contest Reflector

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GM ALL, tomorrow 06.12 - 14.00/22.00 UTC italian contest VHF
VECCHIACCHI - pls beam antenna to us in JN44SV - tnx 73 Augusto
SOURCE: IW2FPI Augusto in ON4KST-Chat


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Dirk, ON5GS, will be qrv serveral days from my "berlingo" shack
with 4x4el vertical stack and 200W during BCC MS-Contest. LATEST NEWS
from Dirk, ON5GS, dated 2008-12-02: I will be qrv on dx cluster and
ON4KST chat via GPRS, thanks to ON7KEI for info and gsm-module, see
you in geminids. As well I will try having a MMMonVHF DXBlog online
( http://www.mmmonvhf.de/showblog.php?ca=EI-ON5GS-P )
to spread infos (NO LOG during Contest!).
SOURCE: direct to MMMonVHF tnx Dirk, ON5GS

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The group LZ9X will take part in MS from KN22 square during Geminids
shower, in the BCC MS-Contest. LZ9X will be qrv just for fun from the
EME qth of LZ1DP - KN22TK - 13 until 14 Dec 2008. The qth is not good
for MS - high hills N and NW nearby - so do not say we are "deaf" please
:-). But for sure - there will be lots of home made wine made by LZ1DP
and BBQ. We hope - we will meet old and a new VHF friends on FSK441 and
SSB random. 73 Savi/LZ1UK
SOURCE: tnx Savi, LZ1UK, direct to MMMonVHF

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Alex, RU1AA and Alexey, RU1AC will be QRV as RZ1AWT during the BCC MS
Contest from KO48VR. Sorry, our log for BCC 2007 was lost. We had (with
RA3AQ ) big result : 227 QSO ,93.434 points. Thanks all for QSO's!
Hope to meet old and new friends. 73 e-mail: ru1aa"at"mail"dot"ru
SOURCE: tnx to Alex, RU1AA direct to MMMonVHF

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Special Call DR5O will be active in MS from JO31NF during GEM-Shower
and taking part in the BCC MS-Contest. Guido will as well use a
MMMonVHF DXBlog ( http://www.mmmonvhf.de/showblog.php?ca=DR5O )
to spread activity infos (NO LOG during Contest!)... He will be
activ with the special call of the German DOK R29 (Wülfrath) in dec.
again for some activity on 144 MHz (EME, MS, BCC MS-Contest...) and
the German Weihnachtscontest at dec. 26th. He will run abt. 700W
into 2x 12el M2 and LNA on 2m. SOURCE: Guido, DL8EBW, Team of MMMonVHF

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A license has been granted to an Italian team and the period of their
first activity will be from January 1 to January 11, 2009. The
callsign released is E44M and it covers from 160 meters to 2 meters
SSB, CW, RTTY and all digital modes with a maximum power of 1KW.
They will have 3 stations active with beams, verticals and wire ant.
The team includes the following 6 members: IK2CIO-IZ0BTV-IZ0EGM-
IZ4AKS-IZ4DPV-IZ8IYX-SP3DOI. They will focus their activity to RTTY
and other digital modes, low and WARC bands, giving attention to
stations outside Europe, when the propagation will allow it. Pilot
stations will be announced later. More news in the next few weeks.
Website:http://www.dxcoffee.com/e44m
SOURCE: Tnx Bill, NG3K, via his DX-NEWS

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Hello! 73s FG5KC VILLAGE DES SCIENCE 2008 Guadeloupe
Invites you to take part on 12/13 December 2008 with us at the village
of Science festival at University Campus We were going to present a
young ham our activity followed by demonstrations of HF / VHF / DIGITAL
live that you will convey a message to its young from your place of issue.
So we hoped you contacts and carry out this exchange with you via radio
club FG5KC / P. SOURCE: Mediterraneodxclub DX NEWS

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SWITZERLAND - To celebrate his 80th anniversary, the Swiss National Ham
Society, the l'USKA has granted all theze Swiss hams to use the Prefixes
HE8 and HB8 in the whole year 2009. HE8 instead of HB9 and HB8 instead
of HB3. These prefixes are valid only from the Swiss territory. No
foreign activities are allowed nad thus no Entity/HE8 or HE8 is possible.
SOURCE: Tks F6AUI via Maurice, F5NQL DX News

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FRANCE Special event - This year and for the 5th time, the French Crew
composed of Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena won the World Rally Champion
ship. To celebrate the event a Ham team from the French Saone et loire
Department/71, will be airing the special callsign TM5WRC, from Dec 21th
2008 to January 3rd 2009. Bandes : HF and VHF included AO51 satellite.
More details: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=2116
SOURCE: Tnx Didier, F5NZO via Maurice, F5NQL DX News

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ALBANIA 2008 : Hello' friends, i inform you that all the Qsl, received
via direct, will be leaving between 15 days. I invite all to visite our
web site and sign the guest book at: http://www.sazan2008.altervista.org
73 de Alfredo ZA0/ik7jwx & team
SOURCE: Tks Alfredo, IK7JWX via Maurice, F5NQL DX News

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The activity from the San Gabriel Isl. (GF15), IOTA SA - 057, under
the CX1F callsign, postponed the last month because of weather and sea
conditions will finally take place on december 13th. 80, 40, 20, 15,
10 & 2 metres, propagation permitting. Tks Javier, LU5FF
SOURCE: Javier, LU5FF via Reflector

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SOTA-News - Upcoming Activations updated at our MMMonVHF page
as long these including VHF or U/SHF-Activity. A complete over-
view about all SOTA-Activities are on: www.sotawatch.org/alerts.php
SOURCE: tnx Summits On The Air (via SOTAwatch2 (beta) Page)


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Our Newsletter is compiled from the input of the USER of the VHF-DX-Portal
MMMonVHF as well by a lot of free usable HF-V-U-SHF-Info-Sources and chats
like ON4KST-, N0UK-, RU-VHF-DX-Net, EA-V-U-SHF-Chat and others...

*** Many thanks to all USER who send us info and news ***

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If you get knowledge of an expedition, which is NOT listed at our
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PLEASE be so kind and send us this info at
http://www.mmmonvhf.de/newsuser.php or http://www.mmmonvhf.de/kontact.php

The MMMonVHF-Team is always trying to spread any expedition info as much
up-to-date and reliable as possible and as long as the info does not
violate with our MMMonVHF-Policy.


Have a lot of fun and enjoy MMMonVHF!

73 de Guido "Guy" DL8EBW
on behalf of the MMMonVHF-Team
(DG2KBC DK3XT DK5EW DK5YA HA5CRX IV3NDC OZ1LPR PA2DW PA3BIY & PA4EME)


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