23 December 2017 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1390
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* FOR A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY *
* AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR *
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
6O - Ken, LA7GIA and Adrian, KO8SCA will be active as 6O6O from Somalia
on 3-16 January. They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 on 160-10
metres with two stations. QSL via LoTW or via M0OXO's OQRS;
logsearch on Club Log. The DXpedition will also have a humanitarian
aspect. 100% of donations received from individuals, clubs or
organizations will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres. See "Doctors
Without Borders Fundraiser" on http://la7gia.com/6o6o/index.h
[TNX KO8SCA]
8Q - Roland, HB9VQQ will be active holiday style as 8Q7HB from the
Maldives (AS-013) on 22-30 December. He is likely to operate mainly
JT65 and FT8 on the HF bands. QSL via home cal; he will also upload
his log to Club Log, LoTW and eQSL.
9Y - Thomas, DL9OBQ will be active as 9Z4/DL9OBQ from Trinidad (SA-011)
from 19 December to 7 February. He will operate mainly CW on 30, 17
and 15 metres. QSL via bureau to home call.
C5 - Forthcoming activities from The Gambia include:
Pedro, ON7WP again as C5WP between 25 December and 1 January. This
time he will focus on the digital modes, with main activity on 60
metres JT65. QSL via ON7WP, direct only.
Frank, ON7RU as C56RU from 26 December to 1 January. QSL via Club
Log's OQRS, via ON7RU and LoTW.
Przemo, SP3PS as C5/SP3PS from 30 December to 12 January. He will
be QRV on 40, 20 and 10 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX DX World]
DL - Volker, DL1WH will be active as DL1WH/p from Foehr Island (EU-042)
from 22 December to 2 January. He will operate CW and some SSB
on the HF bands. QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX DX
Newsletter]
EA8 - Mauro, IV3HAX will be active as EA8/IV3HAX from Fuerteventura,
Canary Islands (AF-004) from 24 December to 5 January. He will
operate CW, RTTY and FT8 with a focus on 160 and 80 metres. QSL via
LoTW, Club Log's OQRS or direct to IV3HAX. [TNX OPDX Bulletin]
JA - Take, JI3DST will be active as either JS6RRR/6 and JI3DST/6 from
Kita-Daito Island (AS-047) from 28 December to 9 January. He will
operate SSB, CW, RTTY, JT65 and FT8 on 80-6 metres. QSL JS6RRR/6
via JS6RRR, QSL JI3DST/6 via JI3DST.
VK - Special callsign VI70HI will be active from mainland Australia to
commemorate the first ANARE expedition to Heard Island in December
1947. Look for activity on 160-10 metres SSB, CW, RTTY and possibly
other digital modes from 19 December to 28 February. QSL via
M0OXO's OQRS and LoTW.
XT - Harald, DF2WO will be active again as XT2AW from Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso between 30 December and 18 January. He will operate
CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS and LoTW.
ZD8 - Andy, M0HLT will be working on Ascension Island (AF-003) for the
next two years. He plans to be active as ZD8AC on 40-10 metres SSB.
QSL via operator's instructions. [TNX The Daily DX]
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Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
Access to the main functions of www.425dxn.org is provided by the 425DXN App
for Android. It is available on Google Play - free of charge, no ads. Enjoy!
9E1C ---> Gabriele, IK3GES (ik3ges[@]alice.it) has uploaded to LoTW the logs
for IV3OWC's activity as 9E1C from Ethiopia (some 36,000 QSO made between 23
January 1999 and 29 November 2000).
EL2DT RADIO FUND ---> Dickson, EL2DT participated in the attempt to activate
Baiyah Island (AF-111), a new IOTA, in November 2017. You can find the story
"The outcome of the expedition was that the team was unsuccessful in even
landing on the island. The financial losses were significant for everyone.
In addition to the money, Dickson's primary home station radio (an older
TS-50) was dunked in the sea and is a total loss".
When the Voodoo Contest Group left Liberia in 2012, they donated one of
their Kenwood TS-930s to Dickson. "He quickly discovered that it only ran on
110/220 VAC and is a current hog. So he acquired the TS-50 and most of his
operating has been from battery power. Since he has no power at his home, he
must pay his neighbor to run a generator to re-charge the battery".
Bud, N7CW is now soliciting "donations for 1 of 2 solutions to Dickson's
problem of getting back on the air. He can purchase a generator in-country
to run the 930. This option has the added benefit of providing power to his
home at other times, however, gasoline is expensive and sometimes hard to
find. The second alternative is to find or buy him a replacement radio,
perhaps another TS-50, an IC-706, an FT-857/897 or something similar. The
negative side of a radio is that we have to get it into Liberia, which
usually means finding someone willing to carry it in their personal
luggage".
If you have a radio you can donate, please let Bud know (bsemon[@]gmail.com)
as soon as possible. He would prefer not to collect money if he can find a
radio. If you wish to donate money, he has set up a MoneyPool with PayPal at
this link: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c
VK IOTA POLL --- > Craig, VK5CE is planning "a range of rare and semi-rare
IOTA operations". He invites island chasers to visit the new VK IOTA website
(www.vkiota.wordpress.com) and take the poll (click on "What VK IOTA's do
you need?") to help guide his future IOTA activations.
WRTC 2018 ---> WRTC 2018 e.V., host of the 2018 World Radiosport Team
Championship in Germany, has announced the 65 referees (63 on site and 2
alternates) that will be monitoring the teams during the competition (14-15
July 2018): AA4NC, AJ9C, CE3CT, DK3GI, DL2OBF, DL7FER, DM5EE, ES5RY, G0CKV,
G4BUO, HA3NU, HB9CAT, HB9DHG, I2WIJ, IK1HJS, JH4RHF, JK3GAD, K1CC, K1RX,
K4AB, K4BAI, K7BV, K7GK, K9ZO, KC7V, KU5B, LW9EOC, LY7Z, LZ2HM, N2GA, N2IC,
N3RD, N6AN, NF4A, NN3W, OE5OHO, OE6MBG, OH1RX, OK2FD, OZ1IKY, PA3AAV, PP5BZ,
RC0F, RM2D, S50R, S50XX, S53R, S56A, SP4Z, UA9MA, UT7QF, VA2EW, VA2WA,
VE3EY, VE3XB, W0YK, W1UE, W1VE, W6OAT, W6PH, YL1ZF, YL2KL, YT6W, YT7AW,
YU1EA. A referee will be on site at each of the 63 competing stations to
verify compliance with the rules and make decisions on any rule questions by
the teams. The referees must be top-level contesters because they must
simultaneously listen to the audio from both operators for the entire 24
hours of the WRTC2018 competition. The referee application and verification
process was managed by Ulf Ehrlich, DL5AXX. There were over 130 applications
received. The selection process considered many factors, including
geographical areas, language skills and SO2R ability. The final selection
was done by the Judging Committee of the WRTC 2018.
+ SILENT KEYS + World class contester Jim Sullivan, W7EJ passed away a few
days ago aged 64. His contest career began in 1973 and in 1989 he started to
operate outside the US. He constructed three stations in DX locations - FG5R
9M8R and CN2R (http://cn2r.net) - where he achieved several records in the
CQWW, WPX, RUDXC, and CQ160 DX contests. Besides being a top-notch single
operator, Jim contributed to several winning multi efforts.
Ulrich Bihlmayer, DJ9KR passed away on 16 December after a long illness.
"Uli served in the DARC Bandwacht for 45 years of which 26 years as
Coordinator", IARU Region 1 reports. In 2005 he was appointed deputy
coordinator of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System. "Together with IARUMS
coordinator Wolfgang Hadel DK2OM, he led a team that grew from 5 to 24
members. Being a polyglot, Uli specialised in broadcast intruders and
pirates on telephony. Uli was presented the IARU Region 1 medal in 2011
before he stepped down from the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System in 2012".
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CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER
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3B9FR M0OXO D80MT DS3EXX OH1NAVY OH1AJ
3G1D XQ1FM DM1517L DL5AWI P3X 5B4AMM
3G2M CE2MVF DM60BER DL1BWU PA6YOTA M0SDV
3V8CB LX1NO DT23WOP HL1IWD PF44FF PH0NO
3V8YOTA M0SDV E51DXX AG1LE PI40BOZ PD3JAG
3W3B E21EIC ED1L EA3AH PJ4DX M0URX
3W9XG DF2XG ED8H EA8ARI PT3T PY3AA
3Z0XMAS SP6IEQ EG5ERC EB5AG PV2B PU2VJI
3Z560SC SP7KMX EG8NB EA8NB PW5T PP5NY
4E1ADW 9V1KG ES9YOTA M0SDV R100FSB UA3FQ
4O4A LX1NO ET3AA N2OO R100KGB UA3FQ
4U1WB KK4HD EY8MM K1BV S500R S53M
4X6TT N4GNR FK8GX W3HNK S510PMC S59DCD
5B4AAB G8CLY FR5FC EA7FTR SN150MJP SP3PGR
5B4ALG EC5AC G6MC G2YL SN20WHL SP2TMT
5B4XMAS IZ4AMS GB2GM G3UCQ SP20ZIP SP5ZIP
5P8VW DJ8VW GM5X N3SL TC630MECCA TA3X
5R8UI IZ8CCW H2017PFO 5B4AIE TI3/N8JAJ K8EF
5Z4BU EA5GL HA60KNA HA3KNA TI5/N3KS W4FS
8P9AR DD0VR HF0HERTZ SP5PPA TI7W W4FS
8P9JB J69Z HF0HW SP3PWL TK/NZ1C DD5ZZ
8Q7RB GM4DLG HF2018HNY SP2PBM TM0W F2CT
9A57AX 9A5AX HI3Y RW6HS TR8CA F6CBC
9H3CW DL5SE HK1MW N2OO UE80S UA3SLB
9H3YY DL2JRM HK3C NR6M V31MA M0OXO
9J2BO G3TEV HR2DMR KD4POJ VK8NSB M0URX
9K2BS A61BK HZ1SK IZ8CLM XV9NPS JA2NPS [b]
9V1YC W5UE IY3VE IQ3ME XV9NPS JA2ODB [d]
9X9PJ N4GNR J28ND S57DX YO13IPA YO3AS
A41CK A61BK JY4CI K2AX YP0XMAS YO9FNP
A91ND A92AA JY5MM IK2DUW YP2018HNY YO3KPA
AC2BF/KH2 JA1OHP KC4AAA K1IED YP2XMAS YO9FNP
AT6MIT VU3BUN KH6YY K2PF YP5XMAS YO9FNP
C5YK ON7YK LQ0D EC5AC YP9XMAS YO9FNP
C93PA PA5X LY2017XMAS LY2QT YS1/HR2DMR KD4POJ
CB3R XQ3SK LZ105PBP LZ1ZF YT0W YU1JW
CE2AWW N7RO LZ5R LZ1YQ YT800YU YU1MM
CN17JIM EA7FTR M3I G3SWH YT8A YU1EA
CP5HK EC5AC MX0SNB G3SVK YW2LV YV5YMA
CS2017RCL CS0RCL OD5KU EB7DX Z60YOTA M0SDV
CV7S CX7SS OD5VB EA5GL ZF2YL AE9YL
CX2BR EA5GL OF0BHU OH0BHU ZS9YOTA M0SDV
D41CV IK2NCJ OH100FIN OH3ZQ ZZ2P PY2AA
7X5FG Mohamed Khamla, 37 Clos des Blaches, 38550 St Maurice L'Exil,
France
CE7VPQ Javier Capdebilla Alvarado, 22 de Mayo 274, 5790166 Quellon,
Region de Los Lagos, Cile
FR4QT Mario Xavier Laporte, 653 Chemin des Longanis, St Gilles les Hauts,
97435 St Paul, France
H44DA Shane Lynd, 17 Atherton Crescent, Glenden QLD 4743, Australia
WX3MAS Christmas City ARC, 14 Gracedale Ave, Greystone Building, Nazareth,
PA 18064-9211, USA
XR2K Luis Matho, 2303 Nordok Place, Alexandria VA 22306, USA
ZT1T Tom Morgan, 58 Piet Retief Street, Robertson, 6705, South Africa
ZW5T Marcelo Teixeira, Rua Francisco Maravalhas 246, Curitiba-PR,
81540-360, Brazil
ZZ4X Marcio Henrique dos Reis Lopes, Rua Oscavo Gonzaga Prata 150,
Juiz de Fora-MG, 36033-220, Brazil
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No 1390
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Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
PERIOD CALL REF
till 23/12 5P8VW: Romo Island (EU-125) 1388
till 24/12 4X0XMAS, 4X2XMAS, 4X3XMAS, 4X4XMAS: special stations 1387
till 24/12 4X6XMAS, 4X7XMAS, 4X9XMAS: special stations 1387
till 24/12 TK/NZ1C: Corsica 1388
till 29/12 E51DXX: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands 1389
till 30/12 8Q7HB: Maldives (AS-013) 1390
till 31/12 4U24OCT: special callsign (Italy) 1382
till 31/12 5B4XMAS: special callsign 1389
till 31/12 7S1GRK and SK70BL: Gotland Island (EU-020) 1358
till 31/12 8P9AR: Barbados (NA-021) 1388
till 31/12 9A57AX and 9A1957AA: special callsigns 1339
till 31/12 CF, CG, CH, CI: special prefixes (Canada) 1338
till 31/12 DC500LS, DM5LUTHER, DL500ML: special callsigns 1340
till 31/12 DR500MLE, DR1517LU, DR5LUTHER: special callsigns 1340
till 31/12 DU3/W6QT: Luzon Island (OC-042) 1373
till 31/12 EI11WAW, EI22WAW, EI33WAW: special callsigns 1338
till 31/12 EI44WAW, EI55WAW, EI66WAW: special callsigns 1338
till 31/12 EI77WAW, EI88WAW, EI99WAW: special callsigns 1338
till 31/12 EO25: special callsigns (Ukraine) 1373
till 31/12 H2017PFO: special callsign (Cyprus) 1343
till 31/12 HB600NVF: special callsign (Switzerland) 1354
till 31/12 II2FIST special callsign 1364
till 31/12 II2XC: special callsign 1368
till 31/12 LM80REX and LM80Q: special callsigns 1337
till 31/12 LZ710SG: special callsign 1339
till 31/12 OF100FI/#: special callsigns 1337
till 31/12 OH100FIN: special callsign 1339
till 31/12 OJ9X: special callsign 1388
till 31/12 OZ100DVI: special callsign 1337
till 31/12 RI1ANO: Bellinghausen, South Shetlands (AN-010) 1347
till 31/12 S557E: special callsign 1337
till 31/12 SC90SM: special callsign (Sweden) 1354
till 31/12 XO1X : special callsign (Canada) 1351
till 31/12 YOTA Month 1386
till 31/12 Z370M: special callsign 1379
till 31/12 ZS8Z: Marion Island (AF-021) 1337
till December YV1YL/HC1 and YV1KK/HC1: Ecuador 1375
till 02/01 2018 DL1WH/p: Foehr Island (EU-042) 1390
till 07/01 2018 AT6MIT: special callsign 1388
till 07/01 2018 S510PMC: special event station 1388
till 14/01 2018 TC630MECCA: special callsign 1382
till 15/01 2018 6W7/F6HMJ: Senegal 1387
till 15/01 2018 YP2018HNY: special callsign 1389
till 20/01 2018 8J1RL and 8J60JARE: Ongul Island (AN-015), Antarctica 1335
till 20/01 2018 ZL/HA5OJ: North Island (OC-036) 1386
till 24/01 2018 VU2BMS: India 1381
till 27/01 2018 II4GV: special callsign 1380
till 30/01 2018 9M2MRS: Penang Island (AS-015), West Malaysia 1349
till 30/01 2018 C5YK: The Gambia 1386
till 07/02 2018 9Z4/DL9OBQ: Trinidad (SA-011) 1390
till 25/02 2018 HL0WOP: special callsign 1386
till 28/02 2018 DT23WOP: special event station 1388
till 28/02 2018 VI70HI: special callsign (Australia) 1390
till Feb 2018 DP0GVN: Neumayer III base (Antarctica) 1332
till Feb 2018 RI1ANC: Vostok Station (Antarctica) 1333
till 25/03 2018 4S7KKG: Sri Lanka (AS-003) 1381
till 30/04 2018 ZS8Z: Marion Island (AF-021) 1337
till Apr 2018 VP8DPJ: Adelaide Island (AN-001), Antarctica 1331
till 31/05 2018 5V1JE: Togo 1385
till 01/06 2018 JW4JSA: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1388
till 30/06/2018 VR20: special prefix (Hong Kong) 1364
till 24/08/2018 II6CNT: special calsign 1373
till Aug 2018 UA4RX/1 (RI1FJ): Heiss Isl (EU-019), Franz Josef Land 1374
24/12-02/01 2018 JD1BMH: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 1388
24/12-05/01 2018 EA8/IV3HAX: Canary Islands (AF-004) 1390
25/12-01/01 2018 C5WP: The Gambia 1390
25/12-12/01 2018 6W1/WA3DX, 6W7/WA3DX, 6W6/WA3DX: Senegal 1389
26/12-01/01 2018 C56RU: The Gambia 1390
27/12-05/01 2018 T8CW: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1389
27/12-04/02 2018 VP5/N9EAJ: Turks Islands (NA-003) 1387
28/12-04/01 2018 5P9Z/p: EU-171 1389
28/12-09/01 2018 JS6RRR/6 and JI3DST/6: Kita-Daito Island (AS-047) 1390
30/12-12/01 2018 C5/SP3PS: The Gambia 1390
30/12-12/01 2018 PJ7/UT6UD: Sint Maarten (NA-105) 1389
30/12-18/01 2018 XT2AW: Burkina Faso 1390
31/12-10/01 2018 FM/DD0VR: Martinique (NA-107) 1388
December A31MM: Tonga (OC-049) 1386
December H44DA: Solomon Islands (OC-047) 1389
December JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
December OH9SCL: special callsign 1386
01/01-06/01 2018 A70X: Al-Safliyah Island (AS-088) 1389
01/01-31/03 2018 AU2WBR: Sagar Island (AS-153) 1389
01/01-31/03 2018 RI50ANO: Bellinghausen, South Shetlands (AN-010) 1387
03/01-16/01 2018 6O6O: Somalia 1390
06/01-09/01 2018 H91IT: Taboga Island (NA-072) 1387
10/01-14/01 2018 J70VR: Dominica (NA-101) 1388
14/01-20/01 2018 FG/DD0VR: Guadeloupe (NA-102) 1388
21/01-29/01 2018 ZL/HA5OJ: South Island (OC-134) 1386
24/01-31/01 2018 ZC4A: UK Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus 1389
27/01-31/01 2018 T88PB: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1389
January 2018 GB1GW: special callsign (England) 1389
January 2018 H44DA: Solomon Islands (OC-047) 1389
January 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
January 2018 PF2018LWD: special callsign 1387
Jan-Feb 2018 3Y0Z: Bouvet Island 1386
01/02-07/02 2018 P29VXG: New Britain Island (OC-008), PNG 1389
23/02-16/03 2018 3D2EU: Rotuma Island (OC-060) 1387
February 2018 GB1FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
February 2018 H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
February 2018 HK1/LU9EFO and HK3TU/1: Rosario Islands (SA-040) 1385
February 2018 HK4/LU9EFO and HK3TU/4: Titumate Islands (SA-093) 1385
February 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
February 2018 PF2018SNK: special callsign 1387
01/03-15/03 2018 4B4B: Socorro Island (NA-030), Revillagigedo 1389
02/03-15/03 2018 XR0YD: Easter Island (SA-001) 1387
10/03-20/03 2018 9M0W: Spratly Islands (AS-051) 1379
21/03-03/04 2018 7Q7EI: Malawi 1382
March 2018 D2TI: Tigres Island (AF-108) 1374
March 2018 GB2GW: special callsign (England) 1389
March 2018 H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
March 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
March 2018 PF2018YLS: special callsign 1387
April 2018 3B7A: Saint Brandon Islands (AF-015) 1387
April 2018 GB2FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
April 2018 H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
April 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
April 2018 PF2018SLO: special callsign 1387
May 2018 GB4GW: special callsign (England) 1389
May 2018 H40: Taumako Island (OC-179) * by VE3LYC 1389
May 2018 H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
May 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
May 2018 PF2018BOL: special callsign 1387
June 2018 GB4FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
June 2018 KH1/KH7Z: Baker Island (OC-089) 1389
June 2018 PF2018HIN: special callsign 1387
July 2018 GB5GW: special callsign (England) 1389
July 2018 PF2018FRA: special callsign 1387
01/08-09/08 2018 CY9C: St. Paul Island (NA-094) 1377
August 2018 GB5FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
August 2018 PF2018HAR: special callsign 1387
September 2018 GB6GW: special callsign (England) 1389
September 2018 PF2018DOK: special callsign 1387
20/10-03/11 2018 VP6D: Ducie Island (OC-182) 1387
October 2018 GB6FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
October 2018 PF2018WOR: special callsign 1387
10/11-11/11 2018 GB0AD: special callsign (England) 1389
November 2018 GB8GW: special callsign (England) 1389
November 2018 PF2018STA: special callsign 1387
December 2018 PF2018xxx: special callsigns 1387
TBA 2018 DU1UD/8: OC-105 and OC-174 1387
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