30 December 2017 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1391
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
PERIOD CALL REF
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 01/01 2018 C56RU: The Gambia 1390
till 01/01 2018 C5WP: The Gambia 1390
till 02/01 2018 DL1WH/p: Foehr Island (EU-042) 1390
till 02/01 2018 JD1BMH: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 1388
till 04/01 2018 5P9Z/p: EU-171 1389
till 05/01 2018 EA8/IV3HAX: Canary Islands (AF-004) 1390
till 05/01 2018 T8CW: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1389
till 07/01 2018 AT6MIT: special callsign 1388
till 07/01 2018 S510PMC: special event station 1388
till 09/01 2018 JS6RRR/6 and JI3DST/6: Kita-Daito Island (AS-047) 1390
till 12/01 2018 6W1/WA3DX, 6W7/WA3DX, 6W6/WA3DX: Senegal 1389
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 GB0HNY, GB1HNY, GB2HNY: special callsigns (England) 1391
till 24/01 2018 GB5HNY, GB8HNY, GB9HNY: special callsigns (England) 1391
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 04/02 2018 VP5/N9EAJ: Turks Islands (NA-003) 1387
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
30/12-02/01 2018 3V8CQ: Djerba Island (AF-083) 1391
30/12-04/01 2018 PA/DD2CW: Texel Island (EU-038) 1391
30/12-08/01 2018 UE18A, UE18C, UE18E, UE18F: special callsign 1391
30/12-08/01 2018 UE18G, UE18M, UE18U, UE18Z: special callsign 1391
30/12-08/01 2018 UE18NY: special event station 1391
30/12-12/01 2018 C5/SP3PS: The Gambia 1390
30/12-12/01 2018 PJ7/UT6UD: Sint Maarten (NA-105) 1389
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
01/01-12/01 2018 A7/F6BFH: Qatar 1391
01/01-28/01 2018 GB2KW: special event station (Scotland) 1391
01/01-31/03 2018 RI50ANO: Bellinghausen, South Shetlands (AN-010) 1387
01/01-30/06 2018 DM90AIW: special event station 1391
01/01-30/06 2018 HH70A: special callsign 1391
01/01-31/12 2018 9A36W and 9A61AA: special callsigns 1391
01/01-31/12 2018 DA200FWR: special callsign 1391
01/01-31/12 2018 DJ70WAE: special callsign 1391
01/01-31/12 2018 DK200MARX: special callsign 1391
01/01-31/12 2018 EI100MCV: special callsign 1391
02/01-14/01 2018 A52PD: Bhutan 1391
03/01-16/01 2018 6O6O: Somalia 1390
06/01-07/01 2018 GB8KW: special event station (England) 1391
06/01-09/01 2018 H91IT: Taboga Island (NA-072) 1387
06/01-16/01 2018 AU2WBR: Sagar Island (AS-153) 1391
08/01-22/01 2018 XT2AW: Burkina Faso 1391
09/01-17/01 2018 YJ0CA: Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu 1391
09/01-22/01 2018 XW4FB: Laos 1391
10/01-14/01 2018 J70VR: Dominica (NA-101) 1388
14/01-20/01 2018 FG/DD0VR: Guadeloupe (NA-102) 1388
14/01-23/01 2018 E31A: Eritrea 1391
21/01-29/01 2018 ZL/HA5OJ: South Island (OC-134) 1386
23/01-30/01 2018 HS0ZEG: Thailand 1391
24/01-31/01 2018 ZC4A: UK Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus 1389
27/01-31/01 2018 T88PB: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1389
28/01-10/02 2018 D68I: Comoro Islands (AF-007) 1391
January 2018 3D2JS: Fiji (OC-016) 1391
January 2018 3W9FB: Vietnam 1391
January 2018 EI50AOM: special event station 1391
January 2018 GB1GW: special callsign (England) 1389
January 2018 H44DA: Solomon Islands (OC-047) 1389
January 2018 II4MXW: special callsign 1391
January 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
January 2018 PF2018LWD: special callsign 1387
January 2018 RI1ANA: Molodezhnaya Station, Antarctica (AN-016) 1391
Jan-Feb 2018 3Y0Z: Bouvet Island 1386
01/02-07/02 2018 P29VXG: New Britain Island (OC-008), PNG 1389
09/02-16/02 2018 C5DX: The Gambia 1391
13/02-20/02 2018 CN2DF and CN2FR: Morocco 1391
15/02-10/05 2018 HR5/F2JD: Honduras 1391
23/02-16/03 2018 3D2EU: Rotuma Island (OC-060) 1387
February 2018 3D2JS: Fiji (OC-016) 1391
February 2018 3W9FB: Vietnam 1391
February 2018 EI50AOM: special event station 1391
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 II4HRZ: special callsign 1391
February 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
February 2018 PF2018SNK: special callsign 1387
February 2018 RI1ANA: Molodezhnaya Station, Antarctica (AN-016) 1391
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 3D2JS: Fiji (OC-016) 1391
March 2018 D2TI: Tigres Island (AF-108) 1374
March 2018 EI50AOM: special event station 1391
March 2018 GB2GW: special callsign (England) 1389
March 2018 H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
March 2018 II4CAO: special callsign 1391
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 II4MAR: special callsign 1391
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 II4TES: special callsign 1391
May 2018 JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
May 2018 PF2018BOL: special callsign 1387
June 2018 GB4FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
June 2018 II4AMP: special callsign 1391
June 2018 KH1/KH7Z: Baker Island (OC-089) 1389
June 2018 PF2018HIN: special callsign 1387
July 2018 GB5GW: special callsign (England) 1389
July 2018 II4COU: special callsign 1391
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 II4VOL: special callsign 1391
August 2018 PF2018HAR: special callsign 1387
September 2018 GB6GW: special callsign (England) 1389
September 2018 II4LNZ: special callsign 1391
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 II4OER: special callsign 1391
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 II4HNR: special callsign 1391
December 2018 II4FRD: special callsign 1391
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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30 December 2017 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1391
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
3D2 - Jim, WB2TJO will be active again as 3D2JS from Taveuni (OC-016),
Fiji between early January and the middle of March. He will operate
CW and SSB on 40, 30, 20, 17 and 15 metres. QSL direct to home
call. [TNX DX World]
3V - Dave, EI9FBB and Col, MM0NDX will be active as 3V8CQ from Djerba
Island (AF-083) from 30 December to 2 January. They will operate CW
and SSB on the HF bands. QSL via operator's instructions. [TNX DX
World]
9A - During 2018 Dragan, 9A6W and Tom, 9A2AA will use 9A36W and 9A61AA
respectively to mark their 36 and 61 years of activity on the
amateur radio bands. QSL via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX
9A2AA]
A5 - Pat, N2IEN will be active as A52PD from Bhutan on 2-14 January.
He will operate CW and digital modes on the HF bands. [TNX The
Daily DX]
A7 - Alain, F6BFH is waiting for his A7/F6BFH licence to be issued. He
will be in Qatar on 1-12 January, with activity on the HF bands in
his spare time. QSL via home call. He is also likely to operate for
48 hours from IOTA group AS-088 with the A70X team [425DXN 1389].
[TNX Les Nouvelles DX]
C5 - C5DX will be activated again on 9-16 February as part of a school
trip to the Gambia. A party of eighteen students and three staff
from Sandringham School in St. Albans will visit the Senior
Secondary High School in Farafenni. Alan, will lead the DXpedition
aspect to the trip. He will operate mainly CW, while four licenced
students from the Sandringham School ARC (Jessica M6LPJ, Polly
M6POG, Morgan M6MXD and Stan M6SQO) will operate SSB. It will be
their first DXpedition so please be patient with them as they learn
the craft of DX operating. QSL via LoTW or direct to G4DJX;
logsearch on Club Log. [TNX G3ZAY]
CN - Manfred/DK1BT, Wolf/DL4WK, Sigi/DL7DF and Frank/DL7UFR will be
active as CN2DF and CN2FR from Tahazout, Morocco on 13-20 February.
They will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 on 160-10 metres with two
stations. QSLs via DL7DF, direct or bureau, and LoTW "within six
months after the DXpedition". See http://www.dl7df.com/cn/ for
logsearch and OQRS.
D6 - IK5BCM, IK5CBE and IK5CRH will be active as D68I from the Comoro
Islands (AF-007) from 28 January to 10 February. They will operate
CW, SSB and digital modes on 80-10 metres. QSL via IK5CRH.
DL - Celebrating 90 years of amateur radio in the city of Wismar,
special event station DM90AIW will be active from 1 January to 30
June. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau and
eQSL. Logsearch on Club Log. [TNX DX Newsletter]
DL - Special callsign DA200FWR will be in use from 1 January to 31
December to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of
Cooperative pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The "idea and
practice of organizing shared interests in cooperatives" was
inscribed in 2016 on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity. QSL via the bureau, or direct to
DK2PU. [TNX DX Newsletter]
DL - Special callsign DJ70WAE will be active from 1 January to 31
December to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Worked All Europe
(WAE) award. QSL via the DARC bureau.
DL - Special callsign DK200MARX will be in use on all bands and modes
from 1 January to 31 December to commemorate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Karl Marx. QSL via the bureau, or direct to DK5PZ;
logsearch on Club Log. [TNX DX Newsletter]
E3 - Zorro, JH1AJT will visit Eritrea again on 14-23 January. He will be
joined by Franz DJ9ZB, Champ E21EIC, Dima RA9USU and Yan RZ3FW,
with planned activity as E31A on 160-6 metres CW, SSB, RTTY. The
main purpose of this trip is to support the Eritrea National
Olympic Committee. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via JH1AJT. [TNX DX
World]
EI - Special event station EI50AOM will be active in January-March to
memorialize the tragedy of Aer Lingus Flight 712 (tail-number
EI-AOM), which crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March
1968 killing all passengers and crew. The station will devote one
day beginning 22 January to remember each of the 61 persons who
died, with operations culminating on the fiftieth anniversary of
the crash. This is still the largest single loss of life in Irish
civil aviation history. QSL via EI2KA, direct or bureau, and LoTW.
EI - To commemorate the sinking of Royal Mail Ship Leinster during World
War I (10 October 1918), special callsign EI100MCV will be active
between 1 January and 31 December, with particular activity in the
weeks around the date of 10 October. This was, and still is, the
single largest loss of life in the Irish sea with a total of 567
people lost. The intention is to use all modes and bands,
operating on or close to frequencies ending with 18. QSL via the
bureau.
G - Celebrating the New Year 2018, special event stations GB0HNY,
GB1HNY, GB2HNY, GB5HNY, GB8HNY and GB9HNY will be active from 28
December until 24 January. The are being run by members of Denby
Dale ARS: "whilst we are not issuing any QSL cards", they say, "you
Can claim a special commemorative certificate for working 3
stations by sending your list of contacts via email only to Darran,
G0BWB (g0bwb[@]g0bwb.com)".
G - Celebrating the anniversary of the founding of KW Electronics by
Rowley Shears, G8KW (5 January 1953), special event station GB8KW
will be active from Eltham, England on 6-7 January using vintage
equipment. QSL via G0UKN.
GM - Special event station GB2KW will be active on 1-28 January from
near Inverness, Scotland using a variety of different vintage
transceivers, transmitters and receivers manufactured by KW
Electronics Ltd during the 1960s and 1970s. Activity will be on
160, 80, 40 and 20 metres SSB and CW. QSL via LoTW and eQSL only,
no paper QSLs will be available.
HH - Special callsign HH70A will be active from 1 January for six months
to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Radio Club d'Haiti. QSL
via W3HNK. [TNX DX World]
HR - Gerard, F2JD will be active again as HR5/F2JD from Copan, Honduras
from 15 February to 10 May. He will operate CW, SSB and digital
modes on all bands. QSL via F6AJA, direct or bureau; logsearch on
http://LesNouvellesDX.fr/
I - ARI Fidenza will use a series of special callsigns throughout 2018
to honour twelve of "the most eminent scientists who have given a
fundamental contribution to the theoretical, experimental and
technological development of the Radio Communications technology":
II4MXW (James Clerk Maxwell) in January, II4HRZ (Heinrich Rudolf
Hertz) in February, II4CAO (Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti) in March,
II4MAR (Guglielmo Marconi) in April, II4TES (Nikola Tesla) in May,
II4AMP (Andre-Marie Ampere) in June, II4COU (Charles-Augustin de
Coulomb) in July, II4VOL (Alessandro Volta) in August, II4LNZ
(Heinrich Lenz) in September, II4OER (Hans Christian Orsted) in
October, II4HNR (Joseph Henry) in November and II4FRD (Michael
Faraday) in December. See http://www.arifidenza.it/ for complete
information on the "Science Milestones in the History of Radio
Award". QSLs via IQ4FE, bureau or direct. [TNX IK4CIE]
PA - Jef, DD2CW will be active as PA/DD2CW from Texel Island (EU-038)
from 30 December to 4 January. He will operate SSB and CW on the HF
bands. QSL via home call. Direct or bureau. [TNX DX Newsletter]
UA - Special event station UE18NY will be active from 30 December to 8
January for the "Russian New Year 2018" radio marathon organized by
the Miller DX Club. Other special callsigns will be active from
the various Federal Districts of Russia: UE18A (Northwest), UE18C
(Central), UE18E (Volga), UE18F (South), UE18G (North Caucasus),
UE18M (Ural), UE18U (Siberia) and UE18Z (Far East). A number of
certificates will be available, see http://mdxc.hamlog.ru.
UA_ant - Nikolai, RW6ACM has been active as RI1ANA from Molodezhnaya
Station, Antarctica (AN-016) since 23 December, and will remain
there until February. In his spare time he operates CW, SSB and
digital modes on the the HF bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW or
via RN1ON, direct or bureau.
VU - Bernard, VU2BMS (DL2GAC) reports that 6-16 January are the dates
for AU2WBR's activity from Sagar Island, (AS-153) [425DXN 1389].
The station might be QRV also at other times until 31 March. QSL
via VU2NRO.
XT - Harald, DF2WO will be active again as XT2AW from Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso on 8-22 January. He will operate CW, SSB and FT8 with
a focus on 80, 60 , 40 and 30m. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS and LoTW.
YJ - Chris, VK2YUS will be active again as YJ0CA from Efate (OC-035),
Vanuatu on 9-17 January. He will operate SSB on 40 and 20 metres.
QSL direct to home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
SOUTHEAST ASIA TRIP ---> John, KB4FB will be back to Southeast Asia in
January-February, with holiday style activities from Vietnam as 3W9FB (early
January and again early February), Laos as XW4FB (two weeks starting around
9 January), Thailand as HS0ZEG (a week starting around 23 January). QSLs via
LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3XY3D (AF-051), 5X2B, 7V9A
(AF-094), 9X2AW, A25BE, A25BI, CE2AWW, CT9/DL5AXX, DU1/SP5APW (OC-090),
E51WL, H40GC, HD086QRC, J5T, LU3XX (SA-008), P40L, PZ5V, R71RRC (AS-071),
RI0ZF (AS-039), S01WS, S21ZAS (AS-127), S21ZDC (AS-140), S9CQ, S9YY, TZ9A,
VK5CE/8 (OC-198), VK9CI, VK9CZ, VK9XI, VP8DXU, VU2GSM, YJ0JA, ZA1WW.
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