Friday, September 4, 2020

425 DX Group News 5 Sept 2020

 5 September 2020                                         A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1531

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                           Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                         Direttore  Responsabile I2VGW

PERIOD           CALL                                                   REF
till  05/09      F6GCP/p: Noirmoutier Island (EU-064)                  1529
till  05/09      OZ/DG5LAC: Romo Island (EU-125)                       1528
till  06/09      GB100RS: special callsign (Northern Ireland)          1518
till  06/09      R13KHL: special callsign                              1531
till  07/09      KV4T/p and KS4YT/p: Dauphin Island (NA-213)           1530
till  08/09      IA5MO: Isola del Giglio (EU-028)                      1530
till  09/09      AU2FC: special callsign                               1519
till  10/09      ZG2 and ZG3: special prefixes (Gibraltar)             1530
till  11/09      9A5N/p and 9A2AA/p: Croatian islands                  1530
till  13/09      EG#SDC and EH#SDC: special callsigns                  1529
till  14/09      TK/DJ0TP: Corsica (EU-014)                            1526
till  15/09      3Z1920PS, HF1920PS, SN1920PS: special callsigns       1527
till  15/09      9G5GS: Ghana                                          1526
till  15/09      9M63MA, 9M63MB, 9M63MC, 9M63MD, 9M63MD: West Malaysia 1529
till  15/09      9M63MK, 9M63MM, 9M63MN, 9M63MP, 9M63MR: West Malaysia 1529
till  15/09      9M63MQ and 9M63MS: East Malaysia                      1529
till  15/09      9M63MT, 9M63MW, 9M63MY: West Malaysia                 1529
till  15/09      SO1920PS, SP1920PS, SQ1920PS: special callsigns       1527
till  15/09      TM17TDF: special callsign (France)                    1529
till  15/09      YO19STAYHOME: special callsign                        1511
till  15/09      YO1STAYHOME: special callsign                         1513
till  18/09      9H3SAT: Malta (EU-023)                                1530
till  20/09      OX3LX: NA-134                                         1529
till  28/09      GB80BOB: speial callsign                              1530
till  30/09      CB6P, CB6Q, CB6T, CB6TEB: special callsigns           1530
till  30/09      P42WW: special callsign (Aruba, SA-036)               1530
till  30/09      PD538RNI: special callsign                            1531
till  30/09      R450STAR and R450AKSU: special callsigns              1530
till  30/09      SX1AFM: special callsign                              1527
till  30/09      VE3LON100: special callsign                           1531
till  02/10      DM30RSV: special callsign                             1505
till  13/10      CB33M: special callsign                               1527
till  11/11      VI75WW2: special callsign                             1531
till  01/12      HA70MAV: special callsign                             1524
till  17/12      DL250BTHVN: special callsign                          1492
till  31/12      4A15DXXE: special callsign                            1498
till  31/12      4A50CRH: special callsign                             1530
till  31/12      5B60: special prefix (Cyprus)                         1494
till  31/12      6E6E: special callsign                                1527
till  31/12      8N6SHURI: special callsign                            1496
till  31/12      9A63AA: special callsign                              1497
till  31/12      DF70DARC and DP70DARC: special callsigns              1495
till  31/12      DK70DARC: special callsign                            1531
till  31/12      DL100BKW: special callsign                            1493
till  31/12      DL2020R: special callsign                             1500
till  31/12      DL250BEETH: special callsign                          1500
till  31/12      DL30GER: special callsign                             1494
till  31/12      DL35SDR: special callsign                             1498
till  31/12      HB40HTC and HB40HC: special callsigns (Switzerland)   1495
till  31/12      HF90TPAR, HF90TPBB, HF90TPBF: special callsigns       1495
till  31/12      HF90TPBG, HF90TPCF, HF90TPCG: special callsigns       1495
till  31/12      II2EMCA: special callsign                             1515
till  31/12      II3STAY: special callsign                             1515
till  31/12      JU85UIA: special event station                        1516
till  31/12      LN1V: special callsign                                1511
till  31/12      LX20I: special callsign                               1498
till  31/12      LZ50BFRA: special callsign                            1512
till  31/12      OE1970WWL: special callsign                           1495
till  31/12      OE25: special prefix                                  1504
till  31/12      OL30DXC: special callsign                             1507
till  31/12      OL700CO, OL700DKO, OL700LTV: special callsigns        1508
till  31/12      OZ200EM: special callsign                             1528
till  31/12      PA75OV: special callsign                              1495
till  31/12      PA75VERON: special callsign                           1495
till  31/12      PI75VERON: special callsign                           1525
till  31/12      S500E: special callsign                               1505
till  31/12      VI110WIA: special callsign                            1518
till  31/12      VK20HOME: special callsign                            1518
till  31/12      YT50SCWC: special callsign                            1496
till  31/12      ZS1820S: special callsign                             1515
till  31/12      ZS95SARL: special callsign                            1499
till  31/01/2021 8J1RL: East Ongul Island (AN-015), Antarctica         1512
till  31/01/2021 DA2025C: special callsign                             1500
till  04/04/2021 PE75BORNE: special callsign                           1511
till  22/04/2021 8J17CALL: special callsign                            1512
till  31/05/2021 VR2HK9O: special callsign                             1528
till  30/06/2021 DL73TXL: special callsign                             1521
05/09-06/09      OE25EU: special callsign                              1505
05/09-06/09      OH0B: Aland Islands (EU-002)                          1531
05/09-19/09      SX300ML: special callsign                             1529
05/09-19/09      TM5SF: special callsign (France)                      1530
05/09-20/09      AO5CLE: special callsign                              1530
05/09-20/09      EM90QMR: special callsign                             1531
06/09-08/09      K4I: St. George Island (NA-085)                       1530
06/09-20/09      TM24HC: special callsign (France)                     1531
06/09-03/10      GB100RS: special callsign (Wales)                     1518
08/09-03/10      HB0/DL5YL and HB0/DL5YM: Liechtenstein                1529
09/09-18/09      K4D: Dog Island (NA-085)                              1516
11/09-13/09      3A/IW1RBI: Monaco                                     1530
11/09-13/09      IP1A: Palmaria Island (not IOTA, IIA L027)            1531
12/09            TM4IT: Tombelaine Island (EU-156)                     1531
12/09-16/09      F/DL1ASA/p: Banc d'Arguin (EU-159)                    1531
12/09-20/09      W6A-W6U: Route 66 On The Air                          1531
12/09-24/09      SV5/HB9OAU: Dodecanese (EU-001)                       1531
14/09-17/09      TO0Z: St. Barthelemy Island (NA-146)                  1531
14/09-20/09      F6HQP/p: French islands                               1531
14/09-13/10      K5DX/50: Texas DX Society's 50th anniversary          1531
15/09-23/09      OY/DL4APJ and OY/DL2AQI: Faroe Islands (EU-018)       1531
16/09-20/09      ID9OSC: Panarea Island (EU-017)                       1531
18/09-20/09      TM1LY: special callsign (France)                      1527
26/09-27/09      TM100LY: special callsign (France)                    1527
26/09-28/09      GB0LUN: Lundy Island (EU-120)                         1531
September        II4PTN: special callsign                              1495
September        LZ595IP: special callsign                             1496
September        VQ9ET: Diego Garcia (AF-006), Chagos Islands          1531
September        XR210CHI: special callsign                            1531
01/10-31/10      PJ4TEN: Bonaire (SA-006)                              1529
03/10-04/10      OE25EU: special callsign                              1505
04/10-17/10      GB100RS: special callsign (Scotland)                  1518
11/10-15/10      PZ5GE: Suriname                                       1523
16/10-19/10      PZ5G from Papegaaien Island (SA-092)                  1523
17/10-18/10      TM1LY: special callsign (France)                      1527
20/10-25/10      PZ5GE: Suriname                                       1523
23/10-25/10      TM100LY: special callsign (France)                    1527
October          II4LGH: special callsign                              1495
October          LZ1891AO: special callsign                            1496
06/11-08/11      TM100LY: special callsign (France)                    1527
07/11-08/11      OE25EU: special callsign                              1505
21/11-22/11      TM1LY: special callsign (France)                      1527
November         II4RVT: special callsign                              1495
November         LZ350PI: special callsign                             1496
18/12-20/12      TM100LY: special callsign (France)                    1527
18/12-20/12      TM1LY: special callsign (France)                      1527
December         3Y0I: Bouvet Island                                   1520
December         II4MDY: special callsign                              1495
December         LZ1263AN: special callsign                            1496
January     2021 3X: Kassa Island (AF-051), Guinea                     1519
February    2021 4V5H: Haiti and NA-149                                1519
February    2021 KH6VV/KH4: Midway Island (OC-030)                     1523
June        2021 KL7RRC/p (NA-070) and KL7RRC (NA-039)                 1521
18/09-02/10/2021 JX0X: Jan Mayen (EU-022)                              1526
TBA         2021 A35GC: Tonga (OC-049)                                 1530
TBA         2021 E6AM: Niue (OC-040)                                   1530
TBA         2021 RI0Q: Bol'shoy Begichev Island (AS-152)               1521
TBA         2021 W8S: Swains Island (OC-200)                           1520
TBA              T30ET: Tarawa (OC-017), West Kiribati                 1526
TBA              ZL9: Campbell Island (OC-037)                         1515

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5 September 2020                                          A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1531

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                          Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

CE     - Members  of  the  Chilean Pacific DX Group  will be  active  during
         September as XR210CHI  to commemorate the 210th anniversary  of the
         establishment of  the  First Government Junta  (18 September 1810),
         the earliest step  in the  Chilean struggle  for independence  from
         Spain. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via XQ7UP.
DL     - Special callsign DK70DARC is active until 31 December  to celebrate
         the  70th anniversary of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club, the Ger-
         man IARU society.  QSL via the bureau;  direct cards should be sent
         to DK5ON.
F      - Tom, DL1ASA has bee active as  F/DL1ASA/p  from  Ile de Re (EU-032)
         since 31 August. He operates CW and SSB mainly on 40 and 20 metres.
         On 12-16 September  he will be active from  Banc d'Arguin (EU-159).
         QSL via home call, direct or bureau. [TNX DX Newsletter]
F      - For the 69th year the Association des Radioamateurs  de  la  Sarthe
         (F6KFI) will operate a special event station for the  24  Hours  of
         Le Mans. Look for TM24HC on 6-20 September,  with activity on vari-
         ous bands and modes (SSB, CW, RTTY, PSK, FT8). This year's race has
         been postponed  from June to 19-20 September  owing to the COVID-19
         pandemic, hence the "C" in the suffix. QSL via F6KFI.
F      - Andre, F6IGY and others  will be active as  TM4IT  from  Tombelaine
         Island (EU-156) on  12 September.  They will operate  QRP on 40, 30
         and 20 metres SSB and CW. [TNX F8REF]
F      - Marc, F6HQP will be vacationing in the Finistere Department  on 14-
         20 September. Weather permitting, he will try and be QRV as F6HQP/p
         from a few  coastal islands:  Segal (not IOTA, DIFM AT046),  Ilette
         (not IOTA, DIFM AT121),  Ledenez Vraz (EU-065,  DIFM AT042),  Melon
         (not IOTA, DIFM AT004)  and  Molene (EU-065, DIFM AT002).  Detailed
         information on the Diplome des Iles de la France Metropolitaine can
         be found on https://difm.org/. [TNX F6AJA]
FJ     - Franck FG4ST, Marco FS4WBS and Claude, FS5GL will be active as TO0Z
         from St. Barthelemy Island (NA-146) on 14-17 September.  QSL direct
         to IZ1MHY and logsearch on Club Log.
G      - Peter G4UIX, Ray M0XDL, Chris M0XFL and Stuart M0SGV will be active
         as GB0LUN from Lundy Island (EU-120) on 26-28 September.  They will
         operate SSB  and  digital modes  using  "a variety of vertical  and
         dipole antennas". QSL via LoTW and eQSL, or direct to M0XDL.
I      - Alessandro IU3EDK, Andrea IU1LCU, Cristian IN3EYI and Martin IN3IBW
         will be active as IP1A from Palmaria Island (not IOTA, IIA L027) on
         11-13 September.  They will operate SSB, CW and digital modes.  QSL
         via IU3EDK and eQSL. [TNX IU3EDK]
I      - ID9OSC  is the  special callsign  for  the  Oriental Sicily Contest
         Team's  16-20  September  activity  from  Panarea  Island  (EU-017)
         [425DXN 1530].  Eight operators will be QRV  with three stations on
         80-10 metres  SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8.  QSL via Club Log's OQRS (pre-
         ferred), or via IT9ZZO. [TNX IT9EJW]
OH0    - OH2GEK, OH2LAK and OH2BH  will participate  in  this weekend's  All
         Asian DX SSB Contest as OH0B from the  Aland Islands (EU-002).  QSL
         via OH2BH. [TNX The Daily DX]
OY     - Torsten, DL4APJ  and  Udo, DL2AQI will be active  holiday style  as
         OY/DL4APJ  and  OY/DL2AQI from Streymoy, Faroe Islands (EU-018)  on
         15-23 September. They will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on 80-
         10 metres. QSL via home calls (direct or bureau),  LoTW  and  eQSL.
         Updates will be posted to https://faroer2020.wordpress.com/.
PA     - Arie, PD0ARI is active again  as PD538RNI  until 30 September.  His
         love for radio started  in the  early seventies  while listening to
         Radio Veronica (which transmitted on 538 metres) and Radio Northsea
         International (RNI). Both offshore stations had to close down on 31
         August 1974, when the Dutch government passed its antipirate legis-
         lation. QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
SV5    - Claudio, HB9OAU will be active as SV5/HB9OAU from Karpathos Island,
         Dodecanese (EU-001) on  12-24 September.  He will operate  SSB  and
         RTTY on 80-10 metres.  QSL via home call  (direct or bureau),  LoTW
         and eQSL.
UA     - Special callsign  R13KHL  is active  until 6 September  to mark the
         start of the 13th season of the Kontinental Hockey League.  QSL via
         Club Log's OQRS.
UR     - Special event station EM90QMR will be active on  5-20 September  to
         celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the  Melitopolsky
         rayon (district) in the Zaporizka oblast of Ukraine.  QSL via eQSL.
         See https://www.qrz.com/db/EM90QMR for more informatiom.
VE     - Members of the London Amateur Radio Club (VE3LON) based in Ontario,
         Canada will be active as VE3LON100 on  1-30 September  to celebrate
         the 100th anniversary of the club. QSL via operator's instructions.
VK     - Special callsign  VI75WW2  will be  in operation  from  1 September
         until 11 November to commemorate the 75th annaversary of the end of
         World War II. The QSL will be available as a downloadable PDF  from
         https://www.silvertrain.com.au/  under  the  Amateur Radio tab  and
         then Special Event Station Logs.
VQ9    - Bob, DU7ET expects  to be flying to  Diego Garcia (AF-006),  Chagos
         Islands in a week or so.  He will be working there as radio officer
         on a ship  for 4-5 months,  and "hopes to have opportunities  to go
         ashore" and be QRV as  VQ9ET.  Plans are to operate  mainly CW with
         100 watts and a wire. QSL direct to DU7ET. [TNX The Daily DX]
W      - Organized by the Citrus Belt ARC, the  21st  annual Route 66 On The
         Air special event celebrates the historic US Highway 66. Twenty-one
         amateur radio stations using  1x1  callsigns (W6A-W6U) will operate
         from  cities  along  the  "Mother Road"  on  12-20  September.  See
         http://w6jbt.org/ for information about the event and QSL routes.
W      - K5DX/50  is the callsign for  members  of the  Texas DX Society  to
         celebrate  its  50th anniversary  from  14 September to 13 October.
         Members  can  be located  anywhere in the  United States,  and will
         operate on all bands and modes. QSL via LoTW, or direct to Texas DX
         Society K5DX/50, 5303 S Mason Rd Apt 212, Katy TX 77450-7152, USA.

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                          Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                        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!

OCEANIA DX CONTEST ---> The 75th edition of the Oceania DX Contest will take
place on 3-4 October (SSB) and 10-11 October (CW). Both events will start at
06.00 UTC (new!) on Saturday,  and end at 06:00 UTC (new!) on Sunday.  Comp-
lete details can be found at http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/.

QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards  on  Les  Nouvelles  DX's
website has been updated.  Sixteen different galleries include  18,231 cards
for the  ten Most  Wanted  DXCC  Entities  (2010-19), the  62  deleted  DXCC
Entities, obsolete prefixes,  stations  from  Maghreb  from  1945  to  1962,
Allied Forces stations in Germany (1945-70), special stations  commemorating
ITU and IARU, stations using the United Nations prefix (4U), Antarctic bases
and TAAF (Terres  Australes and Antarctiques Francaises), the various French
DXCC island Entities in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas
(from 1945 to 1969), pre-1945  countries, French Departments and CONUS, plus
a gallery for cards not accepted  by DXCC. Your participation is encouraged:
http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/galerieqsl.php. [TNX F6AJA].

SAC ---> The 62nd Scandinavian  Activity  Contest  will  be  held  on  19-20
September (CW) and 10-11 October (SSB), from 12 UTC on Saturday to 11:59 UTC
on Sunday.  Scandinavian stations  (Aland Islands,  Denmark,  Faroe Islands,
Finland, Greenland,  Iceland, Jan Mayen,  Market Reef, Norway,  Svalbard and
Bear Island, Sweden) will try to work as  many non-Scandinavian  stations as
possible and vice versa. Complete information of the SAC events can be found
at https://www.sactest.net/.

YASME FOUNDATION SUPPORTING GRANTS ---> The  Yasme Foundation  has announced
that the following grants were made at its 26 August board meeting:
- a grant to DokuFunk (the Austria based  Research and  Documentation Center
  for the History of Radio Communications and the Electronic Media), to con-
  tinue hosting Lloyd and Iris Colvin DXpedition material,  and to develop a
  historical presentation  from existing  pictures, video and  audio.  Yasme
  also supported the transfer of the HZ1AB QSL collection to DokuFunk.
- a grant to the Seychelles Amateur Radio Association (SARA), for financial
  support on upcoming amateur exams.
The Yasme Foundation (http://www.yasme.org/) is a not-for-profit corporation
organized to support scientific and educational projects related  to amateur
radio, including DXing and the  introduction and  promotion of amateur radio
in developing countries. [TNX K4ZW]

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QSLs received direct or  through managers:  5B60ALJ,  5H4WZ (AF-063),  5P5X,
6F3A (NA-153), 9M2TO,  BV0WPX, C6AAN,  CX5RZ, FK4RD,  FO5RH, H44MS,  J79WTA,
JY5HX, KL2R,  LZ177GL, LZ250KD,  LZ50BFRA, N1UL (NA-052),  OD5ZF, OX/OZ1LXJ,
PA5TT (EU-146),  PZ5RA, RN2F, SV2HJQ, TZ1CE,  VK9NK (OC-005), VP8HAL,  W4IOP
(NA-110), Z35T, ZF2AN.

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                            Gabriele Villa, I2VGW
               Giornalista Professionista - Tessera n. 071675
                      Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti
                                Roma, Italia

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