425 DX News #1460

27 April 2019 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1460

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

9A - Once again Jan, PA4JJ will be active holiday style as 9A/PA4JJ
from mainland Croatia between 30 April and 5 June. Expect him to
operate mainly FT8 on 40-10 metres. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS
or via home call. [TNX PA4JJ]
DU - Audie, DU1ZDR and Gazelle, DU1ZDQ will be active as DZ1A from
Siargao Island (OC-235) on 4-5 May. Look for them on or around
14260 and 7055 kHz. [TNX DX World]
HS - To mark the coronation of King Rama X, the Radio Amateur Society of
Thailand will be operating special event station HS10KING/mm on 3-6
May. Activity will take place from the Royal Thai Navy aircraft
carrier, the "Chakri Narubet", in the Gulf of Thailand. The station
will be QRV on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres, as well as on 2 metres and
amateur radio satellites, including the Es'hail 2/QO-100 satellite.
JA - Look for JR0UIU/6, JA6UFF/6 and 8J6VLP/6 to be active from Kuchino
Island (AS-049) from 28 April to 2 May. They will operate CW, SSB,
RTTY and FT8 on 160-6m. QSL JR0UIU/6 and JA6UFF/6 via home calls,
(direct or bureau); QSL 8J6VLP/6 via the bureau only. [TNX JN6RZM]
JA - Once again the ITU Association of Japan's Amateur Radio Club will
operate special event station 8J1ITU from 30 April to 31 May to
celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
(17 May) and the creation of the International Telecommunication
Union. Activity will take place from the city of Kasumigaura on
Honshu Island (AS-007). QSL via the JARL bureau and eQSL.
JT - Andrey, R9YU will be active as JT9/R9YU from Mongolia on 2-12 May.
A communications specialist during a research mission to the Great
Lakes Basin, he will operate SSB on 40, 20 and 15 metres. QSL
direct to home call; he does not use LoTW or Club Log. [TNX The
Daily DX]
LU - Look for Horacio, LU5BE/T and Enrique, LU8EFF/T to be active from
Susques and Purmamarca in the Argentine province of Jujuy on 1-5
May. Amateur radio activity from this region is uncommon. They will
operate SSB, CW, FT8, JT65, PSK31 and HELL on 80-6 meters, possibly
with two stations. QSL via eQSL. [TNX LU5BE]
OA - Mike, AC0PR will be active as OA3/AC0PR from Peru on 5-11 May.
Activity will be limited to his spare time, most likely in one hour
sessions on 40-10 metres CW QRP. QSL via home call, and LoTW. [TNX
NG3K]
OZ - Bernd, DL9LBR will be active as OZ/DL9LBR from Fano Island (EU-125)
on 4-11 May. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the
bureau.
PA - Roland, DL1EAL will be active again as PA/DL1EAL from Texel Island
(EU-038) from 27 April to 9 May. He prefers CW and "all digital
modes", and will be QRV holiday style on 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres.
QSL via home call (direct or bureau), eQSL and LoTW. [TNX DX
Newsletter]
PA - Wino, PA0ABM and Rich, PA0RRS will be active as PF6W in May, with
an emphasis on the low bands. Main activity will be during the CQ
WW WPX CW Contest. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, eQSL, or via
PA0RRS. [TNX PA0RRS]
SM - Lennart SM6KNL, Steve SM6HRR, Tom SM6VVT, Thor SM6LZQ and Harry
SM6RWT will be active again as SE6VING from Vinga Island (EU-043)
and lighthouse on 3-5 May. QSL via LoTW, or direct to SM6VVT.
UA - A very large number of Russian stations using special prefix RP74
(where the letter P stands for 'pobeda', i.e. 'victory') will be
active on 3-9 May to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the end of
World War II. More information and the list of participating
Stations will be published on https://pobeda.srr.ru/.

CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Members of the Medical Amateur Radio Council (MARCO)
will be active from Belize, Honduras and the Cayman Islands during MARCO
post-annual meeting cruise:
1 May V31D Belize City 16-21 UTC
2 May HQ9D Roatan Island 16-19 UTC
3 May ZF2D Grand Cayman 17-21 UTC
Plans are to operate SSB, CW and FT8 on 20 and 17 metres with two stations.
QSLs via AA4FL and LoTW.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CE7/DL2OE ---> Owing to a case of homonymy that resulted in a honest
misunderstanding, over the Easter weekend Mike, CE7/DL2OE was not active
from Isla San Pedro in the SA-053 IOTA group, but from the Isla San Pedro
included in the Chiloe Archipelago (SA-018). "I apologize to all IOTA
hunters for this great mistake", Mike says, "but I cannot change this
situation". [TNX EU7A]

SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 2020 ---> The Northern California DX Foundation
(http://www.ncdxf.org) has announced it will be a major contributor to the
Perseverance DX Group's February-March 2020 DXpedition to the South Orkney
Islands (https://sorkney.com/) [425DXN 1455]. "With the cost of ships, fuel,
and freight continuing to rise the future of major DXpeditions rests in the
hands of the worldwide DX community", the PDXG says. "We appreciate the
Foundation's generosity and their confidence in our project team and plans".
The primary purpose of NCDXF is to help fund well-organized DXpeditions to
rare, difficult and expensive DXCC Entities like the South Orkneys
(currently #16 on Club Log's Most Wanted List). Since 2016, NCDXF-supported
DXpeditions activated five of the ten most-needed Entities, and during the
last 47 years NCDXF has granted nearly $1.2 million to hundreds of
DXpeditions.

THE FT4 PROTOCOL FOR DIGITAL CONTESTING ---> The following announcement was
posted by Joe Taylor, K1JT to the WSJT software development mailing list on
22 April:
"Soon after the 'FT8 Roundup' held on December 1-2, 2018, we started serious
work on a faster, more contest-friendly digital mode that can compete with
RTTY-contesting QSO rates while preserving many of the benefits of FT8. The
result is FT4 - a new digital mode specifically designed for radio
contesting.
Over the past month a small group of volunteers have been conducting on-the-
air tests of FT4. The early tests were very successful and helped us to make
a number of important design decisions. We believe FT4 has considerable
promise for its intended purpose.
We'll soon be ready for testing by a larger group. If you might be
interested in participating and offering your considered feedback, please
read the descriptive document "The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting",
posted here: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FT4_Protocol.pdf.
We plan to post downloadable installation packages for WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5 on
April 29. The document linked above includes
- Instructions for installing WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5 and FT4 configuration
- Operating instructions for FT4
- Basic description of the FT4 protocol, modulation, and waveform
- Detailed sensitivity measurements for FT4 under a wide variety of
simulated propagation conditions
- Schedule for upcoming test sessions"

TQSL: NEW VERSION ---> A new version (v2.4.7) of LoTW's Trusted QSL (TQSL)
has been released: http://www.arrl.org/tqsl-download. This version corrects
a defect in the Windows autoupdate process when performing the download and
install of a new version. Because this defect was present in TQSL v2.4.4,
v2.4.5 and v2.4.6 , those versions are unable to automatically update
themselves to v2.4.7. In order to upgrade, users with those versions of
TQSL installed must manually download and install TQSL v2.4.7 from here:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/LoTW%20Instructions/tqsl-2.4.7.msi

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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4JF1EU Alexander Y. Frolov, P.O. Box 38, Volgograd, 400066, Russia
6O1OO Ali Solhjoo, Schnackenburgstr. 3, 12159 Berlin, Germany
7X2TT Abdel Mesbah, 121 Hood Street, Nottingham,NG5 4AQ, United Kingdom
9L1YXJ Mark A. Brewer, 2160 Freetown Pl, Dulles VA 20189-2160, USA
9M4COO Khairil Amri Bakhari, No 335 Jalan Scientex Maju 12,
Taman Scientex Kulai 2, 81000 Kulai, Johor, Malaysia
EH5SSC Radio Club Carthago, Apartado Postal 176, 30200 Cartagena
(Murcia), Spain
EM9WFF Eugene Mosiychuk, Apartado Postal 5, 03170 Rojales (Alicante),
Spain
EO33U P.O. Box 33, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine
GB8ND John Rowlands, Tanrallt, Rhosybol, Amlwch, LL68 9RD,
United Kingdom
JH3SIF Kiichiro Onishi, 3-19 Tomogaoka, Suma-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo,
654-0142, Japan
KH8/OZ0J Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, 4700 Naestved, Denmark
KH8/OZ1RH Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, 4700 Naestved, Denmark
M0OXO Charles Wilmott, 60 Church Hill, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4NG,
United Kingdom
N4GNR Dan Cisson, 12 Hancock Drive, Toccoa GA 30577-9388, USA
OA1F Elena P. Moran, c/ Luis de Requesens 4/A 3 A, 15406 Ferrol
(A Coruna), Spain
OE19M DokuFunk, OE19M, An den Steinfeldern 4A, A-1230 Wien
RW1AI Mikhail N. Fokin, P.O. Box 13, Sankt-Peterburg, 193312, Russia
SP9FIH Janusz Wegrzyn, pl. Pilsudskiego 6/9, 45-706 Opole, Poland
V51MA Harry de Jong, Broekdijk 59, 7695 TC Bruchterveld, The Netherlands
XR1RRC Andrey N. Teterukov, P.O. Box 13, 212030 Mogilev-30, Belarus
ZT1T Tom Morgan, 58 Piet Retief Street, Robertson, 6705, South Africa
ZZ4X Marcio Henrique dos Reis Lopes, Rua Oscavo Gonzaga Prata 150,
Juiz de Fora - MG, 36033-220, Brazil
ZZ7ZZ Irapuan De Sousa Ferreira, Rua Josue Pimentel 77, Bela Vista,
Guarabira - PB, 58200-000, Brazil

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