425 DX News #1526

1 August 2020 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1526

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

9G - Currently QRV "from a temporary location in Accra", Matteo, IZ4YGS
will be active again as 9G5GS from Sanzule, Ghana from 8 August to
15 September. In his spare time he will operate SSB and FT8 (Fox
& Hound on 3590, 7056, 10131, 14090, 18095, 21091, 24926 and 28091
kHz), as well as USB on the QO-100 Geostationary satellite. QSL
via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, eQSL, or direct to home call.
CN - Taking part in the annual Throne Day's celebrations, members of
the Association Royale des Radioamateurs du Maroc (ARRAM) will be
using the special prefix CN21 between 28 July and 15 August. Throne
Day is a public holiday in Morocco that commemorates the enthrone-
ment of the incumbent monarch. Since 1999, it has been celebrated
on 30 July.
HL - Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Korea (15
August 1945), members of the Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL)
will be active as HL75V on 1-31 August. QSL via 6K0MF.
IS0 - Simone, IU4HRJ will be active as IM0/IU4HRJ from Maddalena Island
(EU-041), Sardinia on 4-10 August. He will operate SSB and digital
modes on 40-10 metresand 2m. QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K]
LA - Ken, LA7GIA expects to be active as LA7GIA/p from the Lofoten Is-
lands (EU-076) on 1-3 August. Look for him on 30 and maybe 20m CW.
On 29 July he operated from Tjotta Island (EU-062). QSL via LoTW.
OJ0 - Tommi, OH3BRJ and his son Valtteri, OH3BRK will be active as
OJ0/OH3BRJ and OJ0/OH3BRK from Market Reef (EU-053) on 6-7 August.
They will operate SSB RTTY, FT8/FT4 on 80-6 metres. QSLs via LoTW,
or via home calls (direct and bureau). [TNX NG3K]
SV - Francesco, IK6QON will be active as SV8/IK6QON from Kerkyra Island
(EU-052) on 9-20 August. He will operate CW and SSB on 40-6 metres.
QSL via home call. [TNX NG3K]
TA - Commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli
during World War I, special event stations TC3GP and TC3GS will be
active on 3-23 August. QSLs via YM3KCN.
TK - Frans, DJ0TP will be active as TK/DJ0TP from Corsica (EU-014) from
6 August to 14 September. During the International Lighthouse
Lightship Weekend (22-23 August) he will operate from the Phare
d'Alistro. QSL via LoTW, or via home call (direct and bureau). [TNX
DJ0TP]

IOTA TOUR ---> Gaby, DF9TM (OV9M) and Frank, DL2SWW (5Q5W) are touring Den-
mark and Norway, and have been active as LA/DF9TM and LA/DL2SWW from IOTA
group EU-079 since 28 July (length of stay unknown). Previous IOTA opera-
tions took place as follows:
04-06 July EU-029 OV9M
05-06 July EU-029 5Q5W
07-11 July EU-172 OV9M and 5Q5W
11-15 July EU-171 OV9M
12-15 July EU-171 5Q5W
24-26 July EU-055 LA/DF9TM and LA/DL2SWW
All QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and confirmed automatically via the
bureau. Direct cards (via home calls) "will be answered until November".

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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COVID-19 COMMUNICATION EVENT ---> Held on 6-7 June [425DXN 1518], the "in-
ternational gathering of STAYHOME/STAYSAFE stations and fellow amateur radio
operators was organized as a brief 24 hours event where hams were able to
quickly greet each other, in a contest-like format, in the spirit of well-
being", the Organizing Committee (E21EIC, KO8SCA, OH2BH, OH2MM and PY5EG)
reports. "A total of 18,838 hams from 181 DXCC Entities participated in the
event, using the CW, SSB and FT8 transmission modes. There were 39 regis-
tered STAYHOME/STAYSAFE stations from all continents, making this event a
very unique global undertaking. An impressive 120,181 radio contacts were
made during the event".
The WORLD WINNERS are LY9A (Multi-Mode), PP5JR (SSB), RG9A (CW) and YO9H
(Digital). The CONTINENTAL WINNERS are EA8RM (Africa), LY9A (Europe), PY5KD
(South America), RG9A (Asia), W1UE (North America) and ZL3P (Oceania). The
most productive STAYHOME/STAYSAFE groups that dominated the continental
landscape were from Romania, Brazil and Finland. The detailed results of the
event are available at http://ko8sca.com/results.pdf. The prize lottery will
be organized within the next two-weeks.
"The COVID-19 Communication Event was part of the global STAYHOME activity
from 8 April to 7 June. The OH0-OH9 stations made an impressive 133,000
contacts along with 25,000 FT8 QSOs logged by the Brazilian digital station
ZW5STAYHOME, working hams from a total of 180 countries from all 40 CQ
zones, with other STAYHOME stations totaling almost 290,000 contacts in the
two-month period".

JX0X 2021 ---> The Northern California DX Foundation (http://www.ncdxf.org)
has announced it is granting USD 5,000 to the JX0X DXpedition to Jan Mayen
Island planned for September-October 2021 (http://jx0x.com/). The low bands,
where Jan Mayen is in high demand by DXers in North America and East Asia,
are a primary focus of the team. NCDXF's primary purpose is to help fund
well-organized DXpeditions to desirable DXCC entities like this. During the
last 48 years, NCDXF has granted nearly USD 1.2 million to hundreds of
DXpeditions - helping to put an "all-time-new-one" (ATNO) in the log and
make DX happen for thousands of DXers worldwide. The credit for these large
grants goes to the NCDXF contributors, individuals and clubs who support the
DX community. [TNX AA7A]

T30ET POSTPONED ---> Solomon Airlines has extended the suspension of inter-
national flights until 24 October. "Unfortunately, at the moment, the only
further possibility of reaching Tarawa Island is through Fiji", Alex, 5B4ALX
says, "but further quarantine constraints and two additional flights with
over 100kg of equipment make this alternative unacceptable". His T30ET oper-
ation from Tarawa [425DXN 1504] is again postponed to a later date, while he
continues "to monitor the situation in the hope of better development".
Updates will be posted to http://www.5b4alx.cloud/t30et-tarawa-atoll-2020/.

WRTC 2022: DONOR TEAMS CALL ---> The WRTC 2022 Organizing Committee has an-
nounced that the application process for five Donor Teams is now open. Donor
Teams will be selected on a first-come first-served basis outside the normal
qualification process as part of the fundraising mechanism. Each Donor Team
is expected to help WRTC 2022 by making a donation of at least EUR 15,000.
See https://www.wrtc2022.it/ for the details and the application form. [TNX
I4VEQ]

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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7X4AN Mohamed Boukhiar, Apartado Postal 30133, 08080 Barcelona, Spain
CS5DX Portuguese DX Group, Apartado 1040, EC Barcarena,
2735-999 Barcarena, Portugal
GM3C Ed Holt, Ashwell, St. Ola, Kirkwall, KW15 1SX, United Kingdom
OH0V Jukka Klemola, Aarontie 5, FI-31400 Somero, Finland
OY1CT Carsten Thomsen, Uppi i Troed 8, FO-340 Kvivik, Faroe Islands
OZ11A Leif Nielsen, Stenhoejvej 280, 9900 Frederikshavn, Denmark
R1MJ Mikhail Fedorov, Bolsheokhtinsky pr. d.15 k.1 kv.73,
Sankt-Peterburg, 195027, Russia
TR8CA Jean Charron, 19 rue Gabriel Moussa, 33320 Eysines, France
V84SPU Tamat Lampoh, P.O. Box 849, MPC Old Airport, Bandar Seri Begawan
BB3577, Brunei Darussalam
VY2PLH George Dewar, 57 Perth Station Rd, Cardigan PE C0A 1G0, Canada
ZT1T Tom Morgan, 58 Piet Retief Street, Robertson, 6705, South Africa

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