425 DX News #1568

22 May 2021 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1568

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

Owing to the ongoing and fluid nature of the COVID-19 situation globally,
announced activities might be cut short, postponed, cancelled or even
extended at any time and without notice.

5N - Jean-Louis, 5N7MSF (aka F5MAW, ZS6AAG, 3DA0MF, C91MSF and TT8JLH)
is active from Abuja, Nigeria until 15 September. He works for
Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders), and will be QRV
during his spare time and the weekends. QSL via eQSL. [TNX The
Daily DX]
5U - Adrien, F4IHM, who has been active again as 5UAIHM [425DXN 1565]
since 18 May, has extended his stay in Niger until 27 June. He
operates SSB and CW on 40 and 30 metres. QSL via F4IHM, direct or
bureau. [TNX The Daily DX]
A9 - A91GCC is the special callsign for the Bahrain Amateur Radio Soci-
ety to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gulf Cooperation Coun-
cil on 21-25 May. QSL via EC6DX. Established on 25 May 1981, GCC is
a regional intergovernmental political and economic union that con-
sists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates.
EA - Special callsign AM5IP will be active from 28 May to 6 June to
commemorate the 170th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Peral y
Caballero. QSL via EA5CP, direct or bureau. An engineer and naval
officer, Peral was the developer the first electric-powered
submarine.
G - Special callsigns GB1ORC (24 May-20 June) and GB0ARC (28 May-24
June) will be active to celebrate the first anniversary of the
Online Amateur Radio Community (M0OUK, https://www.oarc.uk/), an
online based club affiliated with the RSGB.
HC - Celebrating Ecuador's Independence Day (24 May), members of the
Ecuador DX Club will be active as HD1ECU on 22-24 May. QSL via
LoTW. See https://ecuadordxclub.org/independencia/ for the award.
HH - Peter, JK1UWY has been active as HH2JA since 15 May, and will stay
remain in Haiti for three years. He operates CW, SSB and FT8 on 80-
6 metres. QSL via LoTW and eQSL. [TNX The Daily DX]
JA - Look for JI3DST/3, JR8YLY/3 and JR8YLY/p (FT8) to be active on 80-6
metres from Awaji Island (AS-117) on 22-24 May. All QSOs will be
uploaded to Club Log and made available for Club Log Matching on
the IOTA website.
JA - The correct dates for JI3DST's activity from Shodo Island (AS-200)
[425DXN 1567] are 19-21 June and 26-28 June. Take will be active as
JI3DST/5, JR8YLY/5 and JR8YLY/p on 40-6 metres SSB, CW and FT8. All
QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and made available for Club Log
Matching on the IOTA website.
TY - TY5AB is the callsign issued to Ian, ZS6JSI, who has been active as
ZS6JSI/TY since late January. He is QRV in his spare time, mainly
on 20 metres FT8. Ian expects to remain in Benin through June. QSL
via LoTW and EC6DX.
UA - Special callsigns R800AN, R800ANG, R800ANL, R800ANN, R800ANV and
R800RAN are active until 30 June to commemorate the 800th anniver-
sary of the birth of Alexander Nevsky. Commonly regarded as a key
figure of medieval Russia, he is best known for the victory over
the Teutonic Knights in the Battle on the Ice (1242). The Radio
Amateur Association of Sankt Peterburg is offering a commemorative
award: https://hamlog.online/global/russia/r1a/149/. QSL via opera-
tor's instructions.
UA - Commemorating the 116th anniversary since the birth of Mikhail A.
Sholokhov (the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature), special callsigns
R116MS, RO36MS, RT36MS and UE36MS will be active on 20-25 May
during the 36th edition of the Sholokhov Spring Festival. A cer-
tificate will be available on https://hamlog.online/club/mdxc. QSLs
via RQ7L.
UA - Special callsigns R18UGRA, R18JHM, R18JLA, R18JMG, R18JNR, R18JNV,
R18JPK, R18JRA and R18JSV are expected to be active from 22 May to
6 June from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra (Tyumen Oblast)
in support of the XVIII International Environmental Action "To Save
and Preserve". QSL via operator's instructions.
UA - Special callsign R115MUSA will be active between 26 May and 25
August in celebration of the 115th anniversary of the birth of Musa
Dzhalil (1906-1944), the eminent Soviet Tatar poet and resistance
fighter.
VK - John, VK6NU will be active holiday style as VK6NU/p from Rottnest
Island (OC-164) on 25-28 May. He will operate CW and SSB on 40-10
metres. Look for him at 6-10 UTC, 11.30-15 UTC and 22-1 UTC. QSL
via home call. [TNX DX World]
VK9X - Steve, VK6SJ now plans to be active as VK9XX from Christmas Island
(OC-002) [425DXN 1566] from 28 May to 11 June. Expected hours of
operation are 11-15 UTC and 22-00 UTC on a daily basis. "If I get
ahead of schedule in my work", he says, "I may squeeze in a day
off, in which I will see if I can tune up the dipole on 6, 10 and
15 metres during the day". He plans to operate a separate band each
night, but if there is no propagation "I will change band rather
than call into nothing":
Date Band QRG FT8 QRG SSB
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28 May 20m 14.090 14.280
29 May 40m 7.056 7.180
30 May 30m 10.131 -
31 May 80m 3.567 3.625
01 June 20m 14.090 14.280
02 June 40m 7.056 7.180
03 June 30m 10.131 -
04 June 80m 3.567 3.625
05 June 20m 14.090 14.280
06 June 40m 7.056 7.180
07 June 30m 10.131 -
08 June 80m 3.567 3.625
09 June 20m 14.090 14.280
10 June 40m 7.056 7.180
11 June 30m 10.131 -
All FT8 operation will be Fox & Hound mode. "I will stop FT8 at the
end of each hour and try SSB for 10 minutes minimum. If I get a run
on SSB, I'll stay there until I don't, then return to FT8. SSB
operation will be split frequency, listening 5KHz up and +/- QRM".
During the CQ WW WPX CW Contest "I may answer a bunch of stations
calling CQ test, but I don't think my CW is up to managing a pile-
up". See VK6SJ on qrz.com for updates. QSL via EB7DX.
VP5 - VP5/K2SX, VP5/K4BAI, VP5/K4QPL and VP5/KR4R will be active from
Providenciales (NA-002), Turks and Caicos, from 25 May through 1
June. They will participate in the CQ WW WPX CW Contest as VP5M
(QSL via LoTW, or direct to K4QPL). [TNX NG3K]
W - Allan, KV4T and his wife Bridget, KS4YT will be active from Grand
Isle (NA-168) on 29 May-1 June. They will operate FT8 and FT4 on 40
and 20 metres, and will return to the island for the IOTA Contest
(24-25 July). QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or direct to home calls. [TNX DX
World]
YL - Special callsign YL21ICE will be active on all bands and modes for
the Ice Hockey World Championship to be held in Latvia from 21 May
to 6 June. See https://qsl.services/event/YL21ICE for information
about the award.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CQ AMATEUR RADIO HALL OF FAME ---> The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame was
established in January 2001 to recognize individuals - radio amateurs or
not - who significantly affected the course of Amateur Radio, as well as
radio amateurs who have made significant contributions either to amateur
radio, to their professional careers or to some other aspect of life on our
planet. This year's inductees, which bring the total number of members of
the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame to 339, are:
* Archibald Doty, W7ACD (SK), engineer, inventor, researcher into efficient
radial systems for vertical antennas and pioneer of college radio; co-
founded what is now WESU at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1939,
the second-oldest college radio station in the U.S.; also served as a
pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.
* Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, founder of HAMSci (Ham Radio Science Citizen
Investigation), a collaboration between radio amateurs and ionospheric
scientists; organizer of the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party, which also
served as a research project on the effects of a total solar eclipse on HF
propagation.
* Lorin Hollander, WA1PGB, world-renowned classical concert pianist who has
performed with virtually every major philharmonic orchestra in the United
States, along with many others overseas; heavily involved in music and
arts education and in relationships between music and medicine.
* Christopher Imlay, W3KD, ARRL Counsel and General Counsel from 1982-2018;
represented the League before the FCC on a wide variety of issues,
including PRB-1, now enshrined in FCC Rule 97.15 b), that requires state
and local regulations to reasonably accommodate amateur radio antenna
structures.
* Cathryn Mitchell, M0IBG, Academic Director of the University of Bath
Doctoral College (UK) and recipient of the 2019 Edward Appleton Medal "for
pioneering research in tomography and data assimilation revealing a
completely new perspective on Earth's ionosphere in response to extreme
space weather".
* Admiral Charles "Chas"" Richard, W4HFZ, commander of the United States
Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), one of eleven unified commands of the
Department of Defense; served previously as Commander of U.S. submarine
forces and Director of Undersea Warfare at the Pentagon.

CQ CONTEST HALL OF FAME ---> Established in 1986, the CQ Contest Hall of
Fame honours those amateurs who have made major contributions to the art of
radio contesting. The 2021 inductees are:
* Robert Wolbert, K6XX, a "renaissance man" of contesting, advancing the
state of the art in designing amateur equipment at Elecraft, a participant
in more than 1100 contests over 35 years and a many-time winner (he is a
9-time recipient of the Jim Maxwell Memorial Trophy for the highest-
scoring California single-op unassisted station in the ARRL DX CW
Contest); member of the organizing committee for the first WRTC in 1996
and a team leader in 2000 and 2014; has authored many articles for amateur
contesting publications, presented at multiple conferences and is a
longtime member and leader of the Northern California Contest Club (NCCC).
* David A. Pruett, K8CC (SK), author of the NA contest logging program as
well as a log-checking program and host of many multi-multi operations
from his Michigan contest station over 30 years; longtime chairman of the
Michigan QSO Party; former editor of the National Contest Journal and
longtime member and leader of the Mad River Contest Club.
This year's induction was conducted online once again, as a result of the
the COVID-19-related cancellation of the Dayton Hamvention and associated
Contest Dinner. CQ World Wide DX Contest Director John Dorr, K1AR, led the
Contest Hall of Fame induction at the conclusion of Contest University's
online seminar on 20 May.

CQ DX HALL OF FAME ---> Established in 1967, the CQ DX Hall of Fame honours
those amateurs who have made major contributions to DXing and DXpeditioning.
The 2021 inductees are:
* Jacky Calvo, ZL3CW/F2CW, a veteran of the French Air Force and the Inter-
national Committee of the Red Cross, with postings that took him (and his
ham station) to a dozen countries around the world; a participant in more
than two dozen DXpeditions and WRTC (World Radiosport Team Championship)
competitions from 2010-2018 and is a team leader for 2022.
* Francesco Valsecchi, IK0FVC, who has regularly activated Vatican City for
the past 30 years using HV0A and other call signs, as well the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta (SMOM) as 1A0KM. Along with fellow operators,
Francesco has logged more than 300,000 QSOs for the two tiny entities,
averaging roughly 10,000 contacts per year for hams around the world.
This year's induction will be conducted online once again, as a result of
the COVID-19-related cancellation of the Dayton Hamvention and associated DX
Dinner. CQ DX Editor Bob Schenck, N2OO, will conduct the DX Hall of Fame
induction on 26 May during the "Ham Nation" podcast on the Ham Radio Crash
Course YouTube channel.

DXPEDITION OF THE YEAR ---> The Southwest Ohio DX Association has announced
their 2020/2021 DXpedition of the Year award, which regognizes "excellence
in DXpedition planning and execution" from Most Wanted DXCC Entities.
DXpeditions completed from March 2020 through February 2021 were eligible
for this year's award, which has been presented to the VP8PJ DXpedition to
the South Orkney Islands (February-March 2020).

INTREPID SPIRIT AWARD ---> The Intrepid-DX Group is pleased to announce that
this year's award goes to Johannes Hafkenscheid, PA5X, who was very active
as 5T5PA while living and working in Mauritania throughout 2020. This award
is to recognize "Johannes's outstanding efforts to activate Mauritania
during the Covid-19 Pandemic", and acknowledges "Johannes's unselfish act to
activate this challenging and much needed entity on behalf of a grateful
Global DX Community. During 2020, Johannes made 35,000 contacts and made a
total of 192,514 contacts during his years of activity from Mauritania". The
award was presented on 16 May at the International DX Convention. Made in
memory of James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF (killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 27
April 2011), the Intrepid Spirit Award "is intended to recognize and honor
those individuals or teams that boldly activate rare entities where their
own personal safety is secondary to their pursuit of providing contacts to
the DX Community".

VISALIA 2021 ---> This year's International DX Convention was a virtual two-
day meeting held on 15 and 16 May, with eight DX-related and eight exhibitor
Zoom webinars. All presentations were recorded, and are expected to be
available on https://ncdxc.org/idxc-info/ (the Northern California DX Club's
website) on 21 May.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CR65PQ CT1EHX NL8F N7RO TY5AB EC6DX
DT8A DS5TOS OA4EA EA5GL UE36MS RQ7L
EF0F EA4URE OD5KU EB7DX YI3WHR IK2DUW
EG1XA EA1RCI OE100CEN OE4CEN Z21DX PA3CPI
EH1OLA EA1UVR OE100CHZ OE4CHZ ZC4GR EB7DX
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AO1EU Federacion Digital EA, Apartado Postal 3050, 08200 Sabadell
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GB2QM Tony Marriott, Parkview, Dunrossness, Shetland, ZE2 9JG,
United Kingdom
IG9OSC Dario Rinzivillo, Via Valverde 9, 95125 Catania CT, Italy
II0BIKE Erica Sanna, Via Bartolomeo Grazioli 26, 06132 Perugia PG, Italy
II6RI Enzo Pinto, Via Colle Bianco 51, 66016 Guardiagrele CH, Italy
IK2DUW Antonello Passarella, Via Melchiorre Gioia 6, 20812 Limbiate MB,
Italy
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