425 DX News #1606

12 February 2022 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1606

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

5H - Borut, S53BV is active holiday style as 5H3BV from Shamiani (Kiwe-
ni), a satellite island of Pemba's (AF-063) on 10-24 February. He
operates low power CW and SSB on 40-15m. QSL direct to home call.
7Q - Starting on 15 February, Don, K6ZO expects to be QRV again as 7Q6M
in his spare time while working at the Embangweni Mission Hospital
in Malawi. Activity will include the ARRL DX CW Contest (19-20 Feb-
ruary), the CQ WW 160 Meter SSB Contest (25-27 February), and the
ARRL DX SSB Contest (5-6 March). QSL direct to home call. [TNX The
Daily DX]
BY - BY1CRA/WO22 is the special event station for the Beijing 2022 Win-
ter Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will be active until 13 March
on 160-10 metres CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via Club Log's OQRS. A cer-
tificate will be available; see https://www.qrz.com/db/by1cra/wo22
for the details.
CT8 - Henning, OZ2I will be active as CQ8EE from Sao Miguel Island (EU-
003), Azores during the ARRL DX CW Contest (19-20 February) "and
maybe a day or two more". QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via
OZ2I.
D4 - Oliver, DJ5QW will be active again as D4CW and D44DX from Sal Is-
land (AF-086), Cape Verde from 19 February to 2 March. He will be
QRV on Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), as well as on 80-10m CW and SSB.
QSL via DJ5QW, bureau preferred.
F - The Radioamateurs de Lot-et-Garonne will operate special callsign
TM6CXJ from 26 February to 6 March, and again on 1-6 June to honour
the memory of their friend Pierre Marge, F6CXJ, who passed away on
28 January 2021. QSL via LoTW (preferred), or via F2FZ.
Also activated in remembrance of Silent Keys are TM3ZZ (in memory
of Michel Pelhate, F3ZZ) during a few weekends between 26 February
and 3 July, and TM9AP (in memory of Andre Pettelat, F9AP) during
five weekends between 12 February and 20 March. QSL TM3ZZ via
F4HIK; QSL TM9AP via F6GYH.
G - GB1002MT is the special callsign for the Chelmsford Amateur Radio
Society to commemorate through February the centenary of 2MT, the
first British radio station to make regular entertainment broad-
casts (14 February 1922). QSL via LoTW and eQSL, no paper QSLs.
I - Celebrating World Radio Day, ARI Torino will set up a station at
RAI Radio and Television Museum (https://www.rai.it/museoradiotv/)
and be QRV as IQ1TO between 10 and 18 UTC on 12-13 February.
OE - Celebrating World Radio Day, the VIC Amateur Radio Contest DX Club
(4U1A, https://4u1a.club/) is expected to be active as 4UNR on 13-
28 February. This activity counts for Austria for DXCC, and for the
Vienna International Centre for the CQ DX Marathon. QSL via Club
Log's OQRS, or via UA3DX.
PA - Established on 6 May 1947, VERON's section of Mid and North Limburg
is celebrating its 75th anniversary during 2022 with special call-
sign PI75LIM. QSL via the bureau or direct to PE1NCP.
PA - Scout station PB22BP (the suffix stands for Baden-Powell, the
founder of the Scout and Guide movements) will be active on 18-28
February, including Thinking Day On The Air. QSL via PA3EFR.
PJ2 - Andy, W9NJY will be active as PJ2/W9NJY from Curacao (SA-099) on
16-21 February. He will participate in the ARRL DX CW Contest as
PJ2T (Multi-Multi); outside the contest he will operate CW mainly
on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL PJ2/W9NJY via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS,
or via WD9DZV; QSL PJ2T via LoTW or W3HNK. [TNX The Daily DX]
SP - 3Z200IL is the special callsign for radio club SP8KJX to commemo-
rate the 200th anniversary since the birth of Ignacy Lukasiewicz,
an oil industry pioneer whose many achievements included the inven-
tion of the modern kerosene lamp. Look for activity through 29 De-
cember on 160-10 metres SSB and digital modes. QSL via the bureau.
UR_ant - In his spare time, Sergiy, UT9UX will be active as EM1U from the
Ukrainian Antarctic Station "Akademik Vernadsky" on Galindez Island
(AN-006), Antarctica until around mid-April. QSL via UT7UA. [TNX DX
World]
V3 - Walt, W0CP as V31DJ (CW) and his wife Mary, K0ZV as V31DK (SSB) are
active from Placencia, Belize from 8 February until 4 March. QSLs
via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via home calls. [TNX The Daily DX]
V3 - Robert K5PI (V31AT, QSL via LoTW and home call), Madison W5MJ
(V31IT, QSL via M0URX's OQRS), John WC0W (V31TP, QSL via home call)
and Keith VE7KW (V31WK) - as well as Karl AD0KH, Nancie NM0C, Leigh
WC0T and Steve WW0G - will be active from Cahal Pech, Belize on 15-
22 February. They will participate in the ARRL DX CW Contest as V3T
(QSL via LoTW and WC0W; outside the contest they will be QRV on
160-10 metres mainly CW. [TNX The Daily DX]
V7 - Jeff "JT", KD7ADI has been on Kwajalein (OC-028), Marshall Islands
since 5 January, and will be stationed there "for the foreseeable
future". In his spare time he is QRV as V7/KD7ADI. He uploads his
log to LoTW and Club Log.
W - W7P is the callsign for the Northern Arizona DX Association to
conduct a 10-year special event countdown to the 100th anniversary
of the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory
in Flagstaff, Arizona (18 February 1930). The inaugural event was
held on 13-21 February 2021; this year's Pluto Anniversary Count-
down will run on 12-20 February. Also, Doug Tombaugh (N3PDT), Clyde
Tombaugh's nephew, will be operating during the event as W7P/0. QSL
direct, see https://www.nadxa.com/w7p_pluto_2030.html for informa-
tion.
W - Bodo, DF8DX will be active again as KT3Q/4 from Cedar Key (NA-076)
and Santa Rosa Island (NA-142) between 21 and 23 February, and from
Key Biscayne (NA-141) on 1-4 March. On 18-20 and 24-28 February he
will be signing KT3Q from Florida (ARRL DX CW Contest) and Alabama,
respectively. QSL via Club Log's OQRS (preferred), LoTW, or via
DF8DX
YB - Special event station 8C9MGP will be active from Lombok Island (OC-
150), Indonesia on 19-21 February, and again on 11-13 March. QSL
direct to HA3JB (OQRS on http://www.ha3jb.com/oqrs.html).
ZF - Bob, K4UEE (ZF2UE), Bill, W5SJ (ZF2EZ) and Stan, K5GO (ZF9CW) will
participate in the ARRL DX CW Contest (19-20 February) as ZF5T from
the Cayman Islands (NA-016). Before the contest they will be active
with their own ZF callsigns.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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3Y0J: LATEST NEWS ---> "Today we can confirm that the departure date for the
3Y0J DXpedition will be 6 January 2023", the team announced on 8 February.
"We can confirm the scheduled duration of the DXpedition is 44 days and that
we have reserved a week additional contingency at the end giving us more
flexibility. We have contracted 22 days at Bouvet Island, and it means we
will spend more than 3 weeks at Bouvet. As we have the flexibility to still
decide the port of departure Ushuaia or Port Stanley this will be done at a
later stage".
In order to achieve the goal of 200,000 QSOs from Bouvet, 3Y0J will deploy
twelve stations (eight CW/SSB stations and four FT8 stations), which can be
run simultaneously during peak time. "We plan for minimum downtime on the
radios", the team says, "and to achieve this we will setup the 4 FT8 sta-
tions to run 24/7, so that these can either be run by one operator separate-
ly or be run by any other operator in a simplified SO2R setup. This will be
done so that each operator can log into the FT8 machine from his operator
position and run CW/SSB and FT8 simultaneously. Running several radios by a
single operator this way has shown to be very efficient".
A DXpedition to Bouvet is "a huge undertaking financially and it would sim-
ply not be possible without the support from the vendors and our sponsors.
If you want to have the opportunity to work the rare #2 DXCC Bouvet Island,
please consider supporting us by donating upfront". Read the complete Press
Release #8 on the DXpedition's website: https://www.3y0j.no/.
Also, Ken, LA7GIA emphasizes that the DXpedition will have "a pronounced fo-
cus on human modes", and that "there will be no FT8 robots running unattend-
ed at Bouvet, all FT8 QSOs will be initiated by a human operator clicking on
the deserving callers".

ARRL DIGITAL CONTEST ---> The ARRL International Digital Contest will debut
at 18 UTC UTC on 4 June, ending at 23.59 UTC on 6 June. All non-RTTY modes
are permitted. The event will take place on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6m,
with single-operator and multi-single entry categories. TX power categories
will be QRP (5 watts or less) and low-power (maximum 100 watts). The ex-
change will be a station's four-character grid square. Stations may work
each other once per band, regardless of digital mode. Participants will earn
1 point for each contact, plus 1 point for each 500 kilometers between sta-
tions. The total score is total contact points. Complete details on this new
operating event are on http://arrl.org/arrl-digital-contest.

LIGHTHOUSE WEEKEND ---> The 14th American Lighthouses Weekend will be held
on 18-20 February. Details, including a listing of participating stations,
can be found on http://www.grupodxbb.com.ar/.

+ SILENT KEY + Bob Bruninga, WB4APR passed away on 7 February, aged 73. A
retired senior research engineer at the United States Naval Academy, he was
the inventor of the Automatic Packet Reporting System (http://www.aprs.org/)
and published the APRS paper at the ARRL 11th Computer Networking Conference
in 1992. He also had "an abiding interest in alternative power sources", the
ARRL recalls, and he authored 'Energy Choices for the Radio Amateur', pub-
lished by ARRL in 2018, "which explores developing changes in the area of
power and energy, and examines the choices radio amateurs and others can
make regarding home solar power, heat pumps, and hybrid and electric vehi-
cles".
Also reported SK is Jim Elliott, KA3UNQ, who passed away on 1 February aged
78. First licenced in 1989, he enjoyed island activating along the East
Coast for both IOTA and the US-Island Award programmes, but for the past
twenty years his primary operating interest was the activation of light-
houses for the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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4A5E EA5ZD GM3X GM3POI PI75LIM PE1NCP
4L2M EA7FTR GM6DX M0OXO PJ2T W3HNK
4L9M R3XA H94IE HP1MRA PY2ZEA OH2MM
4M1W EB7DX HC1BI NE8Z PY5EG K3IRV
4U13FEB 9A2AA HC2AO RC5A PZ5KV DL6KVA
4U1A UA3DX HC5AI HC5VF R135YWI RZ4Z
4X2M 4X4DZ HC5DX W3HNK S79/4X6TT N4GNR
4X6TT N4GNR HC5LM HC5VF SN100PSK SQ8JLU
5B4AQC DK6SP HC6CR EC5R TF3T TF3MH
5V7JA KB9IJI HF40MRD SP8MRD TI5/N3KS M0URX
5Z4BU EA5GL HG1222BA HA4KYB TI5CDA EA5GL
5Z4PA M0URX HG8DX HA8FT TM19AAW F8DVD
6Y5HM EA5GL HK7AAG EA5GL TM20KFZ F4FCE
7Z3FD HZ1SAR HZ1HZ N7RO TM2Y F6BEE
8P9AN CX3AN HZ3FD HZ1SAR TM3ZZ F4HIK
8Z3FD HZ1SAR IA0/IZ1KHY I1URL TM55M F4ESV
9A0BB 9A3JB II2IDT I2YSB TM5G F8TRL
9A5ZTT NX4TT II8CAP IC8ATA TM5W F4KLW
9K9NLD EC6DX IQ6JU IK6QON TU5PCT OK6DJ
9V1ZV EA5GL J72IMS EC6DX UP0L DL8KAC
A41NN A61BK JY4CI K2AX UP4L UN7LZ
A60EXPO/2 EA7FTR JY5MM IK2DUW UP7L UN6LN
A60HF EA7FTR KL7SB N4GNR UR9IDX EA5EL
A60HF/2 EA7FTR KP2AD OK1TN V31DJ W0CP
A91SD EC6DX KP3G EB7DX V31MA M0OXO
AP2IN IK2DUW KP3V EA5GL V51WH DK2WH
C4W 5B4WN KP4JOC RW6HS VA2EBI W1EBI
CE4SES EA5KB LC0X LB3RE VE2CSI M0URX
CM2XN EB7DX LX5MF LX1KQ VP8ADR M0OXO
CR3W DL5AXX LZ150GD LZ1XM VP8BTR M0OXO
CT9ABP OM3BH LZ1GLASS LZ1KAK VP9HE W2AF
DL0MFL DL2JRM LZ251MA LZ1KCP VY2ZM EA7HBC
E730RS E73E LZ60KFZ LZ1KFZ XV9NPS JA2NPS [b]
E7CW E73ESP MU5E GU4YOX XV9NPS JA2ODB [d]
EL2EF N2OO OD5ET EB7DX YB0AZ W4JS
EM1U UT7UA OD5KU EB7DX YB0JVZ EB7DX
EP2ABS RW6HS OD5SK IZ8CLM YB1DNF EB7DX
EP5CZD RW6HS OH0Z W0MM YE1AR/2 N2OO
EX0DX HB9DUR OL15SOTA OK1CYC YI1WWA IK2DUW
EX2V RW6HS OL5GMA/p OK3EQ YJ8RN NZ4DX
EY8MM W0VTT ON4BFS ON4LDR YR8D YO8KRR
FK8GU EA5GL OX50HRH OZ1ACB Z21A DJ6TF
FM1HN W3HNK OZ50HRH OZ1ACB Z22O DJ6TF
FM5BH W3HNK P3AA RW3RN ZL1FOC ZL3CW
FM5DN KU9C PA75DXCC PA0ABM ZP4KFX IK2DUW
FR4PJ EB7DX PA75UBA PA2TMS ZP5DA EB7DX
GM2V N3SL PF88ANT PA0RDY ZP6/N3BNA KA2AEV

5H3BV Borut Vrviscar, Zapuze 6, 4275 Begunje, Slovenia
8Q7AH Horacio Enrique Ledo, Manzanares 4586, Piso 2 Dpto. 4, C1430AFH,
Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
AO8WRD Federacion Digital EA, Apartado Postal 3050, 08200 Sabadell
(Barcelona), Spain
E7DX Boris Knezovic, P.O. Box 59, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
FR4KR Francois Barbier, 5 bis La Marrerie, 50500 St Andre de Bohon,
France
GB8BAF Bill Tinnion, 3 Brayton Road, Aspatria, Wigton, CA7 3DJ,
United Kingdom
HC5VF Fausto Vintimilla, 3 Ekes Ct, Sussex NJ 07461, USA
HP1MRA Roberto Arauz Munoz, Apartado Postal 0816-05263, Panama,
Republic of Panama
KH7A Akito Nagi, P.O. Box 88, Tokushima, 770-8691, Japan
OK6DJ David Beran, Dolni Kamenice 55, 34562 Holysov, Czech Republic
OX3LX Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, 4700 Naestved, Denmark
TM6M Stephane Van Langhenhoven, 24 bis rue de Anter Hent,
29830 Ploudalmezeau, France
TR8CA Jean Charron, 19 rue Gabriel Moussa, 33320 Eysines, France
V47UM William H. Rogers, 38 Arundel Rd, Annapolis MD 21401, USA
ZT1T Tom Morgan, 58 Piet Retief Street, Robertson, 6705, South Africa

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