425 DX News #1612

26 March 2022 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1612

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

9H - Br. John Cassar, OFMCap, 9H1CJ (ex 5Z4JC) is a Franciscan friar
operating from the Capuchin friary in Floriana, Malta (EU-023).
From 1 April to 30 June he will be active as 9H6CAP, a special
callsign commemorating the 80th anniversary of the destruction of
the historic friary and adjacent church during World War II (4-5
April 1942). QSL direct to home call.
9M2 - Alex, SQ9UM is active as 9M2/SQ9UM from from Kuala Lumpur, West Ma-
laysia on 23-31 March. He operates CW, SSB and FT8/FT4 on 40-10m.
QSL via home call and LoTW.
9N - Matjaz, S57MK will be active as 9N7MK on 2-23 April. He will be QRV
for three or four days from Kathmandu, and then from other loca-
tions while trekking in the Mount Everest region of Nepal. He will
run 10-15 watts mainly on 40, 20, 17 and 15 metres SSB, CW and
digital modes. [TNX The Daily DX]
CP - Once again Antonio, EA5RM will be working on a non-governmental
Organization's project in the Bolivian rainforest from 31 March to
22 April. In his spare time he will operate SSB, CW and FT8 as
CP1XRM. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
F - TM40AMRA is the special callsign for members of the Association Mo-
sellane des RadioAmateurs to celebrate their club's 40th anniver-
sary on 2-16 April. QSL via F8EFU.
G - The Medway Amateur Receiving and Transmitting Society will operate
special callsign GB5MW on 3-30 April to celebrate the society's
centenary year. QSL via eQSL.
I - Commemorating the 150th anniversary since the death of Samuel F.B.
Morse (2 April 1872), ARI Vigevano will operate special callsign
IR2SM from 26 March to 10 April. QSL via I2MYF, bureau or direct.
JA - JI3DST/5, JJ5RBH, JS6RRR/5 and JS6RRR/p (for FT8) will be active
from Shodo Island (AS-200) between 25 March and 12 April. Look for
activity on 80-2 metres CW, SSB and digital modes. See qrz.com for
QSLling instructions. [TNX DX World]
JX - Rune, LA7QY and Helge, LB4MI will be stationed on Jan Mayen (EU-
022, https://jan.mayen.no/) from late March to early October. They
plan to be QRV as JX7QY and JX/LB4MI, respectively, in their spare
time. [TNX DX World]
OH0 - Wies, SP1EG and others will be active as OH0EG from the Aland Is-
lands (EU-002) on 1-9 April (160-10m CW, SSB and digital modes),
and again on 22-29 April (80-15m FT4, FT8 and RTTY, with a focus on
30, 17 and 12m). QSL via SP1EG. [TNX The Daily DX]
PA - Special stations PA01MIL, PA02MIL, PA03MIL, PA04MIL, PA05MIL,
PA06MIL, PA07MIL and PA08MIL from eight different locations will be
activated on 1 April for 12 hours (7-19 UTC) by eight teams con-
sisting of one amateur and two military radio operators. They will
use military equipment only and be QRV on the HF bands SSB and 6m
FM. The main goals are to introduce the military to the world of
amateur radio, and to train them in view of an operation from the
Suriname jungle (PZ5JT). QSL direct to: 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade/
Radio-groep, PO Box 9208, 6800 HK Arnhem, The Netherlands.
PA - Peter, PD1EDS will be active as PD146EU from Schouwen Duiveland
(EU-146) between 1 April and 30 October. He will operate SSB and
FT8 on 40, 20 and 10 metres.
VE - Darrell, VY2OM and others will participate in this weekend's CQ WW
WPX SSB Contest as XO2O from Prince Edward Island (NA-029). The
special callsign has been issued in celebration of the 25th an-
niversary of the Confederation Bridge, Canada's longest bridge.
V7 - Jeff "JT", KD7ADI has been on Kwajalein (OC-028), Marshall Islands
since early January [425DXN 1606], and will be stationed there un-
til 23 April. He is QRV as V7/KD7ADI when work and other activities
permit, but operating time is expected to increase during the last
weeks of his stay. He uploads his log to LoTW and Club Log.

CQ WW WPX SSB CONTEST ---> The following stations have announced their
participation in this year's event (26-27 March):
Call Category Country QSL
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3A/IK1TTD SOAB Monaco IK1TTD
3Z6V SOAB LP Poland LoTW/SP6DVP
8P1W SOAB LP Barbados KU9C
9H/TA1HZ SO LP Malta LoTW
9K2K SO HP Kuwait LoTW/EC6DX
A44A M/? Oman LoTW
CF2Z Canada LoTW
CR3DX SOSB 15m Madeira OM2VL
D60AB SO Comoro Isls K6ZO
ED8W SOAB Canary Isls LoTW
GT0SP M/S Isle of Man LoTW
HD1A M/M Ecuador LoTW/HD1A
IH9YMC SOSB AF Italy LoTW
KP2B SOSB 10m HP US Virgin Isls EB7DX
LN2T MO Norway LoTW/LA2T
LN8W M/M Norway LoTW/LA6YEA
NH7T M/M Hawaii KH6SH
OA7/DD5ZZ SOAB Peru LoTW/DD5ZZ
PJ2T M/M Curacao LoTW/W3HNK
PJ4R SO Bonaire LoTW/WD9DZV
PJ5/SP9FIH SOSB St Eustatius SP9FIH
T70A M/? San Marino LoTW/T70A
TM0R MO France LoTW
TM9C SO France F5OHM
TO3Z Guadeloupe F6HMQ
TX5AQ SO Austral Isls LoTW/SP7DQR
V47T M/S St. Kitts and Nevis LoTW/W2RQ
VP5P Turks & Caicos Isls LoTW/N2OO
WP3C SOAB Puerto Rico M0OXO
WX3B M/M USA LoTW
XO2O M/? Canada
YB2DX SOAB Indonesia LoTW
ZB2BU M/S LP Gibraltar ZB2BU
ZF2PG SO Cayman Isls LoTW/K8PGJ
ZS2PE M/D South Africa LoTW
Do not forget to give a look at the Announced Operations listing maintained
by Bill, NG3K at https://www.ng3k.com/Misc/wpxs2022.html - good contest to
you all!

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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8D7DXP ---> This was a special callsign used on 19-23 March from six Regen-
cies of the South Kalimantan province (Kalimantan Selatan). All locations
were on the main island of Borneo (OC-088). Registered users can have their
QSOs confirmed on https://ipota.dxportable.com/, the website for the Indone-
sian Parks On The Air.

CASS AWARDS ---> The Cass Awards honour the wisdom and spirit of Cass WA6AUD
(SK), and encourage DXpeditions to maximize the number of DXers worked with
a Plaque for the single-operator DXpedition that works the most unique call-
signs within 2 weeks or less, and a Plaque for the "unlimited" DXpedition
that works the most unique callsigns.
Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH has won (for the fifth year in a row!) the 2021
Single-Operator Cass Award by working 9,684 unique stations during his one-
man operation from Sint Maarten as PJ7P.
The 3DA0RU team (Vasily Pinchuk R7AL, Vasily Sukhanov RA1ZZ, Mike Alekseev
RU3UR, Leo Berezhnoy RW9JZ, Slav Rodin OK8AU, Nick Tolkunov R5EC, Wlodek
Herej SP6EQZ and Vladimir Vassiljev R9LR) worked 24,985 unique stations from
Eswatini, setting a new record to win the 2021 Unlimited Cass Award (and
after that, they went on to work 24,856 unique stations from Lesotho as
7P8RU).
Presented annually, the Cass Awards are issued in March for DXpeditions
during the preceding year. See http://www.cassaward.com/ for complete
information.

CEPT SUSPENSION OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS ---> Based on a request from a number
of CEPT members, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications
Administrations has suspended indefinitely the Russian Federation and
Belarus from CEPT membership effective 18 March. Any future readmission
would follow the usual rules established in the CEPT Arrangement, notably
the need for a two-thirds majority of members of the CEPT to endorse such a
decision.

CY9C: CANCELLED ---> The 12-21 August DXpedition to St. Paul Island [425DXN
1594] has been cancelled. The same team still hopes to be QRV as CY0C from
Sable island in October [425DXN 1611]: https://cy0dxpedition.net/index.html.

RI0B: CANCELLED ---> The R150WS team made some 5600 QSOs from Rykachev Is-
land (AS-104, 19-22 March) and is heading home. The RI0B operation from Isa-
chenko (AS-050) has been cancelled, as "large hummocks" prevented the team
from reaching the island.

UX5UO ---> "Gennady, UX5UO and his family fled Kiev several days after the
conflict started", Charles, M0OXO reported on 22 March. "His family have
made it across to Germany and at this time Gennady and his wife are in the
Ukraine countryside. They are safe and well and in good spirits under the
circumstances". As for the QSL Print service, "I don't know the situation
exactly", Charles reported on 24 March, "but Gennady informs me that UX5UO
QSL Print is back up and running a full service".

+ SILENT KEY + Klaus-Dieter Poels, DL7UXG (ex-DM4XIG, Y51SL and Y28XL)
passed away on 21 March. Born in 1957 and first lincenced in 1974, he joined
DARC's DX Department in 2011 and supplied IOTA news to the DX-Mitteilungs-
blatt (DX-Newsletter, DXNL) until he took over as DXNL editor in August
2014. He was responsible for 397 weekly issues, the last one was distributed
on 16 March. In addition, Klaus-Dieter was active from several WWFF areas
and IOTA groups in Germany, Norway, Sweden (SD3G), Finland, Denmark and
Iceland: https://dl7uxg.funkzentrum.de/.

+ SILENT KEY + Yasuo "Zorro" Miyazawa, JH1AJT passed away on 23 March, after
a long battle with cancer. He was 72. "Our ham radio world has lost another
beaming light", says Champ Muangamphun (E21EIC), who joined Zorro on many
DXpeditions. "The founder of SEISA Group and Foundation for Global Children
(http://www.fgc.or.jp/english/), he was deeply involved in humanitarian pro-
jects in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Japan, Myanmar, Eritrea and Bhutan, and was
also the main driving force behind many DXpeditions".
Zorro was inducted into both the CQ DX Hall of Fame (2015) and the CQ Ama-
teur Radio Hall of Fame (2020); he was also the recipient of the Intrepid
Spirit Award in 2016 (for his "outstanding efforts to activate rare and
often difficult entities"), the YASME Excellence Award in 2018 ("for his
extensive promotion of amateur radio in developing countries"), and the
Dayton Hamvention Amateur of the Year Award in 2020.
In 2015 he established and endowed the International DX Association's "Hams
with Hearts" fund, which specifically supports humanitarian projects carried
out by DXpeditions (https://www.indexa.org/hamswithaheart.html).
Over the past thirty years or so, he operated from many DX spots, including
Bangladesh (S21YX and S21YZ), Bhutan (A50BOC, A51A, A5A), Cambodia (XU1A),
Eritrea (E30FB and E31A), Ethiopia (9E2A & ET3DX), Laos (XW1, XW1A, XW30A)
and Myanmar (XZ1A, XZ1J, XZ1Z), among others. "We of the DX community are
deeply indebted to him", INDEXA Director Ralph Fedor (K0IR), says. "He con-
tributed generously to DXpeditions and encouraged and mentored operators.
Without Zorro's support our log books and our memories would be less than
they are".

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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3B8CW N4GNR EJ8JB EI8JB LT7F EA5KB
3DA0AQ EA5GL EP2LMA EA5GL LW3DG EA7FTR
4L1BB EA5GL EP5CZD RW6HS LX5MF LX1KQ
4L6DL LZ1OT EX0DX HB9DUR LZ144GO LZ3GA
4M1W EB7DX EY8MM W0VTT OE6MBG EB7DX
4Z5FW RW6HS FR5FC EA7FTR OG50YL OH2YL
5B4AMX LZ3SM HC1MD/2 K8LJG OH0JV DL7RV
5R8AL G3SWH HC5F HC5VF OH0Z W0MM
5Z4PA M0URX HC7AE/1 EA5GL OH8SSAB OH8DR
6Y5HM EA5GL HF21DKS SP9CJM OL15SOTA OK1CYC
6Y5MS EA5GL HG1222BA HA4KYB PF01MAX PC2F
7S5S SM5CSS HG8ARDF HA8BE PI4ZUT PD0JMH
7Z1VD EA5GL HI3A EB7DX PJ4/KK9A WD9DZV
8P2K KU9C HI3AA EB7DX PJ4K KU9C
8P6DR G3RWL HI3K EB7DX PJ4RF EA5GL
8Q7ZI F8CZI HI8DL NK4Q PJ5/SP9FIH SP9FIH
9G1SD AB0GC HI8JSG RW6HS PJ5/SP9FOW SP9FIH
9H6YI G3VYI HI8K EB7DX PJ5/SP9MQA SP9MQA
9K2JJ EA5GL HI8MU EA5ZD R90BRZ R9GM
9K2YD EC6DX HI8S EA5GL SN0RUN SP5PPK
9K2YM EA5KB HK3JCL DK8LRF SN100PSK SQ8JLU
9V1YC W5UE HL5KY W3HNK SP150JS SP3POB
9V1ZV EA5ZL HP3AK W4JS SP21DKS SP3POB
A41DX M0OXO HR5/F2JD F6AJA ST0HQ ST2M
A41KJ N4GNR HS0ZJF ON4AFU TG9ADV VE7BV
A61AS YO3FRI HS0ZOA EB7DX TG9AJR M0URX
A61BG EA7FTR HZ1HZ N7RO TM0CR F6FMT
A61FJ LZ1YE IF9A IT9ATF TM20KFZ F4FCE
A61Q EA7FTR II0IDP IM0SDX TM24PVJ F8GGZ
A61R EC6DX II0IDR IZ0XZD TM3ZZ F4HIK
A71CT EA7FTR II0IGU IW0BTN TM55SNSM F4GPB
A73A M0OXO II3ICZ IQ3GA TM5F F5SDD
AM500TOR EA7URF II5IDK IW5ELA TM700CCAE F6FMT
AP2IN IK2DUW II7ICE IZ7LOW UK8OK EA7FTR
AP2MKS EA5GL II7ICT IZ7AUH UP0L DL8KAC
AP2MS EA5GL II9ICF IT9MRM UP7L UN6LN
BD9BI/0 M0OXO II9IGA IT9CKA V31MA M0OXO
CE2SV N7RO II9IGJ IT9MRM V51WH DK2WH
CM6SQ RW6HS J20MR EA5GL VK80LAN M0OXO
CN8LI EA7FTR J72IMS EC6DX VP5/AF3K N2OO
CO2XN EB7DX J73ESL EA5GL VP5/W2TT N2OO
CO8LY CT1FMX JG8NQJ/JD1 JA8CJY [d] XV9K DJ6TF
CT7AXB EA5GL JG8NQJ/JD1 JG8NQJ [b] YJ8RN NZ4DX
E730RS E73E JW7QIA LA7GIA YV4ZZ/5 EA5GL
EA8/IK1PMR HB9FKK JY5MM IK2DUW Z21ML N4GNR
EA8/OG60BBM EA4BQ KC4AAA K7MT ZF2LC W2SM
EH5VEF EA5URV KL7J N3SL ZL7DX M0OXO
EH7FCM EA7URM KP4JOC RW6HS ZP6/N2GK EA5GL
EI90IRTS EI6AL LQ5D EA7HBC ZV8WFC PU8PSF

8C9MGP Kutasi Gabor, Siofok, Koch R. utca 10/A I/4, 8600, Hungary
9H6A Paul Galea, 66 Triq Guze Ellul Mercer, Had-Dingli, DGL 1118, Malta
9J2MYT Giorgio Laconi, Via Perine 4, 31020 Villorba TV, Italy
CQ8Q Philippe Schmitt, 2 Bangalore Street, London, SW15 1QE,
United Kingdom
CU8AI Joao Soares, Av. Santo Cristo 37, 9960-220 Fazenda, Portugal
D60AB Don Jones, PO Box 21500, Washington DC 20009-1500, USA
EX0ET Robert Wright, Ul Dordoy 32/34 KB 52, Bishkek 720082, Kyrgyzstan
FH/K6ZO Don Jones, PO Box 21500, Washington DC 20009-1500, USA
HS0ZEE Sheridon K. Street, P.O. Box 55, Maejo Post Office, Chiang Mai,
50290, Thailand
KP4/AB2RF Kan Yokota, 121 Kawanari Shinmachi, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka, 416-0955,
Japan
L71D Dario Osvaldo Silvani, Rivadavia 437 PB, B1625GMI,
Belen de Escobar, Argentina
MP7DX Ron Bennett, 17 Truro Close, St. Helens, WA11 9EL, United Kingdom
OX3LX Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, 4700 Naestved, Denmark
OX3XR Harry de Jong, Broekdijk 59, 7695 TC Bruchterveld, The Netherlands
PZ2YT Yudel Torres, C Van Dalstraat 221, Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname
TR8CA Jean Charron, 19 rue Gabriel Moussa, 33320 Eysines, France
V47JA John Abbruscato, 22199 Pine Tree Ln, Hockley TX 77447, USA
VK9DX Nick Hacko, Suite 403 Level 4, Culwulla Chambers,
67 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
ZF2CA Colin Smithers, 10 Grange Park, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2HX,
United Kingdom
ZF2CH Chris Hillier, 29 Round Pond Road, Portugal Cove NL A1M 2Z4,
Canada
ZF2PG Pete Gladysz, 4633 Riverchase, Troy MI 48098, USA

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