425 DX News #1614

9 April 2022 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1614

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

8Q - Braco, E77DX will be active holiday style as 8Q7DX from the Mal-
dives (AS-013) on 13-27 April. He plans to be QRV on 80-10 metres.
QSL via LoTW and E73Y.
CT8 - CQ84AS is a special callsign for Tony, CU8AS to celebrate his 84th
birthday on 13-19 April. Located on Flores Island (EU-089), Azores,
he will operate mainly CW ("no more than 18 WPM") with some SSB. On
16-17 April he will be QRV only on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via
HB9CRV and LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
EA - Members of Radio Club Henares will be active as EH4WRD on 8-24
April to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day. QSL via EA4RCH. See
https://www.radioclubhenares.org/eh4wrd/ for the certificates.
F - Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SOTA (Summits On The Air)
France, special callsign TM15SOTA will be activated for fifteen
days between 15 April and 29 May. QSL via eQSL, paper QSLs will not
be available.
F - Special callsign TM97WARD will be activated on 16-25 April from
France in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day (18 April). QSL
via the bureau.
I - ARI Loano will operate CW, SSB and RTTY on the HF bands as IY1TIT
on 9-18 April. This will be part of an educational project for the
students of a local high school, aimed at commemorating the 110th
anniversary since the sinking of the Titanic, celebrating the life
and works of Guglielmo Marconi, and highlighting the importance of
the emergency communication system. QSL via IK1HLG, LoTW and eQSL.
[TNX IK1QBT]
JA - 8N650JP is the special callsign for JARL's Okinawa Branch to cele-
brate the 50th anniversary since the Okinawa Prefecture was re-
turned to Japan (15 May 1972) after 27 years of American adminis-
tration. Look for activity between 1 April and 30 September. All
QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau.
PA - The PA Flora & Fauna Programme will hold an "activity weekend" on
9-10 April, with various operations taking place from several Dutch
nature parks. Special callsigns include PA225FF, PA226FF, PA44WFF
and PF44F: "Not real DX, but certainly a lot of fun!", Enno, PF5X
says. See https://wwff.co/2022/04/paff-weekend-april-9-10/.
SP - Special callsign 3Z80AK will be activated between 1 April and 31
May for the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Armia Krajowa
(Home Army, the dominant underground resistance movement in Poland
during World War II. QSL via SP1PBW.
TL - The TL8AA & TL8ZZ Dxpediton to the Central African Republic [425DXN
1613] has been rescheduled to take place in November, "at the end
of the rainy season". Bookmark http://www.i2ysb.com/idt/ for
updates [TNX I2YSB]
V7 - Stewie, WV7MS is a newly licenced amateur who is employed as a
firefighter on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands "for the foresee-
able future". He will be QRV as V7/WV7MS when time permits. QSL via
eQSL and LoTW.
VE - Celebrating its centenary, the Kitchener-Waterloo Amateur Radio
Club (VE3IC, https://www.kwarc.org/) will use three special call-
signs: VC3C for the Ontario QSO Party (16-17 April), VC3IC for the
RAC Canada Day Contest (1-2 July), and VB3C for the ARRL Field Day
Contest (25-26 June).
VE - Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again holding a "Get on the Air on
World Amateur Radio Day" special event in which it encourages as
many amateurs as possible to contact as many RAC stations as possi-
ble. Operating across Canada from 00.00 UTC to 23.59 UTC on 18
April, the RAC official stations will be VA2RAC, VA3RAC, VE1RAC,
VE4RAC, VE5RAC, VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC, VO1RAC, VO2RAC,
VY0RAC, VY1RAC and VY2RAC. QSL via LoTW or via the bureau. Those
contacting one or more of these stations, on any band and mode,
will be eligible for a special commemorative certificate:
https://www.rac.ca/certificates/.
VP2V - Lori KB2HZI, Pat N2IEN, Ray W2RE, Rock WW1X and Lee WW2DX will be
active as VP2V/N2IEN from Tortola, British Virgin Islands (NA-023)
on 10-16 April. They will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 160-6 metres
with a focus on the higher bands. QSL via EB7DX. Follow @WW2DX on
Twitter for live updates.
YB - 8D97WARD is the special callsign for ORARI, the Indonesian IARU so-
ciety, to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on 16-18 April. Look
for activity on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m SSB, CW, FT8 and RTTY, plus
satellite IO-86 on 435.880 MHz. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, and Club Log.

CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Michael, DF8AN will be touring the Caribbean between
mid-April and early May, and will be active from Martinique (FM/DF8AN) on
13-19 April and again on 1-2 May; from Dominica (J79MN) on 19-24 April, and
from St. Lucia (J6 callsign TBA) from 24 April to 1 May. While on Marti-
nique, he will be signing TO8N during the YU-DX-Contest (16-17 April) and
other contests. He will operate mainly CW and digital modes on all bands, 6
metres included. QSLs via DF8AN, direct or bureau. [TNX The Daily DX]

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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3Y0J: LATEST NEWS ---> Pete, N0FW has been added to the operating team,
which is now complete. "Today it is 9 months until the operators travel to
South America to board 'Marama' and go to Bouvet", the 3Y0J team announced
on 3 April. In a couple of weeek's time they will conduct a 4-day "detailed
inspection" of the ship in Itajai (Brazil), and will also "complete the
vessel loading plan".
All team members will then gather in Norway on 28 April, and for four days
they will "perform a system integration test where we will do a thorough
test of the radios, amplifiers and antennas in a real environment like what
we can expect at Bouvet. During this event team members will practice on the
installation and familiarize with it. A lot of equipment will undergo its
final testing and packing, and be stored until the container leaves Oslo in
September". Read the complete Press Release #9 on the DXpedition's website:
https://www.3y0j.no/.
A DXpedition to Bouvet Island is "a huge undertaking financially and it
would simply not be possible without the support from the vendors, clubs,
foundations and individual sponsors". As of 5 April, the fundraising camp-
aign had reached the 85% of its target amount of donations. "Let's continue
this path as we are preparing our next vessel deposit to be paid in June",
the team urges. "We can not do this DXpedition without your support - let us
make this happen together! We have contracted minimum 22 days at Bouvet so
this will give everyone a chance to work us both big guns, smaller guns, and
small pistols". See https://www.3y0j.no/funding for instructions.

CQ DX MARATHON: NEW MANAGER SOUGHT ---> The CQ DX Marathon is a year-long DX
hunt, with participants competing to see who can work the greatest number of
countries ("entities") and CQ Zones during the calendar year. Since 2005 it
has been managed by John, K9EL. He will still manage the 2022 edition, and
then he will step down. So far, however, CQ Magazine has not been able to
find a replacement. "If you or any of your contacts has an interest in
managing the DX Marathon, please contact me directly. Finding a replacement
person or organization now would provide a lot of overlap time as there is
plenty to learn": https://www.dxmarathon.com/special_statement.htm.

QSL 7Q7CT ---> A "JH1AJT Team" has taken over from the late Yasuo "Zorro"
Miyazawa and picked up the QSLing duties. Use Club Log's OQRS, or send by
post to JH1AJT Team, P.O. Box 8, Oiso-machi, Naka-Gun, Kanagawa, 255-0003,
Japan.

QSL R150WS ---> The new QSL route for the recent IOTA DXpedition to Rykachev
Island (AS-104) is via M0OXO's OQRS: https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/. Cards will
be printed and available in due course.

YASME EXCELLENCE AWARD ---> Established in 2008 by the Yasme Foundation
(https://www.yasme.org/), the Excellence Award is presented to individuals
and groups who, through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication
have made a significant contribution to amateur radio. The contribution may
be in recognition of technical, operating or organizational achievement, as
all three are necessary for amateur radio to grow and prosper. The latest
recipients, announced on 31 March, are:
* Dan Marler, K7REX - When the COVID pandemic led to cessation of in-person
meetings, training sessions and gatherings, Dan converted a small limited-
membership Zoom platform to the open presentation forum known as RATPAC
[Radio Amateur Training Planning and Activities Committee, Ed.]. In the
subsequent two years, RATPAC has hosted over two hundred online presenta-
tions that have been viewed by thousands of radio amateurs. Among the
wide-ranging topics, half focus on public-service communications, while
the rest address technical, operating, scientific and general-interest
topics offered by a host of presenters. The recordings of these sessions
are available for public viewing, and constitute a valuable resource for
the amateur radio community [https://www.youtube.com/c/RATPAC/playlists].
* Dr. Gordon Gibby, KX4Z - Gordon is a retired emergency-room physician
turned high school science teacher who demonstrates how amateur radio can
benefit our communities in a wide variety of ways. As an ARES leader in
Northern Florida, Gordon promotes and teaches all aspects of preparedness
for disasters, from planning and exercises to building and repairing com-
munication hardware to understanding official responders' needs, methods
and organization. He advocates cognizance of the amateur's role and its
limits, building trust and relationships, and constantly improving our
individual skills. He is known around the country for his informative and
carefully thought out responses to the many questions from other amateurs
seeking to improve their local disaster-response capabilities.

YOTA SUMMER CAMP 2022 ---> After a two-year Covid-related hiatus, the Croa-
tian Amateur Radio Association (HRS) will host the 10th edition of the
Youngsters on the Air Summer Camp in the city of Karlovac on 6-13 August.
This event brings together young radio amateurs from IARU Region 1 member
societies for a week, creating an opportunity to learn all about different
nationalities and cultures, foster international friendships and goodwill,
and learn new amateur radio skills. Each IARU R1 member society is invited
to take part with a team of maximum four persons. Applications must be sub-
mitted before 8 May: https://www.ham-yota.com/yota-summer-camp-croatia-2022/

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SOME RESPONSES TO RECENT WORLD EVENTS

* The Czech Radio Club (the Czech Republic's IARU Society) has resolved that
"the OK-OM DX SSB Contest will be held under the same rules as the CQ
contests, i.e. stations from Russia and Belarus cannot participate and
also contacts with them are not counted". The contest will take place on
9-10 April (http://www.okomdx.crk.cz/).

* The same decision has been taken by the organizers of the Japan Interna-
tional DX Contest (its CW leg will run from 7 UTC on 9 until 13 UTC on 10
April: http://www.jidx.org/jidxrule-e.html), as well as by the UK and
Ireland Contest Club and the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG).

* The Estonian Radio Amateur Union (ERAU) has cancelled this year's ES Open
HF Championship, which was due to be held on 16 April.

* The Royal Belgian Amateur Radio Union (Belgium's IARU Society) has decid-
ed to follow "the actions of the mainstream sporting bodies with regard
to all activities of a competitive nature such as contests, awards and
ARDF. Russian and Belarusian radio amateurs are therefore currently ineli-
gible to participate in any event that is organised/sponsored by the UBA".
The same decision has been taken by Experimenterende Danske Radioamatorer
(EDR, the Danish IARU Society).

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER
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3B9FR M0OXO FK1TS M0OXO P40L WA3FRP
3Z80AK SP1PBW FM1HN W3HNK PA50PKZ PA2PKZ
4A7A XE2T FM5BH W3HNK PA65UL PA5UL
4D3X W3HNK GB20SOTA M1EYP PC70RH PF1SCT
4L2M EA7FTR H25A LZ3SM PJ2T W3HNK
4U9A 9A2AA HB0/PA3CNO PE1FLO PJ4DX M0URX
4X6FR 4X6OM HB0/PA3HK PE1FLO PJ4R WD9DZV
5H3MB IK2GZU HC4ER F4BHW PV2K EA5GL
5T5PA PA5X HD1A HC1QRC PW3PI PY3CT
5Z4VJ M0URX HD8MD K8LJG PX2V PY2KJ
6F6F EA5GL HF200IL SP8ZBX R150WS M0OXO
8P1W KU9C HG3R HA3NU R60DME RZ5D
8S0C SM0MPV HG7T HA7TM RA30FO RZ5D
9A5DXX EB7DX HG8R HA8JV RD30FO RZ5D
9A5Y 9A7W HK1O EA5KB RI1PB UA1QV
9A655AX 9A5AX HK3TK F5CWU RJ30FO RD4HX
9G2DX EA5GL IB9A IZ2FWL RL30FO RZ5D
9G5AF EA5GL IB9T IT9TQH RY30FO RZ5D
9K2OD EC6DX II2S IZ2FOS SN2B SP3CGK
9K9A EC6DX II5LDV IQ5LV SN760SWA SP3BBS
A44A A47RS II8K IZ8EPX SN7Q SP7GIQ
A61BR EA5ZD IR2Q IK2PFL SO4R SP4PND
A71BX EA7FTR IR2SM I2MYF TF3T TF3MH
AM5DMA EA5PC IR4M I4IFL TG9ANF VE7BV
BI4MBC BA4MY KP2B EB7DX TI7W M0URX
C4I 5B4AIE KP3V EA5GL TM22OMAH PA3EFR
C4W 5B4WN LN2T LA2T TM240HUBB F4FCE
CB3W XQ4CW LN8W LA6YEA TM40AMRA F8EFU
CB6LR CE6GDR LO5D LU8EOT TM5IB ON7ZM
CG3T VE3DZ LO7H EA7FTR TM72FDL F1IEH
CP1XRM EA5RM LP1A EA7FTR TM8A F8DVD
CQ9T CT3KN LQ5H EA5KB TM9C F5OHM
CR3DX OM2VL LR3D EA7FTR TO1Q F1ULQ
CR6T CT1ESV LT100KC LU4KC TX5AQ SP7DQR
CX2CC EA5KB LT1E EA7FTR UK7AL EA5GL
CX7CO EA5GL LU1DX EC6DX V47T W2RQ
D2EB IZ3ETU LU5FF EB7DX V55Y DK2WH
D44EO SQ9D LY100BBALL LY2QT VE2CSI M0URX
D44PM IZ4DPV LZ303AT LZ1KCP VL6C VK6IR
DA0HEL DF6QC LZ5R LZ1YQ VP5P N2OO
DL0IH DF6QC LZ60KFZ LZ1KFZ WP2Z KU9C
DL22PEACE DF8RJ LZ6V LZ2KRM WP3C M0OXO
DP44WCA DF6EX LZ77DIG LZ2VP XQ3WD XQ4CW
DX3H EA5GL MM2N MM0GPZ YB0AR EB7DX
DY0DX DU1XX NP2AR EB7DX YR8D YO8KRR
E2E E23NEZ OE0HLF OE6HLF YT5A YT1AD
E77A 9A2AA OE0MORSE OE6VIE ZP4KFX IK2DUW
EE5FG EA5WI OE25MFCA OE6XMF ZP5AA ZP5DBC
EG1SSV EA1URV OE2S OE2GEN ZP6RAI IK2DUW
EI100C EI3KD OH0EG SP1EG ZS1OPB N4GNR
EP2ABS RW6HS OK4WFF/p OK2APY ZW1CN PY1BJN
EP2HAM M0OXO OK8CX/p DL7CX ZX2P PT2OP
EP2MRK RW6HS OK8NM OM2FY ZX5J NZ4DX
EV30FO RZ5D OM7M OM4MM ZY2K PY2RIO
EX2V RW6HS OZ50DDXG OZ1ACB ZZ1M PY1SAD

9H6CAP John Cassar, Kunvent Tal-Kappucini, Triq Frangisk Saver Fenech,
Floriana, FRN 1211, Malta
9N7AA Slavko Celarc, Ob Igriscu 8, 1360 Vrhnika, Slovenia
CR6K Filipe Monteiro Lopes, Rua Manuel Jose da Silva 184, Espinheira,
3720-537 Sao Martinho da Gandara, Portugal
CR6P Miguel Goncalves, Rua Doutor Joel Magalhaes 6, 4740-272 Esposende,
Portugal
CV7R Lupo Bano Negreira, Casilla de Correos 950, 11000 Montevideo,
Uruguay
DY1T Thelma C. Pascua, P.O. Box 8137, Paranaque CPO, 1700 Paranaque City
Philippines
E7DX Boris Knezovic, P.O. Box 59, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
EA8DED Kari Hirvonen, Ostosraitti 1 A 15, FI-04300 Tuusula, Finland
ED1R Jesus Maria Gimare Marquez, C/ Jacinto del Barrio 2,
05358 Papatrigo (Avila), Spain
EE5T Santiago de La Fuente, Miguel Hernandez 37 Pta. 6, 46970 Alacuas
(Valencia), Spain
FR4KR Francois Barbier, 5 bis La Marrerie, 50500 St Andre de Bohon,
France
IO9A Antonello Scauso, Via Tenente Minniti 105, 98057 Milazzo ME, Italy
J42L Leo Fiskas, 1 Argyriou Gouzgou, 52 200 Argos Orestiko, Greece
KP2M Fred Bennett, 2253 Mill Creek Road, Newport NC 28570, USA
LW1F Jesus Rubio, Calle Mendoza 2484, S2000PBF, Rosario, Argentina
LZ60GR PGET G.S. Rakovski, ul. General Stoletov 185, 6001 Stara Zagora,
Bulgaria
OG66X Jouni Mehtomaa, Kylmalantie 1, FI-92140 Pattijoki, Finland
OT5A LiRa, Fortweg 24, 2500 Lier, Belgium
PA0#MIL 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade /Radio-groep, PO Box 9208, 6800 HK Arnhem,
Netherlands
PV2P Antonio Nicola Belekas, Rua Visconde de Inhomerim 1093 Ap. 162,
Sao Paulo - SP, 03120-001, Brazil
PX2A Carlos Adalberto Carareto, Estrada de Santo Amaro 201,
Sao Paulo - SP, 05544-000, Brazil
SJ2W Per Eklund, Teaterallen 12-0102 lgh 1102, SE-903 64 Umea, Sweden
SP7DQR Marek Niedzielski, Skr. Poczt. 25, 25-030 Kielce 10, Poland
T70A ARRSM Radio Club, Casella Postale 77, 47890 San Marino,
Repubblica di San Marino
TM6M Stephane Van Langhenhoven, 24 bis rue de Anter Hent,
29830 Ploudalmezeau, France
V31XX Bill Kollenbaum, 2446 Belleair Rd, Clearwater FL 33764, USA
VC2A Victor Androsov, 1185 Rue de Blois, Boucherville, QC J4B 7Z5,
Canada
ZB2BU Gibraltar Amateur Radio Society, PO Box 292, GX11 1AA, Gibraltar
ZF2OO Jim Millner, 7010 Gullotti Place, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952, USA
ZM4T Holger Hannemann, 262 Waimarama Heights, RD12, Havelock North 4294,
New Zealand
ZT1T Tom Morgan, 58 Piet Retief Street, Robertson, 6705, South Africa

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