425 DX News #1638

24 September 2022 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1638

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

3C - Ersoy, TA2OM has been active as 3C/TA2OM from Malabo, Bioko Island
(AF-010), Equatorial Guinea since 19 September. He expects to stay
there for one month, "maybe two". During his limited spare time he
can operate FT8 and SSB on the HF bands. He has applied for a local
callsign.
5R - Francesco, IK6QON will be active holiday style as 5R8FG from Nosy
Be (AF-057), Nosy Iranja (AF-057) and the city of Antsiranana in
the northern part of the main island of Madagascar (AF-013) between
8 and 17 October. He will operate CW and SSB on the HF bands. QSL
via IZ6BRJ.
9J - Eddy, OE3SEU has been travelling through Africa in his motorhome
since early June. After being in South Africa (ZS/OE3SEU), he is
now in Namibia (V5/OE3SEU), and expects to be active as 9J2SEU from
Zambia sometime in October. Activity will be on the QO-100 satel-
lite. Follow his travels - and gave a look at dozens of stunning
pictures - on https://we-travel.at/.
DL - DR45HAAN is the special callsign for DARC's Ortsverband Haan (R24)
to celebrate their 45th anniversary from 1 October 2022 until 30
September 2023. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the
bureau; direct cards via DL7ET.
GM - Look for Graham, MM0GHM to be active as MM0GHM/p and MM0GHM/m from
the Isle of Barra (EU-010) on 1-8 October. QSL via home call,
direct or bureau.
I - Pino I8YGZ, Alex IK8YFU, Luigi IU8GUK and Domenico IW8RAO will be
active as ID9Y from Vulcano Island (EU-017) on 5-9 October. They
will operate CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL only via LoTW and eQSL.
JA - Look for Kenji, JA4GXS/4 to be QRV from Ohzu/Otsu Island (AS-117)
from around 5 UTC on 1 October until around 1 UTC on 2 October. He
will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 40, 30, 20 and 17m. QSL via home
call, direct or bureau; logsearch on Club Log. [TNX The Daily DX]
OH - Gaby, OH/DF9TM and Frank, OH/DL2SWW were QRV from Emasalo Island
(EU-097) on 7-8 September and from Reposaari Island (EU-173) on 14-
18 September. They have been QRV from Kustavi Island (EU-096) since
20 September, and will remain there until the 26th. See qrz.com for
updates. QSLs via home calls, direct or bureau.
PA - Operating as PF6SKCC, PG4I will be the Straight Key Century Club's
"Brag Bonus Station" for the month of October. QSL via home call.
See https://www.skccgroup.com/operating_activities/monthly_brag/.
VK9X - Stephen, VK3SN will be on Christmas Island (OC-002) from 24 Septem-
ber to 1 October. He will be QRV as VK9XX (the Christmas Island
Amateur Radio Club's callsign: https://ciarc.org.au/) on 80-10m SSB
and FT8 "most afternoons and evenings (local time)". QSL via EB7DX.
[TNX NG3K]
VP9 - Janusz, SP9FIH planned to be QRV as SP9FIH/VP9 from Bermuda start-
ing on 23 September [425DXN 1636]. Hurricane conditions are possi-
ble, and tropical storm conditions are expected, on Bermuda by late
22 September, which will cause operations to be delayed probably
until 25 September.
ZL - ZL75WARC is the special callsign for the Whangarei Amateur Radio
Club (ZL1AM) to celebrate its 75th anniversary from 1 October to 31
December. The club is located on New Zealand's North Island (OC-
036), grid square RF74.

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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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CQ WW RTTY DX CONTEST ---> This year's edition will take place on 24-25 Sep-
tember (from 00.00 UTC on Saturday until 23.59 UTC on Sunday). The objective
is for amateurs around the world to contact as many other amateurs in as
many CQ Zones, countries, continental US states (District of Columbia in-
cluded) and Canadian call areas as possible on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres.
See https://cqwwrtty.com/ for complete information.

IOTA NEWS ---> The logs for the IOTA Contest 2022 island stations have now
been added to the IOTA database and are available for QSO matching. Record-
holders who have made IOTA contacts in an IOTA contest after 2003, can claim
credit for them without submitting QSLs, provided that the contact details
match. Go to https://iota-world.org/, log in, select "Add Contest QSOs"
under the "My IOTA" tab, and choose either "Upload Contest Log" or "Manual
QSO Entry". Please note that the following activations will be added after
additional information has been received: VR2UNG (AS-006), BY4XRA (AS-135),
BA4DL (AS-136), BD4CRN (AS-136), BH4BFS (AS-136), BG5BWZ (AS-141), BY4JN
(AS-150), BG2VIA (AS-158).

OCEANIA DX CONTEST ---> The 77th edition of the Oceania DX Contest will take
place on 1-2 October (SSB) and 8-9 October (CW). Both events will start at
06.00 UTC on Saturday, and end at 06:00 UTC on Sunday. Complete details can
be found at https://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/.

RI41POL ---> Oleg, RD1A is participating in the North Pole-41 expedition to
the Arctic onboard the "North Pole", a large self-propelled drifting re-
search vessel replacing the drifting ice stations built on ice floes. In his
spare time he operates mainly CW as RI41POL. QSL via RN3RQ.

XT2AW ---> Harald XT2AW is now QRT from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His full
and final log has been uploaded to LoTW and is available on M0OXO's OQRS.
"Please be aware of a problem with the online log", M0OXO says. "Harald
merged both his XT2AW log and 9X2AW FT8/FT4 logs in error, and this log was
uploaded to the OQRS. There are over 8,000 QSOs that need to be manually and
individually removed, which will take a long time".

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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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3B8BAP N4GNR EG4STS EA4HFO OV2T PA0ABM
3B8CW N4GNR EG7FFM EA7DK OZ6SYL OZ7AGR
3D2FS DH5FS EG8MRG EA8URU P29LL EA7FTR
3W3B E21EIC EH1DAA EA1UVR P29VIM YO5BIM
3Z100PG SP2PGD EH1OSM EA1UVR PA44WFF/p PA9CW
3Z30PSP SP9SPJ EH2HJ EA2IR PC70RH PF1SCT
4A2B EA5OL EH2JDZ EA2URV PJ2MAN EC5AHA
4L2M EA7FTR EL2EF N2OO PJ2SM EC5AHA
4U1A UA3DX ES5TTT N4GNR PJ4NX M0URX
4X0T 4Z5FI EX0DX HB9DUR R100KBR UA6XT
4X6FR 4X6OM FG8OJ M0OXO R50RCR RV3VR
5K0YD IK2DUW FH/OK1M OK1WMR R85RTO RN3RQ
5Q3W E73Y FR/OK1M OK1WMR RI41POL RN3RQ
5Q7DX PA7JWC GB0KSS M0MNG SK75BL SK1BL
5R8AL G3SWH GB6OUS M0OXO SN30PSP SP9ODM
5Z4BU EA5GL GB90PW G3XTT SO55K SP5FKW
5Z4VJ M0URX GQ3SVK G3SVK SO5CW DJ5CW
7X3WPL 7X3DL GS8VL M0OXO SP0BKS SP9CJM
8J3IPA JR3OEH HF0BKS SP3PDO ST0HQ ST2M
9J2BO EA5G L HF100L SP9KDR SW8YA HA1YA
9J2BS EA5GL HF30PSP SP9SPJ TG9ADM EA5GL
9K2JJ EA5GL HZ1DH A61BK TG9AJR M0URX
9K2NO EC6DX HZ1SK IZ8CLM TI5/N3KS M0URX
9K2YM EA5KB HZ1TT A61BK TM17FFF F4GFE
9K9KSA EC6DX II0IALL IZ0EUX TM2RE F5MFV
A42K EA5GL II2IADO I2QIL TM50ARML F4ILK
A43KSA EC6DX IP1X IU1JCZ TM72WOW F1IEH
A91ARS EC6DX J73CC EA5GL UE85L RQ7L
AM40RCH EA3RCH JW0A K4NHW UE85RO RQ7L
AP2FLY IK2DUW K4C/75 N4JR UK8ZC RW6HS
AT75CW VU2CW LU7YZ IK2DUW V31MA M0OXO
C7A UA3DX MQ0CGF M0CGF VK8NSB M0URX
CB3W XQ4CW MQ0ICR M0ICR VP9IN EC6DX
CB4A CE4UFC MQ0MCV M0MCV XV9K DJ6TF
CB8E CE8EIO NL8F N7RO YB0AR EB7DX
EA6/EA3HSO N4GNR NP2J K8RF Z66BCC DL2JRM
ED3SDC EA1AUM OJ0/LB5SH EA5GL Z68EE OZ2I
EF1IBR EA4URE OJ0/UT5UY OH5UY Z68XX DL2JRM

4U1ITU IARC, P.O. Box 6, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
5J0DX Daniel R. Traid, Pasaje Parana 2370, S3016JHD, Santo Tome,
Argentina
5K0C Pablo Augusto Moretti, (Calle Egidio) Casnati 750, M5602MAP,
San Rafael, Argentina
5K0T Jose Luis Murano, Avenida Dr Facundo de Zuviria 7745, S3004LTL,
Santa Fe, Argentina
9H6QE Marconi Amateur Radio Circle, Triq L-Anzjani, L-Imtarfa, MTF 1510,
Malta
9N7AA Slavko Celarc, Ob Igriscu 8, 1360 Vrhnika, Slovenia
E51AND Andy Duncan, 636 Mooney Street, Independence OR 97351, USA
EG5RCB Radio Club Carthago, Apartado Postal 176, 30200 Cartagena (Murcia),
Spain
FR4KR Francois Barbier, 5 bis La Marrerie, 50500 St Andre de Bohon,
France
FY5KE Jacques Mazzoni, 678 route de l'Egalite, 74290 Talloires Montmin,
France
GB0IOW Raymond Coles, 10 Littlemoor Road, Weymouth, DT3 6AA,
United Kingdom
HV0A Francesco Valsecchi, Via Bitossi 21, 00136 Roma RM, Italy
II8IHBC Michele Politano', Via IV Novembre 23, 81042 Calvi Risorta CE,
Italy
II9IABJ Andrea Angelillis, Corso Sicilia 24, 95040 Motta Sant'Anastasia CT,
Italy
II9IALU Alberto Mattei, Via Enrico Millo 20, 96010 Augusta SR, Italy
II9IGDG Antonino Di Bella, Via Badia Grande 23, 91100 Trapani TP, Italy
IK2DUW Antonello Passarella, Via Melchiorre Gioia 6, 20812 Limbiate MB,
Italy
J20EE Stephane Van Langhenhoven, 24 bis rue de Anter Hent,
29830 Ploudalmezeau, France
OH0/OP8L Stefaan Sinnaeve, 'S Gravenwal 1, 8610 Kortemark, Belgium
OH0CO Bengt E. Karlsson, Laerkstigen 4, SE-546 33 Karlsborg, Sweden
S21SM Syed Khandker, Emmanantie 10 L 106, FI-40740 Jyvaskyla, Finland
SX39J Dimitrios Anastasiadis, 28 Oktovriou 3, 570 01 Tagarades, Greece
TR8CA Jean Charron, 19 rue Gabriel Moussa, 33320 Eysines, France
V31XX Bill Kollenbaum, 1590 Burns Dr, Clearwater FL 33764, USA
WA2NYC Wireless Association Of New York City, 233 Wolverine St,
Staten Island NY 10306-1746, USA
YJ0DA Darren Johnston, PO Box 3140, Browns Plains LPO, Browns Plains,
QLD 4118, Australia
ZF2OO Jim Millner, 7010 Gullotti Place, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952, USA

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