425 DX News #1741

14 September 2024 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1741

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

3D2/R - The Rebel DX Group will be active as 3D22 (Three Delta Twenty-two)
and 3D2V from Rotuma Island sometime in the near future. Two opera-
tors will be active on 160-6 metres mainly FT8 (F/H) for 3-4 weeks.
Bookmark https://www.facebook.com/rebeldxgroup for updates. QSL via
Club Log's OQRS.
3DA - Manfred DK1BT, Wolf DL4WK, Annette DL6SAK, Tom DL7BO and Frank
DL7UFR will be active as 3DA0DL from eSwatini from 25 October to 9
November. They will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on 160-10
metres with up to five stations. QSL via DL7UFR (direct or bureau)
and LoTW "within 6 months after the DXpedition". More information
can be found on https://webufr.dl7ufr.selfhost.eu/3da (logsearch
and OQRS included).
5H - Maurizio, IK2GZU will be active again as 5H3MB from Tanzania from
10 October to 11 November, while doing volunteer work at a local
school. In his spare time he will operate SSB, CW and digital modes
on 80-10 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW and eQSL, or via
IK2GZU (direct or bureau).
5W - Pete, ZL4TE will be active holiday style as 5W0TE from Upolu, Samoa
(OC-097) on 3-10 October. He plans to operate mainly CW on 40, 20
and 10 metres, and "to activate at least one of the POTA parks
(more if I get time)". QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or direct to ZL4TE.
6O - The 6O3T team arrived in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on 11 September. On
13 September, they were "waiting for the customs clearance of the
equipment, which as expected will take a few days. For this reason,
no exact dates had been communicated regarding our on-air opera-
tion". If all goes well, they should be ready for the installation
of the first of five stations in the coming days. Bookmark
https://www.facebook.com/Dxexplorernet for updates. QSL via Club
Log's OQRS (direct and bureau), or direct only to IV3DSH; full up-
load to LoTW 12 months after the DXpedition.
DU - Lucy, AB3MY will be active as DU1/AB3MY from Legazpi on Luzon Is-
land (OC-042), Philippines on 19-24 September. She will operate SSB
and possibly some FT8 on 40, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 metres. QSL via
home call. Her activity is to honour her late father, Percy Tence
(PY2PD), who lived in Brazil but was born in the Philippines, and
died in a road traffic accident in 2001.
FR - Michal, OM2DX will be active as TO2DX from Reunion Island (AF-016)
from 27 September to 7 October. He will operate CW, RTTY and FT8 on
60-10 metres, and will participate in the CQ WW RTTY DX Contest
(28-29 September). QSL via home call; QSOs will be uploaded to
Club Log and LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
GM - Members of the Guisborough and District Amateur Radio Club (M0NYM)
will be active as MS0NYM from the Isle of Lewis (EU-010) on 22-26
September. QSL direct to G0UOK.
JA - Look for JA4GXS/4 and JN4JXL/4 to be active from Kasado Island (AS-
117) on 21 September, starting around 7 UTC until 22 UTC. They will
operate CW, SSB and FT8/FT4 on 40, 30, 20, 17 and 6 metres. QSL via
home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX The Daily DX]
KH2 - Hirata, JH3DJX will be active holiday style as KH2/JH3DJX from Guam
(OC-026) from 29 September to 2 October. He will operate mainly CW
and FT8 on 40-10 metres. QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
OX - Henning, OZ2I will be active again as XP2I from Kangerlussuaq,
Greenland (NA-018) on 20-22 September. He will operate CW only on
80-10 metres, with main activity during the CW leg of the Scandina-
vian Activity Contest. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and LoTW.
SV - Dirk, ON5CT will be active as SV8/ON5CT from Samos Island (EU-049)
from 9 September to 6 October. He operates SSB, FT8 and RTTY on 80-
6 meters. QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW, eQSL and Club Log; paper
QSLs will not be available.
V4 - Once again John, W5JON will be active as V47JA from St. Kitts (NA-
104) from 18 September to 1 October. He will operate SSB and FT8 on
the 160-6 metres. QSL via LoTW, or direct only to W5JON.
V5 - Gunter, DK2WH will be active again as V51WH and V55Y in contests
from Namibia between 19 September and 12 November. He operates SSB,
FT8 and some CW on 160-10 metres. QSL via home call; he does not
use LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
VE - Chris, VO1CH will be active again as VO2VC from Zone 2 in Labrador
from 26 September to 3 October, including an entry in the CQ WW
RTTY DX Contest. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via VO1CH.
VK9C - Team VK9CV (OK2ZA, OK6DJ, OM3PC, OM4AYL, OM4MM, OM4MW, OM5RW, OM5ZW
and VK5GR) will be active from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (OC-003)
on 1-15 November. They will operate SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8 on 160-6
metres, and via QO-100, from three different operating sites. QSL
via OK6DJ; QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW. See
https://vk9cv.com/ for more information; updates will be posted
also to https://www.facebook.com/groups/489325376829131.

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

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IOTA NEWS ---> The logs for the IOTA Contest 2024 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". The 2024 RSGB IOTA Contest complete results are available on
https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfresults.pl?Contest=IOTA%20Contest&year…

IOTA NEWS: CLUBLOG QSO MATCHING UPDATE ---> To enhance security, the Club
Log website no longer accepts regular passwords for QSO matching. Instead, a
Club Log application password must be used. You can obtain this by logging
into the Club Log website, navigating to "Settings", and selecting "App.
Passwords". There, create a new application password and store it in a safe
place. To log in to the Club Log website, continue using your regular pass-
word. When downloading QSO matches from Club Log to the IOTA website, use
the application password you created by following the instructions above.

QSL VIA IK2DUW ---> Antonello would like to remind you that he is not a
member of ARI, the Italian IARU member society, and therefore cannot receive
or send QSLs via this bureau. See https://qsl.net/ik2duw/ for his OQRS.

SAC ---> The 65th Scandinavian Activity Contest will be held on 21-22
September (CW) and 12-13 October (SSB), from 12 UTC on Saturday to 11:59 UTC
on Sunday. Scandinavian stations (Aland Islands, Denmark, Faroe Islands,
Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen, Market Reef, Norway, Svalbard and
Bear Island, Sweden) will try to work as many non-Scandinavian stations as
possible and vice versa. Complete information of the SAC events can be found
at https://www.sactest.net/.

SUPERFOX KEYS ---> SuperFox keys, which allow WSJT-X to operate in SuperFox
mode, are issued by the Northern California DX Foundation. The current list
of SuperFox Keys issued by the NCDXF (last updated on 10 September) can be
found at https://ncdxf.org/pages/sfkey.html. Included in the list are the
ongoing operations of C21TS, KH8T, VP6WR and ZD9GJ.

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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B8FA, 3B9FR, 3D3CA, 3V8SS, 4L7T,
4S7AB, 4U1UN, 5A21MB, 5Z4BU, 8H79I, 9J2BS, 9K2ES, 9K2OW, 9M1Z (OC-088),
A2NEW, A41CK, A42K, A44A, A60A, A71YY, C91AHV, CN2DX , CN2GS, CN8NY, CP7DX,
CR3A, CU2BN, CX9AU, DT0IP (AS-148), EX2G, FY4JI, HC5DX, HI3SD, HS0ZOA,
IC8SQS, J73ESL, JT1CO, JT1CS, K8K (OC-045), KP2B, LP1H, MD0CCE, OD5KU, OJ0T,
PJ4/K5PI, PV2K, PZ5JW, R0QAF, RI1ANE, S21ABK, S21CMD, S21ZI, T47C, TI5/N3KS,
TX7L, TX7W, UN3M, VI60IOTA, VK9DX, VK9LA, VP6MW, WE9G/KH8, XE1XR, XV9T,
XW4KV, YH3AA, YJ0CA, ZC4GW.

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