425 DX News #1743

28 September 2024 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1743

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

5R - Janusz, SP9FIH as 5R8WE and Leszek, SP6CIK as 5R8CI will be active
from Nosy Be (AF-057), Madagascar from 23 October to 6 November.
They will operate CW, SSB and FT8 (also SuperFox for 5R8CI) on 40-
10 metres with two stations and a focus on 12 and 10 metres. QSLs
via Club Log's OQRS (direct and bureau).
8R - Aldir, PY1SAD will be active as 8R1TM from Georgetown, Guyana be-
tween 12 October and 24 November. He will operate CW, SSB and digi-
tal modes on all bands and via satellite. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, QRZ
Logbook, or direct to home call.
9J - Tom, DL2RMC is currently on a work assignment in Lusaka, Zambia,
and has received the callsign 9J2FI. "Since I am working on a time-
consuming project, I won't be very active", he says. "Still, you
can hear me in many contests". QSL via DL1RTL.
C5 - A team consisting EA3NT, EI5GM, EI9FBB, MM0NDX and MM0OKG will be
active from the Gambia on 25-29 November. They will operate on
various bands and modes from the mainland as C5T, and as C5I from
the Bijol Islands (AF-060) on 27 and 28 November. QSLs via LoTW, or
via EA5GL. See https://www.facebook.com/groups/gambiafundxpedition/
for updates. [TNX DX World]
DL - Mathias DK7LV, Ric DL2VFR, Klaus DL2YBG and Fred DL4BBH will be
active as DM60IOTA from Borkum Island (EU-047) on 27-29 September.
They will operate CW, SSB and FT8. All QSOs will be confirmed auto-
matically via the bureau, as well as uploaded to Club Log and LoTW.
[TNX DL2VFR]
DL - Tom, DJ6OI will be active as DJ6OI/p from Wangerooge Island (EU-
047) from 29 September to 4 October. QSL via home call, direct or
bureau, and LoTW.
EA - Markus, DJ4EL will be active as EA5/DJ4EL from the islands of
Benidorm, Escombreras and Tabarca (all part of IOTA group EU-093)
on 17-25 October. QSL via Club Log's OQRS (preferred) and LoTW.
Updates will be posted to https://x.com/rapanuiman.
E51_nc - George, AA7JV is active as E51D/mm from the "Magnet" at anchor in
Suwarrow Atoll until 27 September. Next, the catamaran will head to
Penrhyn Atoll (OC-082), and E51D will be QRV from land for "a one
week long RIB DXpedition". Plans are to be QRV on CW, SSB and FT8
on 160-10 metres. QSL via LoTW and HA7RY. [TNX The Daily DX]
FR - Stephane, F5UOW will be active holiday style as FR/F5UOW from
Reunion Island (AF-016) on 9-28 October. He will operate CW only on
17-10 metres. QSL only via LoTW. [TNX F6AJA]
I - Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the start of regular radio
broadcasting in Italy (6 October 1924), ARI local branches across
Italy will be using special callsigns from 1 October to 29 Decem-
ber. The callsigns will be in the format II#Rxyz (e.g. II9RCAT for
ARI Catania) and IR#Rxyz (e.g. IR1RVDB for ARI Valbormida). In
addition, special event station I1MRTV will be active from the RAI
Radio and Television Museum in Torino. Certificates and electronic
QSLs will be available for download from the HamAward platform
(direct link from each special callsign's qrz.com page).
JA - Hide, JO1CRA will be active again as JO1CRA/7 from Oshima (AS-206),
Miyagi Prefecture on 5-7 October. He will operate CW and FT8 on 40,
30, 20, 17, 10 and 6 metres (50303 kHz FT8 as a beacon, QSOs on
50313 or 50303 kHz, plus SSB on 50260 kHz for JA stations). QSL via
Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via home call.
JW - Look for JW7XK (QSL via LA7XK, Club Log's OQRS and LoTW), JW9DL
(QSL via LA9DL and LoTW) and JW6VM (QSL via LA6VM) to be active
from the Svalbard Amatorradioklubb in Longyearbyen (EU-026) on 9-
14 October. They will participate in the Scandinavian Activity
Contest (SSB) as JW5X (QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via LA5X).
OX - Bo, OZ1DJJ will be active again as OX3LX from Greenland between 27
September and 15 October. In his spare time he will be QRV from
Kangerlussuaq (GP47ta), Qaqortoq (GP60xr) and Christian IV Island
(NA-151, GP80kb) around 4 October. QSL via OZ0J, Club Log's OQRS
and LoTW.
PY0F - Ben, DA1DX (ex DL6FBL) and other four operators will be active as
PX0FF from Fernando de Noronha (SA-003) sometime in October. They
will operate CW, SSB and FT8 (MSHV) on 160-6 metres. Updates will
be posted to https://www.qrz.com/db/PX0FF. QSL via Club Log's OQRS,
or via DJ4MX.
PZ - Members of the Royal Netherlands Army Signal Regiment (PI4VBD) will
be active again as PZ5JT during the annual Jungle Warfare Training
course in Suriname for a few weeks in October-November. The opera-
tors will be QRV in their spare time on 40, 20, 17, 15 and 10m SSB
using military equipment. QSL direct to PI4VBD.
SV - Special callsign SX80FF will be used from various locations (in-
cluding Crete as SV9/SX80FF) on 1-31 October. The purpose of this
activity is to honor the 80 fallen Greek firefighters and aerial
firefighting crews who lost their lives in the line of duty. QSL
via LoTW, eQSL and QRZ Logbook; paper cards will not be available.
VP9 - Josh, W9HT, will be active as W9HT/VP9 from Bermuda (NA-005) on 11-
14 October. He will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on the HF bands and 6
metres. QSL direct to home call. [TNX DX World]
W - Special event stations N0F, N1F, N2F, N3F, N4F, N5F, N6F, N7F, N8F
and N9F, plus KF2IRE and VE3FIRE (Canada) will be active on 6-12
October for the Fire Prevention Week 2024. QSL cards for any of the
FPW stations should be sent direct to Fire Prevention Week Special
Event, c/o Siemens Fire Safety USA, 2 Gatehall Drive, Parsippany
NJ 07054, USA, See https://hamfire.com/ for more information on the
event.
YJ - Team YJ0VV (namely N4VGE, K4QQG, K1NZ and K2SAV) will be active
from Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu on 16-29 October. They will operate
SSB, CW and digital modes (also FT8 SuperFox) on 160-6 metres with
two high power stations and a choice of seven antennas, and will
participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. QSL via K4NHW (direct or
bureau); QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW.

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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6O3T ---> The 6O3T DXpedition has been cancelled. "The whole team is in good
health", they posted to Facebook on 22 September, "although mentally very
stressed by the definitely traumatic experience that happened to us, al-
though all precautions had been implemented. As soon as each operator has
arrived home, it will be our pleasure/duty to share with the whole ham radio
community, our terrible experience in a land where no one is in charge, but
at the same time everyone has a say": https://www.facebook.com/Dxexplorernet

ARRL SYSTEMS SERVICE DISRUPTION ---> The following is excerpted from a
longer update posted on the ARRL website on 25 September.
"Two major systems that have not been returned to service include DXCC and
our accounting system. Most other systems have returned to full service, and
we are working to clean up the stragglers.
* DXCC SYSTEM
Our DXCC software was written some 20 years ago. Although an attempt was
made 8 years ago to reprogram it to function in a newer environment, that
effort was unsuccessful, so the old system remains running today. The
complication with bringing it back to service is that it runs on an older
version of Windows that is not supported, and more importantly, we cannot
purchase adequate protection to return it to service on an internet-based
network.
We have created an air-gapped network to run the system on and have it
operating in a test, using a different method for connecting it to Logbook
of The World and online DXCC - the web service that runs the online DXCC
application. This configuration is being tested and we expect it can go
into production soon. We will work to process the backlog as quickly as
possible.
* NEW DXCC?
There were statements made by an ARRL Director about work on a new DXCC
system. That is not factual. While we have ideas for merging DXCC and
LoTW into a single ARRL Radiosport platform, this concept has not been
fully spec'd out or put into development.
We appreciate your continued patience and understanding".
[Source: https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-systems-service-disruption]

CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST: POLICY CHANGE ---> "As you may be aware, it has
been the policy of CQ magazine for over two years to eliminate awards
eligibility for Russian and Belarus entries in all CQ sponsored events. This
requirement was never incorporated into the rules for any of the WW
contests; it was limited to a simple policy statement.
What is most notable at this time, is that the WW contests are one of the
few competitions still maintaining this position (or similar). As a result,
and after consultation with our WW Contest Directors and WWROF leadership,
we will be changing the current policy, effective immediately, and returning
all of our contests to normal operation.
This change will take effect with the WW RTTY contest this weekend (28-29
September 2024), and all other WW contests going forward". This announcement
was posted to the CQ WW Blog (https://cqww.com/blog/) on 25 September.

ENIGMA RELOADED ---> The 8th "Enigma Reloaded" event will take place from
27 September to 5 October. Complete information on the event and the
associated award is available at https://www.enigma-reloaded.it/.

OCEANIA DX CONTEST ---> The 79th edition of the Oceania DX Contest will take
place on 5-6 October (SSB) and 12-13 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/.

OPDX BULLETINS COLLECTION ---> All of the OPDX Bulletins, from 1 March 1991
(DX Bulletin No. 001) to 31 October 2022 (DX Bulletin No. 1586) have been
archived at the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC), a
project of the Internet Archive. The entire collection is now available for
viewing at https://archive.org/details/ohio-penn-dx-bulletin.

RI42SP ---> Oleg, RD1A is participating in the North Pole-42 expedition to
the Arctic onboard the "Severny Polyus" ("North Pole"), a large self-
propelled drifting research vessel replacing the drifting ice stations built
on ice floes. In his spare time he will operate CW, SSB and digital modes
starting on 5 October. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via RN3RQ. During the 20
months of the North Pole-41 expedition (September 2022-May 2024), Oleg ended
up using three different callsigns (R41POL, RI0SP and RI0POL).

VE3LYC'S IOTA BOOK ---> "Dream Big and Dare to Fail", the DXpedition book
authored by Cezar Trifu (VE3LYC), sold out in July 2023. "In view of the
requests received from various hams", however, he has decided to order one
more small run, and the book (240 pages, full color, with 516 illustrations)
is once again available: https://ve3lyc-book.weebly.com.

+ SILENT KEY + Vasanth Guruge, 4S7VG passed away on 14 September at the age
of 70. "He was a passionate and dedicated amateur radio operator, who
actively engaged in the hobby until very recently", the Radio Society of Sri
Lanka said. "Vasanth received his license in the mid-1970s and quickly
established himself as a prominent DXer. His involvement with radio went
beyond personal achievements; he played a pivotal role in major projects
that benefited the entire Sri Lankan community. Vasanth served as President
of the RSSL from 2005 to 2007 and again in 2015-16. During his leadership,
he spearheaded numerous initiatives that strengthened the society and
expanded its reach within the amateur radio community".

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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B8/OK6DJ, 3C3CA, 3D2MP, 3W1T,
5H4AYL, 5W1SA, 7M2UHF, 7O2WX, 7Q6M, 7Q7CT, 7X2RF, 9H1FF, 9K2NO, 9W2/R6AF,
A2NEW, A62A, A92GW, BH4GUU, C91CCY, CO9JAB, D93H (AS-093), E51CZZ, EK/AB1F,
EK/RX3DPK, ES7A, FR4PV, HB9/AH0YL, HH2AA, HP1XV, JW/DK1VK, JY5MM , K8K
(OC-045), KP4JA, KP4JRS, OD5VB, OH0Z, OY1OF, PJ2ND, PR0T, PT1K, RI0F
(AS-204), S21PL, S79VU, SV2RSG/A, SZ1AB, T2C, T77C, T88UW, TI5GAX, TM73JO,
V85A, VK9LA, VP6G, VP6MW, WE9G/KH8, XV1X, YB0AR, YB3KM, Z61DX, Z68BB, ZF1EJ.

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