425 DX News #1747

26 October 2024 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1747

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

CN - Members of the Association Royale des Radio Amateurs du Maroc will
be active on various bands and modes as CN49MS from Laayoune on 1-
15 November. QSL via operator's instructions. The special callsign
commemorates the 49th anniversary of the so-called Marche Verte
(Green March), a mass demonstration in support of the restoration
of the Moroccan Sahara and the conclusion of Spanish colonial rule.
DL - DF20DCL is the special callsign for DARC Team SES to mark the 20th
anniversary of the DARC Community Logbook between 18 October and 29
November. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau;
direct cards via DL2VFR. The DCL is a web-based application system
for a wide range of DARC awards: https://dcl.darc.de/public/.
F - The Radio Club Vendeen (F6KUF) will be active as TM10VG on 3-17
November to celebrate the tenth edition of the Vendee Globe, which
Will set sail from Les Sables d'Olonne on 10 November. QSL via
F6KUF (bureau), F5OEV (direct), eQSL (for QSOs on digital modes).
The Vendee Globe is the only round-the-world single-handed yacht
race that is sailed non-stop and without assistance.
FW - Bob, W7YAQ and Al, K7AR will be active as FW7AA from Wallis Island
(OC-054) on 16-29 November. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via
W7YAQ. On their return, they will stop in Nadi (OC-016), Fiji, and
will be active as 3D2NB from 30 November to 2 December. QSL both
callsigns via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via W7YAQ
FY - Sebastien, F8DQZ will be active as FY/F8DQZ from Macouria, French
Guiana between 28 October and 8 November. This will be a spare time
operation on the HF bands. QSL direct to F5OZC.
GM - Five members of the Paisley Amateur Radio Club (GM0PYM) will be
active as GS0PYM from Eilean Buidhe (EU-005), one of Scotland's
smallest inhabited islands, on 1-4 November. They will operate SSB
and some FT8 and CW on 80-10 metres with at least two stations. QSL
via operators' instructions.
HC8 - K2IN (HC5CW) and HC2AP will be active as HD8CW from San Cristobal,
Galapagos Islands (SA-004) on 19-28 November. They will operate CW,
SSB and FT8 with two stations, and will participate in the CQ WW
DX CW Contest as HC5CW/8. QSLs via M0OXO.
HR - Alex, K6VHF will be active again as K6VHF/HR9 from Roatan Island
(NA-057), Honduras on 3-9 November. He will operate mainly digital
modes on various bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or direct to
home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
I - 4U30B is the special callsign issued to the 4U1GSC Amateur Radio
Club to mark the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Global
Service Centre in Brindisi, Italy. Look for activity between 15
November and 31 December. QSL via 9A2AA.
JD1_oga- Once again Makoto, JI5RPT will be active as JD1BLY from Chichijima
(AS-031), Ogasawara on 7-10 November. He will operate FT8, CW and
SSB on 40-6 metres and satellite, with a focus on GreenCube and FT8
on the HF bands. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, eQSL, or direct to
home call.
ON - The ONZ Oostkust Radioclub (ON6HC) will be active on all bands and
modes as OT80CLM on 1-11 November. The special callsign's suffix
stands for Canadian Liberation March, the annual event that cele-
brates the liberation of the town of Knokke on (1 November 1944).
QSL via eQSL. See https://www.onz.be/ot80clm-award-request/ for the
certificate.
PA - Members of Radio Club Limburg will be active as PF16F on 1-30
November (https://rclb.nl/pf16f). This special event is intended to
be a "Farewell to the Fighting Falcon", as the Royal Netherlands
Air Force has officially retired its F-16 jets after 45 years of
service. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau,
direct cards should be sent to PD8RW.
PY - Special station PR5LM will be active on various bands and modes,
and on QO-100, throughout the month of November in honour of the
memory of Father Roberto Landell de Moura (1861-1928), a pioneer
of wireless audio transmission. QSL via SP7CVW and LoTW.
S9 - Team S9Z [425DXN 1735] now includes 16 operators (5B4AQN, AI8RD/
HI8R, CT1BOL, CT1DSV, CT1EEB, CT1END, K0IR, K3VN, KH7U, KJ7KOJ,
N2WB, N4XP, N5NHJ/I8NHJ, N6MZ, W7YED and WB4JTT). They will be
active from Sao Tome (AF-023) on 11-20 November with six stations -
four for general operations (CW, SSB and digital), one for 6 metres
and RTTY and one for EME; a position for QO-100 Satellite will also
be made available. Plans are for S9Z to operate CW, SSB, FT8
(Super Fox) and RTTY on 160-6 metres (see the band plan on the
DXpedition's website), and to use Club Log's Livestream. QSL via
Club Log's OQRS (direct and bureau), or direct to N4NHW; full
upload to LoTW within six months after the end of the DXpedition.
See https://s9z.org/ for more information and updates.
SM - In November members of Radio Club SK1BL on Gotland Island (EU-020)
will be active as SE80TG to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the
"Hansa" tragedy. QSL via the bureau. The "Hansa" was a Swedish
passenger ship, in use on the route between the mainland and Visby.
She was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine during World War
II (24 November 1944); 84 people died and only two survived.
TA - Team TC0F will participate in this weekend's CQ WW DX SSB Contest
from Bozcaada (AS-099). QSL via LotW, or direct to TA2BN.
ZD7 - JM1GDA as ZD7G and JF3SFU as ZD7SFU will be active holiday style
from ZD7CTO's rental shack on Saint Helena Island (AF-022) on 2-22
November. They will operate mainly FT8 (F/H) with some SSB and slow
CW on 160-10 metres. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or direct to
home calls.

CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Rudy, DK7PE (https://www.rooody.de/) will be touring the
Caribbean in November. Known callsigns include VP2MCW (Montserrat), V4/DK7PE
(St Kitts & Nevis), ZF2PE (Cayman Islands), and PJ4/DK7PE/p (Bonaire). This
trip will be "a mixture of a DXpedition, antenna experimenting and visiting
some of the local radio amateurs". Rudy will operate CW on various bands.
QSL via home call, direct or bureau.

EUDXF ACTIVITY MONTH ---> Celebrating the 38th anniversary of the European
DX Foundation, DL0EUF and a number of special callsigns will be activated
between 1 and 30 November: AO38EUDXF (Spain); AX38EUDXF (Australia);
DU38EUDXF (Philippines); HA38EUDXF (Hungary); ON38EUDXF (Belgium);
PA38EUDXF, PB38EUDXF, PC38EUDXF, PD38EUDXF, PE38EUDXF, PF38EUDXF, PG38EUDXF,
PH38EUDXF and PI38EUDXF (Netherlands). QSL via operators' instructions. An
award will be available for QSOs made with these and possibly other special
callsigns, complete information will be available on https://www.eudxf.eu/.

CQ WW DX SSB CONTEST ---> The following stations have announced their parti-
cipation in this year's event (26-27 October, https://cqww.com/rules.htm):

ZONE CALL CATEGORY COUNTRY QSL VIA
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02 VE2DXY M/2 Canada LoTW
07 HP3/VA3QR SO Panama VA3QR
07 HQ9X M/2 Honduras KQ1F
08 8P5A SOAB HP Barbados LoTW
08 FG4KH SO Guadeloupe LoTW
08 J62K M/2 St. Lucia LoTW
08 KP4AA M/? Puerto Rico LoTW
08 PJ7PL SO LP Sint Maarten N2HX
08 TO5A M/2 Martinique LoTW
08 V26B M/M Antigua LoTW
08 V47T M/2 St Kitts & Nevis LoTW
08 V48K SOAB LP St Kitts & Nevis LoTW
08 VP2MDM M/S Montserrat LoTW
08 WP3C SOAB LP Puerto Rico M0OXO
09 9Z4BM SO Trinidad & Tobago 9Z4BM
09 FY5FY SOSB 10m French Guiana LoTW
09 FY5KE SOSB 15m French Guiana F6FVY
09 P44W SOAB Aruba LoTW
09 PJ4G M/? Bonaire LoTW
09 PJ4K SOAB Bonaire KU9C
10 HD1A M/M Ecuador LoTW
10 OA7/DD5ZZ SO Peru LoTW
14 CR2B SOAB Azores LoTW
14 LX5M M/S Luxembourg LoTW
14 OZ5W M/M Denmark LoTW
15 IP0A SOAB Sardinia OM2FY
15 TK9R SO HP Corsica IK8UND
20 C40C SOAB Cyprus LoTW
20 TC0F M/? Turkey LoTW
20 TC2E Turkey LoTW
21 4L2M SOSB 40m Georgia EA7FTR
22 AT78I SO India VU2JOS
23 B0A M/2 China BA4TB
24 B1Z M/S China LoTW
24 B4M M/? China LoTW
24 B4S M/S China LoTW
26 E2A M/S Thailand LoTW
27 AH0CO SO Mariana Isls LoTW
27 AH2R M/S Guam LoTW
27 JD1BQP SOAB LP Ogasawara LoTW
27 KH0/KC0W SO Mariana Isls KC0W
27 V63CB SO Micronesia LoTW
28 7A2A M/2 Indonesia LoTW
28 9M6NA SOAB LP East Malaysia LoTW
28 V85RH SOAB HP Brunei LoTW
30 VK1A M/S Australia LoTW
31 C21MM M/2 Nauru DL4SVA
31 KH6J M/M Hawaii AH6OZ
31 KH7M SOAB HP Hawaii LoTW
32 3D2AG/p SO Rotuma 3D2AG
32 E6AQ SO Niue LoTW
32 YJ0CA SO Vanuatu VK2YUS
32 YJ0VV M/2 HP Vanuatu K4NHW
32 ZL7IO SO Chatham Isls LoTW
33 CQ3W SOSB 10m Madeira LoTW
36 ZD7W SOAB St. Helena W6NV
37 7Q1 M/? Malawi EA7FTR
37 7Q2T SOAB LP Malawi LoTW
38 V55Y SO Namibia DK2WH
39 3B9KW SOAB HP Rodrigues LoTW

Do not forget to give a look at the Announced Operations listing maintained
by Bill, NG3K at https://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2024.html - good contest to
you all!

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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW

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ARRL SYSTEMS SERVICE DISRUPTION: DXCC ---> "The ARRL DXCC System has been
returned to service", the ARRL announced on 23 October, "and our staff is
again processing applications for credit toward DXCC awards. The queue
includes nearly 3,000 award applications submitted via Logbook of The World
(LoTW) accounts and mailed paper applications. We are processing the backlog
as quickly as possible, and will provide additional progress updates.
For now, the online DXCC application will remain offline. Any new award
applications we receive will experience significant delays as we work
through the backlog.
As previously reported, LoTW was returned to service on Monday, July 1,
2024. Since then, the system has been processing log uploads with little or
no processing delay.
We are grateful for your continued patience and understanding as we continue
to make progress on the few remaining services that have required additional
attention to bring back online".

XT2MD ---> Be advised that the Mediterraneo DX Club's expedition to Burkina
Faso will not be on the air before 31 October in the late afternoon/early
evening UTC hours. The official contact persons and their relevant email
addresses are listed on https://www.mdxc.support/xt2md/contact/. These
include HK3W (South America Pilot), IK2VUC (Log problems), IZ8FFA (Low bands
pilot), M0OXO (Public Relations), and N1DG (North America Pilot). In
addition, for sked/information about EME and QO-100, you can write to DL8JJ
(dl8jj[@]yahoo.com) and GI4DOH (gi4doh[@]ramfihaz.co.uk), respectively.

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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3DA0AQ, 4S7KKG, 4V1SAVANNAH,
5H1WX (AF-054), 5W1SA, 5X7O, 5Z4BU, 7M2UHF, 7O73T, 7Q7JN, 8P6GA, 9K2GR,
A71YY, AP2FLY, AP2IN, BU2AD, C31CT, CE7VP (SA-018), CT3MD, DS4FZX, E22UUW,
E29TGW, E51EME, FP5CJ, FT4GL, GB2GM, HS72KING, HZ1SK, IC8SQS, JT1BV, KL7SB,
LY35A, OJ0T, OX3LX, OX5DM, P4/WE9V, RI1PI, RI9KC, S01WS, S21AP, SM6/DL1HTW,
T32AZ, TM67JO, TM67OG, TO8FP, V31MA, V51WW, VK2/W7BRS, VK4WTN, VK6DU, VK6RO,
VP2MMN, VU2DCC, XU7GNY, XV9T, YC8DYX, YI3WHR, YN9H, ZL1LC (OC-201).

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