5 July 2025 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1783
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
CN - Andre, HB9HLM will be active holiday style as CN2NE from Morocco on
15-22 July. He will be QRV on 40-6 metres from grid locator IM63dm.
QSL via eQSL and QRZ Logbook; he does not plan to have paper cards.
F - Special callsign TM5VDL will be active on 5-19 July from Dunkirk
during the second stage of this year's edition of the Tall Ships
Races. QSL via F8KGS.
G - During next weekend's IARU HF World Championship five stations -
GB0WR, GB2WR, GB5WR, GB8WR, and GB9WR - will be active on 80-10
metres SSB and CW and tested under field conditions. They will be
using the exact planned equipment for the WRTC 2026 event as a
trial. The operating location will be a cluster of sites within the
grounds of the Euston Estate, Suffolk (England). There will be two
awards available for chasers during this event, complete informa-
tion on https://www.wrtc2026.org/wrtc-test-event-july-2025/.
HK - Members of the Asociacion de Radioaficionados Unidos (HK4RAU) have
announced plans for a DXpedition to Isla Fuerte (SA-078), Colombia
to take during the last week of July, including participation in
the IOTA Contest (26-27 July). Callsigns to be used are 5K0T
(operated by HK4T) and 5K0C (operated by HK4C), as well as HK4SSI/0
and HK4X/0 for "portable activations". Activity will be on HF, VHF/
UHF and for the first time satellites. QSL via EA5GL.
HL - HL70KARL is the special event station commemorating the 70th an-
niversary of the Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL), first estab-
lished on 20 April 1955. QSL via LoTW; paper cards will not be
available.
HS - E2WRTC is a special event station to promote Team Asia #3 in the
World Radio Team Championship, which will be held in the UK in July
2026. Look for activity from 12 July to 10 August on 160-10 metres
CW and SSB. QSL via E21EIC and LoTW.
I - II1HQ, II2HQ, II4HQ, II6HQ and II9HQ will represent the Associazio-
ne Radioamatori Italiani (ARI) on the six contest bands, both CW
and SSB, during next weekend's IARU HF World Championship. See
https://hqspeedaward.ari.it for the "IIxHQ Speed Award", with
certificates for working ARI HQ stations on different bands and
modes in the shortest possible time.
J3 - Graham, 2M0IJU (J38LD) has had to cancel his trip to Grenada
[425DXN 1780] at the very last moment. Eric, GM5RDX is still going,
though, and he will be active as J38DX on 80-6 metres with two
stations at the same time from 5 July to 13 July. "I expect to have
an FT8 station operational soon after my arrival on Saturday
evening, with the SSB station being set up on Sunday morning", he
says. "Band conditions permitting, I expect to be fully operational
with two stations by around 11am Sunday (16:00 UTC)". QSL via
M0OXO's OQRS. [TNX DX World]
JA - Take, JI3DST will be active as JI3DST/1 from Shikine Island (AS-
008) on 24-28 July, IOTA Contest included. Other callsigns to be
used outside the contest are JS6RRR/1 and JS6RRR/p (FT8/FT4) on 40-
10 metres; JJ5RBH/1 and JJ5RBH/p (FT8/FT4) on 6m, 2m and 70 cm.
QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW.
JW - Vlad, OK2WX will be active as JW0V from Longyearbyen (EU-026),
Svalbard on 14-23 July. He will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 80-10
metres. QSL via I8KHC and LoTW. See https://www.mdxc.support/jw0v/
for more information.
LA - Charles, KD2RSF will be touring the Lofoten Islands (EU-076)
between 5 and 7 or 8 July, with brief operations primarily on FT8
as LA/KD2RSF from the villages of Svolvaer, Ballstad and Hamnoy.
QSL via LoTW
OZ - Rene, DL2JRM has been island hopping in Denmark since 30 June. Look
for OZ/DL2JRM to be active until 11 July; he updates his schedule
on https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2JRM. He will return to Denmark for the
IOTA Contest, when he will be QRV as OV7X from Bago Island (EU-
172). QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
TY - TY5AD is a new station sponsored and remotely controlled by the
Russian DX Team. Hosted near Cotonou, Benin, the station runs 100
watts into a vertical antenna, and can be operated on 80-10 metres.
QSL via Club Log's OQRS, QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW within 2-3
days after that request.
TY - Red, DL1BUG will be active again as TY5FR from Cotonou, Benin from
9 July to 6 August. He will operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL
via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via home call.
UA - Sergey, UA1ATD plans to be active as UA1ATD/p from ten RRA (Russian
Robinson Award) islands in Onega Bay (White Sea), starting on 20
July for 10-12 days. Three islands - namely Kotkano, Bol'shoy
Kuz'min and Kondostrov - qualify also for IOTA group EU-147. See
https://www.qrz.com/db/UA1ATD for more information. Usually Sergey
operates CW on 20 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and LoTW.
V3 - Josh, W9HT will be active as V31GT from Belize on 10-13 July. He
will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on various HF bands. QSL via
W9HT, and possibly LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
VE - Look for VY2/K1ZN to be active holiday style from Prince Edward
Island (NA-029) 16-21 July, including participation in the North
American QSO Party, RTTY (19-20 July). QSL via home call. [TNX The
Daily DX]
VE - The NA128 Contest Group (http://www.qsl.net/na128cg) will be active
again as XM2I from Ile-aux-Coudres (NA-128) on 24-27 July, IOTA
Contest included.
XM2I will also be used (NOT FROM NA-128) on various bands and modes
between 12 July and 11 August, particularly during the IARU HF
World Championship (12 July), the North American QSO Party, RTTY
(19 July), the North American QSO Party, CW (2 August), and the WAE
DX Contest, CW (9 August). QSL via F5JYD; all QSOs will be uploaded
to LoTW on 15 August.
W - Randy, K5SL will be active holiday style from Dauphin Island
(NA-213) on 19-26 July. He will operate CW on 40-15 metres during
his local mornings and evenings. [TNX The Daily DX]
ZC4 - Adrian, G0KOM will be active as ZC4MK from the UK Sovereign Base
Areas on Cyprus on 8-15 July. He will be QRV on 80, 40 and 20-6
metres. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
ZF - Adrian, AA5UK is once again active from the Cayman Islands (NA-016)
until 11 July. After operating for a few days as ZF2AE/ZF8 from
Little Cayman,, he is now QRV from Grand Cayman Island as ZF2AE. He
operates digital modes and SSB on 60-6 metres. QSL via LoTW
(preferred), or direct to AA5UK.
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
Access to the main functions of www.425dxn.org is provided by the 425DXN App
for Android. It is available on Google Play - free of charge, no ads. Enjoy!
KH7AL/KH9 ---> Allen has announced his operating schedule for the next few
days (https://kh7al.site/kh9-upcoming-activity/):
06 July 07:00-??:?? UTC 17m FT8 Fox/Hound, 18095 if available
06 July 20:00-??:?? UTC 20m SSB (demo day for future Wake Island hams)
08 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m FT8 Fox/Hound, 18095 if available
09 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m CW
10 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m SSB
13 July 10:00-14:00 UTC 20m FT8 Super Fox then F/H, 14091 if available
21 July 19:00-22:0 UTC 15m FT8 Super Fox then F/H, 21091 if available
MOUNT ATHOS ---> SV2TOW is the Greek callsign issued to Monk Pausolipios, at
the Docheiariou Monastery of Mount Athos. He still has to "apply to the Mt.
Athos Council, which represents the 20 monasteries, to get permission to
transmit from there". The process may take some time, but hopefully he will
be allowed to be QRV as SV2TOW/a using the equipment of the late Monk
Apollo. [TNX The Daily DX]
QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards on Les Nouvelles DX's
website has been updated. Seventeen different galleries include 22,922 cards
for the ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities (2015-24), the 62 deleted DXCC
Entities, obsolete prefixes, stations from Maghreb from 1945 to 1962,
Allied Forces stations in Germany (1945-80), special stations commemorating
ITU and IARU, stations using the United Nations prefix (4U), Antarctic bases
and TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises), amateur radio
"globetrotters", the various French DXCC island Entities in the Pacific
Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas (1945-1969), pre-1945 countries,
French Departments and CONUS, plus a gallery for cards not accepted by DXCC.
Your participation is welcome: http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/galerieqsl.php.
[TNX F6AJA].
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B9DJ, 6Y7EI, 9K2GR, A61DI,
C37JPE, D84C (AS-084), DS1TUW/2 (AS-090), EA5/DL8JJ/p (EU-151), EX0M,
EY100IARU, FP/F4HEC, FR8TZ, HD8G, HH2AA, HV0A, MD0YBC, OC/DL2JRM/p (EU-030),
OM5DM, OY/K4LT, PZ5IP (SA-092), S01WS, S21NZ, SU1SK, T31TT, T32TT, TC0G,
TZ4AM, V55LA, V73WW, VK9CU, VK9DX, VP2VI, VP2VMM, VU4AX, XU7O, YI5THA, ZS8W.
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