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8 July 2017                                               A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1366
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                         ****  DX  INFORMATION  ****
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                          Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

9L     - The March 2017 9L1T DXpedition  to  Sierra Leone [425DXN 1358]  has
         been cancelled as  the  licence  has  been  revoked  "for  security
         reason". [TNX IK7JWY]
A2     - Neven, LZ1COM will be active as A25NPD from Botswana on 14-16 July.
         He will operate SSB on 20 and 40 metres between 18 and 22 UTC.  QSL
         via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
EA     - Special callsign AM25FEDIEA is active on 1-31 July to celebrate the
         25th  anniversary  of  the  Federacion  Digital  EA.  Also, Spanish
         stations are allowed  to  use  special  prefixes  during  the  same
         period: EA# stations can use AM#25, EB# stations can use AN#25  and
         EC# stations can use AO#25.
G      - Once again the RSGB HQ team will participate in the IARU  HF  World
         Championship (8-9 July)  as  GR2HQ  from  different  DXCC  Entities
         within the UK. All GR2HQ QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW a few  weeks
         after the contest, with the correct DXCC entity shown (G, GJ, GM or
         GW). Paper QSL cards via  M0OXO's OQRS.  Information  on the awards
         for working GR2HQ can be found at http://gr2hq.webs.com/.
HA     - HG17FINA, HG17WWW a nd  other  eleven  special  callsigns  (HG17BF,
         HG17BT, HG17DA, HG17HA  and HG17VT,  plus HG17DV,  HG17HD,  HG17OW,
         HG17SW, HG17SY and  HG17WP  representing  the various  disciplines)
         will be  active  between  14 and 30 July  for  the  17th FINA World
         Aquatics Championships to be  held in Budapest.  QSL via operator's
         instructions. [TNX www.mrasz.hu]
I      - Alessio, IV3GDE and a large group of operators will be active  from
         the island of Santa Maria di Barbana (EU-130)  on 28-30 July.  They
         will be QRV on 80-10 metres as II3IOTA  (SSB, CW and digital modes)
         and as II3Y during the  IOTA Contest (SSB and CW).  QSL II3IOTA via
         IV3CTT (direct or bureau),  QSL II3Y via IV3OSC (direct or bureau).
         Plans are to upload the logs to Club Log. [TNX IV3GDE]
KH2    - JI3ERV, JE6HIB and JR7OMD will be active as AH2R from Guam (OC-026)
         on 7-11 July.  Main  activity  will  be  during  the  IARU HF World
         Championship. QSL via LoTW or JH7QXJ. [TNX NG3K]
PY     - Martin, LU9EFO will be active as PY8/LU9EFO  from  Ilha de Cotijuba
         (SA-060) on  10-15 July.  QSL  via  F4BHW  (direct)  or  PT2/LU9EFO
         (bureau). [TNX DX World]
UA     - The RI0Z IOTA DXpedition  to  the  Komandorskiye  Islands  (AS-039)
         [425DXN 1365] has been  cancelled  owing  to  insuperable transport
         problems  that emerged  when  the  team  had  already assembled  in
         Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
UA     - The RI0C IOTA DXpedition  to  Iony Island (AS-069) [425DXN 1356] is
         confirmed to be QRV  on  18-22 July, weather  and local  conditions
         permitting.  "If on the first day  our signal  will be weak - don't
         worry", RA1ZZ says.  "We will need some time  to drag equipment  to
         the top of the island on steep rocks and to supply  the directional
         antennas". Five operators (R7AL, RA1ZZ, RK8A, RW5D and UA3LMR) will
         run two stations  on  40, 30, 20, 17,  15  and  10 metres  CW, SSB,
         digital modes and  satellite.  QSL via Club Log's OQRS; traditional
         cards via R7AL (direct). Follow the team's progress and track their
         location at http://www.iony2017.com/plans.
V2     - Bill, KG4ZXN will be active holiday  style  as  V21XN  from Antigua
         (NA-100) "during the middle of July".  He will operate SSB, CW  and
         maybe some digital mode on  80-6 metres.  QSL via LoTW and eQSL, or
         direct to KG4ZXN; logsearch on Club Log. [TNX The Daily DX]
VE    -  VY2PLH  is  a  special   callsign  dedicated  to   operations  from
         lighthouses on  Prince Edward Island (NA-029).  Next activity  will
         take place on 14-16 July from Point Prim Lighthouse.  Expect VY2PLH
         to operate SSB  and  PSK31  on  the  HF bands.  QSL via VY2GF. [TNX
         Southgate ARC]
VK     - Craig, VK5CE will be active again as  VK5CE/p  from  Granite Island
         (OC-228) on 10 July.  He expects to be  QRV on 20 metres  between 4
         UTC and 7.30 UTC, looking for North America  and Asia on  the short
         path and for Europe on  the long path.  QSL via home call,  OQRS on
         Club Log (search for VK5CE/P_OC228).
W      - Once again Jon, WB8YJF will be active  as  WB8YJF/4  from  Ocracoke
         Island (NA-067) on 16-23 July. QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
         [TNX DX World]

IARU HF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ---> The object of  the  contest  is  to  contact
other amateurs around the world  - especially member-society HQ stations and
IARU officials - in as many ITU zones as possible on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and
10 metres CW and SSB.  This year's event (www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship)
will  run from  12 UTC on 8 July until  12 UTC on the 9th.  The following is
a selection  of  IARU  Member  Society   HQ stations  that  are  expected to
participate:
Call       DXCC                Mult
-----------------------------------
8N1HQ      Japan               JARL
8N2HQ      Japan               JARL
8N3HQ      Japan               JARL
8N4HQ      Japan               JARL
8N6HQ      Japan               JARL
8N7HQ      Japan               JARL
8N8HQ      Japan               JARL
9A0HQ      Croatia             HRS
AT1HQ      India               ARSI
B9HQ       China               CRAC
CR5HQ      Portugal            REP
DA0HQ      Germany             DARC
E2HQ       Thailand            RAST
EF4HQ      Spain               URE
EM5HQ      Ukraine             UARL
EW5HQ      Belarus             BFRR
GR2HQ      Various             RSGB
HB0A       Liechtenstein       AFVL
HB9HQ      Switzerland         USKA
II1HQ      Italy               ARI
II2HQ      Italy               ARI
II5HQ      Italy               ARI
II6HQ      Italy               ARI
II8HQ      Italy               ARI
II9HQ      Italy               ARI
LN2HQ      Norway              NRRL
LU4AA/D    Argentina           RCA
LU4AA/F    Argentina           RCA
LU4AA/O    Argentina           RCA
LX8HQ      Luxembourg          RL
LY0HQ      Lithuania           LRMD
LZ7HQ      Bulgaria            BFRA
NU1AW/5    USA                 IARU
OE0HQ      Austria             OVSV
OF100HQ    Finland             SRAL
OL8HQ      Czech Republic      CRC
OP0HQ      Belgium             UBA
OZ1HQ      Denamrk             EDR
PA6HQ      Netherlands         VERON
R0HQ       AS Russia           SRR
S50HQ      Slovenia            ZRS
SN0HQ      Poland              PZK
SX0HQ      Greece              RAAG
TC3HQ      Turkey              TRAC
TM0HQ      France              REF
UN1HQ      Kazakhstan          KFRR
VK5WIA     Australia           WIA
VP9HQ      Bermuda             RSB
VR20HK     Hong Kong           HARTS
W1AW/2     USA                 ARRL
XR3HQ      Chile               RCCH
YE0HQ      Indonesia           ORARI
YR0HQ      Romania             FRR
YT0HQ      Serbia              SRS
ZF1A       Cayman Isls         CARS
ZL6HQ      New Zealand         NZART
Members of the IARU Administrative  Council  and  the  three  IARU  regional
executive committees  will send a signal  report plus AC, R1,  R2  or R3, as
appropriate.

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

BAKER ISLAND --> "The  Dateline DX Association  (most recently the K4M team)
is very pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Pacific Islands
Refuges & Monuments Office of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to  pursue an
Amateur Radio expedition to Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge (KH1).  We
will announce  dates of  activation and  other pertinent  information once a
vessel has been selected and approval of  said vessel and dates is  approved
by the Service". The co-leaders for the DXpedition are N1DG, N4XP and K6TD.

CLUB LOG'S MOST WANTED LIST ---> The latest  Most Wanted List, generated  on
1  July  is  available  at   https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php.  The
information is derived  from   QSOs  uploaded  to  Club Log (currently 435.5
million log entries available for analysis) and, to  improve  quality,  only
QSOs that have QSLs confirmed are  considered to be worked.  The most wanted
charts are rebuilt once per month, on average.

E6AG ---> The  website  for  VK5GR's  14-25 September  operation  from  Niue
[425DXN 1365] is now up and running at http://e6ag.net.

QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards  on  Les  Nouvelles  DX's
web site has been updated. Fifteen different galleries include 14,829  cards
for the  ten Most  Wanted  DXCC  Entities  (2004-16), the  62  deleted  DXCC
Entities, obsolete prefixes,  stations  from  Maghreb  from  1945  to  1962,
Allied Forces stations in Germany (1945-70), special stations  commemorating
ITU and IARU, stations using the United Nations prefix (4U), Antarctic bases
and TAAF (Terres  Australes and Antarctiques Francaises), the various French
DXCC island Entities in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas
(from 1945 to 1970), pre-1945  countries, French Departments and CONUS, plus
a gallery for cards not accepted  by DXCC. Your participation is encouraged:
http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/galerieqsl.php. [TNX F6AJA].

V6J ---> V6J logged some 3,200 QSOs  from  Mwokil Island (OC-226).  Activity
started around 3 UTC on 1 July, and  finished at  20.57 UTC on the 6th.  QSL
via  Club Log's  OQRS  (https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/V6J_OC226),  or
direct only to JP3AYQ.

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                         ******* QSL  ROUTES *******
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                          Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

===================================================================
CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER
===================================================================
3D2TS       FK1TS       CX6DZ       EA5GL       R110FN      RA2FN
3DA0AY      ZS6AYE      CX9AU       EA5GL       R1451M      RK3AW
3E1FD       HP1RCP      DA0COTA     DF2DD       R1CA/3      R1CX
3V8CB       LX1NO       DL0SOP      DL4SVA      R25ILIM     UA1OMS
3V8SS       LX1NO       DU1IST      JA1HGY      R44QFF      UA3QII
4L1FL       EA7FTR      DU3LA       W3HNK       RI1ON       RN1ON
4M1K        OH0XX       EA6/EI6DX   RA3R        RJ75OS      RA1ALA
4M4C        YV4YC       ED9E        EA9ACD      RL5G        RW3GW
4M5EN       YV5EN       EF0F        EA4URE      RY2A        DJ1MM
4M6CQ       YV6BXN      EF9R        EA5KB       S500R       S53M
4V1G        W3HNK       EG7FCJ      EA7FC       S557E       S50O
4X6TT       N4GNR       EG8JCT      EA8URA      SC40VIC     SM6JSM
5H3EE       DL4ME       EP2LMA      EA5GL       SN0STILON   SP3YPR
5Z4FV       N3ZS        EV25L       EU4AC       SN84LOT     SP1PMY
7V5J        7X2DD       EX9T        EX8MLE      SV0XBF/SV8  VK2IR
7X2VFK      7X2DD       GB13COL     G0VLF       SX9VK       SV1JG
7X5QB       EA7FTR      GD0A        M0OXO       T32AZ       KH6QJ
8J60JARE   8J60JARE  GD4SKA      M0OXO       T88HR       JH1MLO
8J60JARE    JG2MLI  [d] GM3TTC/p    G3TTC       T88TJ       JR1FKR
8Q7RN       G4IRN       H2017PFO    5B4AIE      TM100LGG    F4GRW
9A8GHJ/p    OE7GHJ      HA60FMV     HA5FMV      TM24TDF     F6KHS
9H3IT       IK4ALM      HA60KNA     HA3KNA      TM39TDF     F8GGZ
9M6XRO      M0URX       HB600NVF    HB9JOE      TM47OAG     F4FWI
9Q6BB       W3HNK       HF1997OP    SP6PAZ      TM500LH     F6KOH
A61ZA       IZ8CLM      II1ASGE     IQ1GE       TM50KOK     F4HIK
A71EM       M0OXO       II2FIST     IZ2FME      TM50SNSM    F4GPB
AL4Q/7      DJ8QP       IQ0RU       9A5URI      TM53IMW     F6KSU
AM325PP     EA3PP       JW7QIA      LA7QIA      TM5MC       F4KJV
AM525YJ     EA5YJ       K2QXI/KH0   JJ2QXI      TM95ARAM    F6DEO
AM725NL     EA7NL       KH0/KW2X    JG7PSJ      TM9MC       F8KKH
AM725QL     EA7QL       KH2L        W3HNK       TZ5XR       F5MXH
AM8TID      EA8NQ       LY17LP      LY2KM       UE80AR      RN1ON
AN425APF    EB4APF      LY764KM     LY3X        UK8OK       EA7FTR
AO110DD     EC1DD       LZ120RK     LZ1ZF       V6J         JP3AYQ
B7CRA       BA4TB       LZ284SKD    LZ1KCP      VC3C2C      VE3DC
C6ADX       W8GEX       MC0NRC      M0NRC       VK9AA       HL2UVH
CF3CCO      VE3CX       OD5YA       EA5GL       VR20CO      VR2CO
CF7RR       VA7RR       OF100FI     OH2BAD      VR20UW      VR2UW
CG1BB       VE1MMD      OF11WCA     OG2K        VR20XMT     VR2XMT
CG3NLS      VE3NLS      OJ0V        ON5TC       VX3150      VE3XN
CG5FX       VE5FX       OM2017WYAC  OM3CND      VY2/WS5K    M0URX
CG9EX       VE9EX       ON650PEER   ON4AST      W1NDE/KH0   JE1NDE
CP1XRM      EA5RM       PJ2ND       K8ND        XW4XR       E21EIC
CP4BT       DJ2BW       R100K       RA1OD       YJ0GA       ZL3GA
CX2DK       EA5GL       R110A       RU3WR       ZF2AE       AA5UK
CX3TQ       IK2DUW      R110FBO     R2FBO       ZS8Z        ZS1LS

9M4DXX     Tex Izumo, P.O. Box 125, General Post Office, 10710 Pulau Pinang,
           Malaysia
AM25FEDIEA Federacion Digital EA, Apartado Postal 3050, 08200 Sabadell
          (Barcelona), Spain
CO9KAA     Raul Verdecie Fernandez, Calle Angel Guardia No. 119, e/Adolfo
           Villamar y Francisco Varona, CP 75100 Las Tunas, Cuba
DJ2BW      Hermann Samson, Kollergangstrasse 11, 64625 Bensheim, Germany
EA5RM      Antonio Gonzales, Apartado 930, 03200 Elche (Alicante), Spain
HG7DANUBE  Szekely Jozsef, Budakalasz, Kinizsi u. 5, 2011, Hungary
HS8AB      Bancha Chansirikamon, NBTC, 84/2 Moo 4, Vichitsongkram Road,
           Tambon Kathu, Phuket, 83120, Thailand
HV0A       Francesco Valsecchi, Via Bitossi 21, 00136 Roma RM, Italy
JP3AYQ     Mayumi Sanada, 9-20-1203 Kori-nishi-no-cho, Neyagawa-shi,
           Osaka-fu, 572-0089, Japan
OZ30EU     Svend Erik Kofod, Kanegaardsvej 4, 3700 Roenne, Denmark
TZ4PR      Andre Burgermeister, 260 rue du Luminet, 91690 Guillerval, France
VR20XAN    Alberto Annesi, 1/F 7A Nam Shan Road, Peng Chau, Hong Kong
VX7150     Doug Pichette, 401-333 Martin Street, Penticton, BC V2A 5K7,
           Canada
YW450ARV   Esteban Romagni, 263 Cross Point CV, Collierville TN 38017 USA
ZL3GA      Geoff D. Clark, 38A Sneyd Street, Kaiapoi 7630, New Zealand

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