2 July 2022 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1626 =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** DX INFORMATION **** =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW 5X - Elvira, IV3FSG has been in Uganda since 23 June, and will remain there until 13 July. In her spare time she operates mainly digital modes and SSB as 5X3R. QSL direct to IK2DUW; plans are to upload the QSOs to Club Log and LoTW. 7Q - Fresh from their recent Z21RU operation from Zimbabwe [425DXN 1623], Russian DXpedition Team's members R7AL, RA1ZZ and RW9JZ will be QRV as 7Q5RU from the Embangweni Mission Hospital in Malawi from 30 June until 10 July. They plan to pay special attention to SSB, as the last time they were there (7Q7RU, November-December 2020) Phone QSOs were only 5,000 out of 47,000. QSL via Club Log's OQRS. CO - A large group of operators will be active as T41DX from Playa Boca de Galafre on the main island of Cuba (NA-015) on 14-17 July. Look for activity on 80-10 metres SSB, CW, FT8, FT4, RTTY, SSTV. QSL via LoTW, or direct to RW6HS. I - Look for Luca, IL7/IK5AEQ to be active again from San Domino, Tre- miti Islands (EU-050) on 2-8 July. He will operate SSB, FT8 and FT4 on 40-6m, possibly also on 2m. QSL via home call. [TNX IK5AEQ] JA - The following HQ stations representing JARL will be active from various regions of Japan for the IARU HF World Championship: Band/mode Call Location ------------------------------------------ 160m CW 8N8HQ Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 160m SSB 8N2HQ Okazaki-shi, Aichi 80m CW 8N1HQ Minamiashigara-shi, Kanagawa 80m SSB 8N7HQ Yonezawa/shi, Yamagata 40m CW 8N2HQ Okazaki-shi, Aichi 40m SSB 8N9HQ Nanto-shi, Toyama 20m CW 8N8HQ Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido 20m SSB 8N1HQ Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 15m CW 8N6HQ Aso-gun, Kumamoto 15m SSB 8N8HQ Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 10m CW 8N1HQ Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 10m SSB 8N8HQ Ishikari-gun, Hokkaido All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the JARL QSL bureau. LA - Ari, OH3KAV will be active again as LA/OH3KAV from Rostlandet, Lofoten Islands (EU-076) on 6-8 July. He will operate mainly FT8 and CW on 40-10 metres. QSL via LoTW, or via the bureau to home call. OE - OE60STMK is the special callsign that Franz, OE6WIG and other mem- bers of OEVSV Landesverband Steiermark (OE6XFG, the Styrian region- al association within Austria's IARU society) will be using from 1 July to 31 August to celebrate their 60th anniversary. QSL via the bureau to OE6WIG. OZ - Volker, DJ8VW has been active as 5P8VW from Romo Island (EU-125) since 26 June, and will remain there until 16 July. He can operate SSB, CW, FT8 and FT4 on 160-4m. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, Club Log's OQRS (preferred), or via home call. PJ2 - This year the Dave Kalter Memorial "Youth DX Adventure" will see a team consisting of three teenagers (K6BFL, KE8MMS and KO4FFA) be active again as PJ2Y from Curacao (SA-099) on 14-19 July. Plans are to be QRV on all bands SSB, CW, FT8 and possibly some satellites. See https://www.qsl.net/n6jrl/ for more information. QSL direct to AB8YK; the logs will be uploaded to LoTW and Club Log. SP - Ed, ES2TT plans to be active from the islands of Wolin (EU-132, SP/ ES2TT) and Uznam/Usedom (EU-129, SP/ES2TT and/or DL/ES2TT) between 15 and 18 July. He will operate CW and SSB on 40, 30 and 20m. QSL via Club Log's OQRS (preferred), or via home call. Bureau cards can be requested by email. VK - VK75FAA is a special callsign celebrating the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Australian Navy's aviation branch. Activity will start on 3 July from the HMAS Alba- tross naval air station at Nowra, New South Wales. From 4 July un- til the end of October the callsign will be used by amateurs from around Australia on a roster basis. YB - Special callsign YH0R will be activated on 9-17 July to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Organisasi Radio Amatir Indonesia (ORARI), Indonesia's IARU member society. Look for activity on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres CW, SSB, FT8 and RTTY. The logs will be uploaded to LoTW, eQSL and Club Log. An anniversary award will be available on https://award.orari.or.id. Z6 - Z66X has been QRV from Kosovo since 27 June, and will continue until 4 July with a strong emphasis on 6 metres FT8 (50313 and 50323 kHz). Depending on propagation, Z66X might also show up on 6m CW and SSB. QSL via OH2BH. ZL - Special event station ZL90GQ will be on the air throughout July to celebrate the 90th anniversary of NZART Southland Branch 37 (ZL4GQ) based in Invercargill, New Zealand. A commemorative certificate will be available, see https://www.qrz.com/db/ZL90GQ for informa- tion. =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** **** GOOD TO KNOW ... **** =========================== 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! CY0S ---> In addition to the standard mode operations, the CY0S DXpedition to Sable Island (www.cy0s.com) will see Lee, WW2DX being QRV on 2m EME. Pat, N2IEN will include Satellite operations as conditions permit. The DXpedition is scheduled for the October/November time frame, but Parks Canada has till to determine the exact dates. FT8DMC ACTIVITY DAYS ---> Several special event callsigns are expected to be activated on 4-17 July to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club (https://ft8dmc.eu/): Argentina LR8FTDMC Austria OE05FTDMC, OE0FTDMC Bahrain A91FTDMC Brazil ZY2FTDMC Canada VC3FTDMC Denmark OZ8FTDM France TM5FTDM, TM8FTDM Germany DQ8FTDMC Guadeloupe TO8FTDM Indonesia 8B0FTDM, 8B1FTDM, 8B2FTDM, 8B3FTDM, 8B4FTDM, 8B5FTDM, 8B6FTDM, 8B7FTDM, 8B8FTDM, 8B9FTDM Italy II2FTDM, II8FTDM Luxembourg LX8FTDM New Zealand ZL6FTDMC North Macedonia Z3FTDMC Romania YQ6FTDMC Saudi Arabia HZ8FTDMC Uruguay CW8FTDM Wales GB0DMC QSL via operator's instructions. See https://ft8dmc.com for the downloadable FTDMC Anniversary Award. QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards on Les Nouvelles DX's website has been updated. Sixteen different galleries include 19,816 cards for the ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities (2012-21), 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 and Antarctiques Francaises), the various French DXCC island Entities in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas (from 1945 to 1969), 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]. QSL TX5N ---> All direct QSLs were posted on 30 June, M0URX reports. Bureau cards will be shipped to the individual IARU bureaux in the next coming weeks. VK0MQ ---> "I'll be on air through to around October", Matt, VK0MQ says. He is QRV from Macquarie Island [425DXN 1624] in his limited spare time, "which is shared with other hobbies and relaxing. I also spend time completing work in the field for up to a week or more at a time". For the time being he operates FT8 Fox & Hound mode, as this is "the best way to give the most operators the chance to work me". Look for him on 3567, 7056, 10131, 14083, 18095, 21091, 24911 and 28091 kHz. He uploads his QSOs on Club Log and LoTW, paper QSL arrangements to be decided. =========================== *** 4 2 5 D X N E W S *** ******* QSL ROUTES ******* =========================== Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH Direttore Responsabile I2VGW =================================================================== CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER CALL MANAGER =================================================================== 3B9FR M0OXO EG5HSJ EA5RKB PE44FF PH0NO 3DA0AQ EA5GL EG7FAM EA7RCM PJ4NX M0URX 4O9KOM EB7DX EG7FCJ EA7FC R1160GB RW1QN 5B4AGN M0URX EG7FDA EA7URI R120ZF R2AB 5B4AQC DK6SP EH2SM EA2IR R90SOK RA1QD 5P8VW DJ8VW EH3ARA EC3ACO RK20LH RZ3EC 5W1SA JA1DXA EP2C EA5GL SP1050CED SP1KZE 5X3R IK2DUW EP2MRK RW6HS SQ75ZOT SP1EG 5Z4BU EA5GL ER0FEO EA5AA SX2PLSK SV2BXZ 5Z4VJ M0URX EX8MCD RW6HS TC6NUT YM7KK 7O/DL7ZM DL7ZM FM5BH W3HNK TG9AJR M0URX 7R19MG IK2DUW FP/KV1J KV1J TI5/N3KS M0URX 7Y19MG 7X2VFK GB2HMM GW4TTA TM109TDF F8GGZ 7Z1BL IZ8CLM HC1M EC5R TM17FFF F4GFE 8C1339PDS YB4HQ HF30STB SP9SCI TM17JM F1OOG 9K2JJ EA5GL HF78AK SP8MMW TM2YT F5KRH A71XX EC6DX HF800M SP9PKS TM72LMC F1IEH A75GT N4GNR HZ1CY A61BK VB4LIGMA VA4BEN A91PSD EC6DX HZ1TT A61BK VC3DEEZ VE3GKT AP2HA JA1WIO J28JD EA5GL VK0WN VK7WN BW/JH4RHF OE1JUN JD1AJD JA1ADT VP2ETE W3HNK C91CCY K3IRV JD1BMH JD1BMH VX5RAA VA5DX CO3JR EA7FTR JD1BMH JG7PSJ [d] XZ2B JH3SIF CP5HK EC6DX JW7QIA LA7QIA YB8DEV/p YB8HZ CR3DX OM2VL KP2B EB7DX YB8DKL/p YB8HZ D44PM IZ4DPV KP2BH EB7DX YB8HZ/p YB8HZ DL/AD8FJ E25KAE LZ1GLASS LZ1KAK YC8AQY/p YB8HZ DU3LA W3HNK NL8F N7RO YC8BNZ/p YB8HZ EA6/EI6DX RA3R OA9DVK IK6BFH YC8ES/p YB8HZ EA8OM DJ1OJ OD5TX IZ8CLM YD8BUL/p YB8HZ EF0F EA4URE OJ0JR OH3JR YR6MUSEUM YO6KNE EF8K EA8DET OL5GMA/p OK3EQ Z21RU R7AL EF8L EA8URU OZ50DDXG OZ1ACB Z66X OH2BH EG1ROU EA1URO PC70RH PF1SCT ZS3Y N4GNR 7P8AB Mark A. Brewer, 2340 Maseru Pl, Dulles VA 20189-2340, USA 9N7AA Slavko Celarc, Ob Igriscu 8, 1360 Vrhnika, Slovenia DL0SOP Georg Tretow, Postfach 1114, 23931 Grevesmuehlen, Germany DL7ZM David Pommerenke, Institute of Electronics, Inffeldgasse 12, 8010 Graz, Austria E76C Boris Knezovic, P.O. Box 59, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina LZ18NATO George Kolarov, PO Box 2, 9200 Provadia, Bulgaria OJ0MR Pertti Turunen, Kolunkulma 157, FI-17130 Vesivehmaa, Finland OV1CDX Frank Fendahl, Svinoevej 2, 4750 Lundby, Denmark OX3LX Joergen Roemming, Brandelev Stationsvej 9, 4700 Naestved, Denmark YB8HZ H. 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