425 DX News #1776
Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 10:59 am
17 May 2025 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1776
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
5R - Gianpi, IK1TTD will be active holiday style as 5R8TD from Madagas-
car in late May-early June. He will be QRV from Nosy Be (AF-057) on
27 May-4 June, and from Tsarabanjina, Mitsio Islands (AF-057) on 4-
11 June. QSL via home call; QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and -
hopefully - livestreamed on https://www.qsohunter.net/it/Index/353.
CO - Team T48JM will be active on 19-23 May to commemorate the 130th
anniversary of the death of Cuban national hero Jose Marti. Look
for activity on 160-10 metres SSB, CW, FT8, and FT4, as well as on
6 and 2m. QSL via QRZ Logbook, via email ([email protected]), or
via RW6HS.
E6 - Bob, ZL1RS will be active as E6RS from Niue (OC-040) from 27 May to
2 June. He will be QRV primarily on 6 metres FT8, with the main
focus on ionospheric propagation and some activity on 10 metres if
the Magic Band is closed. He will also be on 6m EME for about one
hour at each moonrise and moonset - for more information see
https://www.qsl.net/zl1rs/e6_eme.html. QSL via home call; QSOs will
be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW.
FY - Antonio, DL4EA will be active holiday style as FY/DL4EA from French
Guiana on 19-21 May. He will be QRV on satellites (RS-44 and QO-
100), with some QRP activity on the HF bands. See https://hams.at
for satellite activations.
KH8 - Bob, K0NR and Joyce, K0JJW will be active as KH8/K0NR and KH8/K0JJW
from American Samoa from 27 May to 9 June. "Our primary objective
is activating SOTA summits, using 20m thru 10m on SSB, FT8 & FT4,
10 watts to wire antennas", they say. "We plan to do some off-
summit operating, including some POTA activations". QSL via LoTW
only.
OH0 - Team OH0ERF (DG0OCG, DL1STL, DL1TAM, DL5ARI, DL5AXI and DO6KD) will
be active from Eckero, Aland Islands (EU-002) on 22-27 May. They
will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 metres, as
well as on 70cm and QO-100. QSL via DK0ERF; QSOs will be uploaded
to LoTW and Club Log.
PZ - Antonio, DL4EA will be active holiday style as PZ5EA from Suriname
on 22-26 May. He will be QRV on satellites (RS-44 and QO-100), with
some QRP activity on the HF bands. QSL via LotW and eQSL.
T8 - Look for T88DZ (QSL via JR2JGR), T88HF (QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or
direct to JF1GHX), and T88SG (QSL via JK1SZX) to be active on
various bands and modes from Koror (OC-009) Palau on 22 May-1 June.
YO - YO160ITU is the special callsign for the Federatia Romana de Radio-
amatorism (FRR) to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Interna-
tional Telecommunications Union on 16-31 May. An anniversary diplo-
ma will be available, see https://www.qrz.com/db/YO160ITU for in-
formation.
ZA - Active on various bands and modes from 9 to 31 May, ZA25GIA is a
special callsign to mark this year's edition of the Giro d'Italia,
the annual multiple-stage cycling race whose three opening stages
took place in Albania. QSL via Club Log's OQRS.
ZL - ZL100IARU is the special callsign for New Zealand's IARU member
society, NZART, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Interna-
tional Amateur Radio Union from 1 May to 31 July. QSOs will be
uploaded to QRZ Logbook and LoTW.
ZL7 - Holger, ZL3IO will be active again as ZL7IO from Waitangi, Chatham
Islands (OC-038) on 19-26 May. This will be "a working bee trip",
he says, "since we have damages to antennas, and problems with the
power supply". QSL via LoTW, Club Log's OQRS (preferred), or via
DK7AO.
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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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IARU SPECIAL STAMP ---> The RL, Radioamateurs du Luxembourg has announced
that Luxembourg's Post Philately has issued a special postage stamp for the
100th anniversary of the IARU. The stamp and the matching card are available
on https://www.postphilately.lu/en-US/Products?qr=iaru. They can also be
purchased at the RL booth at Hamradio Friedrichshafen in June; pre-orders
can be sent to [email protected] until 31 May.
KH7AL/KH9 ---> Allen's next scheduled activities, which are announced regu-
larly on https://kh7al.site/kh9-upcoming-activity/, are:
17 May 07:00-"until I pass out" 17m FT8
18 May 20:00-23:59, 12m FT8
21 May 16:30-19:00, 17m SSB
24 May 07:00-10:00, 15m FT8
26 May 20:00-23:59, 15m CW
29 May 07:00-10:00, 17m CW
31 May 07:00-10:00, 17m FT8
01 Jun 07:00-10:00, 30m CW
All times listed are UTC. "Given the exponential increase in QSOs now that I
started in FT8", Allen says, "if the system did not log our contact, we will
have to try again another time. I apologize, but I physically do not have
enough time in the day to review screenshots and logs in the hopes for me to
confirm the contact. We get to live another day in hopes for better band
conditions to tx/rx". His new email address is [email protected].
WTISD ---> Proclaimed in 2006 by the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, World
Telecommunication and Information Society Day is celebrated annually on 17
May. Special event stations taking part in this year's celebrations include
* A91WTIS from Bahrain (11-17 May, QSL via EC6DX)
* A60WTIS from the United Arab Emirates (15-22 May, QSL via EA7FTR); also
look for A60WTIS to be activated with different suffix extensions (see
qrz.com for the QSL routes).
* ER0ITU from Moldova on 10-31 May (QSL via LoTW, eQSL, QRZ Logbook, or via
ER1BF).
ZS8W ---> Yuris, ZS8W went QRT from Marion Island on 13 May; according to
Club Log, the last logged QSO was made at 09:42 UTC. Activity started on 27
April and stopped for some 70 hours between 1 and 4 May. Yuris made 31,672
QSOs (27379 FT8, 4242 CW, 51 SSB) with 9840 unique callsigns on 160-10m. QSL
via Club Log's OQRS (direct and bureau), or direct to YL2GN.
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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4Z77YA 4X4YA D44TWO M0OXO RP80GR RC8SA
7X2DE EA5GL D44ZZI M0OXO RP80L RV1CC
7X2KF EA5GL DL100DM DL8FA RP80MP RT9OM
8K3EXPO JA3UJR DU3/F4EBK F4EUO RP80NT R9YB
9A80DP 9A2B EG8FMR EA8URV RP80OBP RA6YJ
9A925T 9A2EU EH1DIO EA1FMJ RP80SP R3OS
9J2BO EA5GL EH7IR EA7LH RP80SVY RN3RQ
A44A EC6DX ER0ITU ER1BF RP80TT R9CX
A60WTIS/21 EA7FTR EV80F EW3W RP80U RG8A
A60WTIS/5 EA7FTR EY8ZE W0VTT RP80UA R2DUH
A71CT LZ1YE GB0AEL MI0HOZ RP80ZKS RU3T
A71VV M0OXO GU6EFW ON6EF SN0RV SP7VC
A91WTIS EC6DX HB25ESC HB9EAS SP100RADIO SP9PTA
AM1100A EC1A HC5AI M0OXO SP105JPII SP3PDO
AM1100DD EC1DD HG40CW HA3NU SV0XAF HB9EBC
AN7100DX EB7DX HH2AA EB7DX SZ1AB SV1ENG
AO1100AUM EA1AUM HP1XV EA5HB TG9ADV VE7BV
AO1100COA EA1COA HS0ZJF ON4AFU TG9AWS N2OO
AO1100HS EA1HS HS0ZOY KA3LKM TM200EN F4DTO
AO1100YD EA1YD II1AAB IQ1CM TM45END F5JYD
AO3100HYN EA3HYN II2BPSJ IQ2CJ TM82REF F6GTX
AO5100BM EA5BM IR0APTT IQ0AK V51F DL3DXX
AO5100FLS EA5FLS LI8MAI LA5YJ VE2CSI M0URX
AO5100N EA5N OH0JV DL7RV VP8DPD EA5GL
AO6100VQ EA6VQ OL730PLZ OK1DRQ XV9B E21EIC
AO7100GSL EA7GSL OT25EPIC ON8JJ YI3AA IK2DUW
AO7100IYF EA7IYF OY/4X6TT N4GNR YW100IARU EA7FTR
AO7100TG EA7TG PA80FREE PA2TIN YY7CAR EA7FTR
AT44I VU2DGR PB6MILL PI4LDN Z21ML N4GNR
CB2MAR CE2LK PF99MILL PF9W Z68TT I2YSB
CP4BT IK2DUW PJ2/W4IPC EB7DX Z68ZZ I2YSB
CP5HK EC6DX RP80G RV1CC ZD8GB EA5GL
CR2AEC CT8ACN RP80GDN R4IT ZP6/N3BNA KA2AEV
4U0ITU IARC, P.O. Box 6, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
AO8EU Federacion Digital EA, Apartado Postal 3050, 08200 Sabadell
(Barcelona), Spain
HV5PUL Luca Della Giovampaola, Via Cremera 11, 00198 Roma RM, Italy
I2YSB Silvano Borsa, Viale Capettini 1, 27036 Mortara PV, Italy
J42A Savvas Pavlidis, PO Box 4220, Perea, 570 19 Thermaikos, Greece
LZ75IPA Emil Stoykov, Ul. Kozlodui 5 et.5 ap.36, 6008 Stara Zagora,
Bulgaria
OH0CO Bengt E. Karlsson, Laerkstigen 4, SE-546 33 Karlsborg, Sweden
SN2WS Piotr Sobota, Janosika 5/40, 85-794 Bydgoszcz, Poland
VC3COPS David Lambert, 28 Blue Ridge Crescent, London ON N6K 2X1, Canada
W9IMS Indianapolis Motor Speedway Amateur Radio Club, P.O. Box 30954,
Indianapolis IN 46230, USA
Z36T Ace Jevremov, Postfach 14, 82378 Peissenberg, Germany
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