7 July 2018 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1418
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
A2 - Andre, NJ0F will be active again as A25A from Botswana on 13-20
July. He will operate SSB, CW, RTTY, FT8 on 80-10 metres. QSL
direct to NJ0F. [TNX DX World]
EI - Olivier, ON4EI will be active again as EI8GQB from Fethard, Ireland
(EU-115) on 8-18 July using an hybrid wind-solar power system from
his caravan. He will participate in the IARU HF World Championship
as EI7T (the Tipperary Radio Club's special call, as he cannot use
EI1A any longer). QSL EI8GQB via LoTW or via PA3249 (direct or
bureau), QSL EI7T via LoTW. See www.qrz.com/db/EI8GQB.
F - Members of the Radio Club des collines de l'Artois will use special
callsign TM100ARM on 12-16 July in memory of the French Army's
Moroccan Division which fought in World War I, and again on 9-12
November to mark Armistice Day. QSL direct to F5IQG.
I - Giuseppe, IK5WWA will be active as IB0P from Ponza Island (EU-045)
on 15-26 July. He will operate SSB and FT8 on 80-6 metres. QSL via
home call. [TNX IK5WWA]
KH9 - Philip, N7NVK is going back to Wake Island [425DXN 1403] on 6 July.
He will be QRV in his spare time, typically between 7 and 9 UTC
(weekdays). Usually he operates FT8 and some SSB on 20 and 40m.
Updates will be posted to https://www.qrz.com/db/KH9/N7NVK. [TNX
The Daily DX]
OZ - Carsten, OZ4CG from Bornholm Island (EU-030) is active again as
OZ4SOP for the Sea Of Peace Award until 31 July. QSL via Club Log's
OQRS, LoTW and eQSL.
OZ - Once again OZ1HQ will be the Experimenterende Danske Radioamatorer
(EDR) HQ station for the IARU HF World Championship (14-15 July).
QSL via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, eQSL, or via OZ1ACB. Information on
the new "Danish Headquarters Award" for working OZ1HQ can be found
at http://www.oz1hq.dk/.
SM - Eric, SM1TDE is active as SJ1SOP from Gotland Island (EU-020) for
the Sea Of Peace Award until 31 July. QSL via home call, LoTW and
eQSL; logsearch on Club Log.
UA9 - R0LS, RM0L, RW0LD and RW0LZ will be active as R0LS/p from Rechnoy
Island (AS-066) on 7 July, for some 20 hours starting around 4 UTC.
They will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 40, 20 and 17 metres. QSL via
R0LS, direct or bureau. [TNX qrz.ru]
VE - Pierre, VE3KTB will be active again as VY0ERC on 8-21 July. This is
the Eureka Amateur Radio Club station located in the environs of
the weather station on Ellesmere Island (NA-008). QSL via M0OXO's
OQRS. [TNX M0OXO]
VE - Bruce, KD6WW Mike, K9AJ will be active as KD6WW/VY0 and K9AJ/VY0
from Fafarad Island (NA-207) on 19-23 July. The last operation from
this rare IOTA Group was 18 years ago. They will be QRV with two
stations on 40-17 metres. CW will be their primary mode, but they
also plan some SSB "and FT8 is a possibility". QSL via Club Log's
OQRS, or via home calls (direct or bureau). [TNX K9AK]
VK - David, VK3DRH will be active as VK3DRH/4 from Lizard Island
(OC-187) on 5-11 July. He will operate QRP SSB on 40, 20 and 15
metres during his local evenings, from around 11 UTC. QSL via Club
Log's OQRS, LoTW or direct to home call. [TNX DX World]
W - NJ4Y, N4ESS and KE4AL will be active as K4R from Garden Key, Dry
Tortugas (NA-079) on 6-8 July. The "main purpose for the trip is to
activate EL84, one of the maidenhead grids with the least land area
of any in the CONUS, on satellites and 6m". They will operate on
the HF bands "as time, band conditions, and battery power allow".
QSL via LOTW, or direct to NJ4Y. See http://k4r2018.com/ for
more information; updates will be posted to their public Twitter
account (https://twitter.com/K4R_EL84).
ZF - Mike, NA6MB and Gayle, K6GO will be active as ZF2NA and ZF2GO
respectively from the Cayman Islands (NA-016) on 11-22 July. QSLs
via LoTW, or home calls. During the IARU HF World Championship and
the North American QSO Party RTTY (21-22 July) they will use ZF1A
(QSL LoTW or K6AM). [TNX The Daily DX]
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Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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3Y0I ---> "We haven't been updating our website recently, but we've been
focused on securing crucial details of arrangements of our project", the
3Y0I (Bouvet Island) Team reported on 5 July. Read their "When no news means
good news" post on https://bouvetoya.org/blog/.
KH1/KH7Z ---> The team on Baker Island went QRT on 5 July at 12 UTC and is
now underway, enroute to Fiji. Their voyage should take approximately six
days. According to Club Log's statistics, as of 21:30 UTC on 4 July they had
made 64,434 QSOs with 17,308 unique callsigns. The final log will be posted
as soon as possible. QSL via Club Log's OQRS (direct or bureau), or direct
to K4TSJ, P.O. Box 333, Bethlehem, GA 30620, USA. The Dateline DX Associa-
tion "has a policy of uploading all pre-QRV donor's QSOs to LoTW when we
return from the DXpedition and are confident the logs are correct. We expect
this to be about 10 days after we QRT. For all others, the logs will be
posted 3-6 months after the conclusion of the DXpedition".
QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards on Les Nouvelles DX's
website has been updated. Sixteen different galleries include 15,908 cards
for the ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities (2008-17), 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].
WRTC 2018 & VOACAP ---> Jari, OH6BG has prepared a starter set of
propagation tools and analysis for next weekend's World Radiosport Team
Championship: http://voacap.com/wrtc2018/. "It will give you valuable
insights into making propagation predictions in general, and a set of pre-
calculated point-to-point, band-by-band prediction tables, together with an
extensive set of coverage area maps. All predictions are via Short Path. If
you wish to make more detailed predictions, or look for any Long Path
openings, please visit http://voacap.com/hf using the input values on the
WRTC 2018 page".
+ SILENT KEY + DXpeditioner extraordinaire Erik A. Sjoelund, SM0AGD passed
away on 4 July. Born in 1934 and inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame in
1981, his DX activity spanned 30 years (see https://www.qrz.com/db/sm0agd).
Highlights of his career include the 1974-76 operations from Serrana Bank
(HK0AB) and Bajo Nuevo (HK0AA), several operations from Africa (notably
Equatorial Guinea, Annobon, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome, Lesotho, Botswana,
Rwanda, Swaziland and Zaire - today's Democratic Republic of the Congo), the
unforgettable 1982 Transpacific DXpedition (3D2DX, 5W1EC, C21NI, FW0AG,
SM0AGD/KH1, SM0AGD/KH8, T2AGD, T30CB, T31AE, T32AJ, ZK1AF from the North
Cook Islands and ZM7AG from Tokelau), the 1997 expedition to Kure and Miday
(K7K and K4M), and the 1999 "Double Trouble DXpedition" to Central Kiribati
and Tokelau (T31T/T31K and ZK3DX/ZK3CW).
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FP/KV1J KV1J P29RR ZL1BQD ZF2RM K3TRM
4K6/DL7ZM David J. Pommerenke, 205 Sooter Lane, Rolla MO 65401, USA
5K4CSA Santiago Vasques Giraldo, Cra 49 #135 Sur 48,
Caldas Antioquia 055440, Colombia
5V7SM C.A.R Marc, BP 1013, 87050 Limoges Cedex 2, France
9A11VEDA RK Ludbreg, P.P. 9, HR-42230 Ludbreg, Croatia
9L1YXJ Mark A. Brewer, 2160 Freetown Pl, Dulles VA 20189-2160, USA
CE7VPQ Javier Capdebilla Alvarado, 22 de Mayo 274, 5790166 Quellon, Chile
EC1DD Bernardo Dominguez Barros, Avda Elduayen 19 4E, 36380 Gondomar,
Pontevedra, Spain
ED9E Jose Antonio Mendez Rios, Calle Martin Moreno 15-1, 51002 Ceuta,
Spain
KH1/KH7Z K4TSJ, P.O. Box 333, Bethlehem, GA 30620, USA
KV1J Eric Williams, 763 Pleasant St, Marlboro MA 01752, USA
VQ5Z Pete Csanky, 4 Ravensdale Road, Cobourg, ON K9A 2B9, Canada
YW18FIFA Radio Club Venezolano, Apartado Postal 20285, Caracas 1020-A DC,
Venezuela
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