9 December 2017 A.R.I. DX Bulletin
No 1388
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
E4 - Elvira, IV3FSG has been active again as E44YL from Bethlehem,
Palestine since 5 December, and will remain there until 18
December. QSL via IK3GES.
HL - Celebrating the XXIII Olympic Winter Games that will be held next
year in PyeongChang (https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en), special
event station DT23WOP is active until 28 February 2018. All QSOs
will be confirmed automatically via the bureau and LoTW.
JD1_oga- Once again Harry, JG7PSJ will be active as JD1BMH from Chichijima
(AS-031), Ogasawara from 24 December to 2 January. He will operate
CW, SSB and RTTY on 160-10 metres. QSL via JD1BMH (bureau) or
JG7PSJ (direct). See http://sapphire.es.tohoku.ac.jp/jd1bmh/ for
logsearch and other information. He does not use LoTW.
JW - Morten, LA4JSA will be active as JW4JSA from Bear Island (EU-027),
Svalbard until 1 June 2018. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
OE - The International Amateur Radio Contest DX Club based in Vienna,
Austria will be active as 4Y1A on 7-14 December for the
International Civil Aviation Day. QSL via UA3DX; logsearch on Club
Log.
OH - This year Santa Radio (OF9X) will be active as OJ9X to either
promote the Christmas spirit on the radio spectrum and celebrate
Finland's 100th anniversary as an independent state. The country-
wide operation will take place on 6-31 December and will see
several radio clubs participating across all bands and modes. The
first 100 scoring the highest number of bands/modes, with the top
10 from each continent, will qualify for the "Finland 100 Years"
award signed by Santa himself along with the prime minister of
Finland, Mr. Juha Sipila, who is a patron of this special event.
You can follow your score on Club Log. QSL via and Club Log's OQRS.
[TNX W6SZN]
OZ - Volker, DJ8VW will be active again as 5P8VW from Romo Island
(EU-125) on 13-23 December. He will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on 160-
6 metres. QSL Club Log's OQRS (preferred), eQSL, LoTW or via DJ8VW
(direct or bureau). [TNX DX Newsletter]
S5 - Special event station S510PMC will be active from 7 December to 7
January 2018 to promote the PMC Contest, sponsored by the Radio
Club Slovenj Gradec (S59DCD). QSL via the bureau. The International
Association of Peace Messenger Cities was established in 1988 to
recognize and encourage the role and responsibility cities have in
creating a culture of peace. The PMC Contest, promoting contacts
between stations located in the Peace Messenger Cities and the rest
of the world, will be held on 6-7 January (complete information can
be found at http://www.s59dcd.si/).
TK - Georg, NZ1C will be active holiday style as TK/NZ1C from Corsica on
16-24 December. He will operate CW and FT8, with some SSB, RTTY and
PSK on 40-10 metres. QSL via DD5ZZ. [TNX NG3K]
VU - The Manipal Institute of Technology's amateur radio club (VU2MHC)
will be active as AT6MIT from 9 December to 7 January to celebrate
the institution's Diamond Jubilee. QSL via VU3BUN.
CARIBBEAN TOUR ---> Heli, DD0VR and his wife Bigi, DE3BW will be touring the
Caribbean between mid-December and mid-January, with planned holiday style
activities from Barbados as 8P0VR (requested callsign , 17-31 December),
Martinique as FM/DD0VR (31 December-10 January), Dominica as J70VR (10-14
January), and Guadeloupe as FG/DD0VR (14-20 January). Look for activity on
40, 20, 15 and 10 metres SSB and QRP CW. QSLs via DD0VR. [TNX The Daily DX]
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**** GOOD TO KNOW ... ****
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Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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EL2EF --- > Eric, EL2EF (the nephew of Dickson, EL2DT) is a new amateur
radio operator from Liberia. "So far he has limited operating experience and
basic equipment", DX World reports. "For the time being he is paper-logging,
but hopes to have a laptop soon. Thereafter, he will use the services of a
QSL manager who will look after his log and QSLs".
IREF ---> The Island Radio Expedition Foundation (IREF) was founded in 1999
for the purpose of providing financial assistance for expeditions to rare
IOTA groups (i.e. confirmed by less than 15% of island chasers). Now the
Board believes "that the time has come for IREF to find other, non-financial
ways, to encourage IOTA expeditions to less rare destinations". Therefore
IREF will be sponsoring the "IOTA Expeditioner of the Year" award, which
"will encourage expeditioners, through friendly competition, to activate
islands that won't necessarily meet IREF funding guidelines, but are needed
by many of the newer chasers". For information and rules please visit the
IREF's new website: https://irefnew.wordpress.com.
OC-175 ---> The logs for both DU9/RZ3FW and DU9/R4WAA have been uploaded to
Club Log (search for DU9/R4WAA_OC175 and DU9/RZ3FW_OC175), and the OQRS has
been activated. They were QRV on 21-28 November and totalled 5000 QSOs.
ZA1WW --- > The logs for the recent activity (according to Club Log, 13971
QSOs were made between 24 November and 4 December) have not been uploaded to
LoTW. "A difficulty in obtaining the certificate for ZA1WW resulted in one
test QSO being listed, which is why an upload shows in 'Find Call'. The logs
will be uploaded in due course". [TNX N7NG]
+ SILENT KEY + John Plenderleith, 9M6XRO passed away on 4 December, after
battling cancer for several years. First licensed in 1960 as GM3OOK, he
operated as 9V1RS from Singapore for about ten years; then he moved to the
Isle of Man (GD3OOK), England (G3OOK) and finally retired to Kota Kinabalu,
Sabah (East Malaysia), where after one year as 9M6/G3OOK became 9M6XRO in
May 2006. John logged over 250 thousand QSOs with his personal call signs,
which included 3DA0OK, 7P8OK, A25OOK, C91XO, CU2/G3OOK/p, EL0A, V8FRO,
V85/9M6XRO, XU7XRO, YB9/GM3OOK, ZL/GD3OOK, ZS6/GM3OOK. He was a team member
of 4W6A (Atauro Island, Timor Leste 2011), 9M4SLL (Spratly Islands 2012 and
2013), ZL9HR (Campbell Island 2012), N8A & W8A (American Samoa 2013) and
5W8A (Samoa 2013). John was also active in the IOTA Programme, and operated
as 9M6XRO/p from OC-133 (five times bewteen 2008 and 2014) and OC-295
(2010), and as 9M6XRO/8 from OC-165 (2011). A keen contester, he also chased
DXCC (CW, Phone and Digital). "John's favourite mode was CW, but was
comfortable on any mode", his QSL manager (M0URX) recalls. His CW "was so
accurate that over the last ten years I rarely had any busted call
enquiries".
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Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
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3B8JB SM6JBC DU1IST JA1HGY OM17YOTA M0SDV
3B9HA M0OXO E2X E20GMY OM50SPSEKE OM8AND
3DA0AQ EA5GL E44YL IK3GES ON1418POP ON4HRT
3V8SS LX1NO E51ACO JT1CO ON4YOTA M0SDV
3W1T RW6HS E71YOTA M0SDV OP17AR ON7SS
3Z1K SP1KRF EA8JK EB7DX OP17N ON4CRD
4K6FO DC9RI EA9EU EA5KB OP17RCL ON3AR
4K9W DL6KVA ED2C EA2CJ OP70BFS ON2KFJ
4L2M EA7FTR ED8X RN3RQ OT100BCA ON4CRD
4L5P UT7QF EF2A EA2OT OZ100DVI OZ1IVA
4O7CC UA4CC EF8R EB7DX P29XC ZL2XC
4S7DLG DK8ZZ EG2YOTA M0SDV P33W UA3DX
4U1A UA3DX EH2EUS EA2TP PA6X PA7CW
4U1GSC 9A2AA EH2GRE EA2RKW PD6YOTA M0SDV
4U24OCT 9A2AA EH5MM EA5GVZ PJ2ND K8ND
4X2M 4X4DZ EH5SFJ EA5AG PJ2T W3HNK
4Y1A UA3DX EI0R EI6FR PJ4A K4BAI
5B4ALX IZ4AMS EM25IWW UR7IWW PJ4E K9ES
5B4AMM UT5UDX EP2LMA EA5GL PJ4I AD4ES
5P3WW DL1YAW ER4A ER1FF PJ4Y DL5CW
5R8XB ON8XB ES9C ES5RY PS2T K3IRV
5T5TI NI5DX FK8DD NI5DX PX0F PP5BZ
5W0DXA JA1DXA FM5FJ KU9C PX2A PY2VM
5W1SA JA1DXA FR4PV F1UIJ R164S R6CF
5X8C ON6NL G3V G3VER R17YOTA M0SDV
6W1SU M0URX G6T M0URX R1853S R6CF
6Y0D TA3D GB17YOTA M0SDV R1941OM RD5C
6Y3M VE3NE GM2V N3SL R25MGO RK3A
7Q6M K6ZO GW5R GW3YDX RA75SF R4AS
7Q7AB JA7SGV GW9J GW0GEI RI1ANC RN1ON
7S50AW SM6PPS H79H TI4SU RI1ANO RN1ON
7X2YOTA M0SDV HA6YOTA M0SDV RW0A RA0ALM
7X5KBS M0SDV HB9YOTA M0SDV RZ4AZ RW6HS
8P1W KU9C HC0E HC1QRC S79K G3NKC
9A0YOTA M0SDV HC8LUT IK2DUW SH9YOTA M0SDV
9A17YOTA M0SDV HG0IDPD HA5MA SI9AM SM3TIR
9A1957AA 9A2AA HG0YOTA M0SDV SK3W SM5DJZ
9H3DQR SM6DQR HH2MK EB7DX SN150J SP9PGE
9H3HM DK2HM HK3JCL DK8LRF SN150M SP9PGE
9H6A 9H1BT HP1RIS HP1ALX SN150P SP9PGE
9M2CNC G4ZFE HP3SS AC2OV SN6O SP6PAZ
9M2MRS PA0RRS HQ9X KQ1F SN7Q SP7GIQ
9M2TO JA0DMV HS0AC HS5NMF SN8B SP8CUR
9M8YY JR3WXA HS0ZAR K3ZO SO4M SP4MPG
9Q6BB W3HNK IB9T IT9TQH SO9M SQ9UM
A31MM EA5GL II2YOTA M0SDV SU9JG EA5GL
A31NM JM6EBU II5YOTA M0SDV SW9AA LZ1PM
A41NN A61BK II9P IT9CHU SX1T SV1ENG
A44A A47RS IO2X IK2NCJ SX2T SV2DSJ
A60MD A61BK IR1Y IZ1YPF TF3CW LX1NO
A60ND A61BK IR2L IW2LLH TI3/W7RI W3HNK
A61EK IZ8CLM IR4M I4IFL TK0C S50C
A61FK A61BK IR4X I4EAT TM0R F5GGL
A61HA A61BK IR6T IK6VXO TM1A F5GSJ
A65CA RV6AJJ J42CPMV SV2HXV TM3R F5UTN
A71EM M0OXO J79WTA HB9MFM TM4Q F4SGU
AC2CX/KH2 JE1JAC JT5DX JT1CO TO1A F5HRY
AH2R JH7QXJ JW2US LA2US UN4L UA9AB
B1Z EA7FTR KC4AAC K1IED UN9GD DL8KAC
B7Q BA1DU KC4USV K1IED UN9L LZ1YE
BI4SSB BA4TB KH2/K2IO JA2JWH UP0L DL8KAC
BI4WXD BI4SCC KH6LC WA6WPG UP2L UA9AB
C4W 5B4WN KH7M KH6ZM V31MA M0OXO
CE3CT EA5KB LN8W LA9VDA V47T W2RQ
CK100VDA VA1YL LX4A LX1NO V63DX JA7HMZ
CN2AA UA2FM LX7I LX2A V6A JA7HMZ
CN2MA LY5W LZ17YOTA M0SDV V73NS W3HNK
CN2R W7EJ LZ710SG LZ1KCP VP5M K4QPL
CN8KD EA5XX M6T G4BWP VR20EH VR2ZQZ
CO2RQ EC5AC NP2J K8RF XF1IM XE2IC
CO6RD EA5GL NP2X K5WW XL3T VE3AT
CP4BT DJ2BW NP4Z N4AO XV1X RW6HS
CP6CL W3HNK OA4SS KB6J XW4ZW K1SE
CR3W DL5AXX OC4HC OA4O YE1K EA5GL
CR5T CS5ARC OD5YA IZ8CLM YO0YOTA M0SDV
CR6K CT1ILT OE0YOTA M0SDV YT17YOTA M0SDV
CT9/OL3R OK1VWK OF2YOTA M0SDV Z30YOTA M0SDV
CW4MAX EA5GL OG2B OH2BH ZA1WW OH2TA
CX2AQ EA5KB OG90AA OH8AA ZB2TT M0URX
CX3AT EA5GL OH0R OH2PM ZB2X OH2KI
CX5UA EA5KB OH0Z W0MM ZF2OK W1OU
CX9AU EA5GL OH1F OH1AF ZF9CW K5GO
DA0WRTC DJ9MH OH8X OH2UA ZM4T ZL3IO
DF0HQ DL5AXX OH9SCL OH9AB ZP9MCE EA5ZD
DM500RT M0SDV OH9W OH5BQ ZS1C W2ARP
DQ17YOTA M0SDV OJ9X OH2BH ZS6CCY K3IRV
DR0YOTA M0SDV OK2RJC OK2RZ ZW5B K3IRV
DT0HH DS3DJX OL17YOTA M0SDV ZW8T PS8HF
5V7SM C.A.R Marc, BP 1013, 87050 Limoges Cedex 2, France
6Y6Y Lester B. Veenstra, 452 Stable Lane, Keyser WV 26726, USA
9M2M Hairil Anuar Abdul Hamid, 49F Jalan 2 Hujung, Taman Sri Mawar,
02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
9M4IOTA Khairul Afendy, Peti Surat 85, 43207 Batu 9 Cheras, Selangor,
Malaysia
9M6/NR1J Jun Muto, 89 Rangoon Road, #02-04, 218375 Singapore, Singapore
CB1H Marcelo Torres, Pasaje Los Geiser 9775, 1266765 Antofagasta, Chile
CW5W Jorge Diez Furest, Remigio Castellanos 474, 37000 Melo Cerro Largo,
Uruguay
FK4QX Philippe Bailly, BP 8466, 98807 Noumea CEDEX, New Caledonia
FK4RD Yves Novella, BP 12026, 98802 Noumea CEDEX, New Caledonia
FK8IK Michel Aussourd, BP 14639, 98803 Noumea CEDEX, New Caledonia
FY5KE Jacques Mazzoni, 678 route de l'Egalite, 74290 Talloires Montmin,
France
GJ2A Jersey Amateur Radio Society, Le Chemin des Signaux, St. Brelade,
Jersey, JE3 8LQ, United Kingdom
HB0A Amateur Funk Verein Liechtenstein, P.O. Box 629, 9495 Triesen FL,
Liechtenstein
HV0A Francesco Valsecchi, Via Bitossi 21, 00136 Roma RM, Italy
IK2DUW Antonello Passarella, Via Melchiorre Gioia 6, 20812 Limbiate MB,
Italy
JA7HMZ Shoji Igawa, 17 Shirogane-cho 17, Yokobori, Yuzawa-shi, Akita-ken,
019-0204, Japan
KH6J Walt Niemczura, 47-757 Hui Kelu St. Apt 5, Kaneohe HI 96744, USA
KH7B Mauna Kea Contest Club, 39650 U.S. Highway 19 N. Apt 243,
Tarpon Springs FL 34689, USA
LT1F Karlos Luis Bruno, Espana 1115, 2000 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
NH2DX Mariana Islands DX Association, 279 Gardenia Ave, Mangilao
GU 96913, USA
NI5DX William M. Loeschman, 717 Milton, Angleton TX 77515, USA
PA0RRS Rich Smeets, Valeriaan 14, 5052 CT Goirle, The Netherlands
PY0FW Leo Ferreira, Caixa Postal 5099, Vitoria-ES, 29045-970, Brazil
RW2F Ulrich Mueller, Kreutzacker 13, 35041 Marburg, Germany
SZ1A Radio Amateur Association of West Greece, P.O. Box 84,
301 00 Agrinio, Greece
T40A Raul Verdecie Fernandez, Calle Angel Guardia No. 119, e/Adolfo
Villamar y Francisco Varona, CP 75100 Las Tunas, Cuba
TM6M Stephane Van Langhenhoven, 24 bis rue de Anter Hent, 29830
Ploudalmezeau, France
V85/KC0W Thomas M. Callas, P.O. Box 1058, Minnetonka MN 55345, USA
VR2XAN Alberto Annesi, 1/F 7A Nam Shan Road, Peng Chau, Hong Kong
XE2IC Manuel Palos, Lerdo de Tejada 289 Pte., 23600 Ciudad Constitucion
BCS, Mexico
ZM2B Frank Hunt, 8 Manu Crescent, Upper Vogeltown, New Plymouth 4310,
New Zealand
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