Saturday, May 02, 2020

425 DX News #1513

2 May 2020                                                A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1513

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                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

4X     - Special callsigns 4X75V and 4Z75V will be active from Israel on  1-
         10 May to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of  World War
         II.  QSL via 4X6ZM  and  logsearch  on  Club Log;  all QSOs will be
         confirmed automatically via the bureau.
9A     - Radio Klub Grada Zaboka (9A0Z) & friends will be active as 9A1CHRIS
         on 4-10 May to honour the memory of  Kresimir "Chris" Kovarik, 9A5K
         (8 May 1974 - 27 February 2019).  A special  QSL card will be down-
         loadable on  http://www.9a0z.com/.  Past President of the  Croatian
         Amateur Radio Association (HRS) and  Vice Chairman of the  IARU Re-
         gion 1 HF Committee, Chris was the author of DXlog.net  and  a com-
         petitor in  three  World Radiosport Team Championships  (2006, 2014
         and 2018).  In 2019 he  was inducted  into  the  CQ Contest Hall of
         Fame.
A9     - Special event station A91WTIS will be active on 10-17 May to  cele-
         brate  World Telecommunication & Information Society Day  (17 May).
         QSL  via  Club Log's OQRS,  or  via A92AA.  The  purpose  of  World
         Telecommunication  and  Information Society Day  is  to  help raise
         awareness of the possibilities  that  the use of the  Internet  and
         other  information  and  communication  technologies  can bring  to
         societies and economies, as well as of ways  to bridge  the digital
         divide.
G      - From England, special callsigns commemorating the end of  World War
         II in Europe include GB4VVV  run by G0SFJ on  27 April-11 May  (the
         suffix is the distinctive  dit-dit-dit-dah  used by the  BBC in its
         foreign language programmes to occupied Europe,  QSL via eQSL only)
         and GB75VET run by M0IRU on 1-28 May (QSL via M0IRU and LoTW).
GI     - GB75VEC is  the  special callsign for  the  Grey Point Fort Amateur
         Radio Society  to celebrate  the  75th anniversary  of  Victory  in
         Europe.  Activity will take place  from  MI0MOD's QTH  in  Lisburn,
         Northern Ireland,  starting on 7 May.  See qrz.com for QSL instruc-
         tions
GU     - The Guernsey Amateur Radio Society  will run  special event station
         GU75LIB on 6-12 May to mark the 75th anniversary  of the liberation
         of Guernsey from occupying forces during World War II.  QSL via the
         bureau, or direct to GU8ITE. [TNX GU0SUP]
JA     - Once again the ITU Association of  Japan's Amateur Radio Club  will
         operate special event  station  8J1ITU  from 30 April to 31 May  to
         celebrate the World Telecommunication and  Information  Society Day
         (17 May) and the creation of  the  International  Telecommunication
         Union. QSL via the JARL bureau and eQSL.
LA     - Celebrating the  75th anniversary  of the end  of  World War II  in
         Europe (8 May 1945),  Hugo, LA5YJ will be active as LI8MAI on  1-31
         May. QSL via LA5YJ.
SV/A   - Monk Iakovos, based at the Koutloumousiou Monastery on Mount Athos,
         is expected  to be active again as  SV2RSG/A on  7-10 May.  He will
         operate SSB and CW on 20m.  QSL direct to Monk Iakovos Kutlumusian,
         Holy Monastery Koutloumousiou, 630 86 Karyes, Greece
UN     - Commemorating the end  of  World War II,  special callsigns  UP75P,
         UP75O, UP75B,  UP75E, UP75D, UP75A  and  UP75POBEDA  will be active
         from Kazakhstan on 2-9 May during the  Memorial Pobeda-75 ("pobeda"
         is Russian for "victory"). QSLs via LoTW and eQSL. Two certificates
         will  be  available,   see  https://www.qrz.com/db/UP75POBEDA   for
         information.
VE     - Gilles, VA2EW (VE2TZT) will be active as  CF2T between  8 May and 6
         June to commemorate the  75th anniversary  of the end of  World War
         II. Main activity will be during the CQ WW WPX CW Contest.  QSL via
         LoTW.
VU     - Special COVID-19 stations from India include AT2SHI  (QSL via eQSL,
         or direct to VU2UUU), AT2TNX (QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or direct to
         VU2KWJ),  AT20SH  (QSL via  Club Log's OQRS,  or direct to VU2HIT),
         AT9SS (QSL via VU2NSL and LoTW) and  AU2STH (QSL direct to VU2JAU).
         Additionally,  providing  assistance  to the local governments  are
         AU2COV  and  AU2IAG  from Kolkata (West Bengal),  as well as AT2GOK
         from Bengaluru (Karnataka).

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                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

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for Android. It is available on Google Play - free of charge, no ads. Enjoy!

425 DX NEWS MAGAZINE ---> The April 2020 issue is now available for download
at http://www.425dxn.org/index.php. [TNX IZ3EBA]

CONTEST UNIVERSITY 2020 ---> The  Dayton event  has been cancelled,  but CTU
2020 will still take place on 14 May. It will be held online  free of charge
via Zoom,  starting at  12.45 UTC (08.45 EDT).  Registration is now open  on
https://www.contestuniversity.com/.  CTU 2020  will end  at  22 UTC (18 EDT)
with the presentation  of this year's  CQ Contest Hall of Fame.  The webinar
will be recorded and archived.

QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards  on  Les  Nouvelles  DX's
website has been updated.  Sixteen different galleries include  17,850 cards
for the  ten Most  Wanted  DXCC  Entities  (2010-19), 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 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].

STAY AT HOME ---> Further special callsigns joining the  Stay Home  campaign
and/or showing support for  health care professionals  and other key workers
during the COVID-19 pandemic include:
Callsign      DXCC         QSL                                            
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6Y6STAYHOME   Jamaica      EA5GL (direct)                                  
AT20SH        India        VU2HIT (direct) or Club Log's OQRS              
AT2SHI        India        VU2UUU (direct)                                
AT2TNX        India        VU2KWJ (direct) or Club Log's OQRS              
AT9SS         India        LoTW/VU2NSL                           29/04-28/07
AU2STH        India        VU2JAU (direct)                       till  31/05
CB2HOME       Chile        LoTW only                             till  14/07
EH7STAYHOME   Spain        LoTW/EB7DX                                      
GB0GIG        Wales        bureau                                01/05-28/05
GB1CCW        England      eQSL                                  01/05-14/05
GB1KEY        Wales        see qrz.com                           01/05-28/05
GB2CCW        England      eQSL                                  15/05-31/05
GB2SHS        England      eQSL                                  03/05-24/05
GB5SAH        England      LoTW/G4XEX                            01/05-28/05
OZ7STAYHOME   Denmark      LoTW/OZ7DK                                      
PC19STAYSAFE  Netherlands  PA7HPH                                from  21/05
VI20SH        Australia    LoTW and eQSL                         till  06/07
YO1STAYHOME   Romania      LoTW and eQSL                         till  15/09

+ SILENT KEYS + Bill O'Kain (K4LTA)  passed away on  28 April.  Born in 1931
and first licenced in 1956 as KN4LTA, he was a member of the  First Class CW
Operators' Club (FOC) and  was very active  in  many contests.  Bill and his
wife Ruby (K4UPS) enjoyed several trips to the Caribbean since 1980  (J37BO,
J38A, J6LTA, J70A, J74Z).
Herbert L. Schoenbohm (KV4FZ) became a Silent Key on 29 April aged 84. First
licenced in 1954 as W0VXO, in 1968 he moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Herb
was one of the pioneers  in  Top Band DXing,  and  was the third  (tied with
W8LRL) to gain DXCC on 160 metres back in 1977.

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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3W9CI (AS-162), 4J3DJ,  5H4WZ (AF-
063), 5P1KZX, 9N7AM, C6AGU (NA-001), C91CCY, CB0Z (SA-101), CP6/DK7PE, D2EB,
GM7O (EU-123), H1UDL, HP1RN, HU1DL, HZ1DG, SU8WRC, SU8X,  TA0/RM0F (AS-201),
TC0F (AS-099), TO7DL (AF-016), VP2VB, YU1ZZ, ZD7W.

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