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7 March 2026                                              A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1818

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                          Edited by  I1JQJ & IK1ADH
                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

5W     - Jacek, SP5EAQ had announced he would be active from  Samoa  from 22
         March to 11 April [425DXN 1815]. He was set to fly via Doha (Qatar)
         and Brisbane,  ultimately arriving in  Apia  to begin operating  as
         5W0AF. However, the geopolitical situation has shifted significant-
         ly since the initial planning.  With the airspace of several  coun-
         tries  (including Qatar)  currently closed,  the stability  of  the
         region remains uncertain even if routes were to reopen shortly.
         Consequently, Jacek has determined that the only viable solution is
         to re-route and postpone the DXpedition - likely until autumn. This
         will involve  purchasing  new tickets  that avoid  the  Middle East
         entirely.
DL     - DA26WARD is the special callsign for  the DARC Team SES  to promote
         World Amateur Radio Day between 1 March and 30 April. QSL via LoTW,
         DK5ON, and DCL (DARC Community Logbook).  WARD is celebrated  annu-
         ally on 18 April,  the day when the  IARU was formed  in 1925.  The
         theme for this year's WARD is  "Advancing  the  Spirit  of  Amateur
         Radio Through Innovation".
JD1/O  - Look for Masa, JA0RQV/JD1 and  Rio, JR2GYA/JD1 to be active holiday
         style from Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara on 13-16 March. They will
         operate FT8, FT4, CW, and SSB on 80-6 metres.  QSL  JA0RQV/JD1  via
         LoTW or Club Log's OQRS; QSL JR2GYA/JD1 via LoTW.
JW     - Kaare, LA8EKA will be active again as JW8EKA from Longyearbyen (EU-
         026), Svalbard on 13-15 March.  Usually he operates SSB and digital
         modes (SSB, RTYY, PSK31, FT8) mainly on 20-10 metres. It looks like
         this time he'll be confirming the QSOs via an e-QSL sent by email.
LZ     - LZ75HSC is the special callsign for Bulgarian HSC  members to cele-
         brate the  75th anniversary of the  Radio Telegraphy Highspeed Club
         (HSC) until the end of the year. QSL via LZ2JE. The club was found-
         ed in 1951 as  a community within the  Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
         (DARC). To date, membership has grown to include over  1,400 opera-
         tors spanning every continent: http://www.highspeedclub.org.
PY0F   - Conrad, DL7UE is currently on a family vacation on  Fernando de No-
         ronha  (SA-003), and is active on  QO-100  as PY0F/PY5ZUE  until  7
         March. QSL via LoTW.
SV     - SZ40A is the special callsign for the  Radio Amateur Association of
         Western Greece (SZ1A) to celebrate "forty years of continuous pres-
         ence, service, and contribution to amateur radio".  Look for activ-
         ity across multiple HF bands and modes from 1 March to 31 May.  QSL
         via ON3UN. See https://awards.sz1a.org for the award programme.
V3     - Paula, OK2YL and Vlad, OK2WX will be active holiday style as  V31YL
         and V31WX, respectively, from  IOTA group NA-073,  Belize  on  9-22
         March. They will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on various bands. QSLs via
         I8KHC. [TNX I8KHC]
VP0/O  - Ramon, LU1DMZ expects to be active as LU1DMZ/Z and LU1ZA from  Base
         Orcadas on Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands (AN-008)  throughout
         2026.
YJ     - Aki, JK1JXZ will be active as YJ1JXZ from Port Vila (OC-035), Vanu-
         atu from 15 March to 3 April. He will be QRV on 80-6 metres,  after
         17 local time during weekdays and all day during the weekends.
ZC4    - The 4-11 March  ZC4C and ZC4Z  operation from the UK SBA on  Cyprus
         [425DXN 1817] has been cancelled at the very last minute due to the
         ongoing conflict in the  Middle East.  "We have  no  problem  using
         radio in the area",  the team says,  "but we  can't  physically get
         there".
ZF     - Colin, G4CWH will be active as  ZF2CA from the  Cayman Islands (NA-
         016) on 12-17 March,  with  main activity  during  the Commonwealth
         Contest.  Outside the contest he will be "on most bands and modes".
         QSL via home call.

YL WORLD WIDE AWARD 2026 ---> "The YL World Wide Award is the first interna-
tional radio project aimed at bringing together the largest number of  Young
Ladies worldwide in a single event.  Born from the experience  of the  World
Wide Award team during three years of organizing WWA, we decided to organize
a worldwide radio event dedicated to ham-radio women".
The YL WWA takes place on 9-15 March, with activity on 80-10 metres CW, SSB,
DIGI (FT8, FT4, RTTY, PSK). More than 220 YL operators from 45 DXCC Entities
are expected to take part in the event. See https://hamaward.cloud/wwayl for
complete information.

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                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

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BOUVET 2026 ---> Team 3Y0K has been QRV from Bouvet Island on multiple bands
since 1 March.  Depending on weather,  operations are expected  to  continue
until 18 or 20 March. QSOs are being uploaded to M0OXO's OQRS, as well as to
Club Log (https://clublog.org/charts/?c=3Y0K): "the team leaders  have opted
against using real-time livestreaming,  as unreliable  internet  connections
were causing data corruption during uploads").
According  to https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/logsearch.php,  as  of  5 March  at
19:16 UTC, 3Y0K had made 24,180 QSOs (56% on FT8)  with 12,476  unique call-
signs.  A SuperFox key  has been issued;  however, the team  has decided  to
continue using Fox & Hound on FT8.

COMMONWEALTH CONTEST ---> The 89th edition of the  Commonwealth (BERU)  Con-
test (https://berucontest.wordpress.com) will be held on  14-15 March,  from
10:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC, on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m CW.  Only stations operat-
ing from the Commonwealth Call Areas may participate in this contest.

DESECHEO 2026 ---> KP5/NP3VI  went QRT on  3 March  at 10:37 UTC,  totalling
109,277 QSOs with 20,935 unique callsigns over nearly 50 days.  The detailed
statistics are on Club Log: https://clublog.org/charts/?c=KP5/NP3VI.

QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards  on  Les  Nouvelles  DX's
website has been updated. Seventeen different galleries include 23,140 cards
for the  ten Most  Wanted  DXCC  Entities  (2016-25), 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  et  Antarctiques  Francaises),  amateur  radio
"globetrotters",  the various  French  DXCC island Entities  in the  Pacific
Ocean,  the Indian Ocean  and  the Americas (1945-1969), pre-1945 countries,
French Departments and CONUS, plus a gallery for cards not accepted by DXCC.
Your participation  is welcome: http://www.lesnouvellesdx.fr/galerieqsl.php.
[TNX F6AJA].

YOTA CONTEST 2026 ---> The first session of this year's YOTA Contest,  orga-
nized by the IARU R1 Youth Working Group  in cooperation with the  Hungarian
Amateur Radio Society (MRASZ), will take place on 15 March (10:00-22:00 UTC)
on the five classic bands CW and SSB.  Everyone can work everyone.  Complete
rules can be found on https://yotacontest.mrasz.org.


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                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

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CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER     CALL        MANAGER
===================================================================
3Y0K        M0OXO       AO5TI       EA5RKD      KP2B        EB7DX
4X6TT       N4GNR       AO5TO       EA5RKD      KP5/NP3VI   M0OXO
5N0YEN      IZ8CLM      AP2HA       JA1WIO      LY36A       LY5A
5N7QBR      DF8DX       C21TS       M0OXO       LZ148GO     LZ1KCP
8Q7ZW       OM5ZW       CR2N        EA7HBC      LZ488AM     LZ1KCP
9A0DIG      9A3SM       DA26WARD    DK5ON       LZ75HSC     LZ2JE
9N1CA       EA5ZD       DD2026WPG   DK5ON       OH8SSAB     OH8DR
A2NEW       EA7FTR      DM66RDG     DL0RDG      OZ100OZ     OZ1ACB
AO25M       EA5RKB      DQ44WCA     DF6EX       P4/WE9V     WD9DZV
AO5AR       EA5RKD      ED5FDC      EA5J        P40L        WA3FRP
AO5BC       EA5RKD      EG2DTA      EC2AHS      PJ2CF       EA5GL
AO5CA       EA5RKD      EY8MM       W0VTT       PJ4NG       K4BAI
AO5CC       EA5RKD      FM4TI       EA5GL       S01C        pirate
AO5CR       EA5RKD      FR4PV       F1UIJ       SP1040SSZ   SP3PDO
AO5CU       EA5RKD      FY4JI       EA5GL       SZ40A       ON3UN
AO5DG       EA5RKD      H44MS       DL2GAC      T45FM       KR4DWD
AO5ES       EA5RKD      HD8R        M0OXO       T8OK        OK6DJ
AO5FA       EA5RKD      HG8DX       HA8KW       TU5JZ       F5MFV
AO5FP       EA5RKD      HI7/IW2NEF  IK2DUW      V3O         EA5GL
AO5FR       EA5RKD      HK4X        EA5GL       V3T         WC0W
AO5GR       EA5RKD      HS0ZOC      HB9TOR      VC2CQ       VE2CQ
AO5HC       EA5RKD      II2WOG      IQ2MI       VP2EAD      SQ2RAD
AO5PO       EA5RKD      II3BIA      IQ3ED       VP2ELX      M0PLX
AO5PS       EA5RKD      II3COR      IQ3DD       VP2EWE      SP9FIH
AO5RA       EA5RKD      II3WOG      IQ3ED       YN9H        EA5GL
AO5SE       EA5RKD      IR0RIVA     IS0AFM      Z66BCC      DL2JRM
AO5SQ       EA5RKD      J51A        DJ4MX       ZD7HI       EA5GL

AO3MWC    Federacion Digital EA, Apartado Postal 3050, 08200 Sabadell
          (Barcelona), Spain
C5MB      Przemyslaw Stanislawski, Lednogora 7, 62-261 Lednogora, Poland
DJ4MX     Sven Lovric, Kampenwandstr. 13, 81671 Munchen, Germany
EG6DIB    Pau Balaguer Juaneda, Carretera d'Esporles 65, 07010 Palma
          (Illes Balears), Spain
FH/UR9IDX Ivan Y. Borzenko, Apartado 73, Loja CTT S Vicente,
          9241-909 Sao Vicente, Portugal
FM8QR     Jean-Michel Suire, 63 Impasse de la Croisee,
          85440 Talmont St Hilaire, France
HF44WN    Piotr Sobota, Janosika 5/40, 85-794 Bydgoszcz, Poland
II4AMRC   Sezione ARI di Fidenza, Ufficio Fidenza, Casella postale 66,
          43036 Fidenza PR, Italy
J62K      William J. Schmidt II, 27427 Myrtle Lake Lane, Katy TX 77494, USA
KH0W      Thomas M. Callas, P.O. Box 1058, Minnetonka MN 55345, USA
LX9POL    Steve Gabriel, BP 42, L-3801 Schifflange, Luxembourg
M0OXO     Charles Wilmott, 60 Church Hill, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4NG,
          United Kingdom
M0RSE     Phil Whitchurch, 21 Dickensons Grove, Congresbury, Bristol,
          BS49 5HQ, United Kingdom
OK6DJ     David Beran, Dolni Kamenice 55, 34562 Holysov, Czech Republic
OL26WRTC  Vaclav Muska, Belohorska 416/25, 16900 Praha, Czech Republic
TZ4AM     Gregory J. Carter, 808 Paris Mountain Rd, Rockmart GA 30153, USA
V4/WA7RAR Chris Billings, PO Box 1383, Shady Cove OR 97539, USA
ZD7AQH    Jun Maeda, B-1 31-6 Oasa Higashimachi,Ebetsu-shi,
          Hokkaido 069-0852, Japan

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