425 DX News #1541

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14 November 2020                                          A.R.I. DX Bulletin
                                   No 1541

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                        Direttore Responsabile  I2VGW

Owing to the ongoing and fluid nature  of the  COVID-19  situation globally,
announced  activities  might  be postponed  or  cancelled  at  any time  and
without notice.

6O     - Ali, EP3CQ will be back to Mogadishu, Somalia from 15 November  for
         two months. In his spare time he will operate mainly FT8 on various
         bands as 6O1OO. QSL direct to  Ali Solhjoo, Weimarer Str. 29, 10625
         Berlin, Germany.  He has processed  and mailed out  all of  the QSL
         requests received until 10 November.
A4     - Royal Omani Amateur Radio Society  members  are allowed  to use the
         A450 prefix on 15-25 November to celebrate the 50th National Day of
         the Sultanate of Oman. For example, A41ZZ will use A450ZZ and A41CK
         will use A450CK. QSL for all of the A450 callsigns via A47RS.
A9     - Members  of  the  Bahrain Amateur Radio Society  will be active  as
         A91WTVD on 17-21 November. QSL via LoTW, or via EC6DX.  The special
         callsign's suffix stands for World Television Day (21 November).
HZ     - The Saudi Amateur Radio Society (HZ1SAR) has announced that special
         event stations HZ20G, 7Z20G and 8Z20G are expected to be QRV on 17-
         23 November on the occasion of the G20 Summit in Riyadh.
OE     - 4U2STAYHOME is the special callsign reactivated by the  VIC Amateur
         Radio  Contest  DX Club  (4U1A, http://www.cqdx.ru/4u1a/)  until 31
         December during the  current second wave of the  Covid-19 pandemic.
         This activity counts for Austria for DXCC,  and for the  Vienna In-
         ternational Centre for the CQ DX Marathon. QSL via UA3DX, direct or
         bureau.
ON     - The Belgian regulator is issuing again special callsigns  to convey
         an  "encouraging message"  during  the second  nationwide  lockdown
         declared amid soaring Covid-19 cases. The callsigns are valid until
         13 December at least. Callsigns that have been issued (o re-issued)
         so far include  OO4UZLEUVEN,  OO7STAYHOME,  OQ20LIFE,  OQ5BECLEVER,
         OR1LIFE,  OR20STAYHOME,  OR20STAYSAFE,  OR7LIFE, OS2HOPE, OT20LIFE,
         OT2CARE, OT4CARE, OT4HOPE, OT4LIFE, OT5ALIVE and OT6SAFE.  See each
         station's entry on qrz.com for QSL information.
SP     - Members  of the  SP3YOR Radio Club  will operate  special  callsign
         SP0AVA in November and December  to commemorate the  120th anniver-
         sary of the birth of  Antoni Palluth (amateur radio callsign TPVA).
         QSL via LoTW,  or via SP3YOR.  Palluth (1900-1944)  was one of  the
         founders of the AVA Radio Company, which designed and built  commu-
         nications equipment  for the  Polish military,  including "doubles"
         the Enigma machine.
SP     - The Bydgoszcz Amateur Radio Club (SP2PBY) will be active as  SN2IW,
         SN3ESH and SN3IU on  9-22 November  to honour the memory  of  three
         prominent figures in the  amateur radio history of Poland:  Ryszard
         Czerwinski SP2IW  (1932-2018),  Boleslaw Krzymin SP2ESH (1936-2016)
         and  Zbigniew Gorgolewski  SP2IU  (1933-2017).  QSL via SP2PBY  and
         logsearch on Club Log.  A certificate  will be available  for down-
         load: http://www.sp2pby.pl/.
VU     - Datta, VU2DSI will be active once again as AU2JCB from  20 November
         to 15 December to commemorate the birth date (30 November 1858)  of
         Indian physicist and radio pioneer Jagadish Chandra Bose.  Look for
         activity on 3710, 7040, 7150,  14210, 14250,  14310, 21235,  21310,
         21350, 28490, 28510, 28545, 29700, 50800 and 51500 kHz.  QSL direct
         to home call.  Datta reports  that  other stations  are expected to
         join the celebrations,  including  AU3JCB (QSL via VU2EVU),  AU5JCB
         (QSL  via VU2XPN),  AU8JCB  (QSL via VU3MZE)  and  AT2JCB  (QSL via
         VU3ZHA). [TNX NG3K]
YB     - The  ORARI branch  of  Jakarta Utara (YH0AG)  will operate  special
         callsign 8A10NOV  on  13-15 November  for  Hari Pahlawan  ("Heroes'
         Day"),  the Remembrance Day  annually celebrated on 10 November  in
         Indonesia.  Look for activity on  80,  40,  20  and  15 metres FT8,
         as  well as  on  40 metres SSB.  A certificate  will be  available:
         https://www.orarilokaljakut.or.id/.
YB     - The ORARI branch of Tangerang Selatan (YH1RI)  will operate special
         callsigns 8G12TS, 8H12TS and 8I12TS on 14-25 November  to celebrate
         the 12th anniversary of the city of South Tangerang, established on
         26 November 2008. Look for activity on 80 and 40 metres SSB. A cer-
         tificate will be available: https://oraritangsel.or.id/award2020/.

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3D2AG RBN ---> Sponsored by the YASME Foundation, a new  Reverse Beacon Net-
work (RBN) node has been active at  3D2AG's station since 10 November.  This
is the first RBN node active from the South Pacific islands; a similar setup
will soon come on the air from 5W1SA's QTH in Samoa.

QSL NL0H VIA M0OXO ---> Henry, NL0H has relocated from Nome  (mainland Alas-
ka) to St. Lawrence Island (NA-040).  Consequently, there are three separate
logs on M0OXO's OQRS  (https://www.m0oxo.com/oqrs/logsearch.php)  that cover
Henry's past and current activity:
NL0H          = operations from when he lived on the mainland
NL0H/P NA-040 = initial portable operations from the island (May 2019 and
                February 2020)
NL0H NA-040   = current operations as a resident on the island
"If you are unsure of where you worked Henry", M0OXO says,  "check all three
logbooks or email me". New full colour QSL cards are being printed and  will
be available via M0OXO's OQRS or direct only to  Charles Wilmott,  60 Church
Hill, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4NG, United Kingdom.

VOACAP ONLINE ---> "A  few  weeks   ago,  VOACAP   Online   for  Ham   Radio
(https://www.voacap.com/hf/)  was moved  to a  new web  platform,  and  this
change forced  me to re-factor  the majority  of the code  in the back-end",
Jari, OH6BG says.  "I have now completed this task,  and continuously  fine-
tuning it, but I am pleased to inform that the coverage area maps and point-
to-point prediction graphs are now much cleaner & neater than before,  using
a different mapping library.
In addition, most of the codebase has been optimized  and hopefully  is more
Robust  than ever.  Especially  the  Propagation  Planner,  the  propagation
planning  tool  for  HF contests (e.g. CQWW) &  DXpeditions,  should  now be
faster and also, as a bonus, offers the predicted values as CSV files for  a
more detailed analysis.  All the same changes have also been implemented  on
the site of the VOACAP DX Charts, https://www.voacap.com/dx/.
VOACAP Online for Ham Radio is a free HF propagation prediction service  for
the global ham community, running for more than ten years now, with integra-
tions to  the  DX Summit and  Club Log sites,  for example.  No registration
required, no tracking on the site by Google Analytics,  no ads on the pages,
and no subscription fee for the service. Follow and subscribe  to the latest
VOACAP developments on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VOACAP/".

+ SILENT KEY + John Devoldere, ON4UN passed away  peacefully on  9 November,
after being in declining health over the past few months. Licensed at twenty
years of age in 1961, he soon developed a strong interest in contesting  and
DXing on the low bands. In 1979 he was the first operator to earn the 5-Band
WAZ award, and his 80m DXCC  overall score (364)  still places him  in first
position worlwide. The impressive list of John's accomplishments is detailed
in his profile on qrz.com.
He was inducted into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame (1997)  and the  CQ DX Hall
of Fame (2008); in 2013 he received the YASME Excellence Award, whose justi-
fication says it all:  "Along with building  one of the premier amateur sta-
tions in the world,  John's contributions to the  DXing community  have been
extensive.  Beginning with  '80 Meter Dxing',  published  in 1978,  his book
expanded to 'Low-Band DXing', which in its fifth edition [published in 2010,
Ed.] has become the  most widely used  handbook  for operating  and building
antenna systems on the bands at 7 MHz and  lower frequencies.  The book con-
tains important advances in HF amateur technology  and  encourages operation
on these bands".
A former President of the  Union Royale Belge des Amateurs-emetteurs  (1998-
2007), in 2008 John co-authored  with Mark, ON4WW  a  comprehensive document
entitled  "Ethics and  Operating Procedures  for the  Radio Amateur",  whose
principles  represent  the point of  view of the  IARU  on the subject:  see
https://www.iaru-r1.org/on-the-air/code-of-conduct/.
Condolences can be sent to ON4UN.SK[@]gmail.com. A digital farewell ceremony
is being planned for 21 November.

+ SILENT KEY + Wojciech Nietyksza, SP5FM passed away on 6 November, aged 87.
First licensed in 1954 as  SP5UX, he  "made an  enormous contribution to the
work of  IARU Region 1 and to the cause of amateur radio in Europe". For ten
terms in a row (1972-2002) he served as Chairman of the IARU Region 1 Exter-
nal  Relations Committee,  Vice-President  and  member of the  IARU Region 1
Executive Committee.  "Being notably active within the  ITU, CEPT  and other
bodies in  the area  of the  international amateur  and  professional  radio
world,  his actions resulted in a significant increase in the importance  of
the amateur radio service,  and the current  possibility of operation on the
extended 7 MHz band was one of his most remarkable achievements".  [TNX IARU
Region 1]

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QSLs received direct or through managers: 4O4T, 5A1AL, 6F3A (NA-153), 6O1OO,
AP2TN, BA4MY,  D2EB,  DG5LAC/p (EU-042),  DS5USH, DX9EVM,  E21YDP,  GB80BOB,
IO5O, J79WTA, JY5IB, LU8DPM, OY9JD, PJ2/NF9V, R207RRC (AS-207), S79VU, T48K,
T88MB, TM7R (EU-032), TO0A, V31CQ, V47KA, ZL1WN.

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