No 1783
425 DX NEWS - DX INFORMATION
Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH
Direttore Responsabile I2VGW
CN - Andre, HB9HLM, will be active holiday style as CN2NE from Morocco on 15-22 July 2025. He will be QRV on 40-6 metres from grid locator IM63dm. QSL via eQSL and QRZ Logbook; he does not plan to have paper cards.
F - Special callsign TM5VDL will be active on 5-19 July 2025 from Dunkirk during the second stage of this year's edition of the Tall Ships Races. QSL via F8KGS.
G - During next weekend's IARU HF World Championship five stations - GB0WR, GB2WR, GB5WR, GB8WR, and GB9WR - will be active on 80-10 metres SSB and CW and tested under field conditions. They will be using the exact planned equipment for the WRTC 2026 event as a trial. The operating location will be a cluster of sites within the grounds of the Euston Estate, Suffolk (England). There will be two awards available for chasers during this event, complete information on https://www.wrtc2026.org/wrtc-test-event-july-2025/.
HK - Members of the Asociacion de Radioaficionados Unidos (HK4RAU) have announced plans for a DXpedition to Isla Fuerte (SA-078), Colombia, to take during the last week of July, including participation in the IOTA Contest (26-27 July 2025). Callsigns to be used are 5K0T (operated by HK4T) and 5K0C (operated by HK4C), as well as HK4SSI/0 and HK4X/0 for "portable activations". Activity will be on HF, VHF/ UHF and for the first time satellites. QSL via EA5GL.
MOUNT ATHOS ---> SV2TOW is the Greek callsign issued to Monk Pausolipios, at the Docheiariou Monastery of Mount Athos. He still has to "apply to the Mt. Athos Council, which represents the 20 monasteries, to get permission to transmit from there". The process may take some time, but hopefully he will be allowed to be QRV as SV2TOW/a using the equipment of the late Monk Apollo. [TNX The Daily DX]
HL - HL70KARL is the special event station commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL), first established on 20 April 1955. QSL via LoTW; paper cards will not be available.
HS - E2WRTC is a special event station to promote Team Asia #3 in the World Radio Team Championship, which will be held in the UK in July 2026. Look for activity from 12 July to 10 August on 160-10 metres CW and SSB. QSL via E21EIC and LoTW.
I - II1HQ, II2HQ, II4HQ, II6HQ and II9HQ will represent the Associazione Radioamatori Italiani (ARI) on the six contest bands, both CW and SSB, during next weekend's IARU HF World Championship. See https://hqspeedaward.ari.it for the "IIxHQ Speed Award", with certificates for working ARI HQ stations on different bands and modes in the shortest possible time.
J3 - Graham, 2M0IJU (J38LD), has had to cancel his trip to Grenada [425DXN 1780] at the very last moment. Eric, GM5RDX is still going, though, and he will be active as J38DX on 80-6 metres with two stations at the same time from 5 July to 13 July 2025. "I expect to have an FT8 station operational soon after my arrival on Saturday evening, with the SSB station being set up on Sunday morning", he says. "Band conditions permitting, I expect to be fully operational with two stations by around 11am Sunday (16:00 UTC)". QSL via M0OXO's OQRS. [TNX DX World]
JA - Take, JI3DST, will be active as JI3DST/1 from Shikine Island (AS- 008) on 24-28 July, IOTA Contest included. Other callsigns to be used outside the contest are JS6RRR/1 and JS6RRR/p (FT8/FT4) on 40-10 metres; JJ5RBH/1 and JJ5RBH/p (FT8/FT4) on 6m, 2m and 70 cm. QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and LoTW.
JW - Vlad, OK2WX, will be active as JW0V from Longyearbyen (EU-026), Svalbard on 14-23 July. He will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 80-10 metres. QSL via I8KHC and LoTW. See https://www.mdxc.support/jw0v/ for more information.
LA - Charles, KD2RSF, will be touring the Lofoten Islands (EU-076)
between 5 and 7 or 8 July, with brief operations primarily on FT8 as LA/KD2RSF from the villages of Svolvaer, Ballstad and Hamnoy. QSL via LoTW
OZ - Rene, DL2JRM, has been island hopping in Denmark since 30 June. Look for OZ/DL2JRM to be active until 11 July; he updates his schedule on https://www.qrz.com/db/DL2JRM. He will return to Denmark for the IOTA Contest, when he will be QRV as OV7X from Bago Island (EU- 172). QSL via home call, direct or bureau.
TY - TY5AD is a new station sponsored and remotely controlled by the Russian DX Team. Hosted near Cotonou, Benin, the station runs 100 watts into a vertical antenna, and can be operated on 80-10 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW within 2-3 days after that request.
TY - Red, DL1BUG will be active again as TY5FR from Cotonou, Benin from
9 July to 6 August. He will operate CW and SSB on 80-10 metres. QSL
via Club Log's OQRS, LoTW, or via home call.
UA - Sergey, UA1ATD, plans to be active as UA1ATD/p from ten RRA (Russian Robinson Award) islands in Onega Bay (White Sea), starting on 20 July 2025 for 10-12 days. Three islands - namely Kotkano, Bol'shoy Kuz'min and Kondostrov - qualify also for IOTA group EU-147. See https://www.qrz.com/db/UA1ATD for more information. Usually Sergey operates CW on 20 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and LoTW.
V3 - Josh, W9HT, will be active as V31GT from Belize on 10-13 July. He will operate CW, SSB and digital modes on various HF bands. QSL via W9HT, and possibly LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
VE - Look for VY2/K1ZN to be active holiday style from Prince Edward Island (NA-029) 16-21 July, including participation in the North American QSO Party, RTTY (19-20 July). QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
VE - The NA128 Contest Group (http://www.qsl.net/na128cg) will be active again as XM2I from Ile-aux-Coudres (NA-128) on 24-27 July, IOTA Contest included. XM2I will also be used (NOT FROM NA-128) on various bands and modes between 12 July and 11 August 2025, particularly during the IARU HF World Championship (12 July 2025), the North American QSO Party, RTTY (19 July 2025), the North American QSO Party, CW (2 August 2025), and the WAE DX Contest, CW (9 August 2025). QSL via F5JYD; all QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW on 15 August 2025.
W - Randy, K5SL, will be active holiday style from Dauphin Island (NA-213) on 19-26 July 2025. He will operate CW on 40-15 metres during his local mornings and evenings. [TNX The Daily DX]
ZC4 - Adrian, G0KOM, will be active as ZC4MK from the UK Sovereign Base
Areas on Cyprus on 8-15 July. He will be QRV on 80, 40 and 20-6 metres. QSL via home call. [TNX The Daily DX]
ZF - Adrian, AA5UK, is once again active from the Cayman Islands (NA-016) until 11 July 2025. After operating for a few days as ZF2AE/ZF8 from Little Cayman,, he is now QRV from Grand Cayman Island as ZF2AE. He operates digital modes and SSB on 60-6 metres. QSL via LoTW (preferred), or direct to AA5UK.
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KH7AL/KH9 ---> Allen has announced his operating schedule for the next few
days (https://kh7al.site/kh9-upcoming-activity/):
06 July 07:00-??:?? UTC 17m FT8 Fox/Hound, 18095 if available
06 July 20:00-??:?? UTC 20m SSB (demo day for future Wake Island hams)
08 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m FT8 Fox/Hound, 18095 if available
09 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m CW
10 July 16:30-19:00 UTC 17m SSB
13 July 10:00-14:00 UTC 20m FT8 Super Fox then F/H, 14091 if available
21 July 19:00-22:0 UTC 15m FT8 Super Fox then F/H, 21091 if available
QSL GALLERY ---> The large collection of QSL cards on Les Nouvelles DX's website has been updated. Seventeen different galleries include 22,922 cards for the ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities (2015-24), 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].
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QSLs received direct or through managers: 3B9DJ, 6Y7EI, 9K2GR, A61DI,
C37JPE, D84C (AS-084), DS1TUW/2 (AS-090), EA5/DL8JJ/p (EU-151), EX0M,
EY100IARU, FP/F4HEC, FR8TZ, HD8G, HH2AA, HV0A, MD0YBC, OC/DL2JRM/p (EU-030),
OM5DM, OY/K4LT, PZ5IP (SA-092), S01WS, S21NZ, SU1SK, T31TT, T32TT, TC0G,
TZ4AM, V55LA, V73WW, VK9CU, VK9DX, VP2VI, VP2VMM, VU4AX, XU7O, YI5THA, ZS8W.
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