Less than three months to the ARI Dx contest 2025. It will take place the first weekend of may. Starting saturday may 3rd at 12:00 UTC ending sunday 4th may at 11:59 UTC. Plese save the date. Italian stations are waiting eagerness this event. We are getting ready our setup.
Rules are been pubblished on the ARI web site. You can down load the full rules in .pdf format from here.
The ARRL CW 2025, has been the first contest in which i used my new special contest callIP3U. I got a lot of fun, what a pity the contest is 48 hours long. I don’t enjoy the two days long contests. I prefer the 24 hour ones like the ARI International Dx Contest that take place the first weekend of may.
I operated for thirteen hours in Single Operator CW High Power category. I used six bands with 500 watt excluded on 160 metres that I have 100 watt only. The EUDX is world wide type contest but most traffic has been exchanged between european stations. I didn’t contacted any african station and just a few North American stations.
The EUDX 2025 comments will follow with my declared score and statistics, elaborated by the logger QARTest.
I had been always interested in the low band since I was radio officer in the italian merchant ships. In that times I often used medium waves on the distress an calling frequencies of 500 kHz CW and 2.182 kHz AM or SSB.
In this band I use an inverted V dipole with the extremes folded and the top 12 metres high. It is tuned exactly on the band’s segment from 1830 kHz to 1850 kHz where the ROS is 1:1. I use a RTX Kenwood TS850S with maximum power output 100 watt. I haven’t any linear amplifier on this band.
But now here is the results by the contest logger QARTest of my CQWW 160 CW 2025.
A new contest call IP3U, has been issued to me by the Telecommunication Division of MIMIT, MInistero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy. https://appradioamatori.invitalia.it/
This is the copy of autorization for the new contest call IP3U:
The EUDX 2025 Contest is a world wide type. Every one can contact every one. But stations on the EuropeanUnion contries are favored because qsos with us counts ten points and every region of each EU countries count one multiplier other than DXCCWAE lists and IG9 and IH9. The focus of the contest, however, is contact as many regions of all EU countries as possible. EUDX 2025 Contest organisation is by Ik6qon and the EUDXCC.
The list of the 27 political countries of European Union follow:
This is my contribution to the international Centenary Italian Radio Broadcasting award organized by the italian Radioamateur Association A.R.I. I used the special call II3RTRE issued to the ARI section of my city Treviso.
The cloud service of hamaward permit the upload immediate of all qso. So that hunters was able to check the award endorsement qso by qso in real time.
I performed all qso using the logger QARTest with Dxpn modality and the functionality Broadcast Datas Outside to upload in real time all qso to hamaward cloud.
The Centenary Italian Radio Broadcasting award has been a success either for italian radioamateur and for ARI.
If you need more informations, please write me using the form at the end of this article or via email that you can found on qrz.com digiting my call on the window Enter Query.
Ari Dx 2024 results. The final results has been pubblished by the italian Contest Manager Filippo Vairo IZ1LBG on the ARI web site and on the ARI magazine “Radio Rivista” of october 2024. With my great pleasume I found myself the winner on the categorie Single Operator CW LP. The seventh time winner in this categorie: 1986, 1992, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. On the years 1986 and 1992 there wasn’t the separation between LP an HP. But my most important victory was last year 2023 wich I got the category record still in force.
Now I publish the table of Dx Records on each category downloaded from the site ARI at this link included all dx results also by countries with the contest statistics in .pdf format.
My antenna two elements cubic quad has been repaired. Yesterday afternoon a lorry with a moveable crane able to reach and woks at 15 metres high, arrived in my garden and the specialized worker in three hours repaired it. The antenna is came back as new. Here is a few photo about the work.
The work has been facilitated by turning the antenna so that the crane didn’t to move a lot to reach all point of the antenna. Now i have to check my two elements cubic quad with the dxpedition in St Paul Island CY9C.
If you need more informations, please write me using the form at the end of this article or via email that you can found on qrz.com digiting my call on the window Enter Query.
La mia attività di Radioamatore consiste nella caccia al dx, partecipazione a Contest nazionali e internazionali in HF, ricerca e restauro di apparati storici Vintage.