The RSGB Iota contest 2022 is passed. It filled up the HF bands of the last weekend. I participated sunday morning for five hours and half and i got 180 qso which 115 with island both resident and Dxpeditions. I used my home station in CW mode of course.

Follows summary and statistics tables elaborated by the contestlog QARTest.

ARI Dx 2022 results

As usually, the italian HF contest manager Filippo/iz1lbg issued quickly the final results of our international contes. On the ARI, monthly magazine, “Radio Rivista” of July appear the full italian classifications and just the top ten of foreign participants. As soon as the results will be published on the ARI site, I’ll post the link to reach them.

Less than one week to the Marconi Memorial Contest HF CW 2022 dedicated to the italian inventor of the radio.

It’s a world wide type contest. Every one can contacts every one. It will take place the first weekend of july of every year. It’s organized by the A.R.I.’s section of Fano city. Eliseo/ik6bak is the contest manager.

The particularity of the Marconi Memorial Contest HF CW 2022 is just one mode of operation, CW ofcourse. The multipliers are each DXCC countries worked on each of the six bands permitted from 160 to 10 meters. There are a lot of cattegories, single band included.

This is the link to reach the whole contest rules at the ARI Fano web site. Here, instead, there are the previous years results

I’ll partecipate on the single operator low power cattegory. I’ll try to be active on all bands.

I hope to see you in the contest the qso with you will be appreciated very much,

73 de Fiorino/i3fdz

The ARI International Dx Contest 2022 committee issued the claimed score published on the official ARI web site. This is the link to go there. Almost 1400 logs has been reiceved and the traffic was intense and made of good quality on all hf bands.

I participated rushelly due to a serious family commitment. I used my special contest call IR3L. My entry in the Single Operator CW Low Power. I hope to spend more time in this contest the next year.

As soon as the committee will public the final results i’ll post the link to reach them.

Fiorino/i3fdz/ir3l

From IK1LBG the ARI HF Contest Manager has been issued the following new regarding the contest file upload:

Due to the problems in ARI website, the log deadline of ARI International DX Contest has been moved to Saturday 21 of May. The log can be sent to hfcontest.ari(at)gmail.com. Please spread the news!

Filippo, IZ1LBG
ARI HF Contest Manager

Fiorino/i3fdz/ir3l

The special call IR3L was assigned to me, by the italian telecomunications authority, for the use during the Ari International Dx Contest 2022 the first weekend of may. IR3L was assigned to me also for the WAE Cw the second weekend of august and the CQ WW CW the last weekend of november. So instead of I3FDZ this year I’ll use IR3L. I’m going to partecipate in Single Operator Low Power category, therefore try to contact me even if my signal strength is low, any qso with you will be appreciated very much. On 10/15/20 metres bands i use a two elemets cubical quad about 15 metres high. On 40/80 metres i use inverted v dipoles with the apex 12 metres high.

This link to the whole contest rules.

Ciao, see you soon.

Fiorino/i3fdz

The Arrl Contest committee published the Arrl Dx Cw Contest 2022 raw scores. We can see a lot of italian stations joinig it. My entry is in the Single Operator Unlimited High Power category. I’m listed in the 30th position with about four hour of operations.

The classification of italian station for SOUHP will follows, instead the full ARRL Dx Cw contest 2022 raw scores are here.

I’ve just received an email from CQ Communications, Inc., publishers of CQ Amateur Radio magazine and sponsor of the CQ World Wide DX and WPX Contests to comunitate their decision about that.

Here is the original message with all details:

Less than three mounths to the ARI Interational DX Contest 2022. It will take place the first weekend of may. Starting at 12:00 UTC of saturday may 7 untill 11:59 UTC of sunday may 8. Twuentyfour hours of operation on five bands. No limits about multioperators cattegories. This is the link, in the ARI site, for the whole rules.

Italian stations will exchange the abreviation of their provincie. I remenber the ARI International DX Contest 2022, is aworld wide type, every one can contact every one, but the Italian stations count ten points for each qso and every province contacted counts a moltiplier in all bands

Italian operators are waiting you. Save the date and join our contest.