The ARI Dx contest 2023 claimed scores has been just published on its web site.This is the link to reach them. Dx stations claimed scores follows the italians one on the list, cattegory by cattegory. As usually, the ARI international Dx contest committee, shown it quickly.

More than 1400 stations sent their logs to the committee a sign that our HF contest performed better than last year.

I’m particularly satisfied because my call is first on my category, Single Operator CW Low Power. I hope to keep such position on the final results too.

The next post, with comments, about ARI Dx contest, after the publication of final results. I hope early.

73 a lot to all, de I3FDZ

The ARI Dx 2023 has gone. Good propagation despite less than expected. Five days from the contest end to send the cabrillo file to the committee through the banner in right side up of the ARI home page web site. At this moment 1338 logs have already arrived to the commiitee, more than last year at three days to to the expiry date.

This post of ARI Dx 2023 comments, start with the time graph diagram

Ten days to ARI Dx Contest. A lot of italian stations, more than 500 on 2020 and about 300 last year, on all modes, CW SSB and RTTY, on all bands 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres, will be actives during the contest, are waiting you. There are categories for low and high power and for single and multi operators.

Just one month to the italian HF dx contest “ARI International Dx Contest 2023” organized by the Italian Radioamateur Association ARI. Italian stations are waiting you to give the the italian province multiplier and ten points qso. Here is the link to whole contest rules in english. Propagation is going better day by day, so we expect a lot of qso.

II3IST is the call issued by italian authorities to the ARI section of Treviso to commemorate the centennial of Italian Air Forces. The award is organized by the ARI National this link is for the full rules. Instead this one is for the whole list of special call for the italian peninsula. II3IST is to celebrate the Italian Air Force Base of Istrana, located very clouse to Treviso. A special QSL card will be print for II3IST and must be required to the manager IU3LYJ.

This is a sample of the award.

I got it. 3Y0J Bouvet Island 2023, the DxPedition of the year, the second one in the most wanted list, is on my bag. I follow the international team since the departure from Falkland Islands, with sail boat MARAMA. They sailed through the south Atlantic Ocean for 12 days, before drop anchor in an island bay. Bouvet Island lie quite at same latitude of Cape Horn, The extreme south of the Land of Fires, Argentina. Who has pass Cape Horn, like me, knows even durin the austral summer, from 21 december to 21 march, the weather conditions in that latitudes coul be very bad indeed. Here is the boat course.

Less than three months to the ARI Dx Contest 2023. This year it will take place the first weekend of may the 6 and 7, 2023. The rules remaining the same as last year. We hope that issue to logs upload system, will not happen this year.

This is the link to full .pdf rules for non-Italians participants. The contest is managed by ARI Associazione Radioamatori Italiani and on behalf of A.R.I. HF Contest Committee by Filippo Vairo, IZ1LBG, A.R.I HF Contest Manager.

I see you the next post about ARI Dx Contest 2023.

73 de Fiorino/I3FDZ

During the month of january 2023, working 60 radioamateur stations celebrating the WARTC 2023 award Italy, I got it.

This year the WRTC, the olympic games of radio amateurs, will take place in Italy, in the Emilia Romagna region with capital city Bologna, during the IARU contest that will take place the second weekend of july, this year the 8th and 9th 2023. Word wide radio amateur stations are encouraged to participate to contact the special call stations engaged in the WRTC challenge.

I’ll be there too, but not among the competitors. 73 de Fiorino/I3FDZ

This year I participate on the CQ WW160 CW 2023 on the high power category, it has been quite easy. My entry was single operator high power assisted. I borrowed from the local radio club a final amplifier to help my TS850. The amplifier is a Drake L7 with the two tubes quite tired. With 80 Watt input i got less than 400 Watt output. I performed a good job but I regretted for failing to connect North America. In effect i never heard them on the band.

I used the contest logger QARTest of my friend Paolo/ik3qar that released me the contest summary and statistics that follows.

This year i performed the CQWW CW 2022 on the 15 metres band only. The ionospheric propagation promises good, as a matter in just 13 hours of operations i got 500 QSOs with all continents. I participated in the Single Operator Single Band Assisted category.

I used my analogic station with Kenwood TS850S, the Heatkit SB220 PA with maximun output 500W and the antenna two elements cubical quad for 20/15/10 metres bands 15 metres high. The Reverse Beacon connection got me both Cluster and Skimmer spots. and the CAT system enabled me to tune on the interesing spots frequency.

The contest log QARTest by Paolo ik3qar get me a quite and effortlessly job. At the end these are the results and statistics by the contest logger.