The first 2024 qso with my home call I3FDZ, has been performed with TX5S Clipperton 2024. It happened in the morning of january 22. At 09:15 UTC I turned on the radio on the 14.023 kHz, where TX5S was reported. The CW signal from Clipperton Island arrived quite strong, 579 589 from the short path, direction 300°, instead the signal from long path arrives quite low with fading. I tuned my radio on 14.026, and 500 Watt, 3 kHz up but I didn’t get answer, then on 5 kHz up the same, so i tuned 7 kHz up on 14.030 kHz and I got the qso just after three calls at 09:43 UTC.

The Club Log shoot

The ARI Dx 2024 organised by ARI, Associazione Radioamatori Italiani, will take place the first weekend of may. This year it will happens saturday 4 and sunday 5 of may. The ARI Dx 2024 is a world wide type but qso with italian stations scores ten points instead of one and each italian province count for an multiplier together with DXCC countries.

The last year almost all italian provinces had participates with more than 300 italian stations on the hf bands. Italian radio amateur are waiting you. in the mean time i suggest you an link to reach the 2023 results.

Please save the date and join our contest.

I’ll Publish the next post about ARI Dx 2024, when the Contest Manager  Filippo Vairo, IZ1LBG will publish the rules in ARI web site, in order to see if there is any changement.

Many 73 to all readers de Fiorino/I3fdz

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to all my readers de Fiorino/i3fdz

The CQ WW CW 2023, the most important contest of the year is goes. The log is already sent to the committee. It has been an exciting contest indeed. I operated for eight hours in the Single Operator Single Band, 10 meters, High Power, cattegorie. I concacted 98 countries, 31 zones with 261 qso.The propagation was excellent, all six continents was on the air and contacted.

The statistics and summary will follows. I used the logger QARest.

This year Peter John DL7YS, WAEDC contest manager, pubblished rushly the WAE CW 2023 results in the DARC web site. I’m happy because I succeeded to comfirm the ninth place in my cattegory reacing the objective to to get the top ten area.

I show you the top ten of Single Operator Europe Low Power

The ARI Dx 2023 results have now been published by Filippo Vairo, IZ1LBG ARI HF Contest Manager on the ARI web site. This year the number of Dx stations increased more than hundred for a total of 1195 foreing partecipants. Our contest is appreciated and increaslingly year by year

Peter John DL7YS, WAEDC manager, just published yesterday, for the DARC the WAECW 2023 raw scores.

The WAE CW 2023 contest is just finished. I have already send the log to DARC. This the link to the logs arrived.

First I insert the qso per hour rategraph.

About one week to WAE CW contest 2023. It will take place the 12 and 13 august. Save the date and prepare your setup.

The WAE CW contest 2023 is organized by the german radioamateur association DARC. There is a round for CW only taking place the second weekend complete of august, there is a round for SSB only taking place the second weekend complete on september and there is a round for RTTY only taking place the second weekend complete of october of each year. In this contest are allowed qso between european stations and non european stations only, there are also two differents classific for european and non europena stations. In this contest, the unique on the world, where the non european stations will send back to eupean stations packets with informations datas regardin previous qso with europen stations. Such packet are called qtc.

For complete contest rules included the qtc messages, please follows this link on the DARC web site.

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