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’m using a Heathkit SB220 since 1995. I bought it used. It has been built in 1980 by an Italian Amateur. This year I wanted to modernize it to keep it at a good level of performance.
Ho deciso di usare il kit RM-220 della Harbach Electronics. Il kit permette di sostituire completamente il sistema di retificazione e i circuiti di misura del PA.
I decided to use the RM-220 Harbach Electronics kit. It allows to sostitute the entire rectifier system and the meters circuits.
We continue the renovation of the Heathkit SB220 Power Amplifier.
Remove the 15 sheet metal screws that hold the perforated cover in place and remove this along with the top rear plate cover. Save the screws in a safe place. Be careful not to remove the screw that supports the insulating spacer that shorts to ground the positive high voltage, for safety reason, when the top cover is removed. The photo shows the small isolating spacer tied up the cover.
.We can disassemble the old rectifier circuit board. Remove the four screws holding the old rectifier circuit board to the tapped spacers on the capacitor bank bracket. Put the four screws in a safe place. Unsolder old wires from the boad. It don’t require remember the positions. The wires’s colors will help us reconnect them on the new circuit board.
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
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.