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5Z - Ferdy, HB9DSP has had to postpone his December trip to Kenya
[425DXN 1595], and now plans to be active as 5Z4/HB9DSP around mid-
January. He will operate SSB and some FT8 on 20, 15 and 10m. QSL
via LoTW and home call (bureau preferred). [TNX DX World]
8Q - Tor, DG7RO will be active as 8Q7RO (reissued callsign, already used
by RT4RO in 2013) from the Maldives (AS-013) on 11-27 December. He
will only operate via Oscar QO-100. QSL via DG7RO and LoTW.
9J - Mario, IK1MYT is active again as 9J2MYT from Lusaka, Zambia until
June 2022. He operates SSB on 40, 20, 17, 15 and 10 metres. QSL
direct to IZ3KVD.
F - The Radio Club de Nice is active as TM8AB until 6 December to
commemorate the anniversary of the first Transatlantic amateur two-
way contact between Leon Deloy F8AB and Fred Schnell 1MO (28 Novem-
ber 1923). QSL via F4KJQ.
HI - Hrane, YT1AD and Milos, YT3M will be active as HI7/YT1AD from the
Dominican Republic on 4-14 December. QSL via YT1AD. [TNX NG3K]
I - Members of the Italian Naval Old Rhythmers Club (www.inorc.it) will
be active as II1TCWC on 12-17 December to commemorate the 120th an-
niversary of the first radio transmission sent across the Atlantic
Ocean (12 December 1901). They will operate only CW. All QSOs will
be confirmed automatically via the bureau. A certificate will be
available; see https://www.qrz.com/db/II1TCWC for information. [TNX
IN3MDR]
OH - The Finnish Amateur Radio League (SRAL) is celebrating its 100th
anniversary. To earn the "OH Northern Light 100-year Certificate"
(OH-NL-100), contact fifty OH and fifty OF stations during 2021,
and ten "multipliers" [425DXN 1559]. The list of special centennial
activations will be completed during the month of December by three
multipliers: OI3AX (QRV on 3-7 December, QSL via OH2LGW), OF2YOTA
(QSL via Club Log's OQRS) and Santa Claus station, OF9X (Old Father
9 Xmas, QSL via OH2BH). These special stations greet you with 59(9)
SRAL message and you can greet them back with 59(9) MX (Merry
Christmas). Your log extract should be sent to
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during
January 2022. Complete rules for the OH-NL-100 Certificate can be
found on https://www.sral.fi/en/. [TNX OH2BH]
OH - OH9SCL is once again active from Finnish Lapland ("Santa Claus
Land") during the month of December. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or direct
to Anssi Puuronen, Kemijoen Itapuolentie 1577, FI-97110 Rautio-
saari, Finland
PA - Celebrating Christmas and the New Year, special callsigns PH21XMAS
and PH22HNY will operate SSB and digital modes on 6 December-3 Jan-
uary and 10 December-31 January, respectively. QSL via operator's
instructions.
S2 - The S21DX operation from IOTA group AS-140 [425DXN 1589] has been
brought forward, and is now expected to take place on 10-16 Decem-
ber in accordance with the operating permission granted by the li-
cencing authority. S21AM and S21RC will run one station on the HF
bands SSB and FT8; a second station will be on the QO-100 satel-
lite. QSL via EB7DX. See https://s21dx.org for more information.
S5 - Special event station S522PMC will be active from 3 December to 2
January 2022 to promote the PMC Contest, sponsored by the Radio
Club Slovenj Gradec (S59DCD). All QSOs will be confirmed via the
bureau. The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was
established in 1988 to recognize and encourage the role and
responsibility cities have in creating a culture of peace. The PMC
Contest, promoting contacts between stations located in the Peace
Messenger Cities and the rest of the world, will be held on 1-2
January (see http://www.s59dcd.si/ for complete information).
VE - The Signal Hill National Historic Site is the location where Gu-
glielmo Marconi received the very first wireless transatlantic
message on 12 December 1901. Commemorating the 120th anniversary of
that historic event, the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs
will operate special callsign VD1M on 1-31 December. QSL via Club
Log's OQRS, or direct to VO1IDX.
W - This year marks the 100th anniversary of the historic Transatlantic
Tests of December 1921, when the ARRL's representative Paul Godley,
2ZE set up his listening station in Ardrossan (Scotland) and re-
the signals of more than two dozen US amateur radio stations, the
first from 1BCG in Connecticut. During the UTC night between 11 and
12 December those transmissions will be recreated by W2AN/1BCG from
the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, using a
replica transmitter constructed by volunteers at the Antique Wire-
less Association. Transmissions will start on +/- 1820 kHz CW at 23
UTC, then every 15 minutes until 03.45 UTC on 12 December. Trans-
missions from W2AN/1BCG will be one-way, just like the original
Transatlantic Tests. You can get a SWL certificate by sending a
copy of the transmitted message to
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. See
http://1BCG.org for more information.
YB - YB7NUS/p, YB7KE/p and YD7MHZ/p will be active from Laut Island (OC-
166) on 4-5 December. They will operate SSB, CW and FT8 on the HF
bands. QSL via EA5GL. [TNX DX World]
Z2 - DJ6TF and DL7BO have had to postpone their December trip to
Zimbabwe [425DXN 1595], and now plan to be active as Z21A and Z22O
on 3-20 February. They will operate CW, SSB, FT8 and FT4 on 160-10
metres. QSL both calls via DJ6TF. |
