8Q     - Mats, RM2D (SM6LRR) will be active holiday style as 8Q7MS from  the
         Maldives (AS-013)  from  28 March to 10 April.  He will operate  CW
         with some SSB on mainly 40-15 metres. QSL via LoTW, or EA5GL.

A2     - Vasily R7AL, Vlad R9LR, Mike RU3UR and Leo UI8J  will be active  as
         A25RU from Botswana on 15-26 March.  They will operate CW, SSB  and
         FT8 (Fox & Hound) on  160-10 metres with  four stations.  They also
         plan to be QRV on QO-100.  QSL via Club Log's OQRS,  and eventually
         LoTW. See https://rv6ali.wixsite.com/botswana2021 for more informa-
         tion.

CN     - Special event station CN21JIF  will be active on  19-22 March  from
         Ourika Valley in the Moroccan High Atlas. QSL via RW6HS. The suffix
         stands for Journee Internationale des Forets, the International Day
         of Forests  established  by the  UN General Assembly  and  observed
         annually on 21 March.

F      - Special callsign TM150PAR will be active  for fifteen days  between
         20 March and 16 May  to mark  the  150th anniversary of  the  Paris
         Commune, the revolutionary government that ruled Paris (18 March-28
         May 1871) and had significant influence on the ideas of  Karl Marx.
         QSL via F4HZS.

FS     - Barring Covid-related restrictions,  Janusz, SP9FIH  will be active
         as TO1K from  Saint Martin (NA-105) from  22 March to 5 April.  QSL
         via Club Log's OQRS,  or via home call.  Updates will be posted to
         http://fs.dxpeditions.org/. [TNX NG3K]

GW     - John, MW1CFN  will be active as  GB1004FTS  from  Anglesey (EU-005)
         between 25 March and 8 April. He will operate SSB and digital modes
         on the  HF bands,  6 and 2m.  QSL via LoTW  or direct.  The special
         callsign celebrates the 100th anniversary of the  Royal Air Force's
         No. 4 Flying Training School, opened on 1 April 1921.

I      - Celebrating  the  1600th anniversary  of  the founding  of  Venice,
         traditionally set on 25 March 421,  and the 75th anniversary of ARI
         Venezia (http://www.arivenezia.it/), II3VE and IQ3VE will be active
         on various bands and modes from  15 March to 30 November.  QSLs via
         the bureau. [TNX I3MDU]

OH     - The  SSAB Raahe  Amateur Radio Club  (OH8SSAB)  will be  active  as
         OF60RR until 1 March 2022 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of  the
         Rautaruukki steel plant. QSL via the bureau, or direct to OH8DR.

PY     - Special callsign PQ213CFN will be active on 5-31 March to celebrate
         the 213rd anniversary of the  Brazilian Marine Corps,  which traces
         its origin to March 1808.  QSL via LoTW; logsearch on  Club Log.  A
         certificate will be available for download: http://www.gcen.org.br/
         (after 10 April).

PY     - Special callsigns ZZ5FLN  and  ZZ5FLORIPA  will be active on  16-23
         March to commemorate the 348th anniversary of the city of Floriano-
         polis,  the capital  of the  Brazilian state of  Santa Catarina.  A
         certificate will be available; see qrz.com for information.

UA     - Look for Mikhail, R1MJ and Yulia, R1CBL  to be active from  Verper-
         luda Island (EU-133) starting around 9 UTC on 13 March until around
         11 UTC on the 14th. They will operate mainly SSB on 40 and 20m. QSL
         via home calls, direct or bureau. [TNX qrz.ru]

YB     - Ravi, YD7RV  and  Mas Jok, YD7HKV  will be active  as  YD7RV/p  and
         YD7HKV/p from the Laut Kecil Islands (OC-268) on 13-15 March.  They
         plan to operate SSB and FT8 from Marabatua (13 March), Payongpayon-
         gan  (14 March)  and  Denawan  (15 March,  maybe  with   a  special
         callsign). All QSLs via EA5GL. [TNX DX World]

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CASS AWARDS ---> The Cass Awards honour the wisdom and spirit of Cass WA6AUD
(SK), and encourage DXpeditions to maximize the number of  DXers worked with
a Plaque for the single-operator DXpedition that works the most unique call-
signs within 2 weeks or less, and a Plaque  for  the "unlimited"  DXpedition
that works the most unique callsigns.
Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH  has won  (for  the fourth  year in a row!)  the 2020
Single-Operator Cass Award by working 6,845 unique stations during his  one-
man operation from Norfolk Island as VK9NK.
The HU1DL team  (Andy Wolf  DH8WR,  Thomas Freimann  DJ6TF,  Werner Hasemann
DJ9KH, Frank Milatz DL1KWK, Dietmar Lindner DL2HWA,  Norbert Strauch DL2RNS,
Georg Tretow  DL4SVA,  Olaf Matthaei DL7JOM,  Rolf Thieme  DL7VEE, and Franz
Bernd DL9GFB) worked 19,456 unique stations from El Salvador to win the 2020
Unlimited Cass Award.
Presented annually,  the Cass Awards are issued  in  March  for  DXpeditions
during  the  preceding  year.  See  http://www.cassaward.com/  for  complete
information.

RI0Q ---> The complete RI0Q team assembled at Noril'sk-Talnach  and  resumed
the journey on 11 March.  At 13 UTC on 12 March  there were near the village
of Volochanka, with still some 700 km as the crow flies  for the snowmobiles
convoy to drive before they reach their final destination (Bol'shoy Begichev
Island, AS-152). See https://maps.findmespot.com/s/BG5T#live/assets.

RSGB COMMONWEALTH CONTEST ---> The 84th edition of the  Commonwealth  (BERU)
Contest (https://berucontest.wordpress.com)  will  be held  on  13-14 March,
from 10.00 UTC to 09.59 UTC,  on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m  CW. Only  operators
located within the United Kingdom and Crown  Dependencies,  Commonwealth  or
British Mandated Territories are eligible to enter.