8Q - Braco, E77DX will be active holiday style as 8Q7DX from the Mal-
dives (AS-013) on 13-27 April. He plans to be QRV on 80-10 metres.
QSL via LoTW and E73Y.
CT8 - CQ84AS is a special callsign for Tony, CU8AS to celebrate his 84th
birthday on 13-19 April. Located on Flores Island (EU-089), Azores,
he will operate mainly CW ("no more than 18 WPM") with some SSB. On
16-17 April he will be QRV only on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via
HB9CRV and LoTW. [TNX The Daily DX]
EA - Members of Radio Club Henares will be active as EH4WRD on 8-24
April to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day. QSL via EA4RCH. See
https://www.radioclubhenares.org/eh4wrd/ for the certificates.
F - Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SOTA (Summits On The Air)
France, special callsign TM15SOTA will be activated for fifteen
days between 15 April and 29 May. QSL via eQSL, paper QSLs will not
be available.
F - Special callsign TM97WARD will be activated on 16-25 April from
France in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day (18 April). QSL
via the bureau.
I - ARI Loano will operate CW, SSB and RTTY on the HF bands as IY1TIT
on 9-18 April. This will be part of an educational project for the
students of a local high school, aimed at commemorating the 110th
anniversary since the sinking of the Titanic, celebrating the life
and works of Guglielmo Marconi, and highlighting the importance of
the emergency communication system. QSL via IK1HLG, LoTW and eQSL.
[TNX IK1QBT]
JA - 8N650JP is the special callsign for JARL's Okinawa Branch to cele-
brate the 50th anniversary since the Okinawa Prefecture was re-
turned to Japan (15 May 1972) after 27 years of American adminis-
tration. Look for activity between 1 April and 30 September. All
QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau.
PA - The PA Flora & Fauna Programme will hold an "activity weekend" on
9-10 April, with various operations taking place from several Dutch
nature parks. Special callsigns include PA225FF, PA226FF, PA44WFF
and PF44F: "Not real DX, but certainly a lot of fun!", Enno, PF5X
says. See https://wwff.co/2022/04/paff-weekend-april-9-10/.
SP - Special callsign 3Z80AK will be activated between 1 April and 31
May for the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Armia Krajowa
(Home Army, the dominant underground resistance movement in Poland
during World War II. QSL via SP1PBW.
TL - The TL8AA & TL8ZZ Dxpediton to the Central African Republic [425DXN
1613] has been rescheduled to take place in November, "at the end
of the rainy season". Bookmark http://www.i2ysb.com/idt/ for
updates [TNX I2YSB]
V7 - Stewie, WV7MS is a newly licenced amateur who is employed as a
firefighter on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands "for the foresee-
able future". He will be QRV as V7/WV7MS when time permits. QSL via
eQSL and LoTW.
VE - Celebrating its centenary, the Kitchener-Waterloo Amateur Radio
Club (VE3IC, https://www.kwarc.org/) will use three special call-
signs: VC3C for the Ontario QSO Party (16-17 April), VC3IC for the
RAC Canada Day Contest (1-2 July), and VB3C for the ARRL Field Day
Contest (25-26 June).
VE - Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again holding a "Get on the Air on
World Amateur Radio Day" special event in which it encourages as
many amateurs as possible to contact as many RAC stations as possi-
ble. Operating across Canada from 00.00 UTC to 23.59 UTC on 18
April, the RAC official stations will be VA2RAC, VA3RAC, VE1RAC,
VE4RAC, VE5RAC, VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC, VO1RAC, VO2RAC,
VY0RAC, VY1RAC and VY2RAC. QSL via LoTW or via the bureau. Those
contacting one or more of these stations, on any band and mode,
will be eligible for a special commemorative certificate:
https://www.rac.ca/certificates/.
VP2V - Lori KB2HZI, Pat N2IEN, Ray W2RE, Rock WW1X and Lee WW2DX will be
active as VP2V/N2IEN from Tortola, British Virgin Islands (NA-023)
on 10-16 April. They will operate CW, SSB and FT8 on 160-6 metres
with a focus on the higher bands. QSL via EB7DX. Follow @WW2DX on
Twitter for live updates.
YB - 8D97WARD is the special callsign for ORARI, the Indonesian IARU so-
ciety, to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on 16-18 April. Look
for activity on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m SSB, CW, FT8 and RTTY, plus
satellite IO-86 on 435.880 MHz. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, and Club Log. |