We are approaching the end of 2022.
IRDX HQ wishes you all the best for the coming year.
May the contacts be numerous, the new ones be in your log.
Category Archives: General News
Introducing a new active Vice President
It is now official, Felipe 32IR001 joins the HQ, he will represent the HQ in South America.
Felipe is world renowned as an outstanding operator and has already proven his dedication and pride in being an IR member for many years.
How to Increase IRDX Member Activity ?
The number of active IRDX members tends to increase when there is a lot of activity on the 11m.
In the last few months I’ve been able to contact many of you, because I’m on the radio every day and I’ve finally been able to install a better antenna than the vertical one I had in place for 2 years, which is great and I realise that if IRDX members are more active on the air they also need to be more active on the internet.
The first and best way is to be registered on a cluster, there are several (11DX –Clusterdx–CRX–dx27–lf11) as the IRDX callsign is your main callsign, the best thing is to register with this one, but that’s not enough, you have to share with other users by sending spots.
The contacts you make, the frequency you are on, all this allows others to identify you easily and therefore allows you to make many radio contacts.
Another way is to have a Facebook account and a Facebook page (This link allows you to see my personal page).
I invite you to create your own and share as many images, sound, videos as possible for your favourite activity which is to make contacts with the whole world.
Facebook is not perfect, but it is a social network that is perfect for promoting radio activities, it is possible to share photos, videos, text, sound either on your wall or directly on your page.
As far as messaging is concerned, two are above the others, Whatsapp and Telegram and the international Radio DX Group is present on these two applications, if you wish to join one or the other of the groups set up, do not hesitate to contact me by email : 14ir001@irdx.org
21/13IR105 holiday station
21/13IR105 Tommy has also been reported as active holiday station.
QSL via operators instructions !
47/15IR117 holiday station
Tino reported us, that he will be active for next two weeks from somewhere in the North part of Denmark, so have a look for him.
QSL via operators instructions !
Review International Radio DX fieldday 2022 – Germany
After some years of absence, the German IR-DX crew decided to organize a fieldday meeting again.
First visitors
The first fieldday visitors from the Netherlands (19IR04 Rob and his wife) and Switzerland (15IR076 Chris and his wife), did arrive as one of the first on friday afternoon.
Meanwhile the crew was busy with cleaning and building up the side and got some help from the visitors, to get ready for the main fieldday on saturday.
BBQ man
IR and non-IR members
Several (non) members from the area, showed up on fridayevening, to say hello and took a few drinks.
Under great weather conditions with a clear blue sky and very sunny weather, the fieldday started on saturdaymorning.
More members, including non-members, showed up and we had a lot of nice eyeball QSO contacts.
It was really nice to meet several old friends, who did not see eachother for over 10-20-30 years.
Some “Young Ladies” from the IR-DX group had made some nice cake at home and did share it during the fieldday. At the late saturday afternoon, we had a nice BBQ with several nice salads.
The eyeball QSO contacts, did continue until the end of the evening. On sunday, the fieldday was being faced out, little by little and at the end of the afternoon, it was really ended.
Transceiver and laptop setup
Fieldday – 11 WW Contest
As we know that the 11 WorldWide contest was running, we decided to use 13IR/HQ as our callsign, instead of 13IR000.
We knew, that we did not announce it in advance, but we did not make a serious plan to be active many hours.
So far, 79 radio contacts could be made, mainly inside Europe, but also with continents Africa and South-America.
Thank you
We would like to thank all people involved with the fieldday organization and all participants to make this event a success after some years again.
Unfortunately one of the organizers was in quarantaine, so unfortunately he and his wife were not able to join us.
IRDX Germany field day meeting soon
During our Fieldday Meeting will be Active 13IR000 the Club Station, maybe also from our Guests 13/15IR000 and 13/19IR000. listen out or join our Big Event between Nürnberg and Roth
Dates : 15 July to 17 July 2022.
If you want to visit us send us a mail
Qth of the meeting place : Google map
| Email able to answer : hq@irdx.de or 13ir102@irdx.org |
14IR/FRA497 soon on air
Lighthouse Saint Nicolas will be activated by 14IR133 Olivier between 1 July 2022 & 31 August 2022.
Qsl via : op Olivier
2 impasse de terrefort 33340 Gaillan-en-médoc ( France)
12IR/URU009 soon on air
12IR/URU009 Light Cerro de Montevideo (LOTA)
We are pleased to inform you that from 05/04/2022 The maritime lighthouse located above the fortress Fortaleza General Artigas, in the district of Villa del Cerro in Montevideo, Uruguay will be activated from time to time until the end of the year 2025 the assigned call sign is 12IR/URU009.
E-QSL will be available on
https://www.facebook.com/Didier14ir001/
Only E-QSL Available
14IR/FFF-0376 on air soon
