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Several IR-DX news related to the IR-DX HQ.

IR-DX Fieldday 2025

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We invite you (IR members and non-IR members) to our annual IR-DX Fieldday 2025.

This year’s fieldday will be organised from Friday 1 August to Sunday 3 August in Switzerland.

Like previous fielddays, you will have a fun and relaxing weekend with or without radio and some face-to-face chatting, enjoying the beautiful surroundings and BBQing in the evening.

Contact us in advance, so we can advise you which route you can take the best to avoid the highway if you come by car, so it is not necessary to buy a special vignet, which needs to be bought, when you take the highway in Switzerland!

 

Funeral 13IR249 Ralph

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Friday 06 december 2024 the funeral of 13IR249 Ralph has taken place in Roth – Germany.

Several IR members and other radio friends were able to give him a dignified farewell, along with Ralph’s relatives and other friends.

On behalf of the IR-DX Group a floral wreath has been laid.

So long, Ralph, Rest in Peace !

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13IR249 Ralph – silent key

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Today we have to tell you that our member and good friend Ralph also known as 13IR249 from the city Roth in Germany, suddenly passed away while he was in Asia together with 13IR102 Lars.

Just out before he was active on Asia tour activating several divisions for the 11 meter community.
Many of us know Ralph from the 1980s, when many people started with 11 meter DX.

Ralph was a fine operator and the polite man. The world will miss him.

Our condolences and thoughts are with his family and friends and also to Lars, 13IR102 who was together with him doing an Asia tour.

Rest in Peace Ralph !


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30 Years Anniversary of International Radio DX Group

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To celebrate our 30th birthday, we want to be active on the frequencies.

 Several members with personal callsign /HB30 will be active, all our clubstations like 15IR000 can use 15IR/HB30

Besides some holidays stations or special station will use e.g. 49IR/HB30 

A list of registered members and callsigns will be published on www.irdx.org

 In the end of 2024 we will print one QSL card and confirm all QSOs on one card.

 If you want to participate in HB30 activity, please inform HQ and send us a picture of you and your station, which we can use for QSL card. Besides the logbook need to be sent to HQ.

 Duration: until  31.Dec.2024

 QSL via IR-DX HQ

IR-DX, P.O.Box 48, 91333 Hemhofen, Germany, headquarter@irdx.org

 Contribution : 0,00 €

 Good DX

Following stations will be active in the next time

10IR/HB30 – active december 2024 – Log available

49IR/HB30 – activated between 22-28 october 2024 – Log available

153IR/HB30 – active november 2024 – Log available

3IR/HB30-A + 3IR/HB30-B – active now by 3IR001 and 3IR122 

for log please check http://www.clusterdx.nl

3IR/HB30-A 3IR001

3IR/HB30-B 3IR122

3IR/HB30-C 3IR012

Xmas Meeting 2024

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Every year the Christ child comes again ……

After absence of a few years, we will organize the Xmas meeting again.

When: 29.11.2024 – 30.11.2024

  • 29.Nov.2024:
    Visit of the famous Christkindles Market Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
  • 30.Nov.2024:
    Visit of Toy Museum or Museum for industrial culture, Nürnberg (Nuremberg)                    

    Diner at a local restaurant with regional cuisine !!!

IR members and non-members are welcome to join us and have fun.

Registration is requested until 05.Oct.2024 to hq@irdx.de and/or 13yl747@irdx.de.

 

80IR/0

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In the meantime HQ received a lot of inquiries about QSL and we have learnt that the postal service from and to South America is not the fastest one. Felipe ex 32IR001, XQ7IR (now 32AT111) former Vice President was responsible operator and QSL manager of 80IR/0. As you know Felipe and some other former VPs left the group in April 2024. It seems it was not important to him to care about the QSL management.

The Activation Control Board (ACB) of International Radio DX Group checked the proofs (video, photos, Instagram account “XQ7IR” of 80IR/0 and found out that the shack was located in a hotel named Hostal Inka Thaki, which is located in Colchane, Tarapacá in Chile. That means QTH was not in Bolivia.

Of course, we have asked Felipe about further proofs, but we have just received bad words from him.

We are very sorry for the community, unfortunately we haven´t found out earlier.

ACB and HQ of International Radio DX Group has to declare 80IR/0, dated from 14-20.04.2023 as not valid, just a fake.

Germany, 26.08.2024

Jimmy, 13IR011, President